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who they were, what they did, and how. Episode 275.

I am your humble host, Thomas Rosaland Weiberg Thune.

Between 1986 and 1991, a series of brutal murders shook

the Weissong region of a Jiangji province South Korea to its core. Ten women were raped and killed

in a farming district south of Seoul, their bodies left in rice paddies

and along rural pathways. The cases paralyzed an entire nation, spawned one of the largest

criminal investigations in Korean history, and remained unsolved for nearly three decades.

The Waysong serial murders became a defining cultural wound, referenced in literature, film,

and public memory a shorthand for institutional failure, blind injustice,

and the uncanny cruelty of which ordinary men are capable.

Director Bong Joon Ho's internationally acclaimed film Memories of Murder from 2003,

dramatized the investigation,

introducing the case to global audiences,

even as the real killer, still walked free.

Well, at least apparently so.

Tonight will detail the crimes themselves, the flawed investigation, the decades of silence,

and the stunning confession of Lee Choon Jay in 2019, a man already serving life sentence

for an unrelated murder who was finally exposed by advances in DNA forensics.

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