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.

  • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zipEnglish
    611·
    1 year ago

    Everyone here is getting tunnel vision. Person obsessed with true crime podcasts kills someone makes for a good headline but it’s not the reality. It should really say mentally ill person who happens to listen to podcasts kills someone.

      • ChexMax@lemmy.world
        91·
        1 year ago

        I think the defining feature is whether or not it negatively affects your daily life. Hers obviously did

    • Cows Look Like Maps
      10·
      1 year ago

      It’s basically a copy paste of the whole “violent videogames make kids violent” clickbait for helicopter parents.