The 23-year-old woman in South Korea was obsessed with crime shows and hunted for victims on a tutoring app.

A South Korean court has given a life sentence to a true crime fan who told police she murdered a stranger “out of curiosity”.

Jung Yoo-jung, 23, had been obsessed with crime shows and novels and scored highly on psychopath tests, police said.

Fixated with the idea of “trying out a murder”, she used an app to meet an English-language teacher, stabbing her to death at her home in May.

The brutal killing shocked South Korea.

Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty - a request typically reserved for the gravest of offences.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    2042·
    1 year ago

    She was arrested after the taxi driver tipped off police about a customer who had dumped a blood-soaked suitcase in the woods.

    She might have scored highly on psychopath tests, but it doesn’t sound like she scored highly on IQ tests.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1591·
      1 year ago

      You’d think a true crime addict would know what to do to be a little more discreet

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        941·
        1 year ago

        Although I don’t even think you have to be a true crime addict to realize that taking a taxi to dispose of body parts is a ridiculously stupid idea.

      • quindraco@lemm.ee
        563·
        1 year ago

        She was discrete - there was exactly one of her, and one suitcase, and one victim. I think you might mean discreet.