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The Criminal Makeup

138: True Crime Fan Poses as Schoolgirl To Commit Murdеr “Out of Curiosity” – Jung Yoo-jung

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The Criminal Makeup

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

0:05.8

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0:06.6

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular

0:11.7

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0:19.3

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0:22.6

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0:28.2

start listening terms apply hi everyone i hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the criminal makeup podcast.

0:44.7

Each episode, we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history.

0:49.2

So today's case, we are actually heading to South Korea and I have never done a case from South Korea before.

0:55.7

And I'm not going to lie, the research was kind of difficult for this case.

0:58.6

So I spent so much time translating articles and videos from Korean to English.

1:03.5

So last year in May of 2023, a young woman, she was 23 years old, a woman called Jung Yu Jung.

1:09.9

She was known to be incredibly

1:11.7

reclusive, like she really did keep herself to herself. She basically had no interactions with

1:17.4

any other humans, and this all stemmed from her past trauma. And then one day, Yu-Jung suddenly

1:23.8

developed a massive interest in true crime. She was always borrowing true crime books

1:29.4

from her library. She was watching true crime documentaries and TV series. It became her escape.

1:35.0

It became her favorite pastime until one day Yu Zheng decided that she wanted to carry out

1:41.2

one of those horrendous, horrific crimes for herself.

1:45.6

And she wanted to, quote, murder out of curiosity.

1:50.6

She wanted to become one of the infamous killers that she was so obsessed with.

1:55.3

But the only question that remained was how far was Yu Jung going to take this?

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