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Corpus Delicti

277: True Crime Theater 2: The Hwaseong Murders, Part 2

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.4608 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This is episode 2 of a 2 part series. At the end of the first episode, we learn that the person in prison for the Hwaseong murders may not be responsible for any of it, including the alleged copycat killing. If not him, then who?

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Music by:Kai Engel"Daemones"
looper music by:Art of Escapism"Coal Miners"
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Sources:Suspect in Hwaseong serial murder case confesses to killings: police | Yonhap News AgencyHwaseong Killings Still Baffle Police | The DONG-A ILBO(News Focus) Hwaseong serial murderer may have confessed as chances of parole dimmed | Yonhap News AgencyKiller’s confession is key to Cheongju murdersThe Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimediaSouth Korea’s most-notorious serial killing cold case now exposes huge injustices | CNNPolice identify suspect in South Korea’s infamous cold case ‘Hwaseong murders’ | South China Morning PostHwaseong murder case may have accused wrong person - The Korea TimesHwaseong Fears Return of Serial KillerSuspect in decades-old Hwaseong serial murders in South Korea booked, case to be sent to prosecutors | The Straits TimesPolice find suspect in 30-year-old Hwaseong serial murder case - The Korea HeraldHwaseong murders: Man confesses to decades-old serial killings in South Korea, police say | CNNAn innocent man was jailed for murder. It took 30 years to find the real serial killer - CNA

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0:00.0

Hey everyone is Jen and this is Lindsay and we're back.

0:28.4

We are Corpus delicti, the podcast for episode two of the first serial killer from Korea.

0:37.5

Yes indeed.

0:38.8

And in fact, you know what we could technically do, Jen,

0:41.4

is since we're recording them both tonight,

0:43.4

we could release them together so people don't have to wait to listen to them,

0:47.8

but that's just the release.

0:49.3

If you're out of episodes for the month, since it's a bi-ly that's on you listen with caution should we do

0:58.8

that just give it to them all so they could listen and then not release for the month

1:02.2

yeah let them binge because as a podcast listener myself i do appreciate a good bench worthy thing. Yeah. Okay. We'll give it to you now,

1:14.4

but you got to know that's the release. Then that is the, it would be four weeks total. You're

1:19.9

getting them all now. So a backlog. Yeah. So that's the releases that there's not going to be

1:26.8

another one in two weeks.

1:29.0

But at least this way, y'all can listen to it altogether. So let's jump back in. We're talking

1:33.8

about the Hwasong murders. And when we left off, we have someone who was wrongly convicted,

1:42.3

in prison, got out on parole,

1:45.3

not because they were innocent, just on parole.

1:48.9

They ended up saying that the murder he was in there for

1:51.8

was a one-off, which meant that the real killer was still out there.

1:55.4

A few people out there are starting to ask questions

1:58.1

and say something's not adding up.

2:00.2

So let's just jump right back in.

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