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National Center for Missing Children

https://www.missingchild.or.kr/

• The Frog Boys
• Lee Hye-jin, 10, and her friend Woo Ye-seul, 8
  • Dec 25, 2007, Anyang
  • Near Anyang Arts Center (CCTV 4:10 p.m.)
  • 77 days later
    • Found Lee’s dismembered body on a mountain near Suwon
  • Police investigation
    • Rental car records in Anyang on the day of disappearance
    • Found blood traces in the trunk of a car
  • Suspect Confesses to Murder of Two Missing Girls
    • Traced to 39-year-old man, Jeong Seong-hyeon
    • Lived alone in the same neighborhood
    • Went on the run
    • Was arrested at his mother’s house in Boryeong, South Chungcheong
    • Confession
      • Tried to say they died in a car accident
      • Drank 2 bottles of soju and “inhaled bond” around 4 p.m. Dec 25
      • Left home to buy cigarettes
      • Saw the two girls, kidnapped them, assaulted them for an hour
      • After he sobered up, choked them to death and chopped up the corpses in his bathroom
      • Loaded them into his trunk and dumped them near Homaesil, Suwon and in Gunja Stream, Siheung
    • New Confession
      • Murder of a 44-year-old woman in Gunpo in July 2004
      • a “date mate” employed by an adult phone room and told her to come to a motel in Geumjeong-dong
        • Had talked to her four times previously
      • Murdered her and threw her body into the sea from a bridge in Wolgot
      • Was picked as a strong suspect but released him for no evidence other than a fake reaction to a lie detector
    • Led to re-opening of other cases of missing women (Dec 2006-Jan 2007)
    • Accusations of a sloppy investigation from inside whistleblower
      • Brought in Jeong for questioning three times but let him go in the early stages
      •  “At the time, Jeong was not home for five days, and the police also received information that he had attempted to sexually assault women in the neighborhood. Jeong was a possible suspect from the beginning,” the e-mail said. “However, the police just trusted Jeong’s claim that he worked as a substitute driver on the day the kids went missing. The police didn’t even cross-check with his employer to confirm he had actually worked that day.”

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