China News Service, December 13th. According to Korean media reports, South Korean prosecutors said on the 13th that the eighth case of the Hwaseong serial murder case that caused the "real murder controversy", the decisive evidence of "solving the case" at the time - the identification results of the South Korean National Institute of Scientific Investigation were falsified, and the prosecutor is investigating this.
Huacheng serial murder case occurred between 1986 and 1991 and involved 10 cases. The eighth case is slightly different from the other cases and is considered a crime of imitation. South Korean police cracked down and captured the murderer Yin that year.
On November 13, 2019, the court accepted Yin's application for retrial. Yin claimed that he had spent 20 years of "unjust prison life" due to the eighth case in Huacheng, and asked the prosecution to submit opinions on whether to start retrial. After that, the procuratorate took the investigation records and other information of the case from the police. During the process of conducting research, the procuratorate grasped the serious errors in past investigations. On December 11, the prosecutor said it would begin to investigate the case.
Data picture: A wanted leaflet of the suspect after the 7th serial murder case in Hwaseong, South Korea.
htmlOn 13, the prosecutor stated that the Criminal Department of the Suwon The Criminal Department of the Local Procuratorate recently confirmed that the decisive evidence of Yin being the criminal in the case that year, that is, the appraisal document of the National Institute of Scientific Investigation was forged.Prosecutors said that the identification results of the South Korean Institute of Atomic Energy on the body hair of Yin Mou by radioisotope analysis are completely different from the content of the identification paper of the National Institute of Scientific Investigation.
In this regard, the procuratorate believes that the National Institute of Scientific Investigation has repeatedly commissioned the institute to analyze the heavy metal components of many body hairs, and then faked the body hair similar to Yin's body hair analysis results to the prisoner's body hair. At the same time, the prosecutor also believes that the police in charge of the investigation were involved in the fraud process and are investigating it.
It is reported that recently, the prosecutor's special investigation team conducted an investigation on A, a former staff member of the National Science Investigation Research Institute who participated in the preparation of the identification documents of the case in the past. The procuratorate asked about the different appraisal results from the Atomic Energy Research Institute and the process of making the appraisal documents, but he exercised the silence right .
On the other hand, the procuratorate investigated the three investigators of the case that year. Investigators partially acknowledged the fact that Yin did not let him sleep at that time.
Previously, Lee Chun-jae, who was identified as a suspect in the Hwaseong case, admitted 14 murder cases, including 10 serial murder cases, as well as more than 30 sexual crime cases, including the 8th case. Yin, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the case at the time, said that he made false statements under the forced investigation by the police.
Editor: Li Linzhi