Jeong Yoo-jeong, who is accused of killing a woman in her 20s whom he met through a tutoring app and mutilating and abandoning her body, stated, “I tried to stage her disappearance out of consideration for the victim’s family.” In addition, she made many claims that were difficult to accept, such as “I thought there would be reincarnation if we died together” and “I made false statements due to stress during the police investigation.”
On the 16th, Busan District Court Criminal Division 6 (Chief Judge Kim Tae-eop) conducted an interrogation of Jeong Yu-jeong herself and her grandfather who lived with Jeong Yu-jeong. When the prosecution asked her about her motive for the crime, Jeong Yoo-jeong replied, “I was thinking of dying together, and I needed someone to listen to my story one last time.”
When the prosecution asked, “If (Jung Yoo-jeong) wanted to make an extreme choice, wouldn’t there be a reason for her to go through the trouble of damaging and abandoning her body?” Jeong Yoo-jung said, “I saw a photo of the victim’s family. “She would be sad if she found out she was dead, so she thought I should just list her as missing and make her believe that she is still alive somewhere,” she replied. She went on to claim that the reason she couldn’t make the extreme choice was because she was caught by the police.
Jeong Yoo-jeong also gave an absurd answer, saying, “I thought there would be reincarnation if I died with (the victim),” and “I thought it would be nice if we died together and had a (proper) mother and father.”
As for how to disfigure the body, she said, “I didn’t think메이저놀이터 about it in detail. “She didn’t really think about what she was going to do,” she said, adding that she was “scared, but stuck with it.”
When the prosecution said, “The defendant stated during police interrogation that he wanted to kill someone,” Jeong Yoo-jung claimed, “There were several police interrogations, and the whole process was very difficult,” and “I made a false statement due to that stress.”
When asked by the court how long it took for the victim to die, Jeong Yoo-jeong said, “I drank several cans and bottled beers,” and that she “didn’t remember clearly because I was drunk.”
The prosecution determined that since Jeong Yoo-jeong’s DNA was not detected on the victim’s hands, there would have been no resistance from the victim. But she claimed that Yoo-jeong Jeong said, “The victim strangled me and her glasses fell off,” and that she was “stabbed several times in the process.”
She testified that Jeong Yoo-jeong’s grandfather was a middle school student, but when she became a high school student, she started throwing things and looked quite different from before. In response, she stated that the local district office representative recommended that she be tested for depression, and she said, “She seemed to be severely depressed, and she refused to get tested and treated, leading to her murder.” “We couldn’t prevent it,” she said.
“She can’t sleep these days,” she said. “She has no way to find the victim’s family, and even if she wanted to apologize, she couldn’t because she asked the police, but they refused,” she said, adding, “I take this opportunity to sincerely apologize to her bereaved family.”
The court will hold a third trial on the 6th of next month, after which she plans to conclude her hearing unless there are special circumstances.
