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.

  • 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.