EP 4: Eunsoon Jun

Bear Brook

NHPR

True Crime

4.8 • 15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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An ominous New Year’s party introduction. An estranged cousin goes missing. Police question a man with multiple identities. A search leads authorities to his basement. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? Click here to donate $20. Thanks for your support.

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0:00.0	Elaine Ramos was planning a big party.
0:04.5	It was 1999.
0:06.1	New Year's Eve was coming soon, and she wanted to celebrate Y2K with friends and family
0:11.0	at her home in Monterey, California.
0:14.1	Jews excited.
0:15.5	Even more so when her cousin, Unsun Jun, called with some big news.
0:20.2	She called to say that she had met somebody and asked if she could bring him.
0:26.6	I thought sure, this is somebody that she's finally met that she's in love with.
0:31.6	Of course, you could bring him.
0:34.0	Elaine and Unsun were close.
0:36.2	Their families both immigrated to the US from Korea when they were young and grew up together.
0:41.2	Elaine knew that Unsun had a hard time when it came to dating.
0:46.0	So when Unsun now in her mid-40s called to say she had met someone, it was a big deal.
0:51.9	Elaine couldn't wait to meet him.
0:54.7	Elaine's house in Monterey sits at the end of a cul-de-sac in a suburb full of nice
0:58.9	ranch-style houses.
1:00.9	When Unsun and her new boyfriend arrived on the day of the party, Elaine stepped outside
1:05.3	to greet them.
1:06.4	First of all, when they drove up, it was in this dirty white van.
1:12.4	It didn't have windows on it.
1:14.4	It was one of those cargo vans.
1:17.1	And I thought, wow.
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