July 2020 South Korea
South Korean police have apologised for mistakes they made in the investigation of the country’s most notorious serial killer.
The investigation, the inspiration for the 2003 movie Memories of Murder, ended with the jailing of an innocent man for 20 years.
A new probe has just ended with Lee Chun-jae pleading guilty as the killer of 14 women and rapist of 9 girls and women in a rural area of South Korea between 1986 and 1991. Police say Lee admitted 4 more murders and a total of 34 rapes, but there was not enough evidence to take all the cases to court.
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