Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. September 11th, 1994, a police car pulls up to the scene of a car crash in the southwest part of South Korea.

There, they see a Hyundai grandeur, with its front and sides caved in, and windshield smashed, sitting

at the bottom of a short but steep cliff.

It doesn't take much for the officers to figure that the car most likely took a nose dive off the side of it sometime in the last few days.

One officer goes up to the top of the cliff and confirms that there's tread marks leading off the side directly above

where the car lay. The other officer is still looking at the vehicle. Through a spiderweb of cracks in the windshield he can see the outline of someone

slumped over the steering wheel. He needs to figure out who this man is and

exactly why he went off this cliff. The first thing he notices when he pops

open the car door is the overwhelming smell of alcohol. Okay, well we probably have our reason why. The officer checks the

ID the guy has on him and learns that his name is Lee Jong-Won, a 36-year-old

musician from outside of Seoul, over four hours away.

The officer calls the local police station to report what he's found.

And as he does, a different police station in South Korea gets another phone

call. This call is from the family of a woman named Miss Lee,

the secret 27-year-old mistress of Lee-John-Wan.

They're calling to report her missing.

Miss Lee's family hadn't heard from her in two days despite trying to get in touch with her, causing them to worry.

The officers at the scene don't know about that phone call, but they guess that Lee Jong-Wan's crash happened about two days ago,

around the time that Miss Lee stopped contacting her family. To the cop, this feels,

ignorantly so, like a pretty open and shut case. In South Korea in the

1990s there weren't detectives or special forces dedicated to solving crime.

There were only cops.

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