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Koh's husband claims she killed son, too

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Murder suspect Koh Yoo-jung is taken from Jeju Dongbu Police Station to the Jeju District Prosecutors' Office, Wednesday. Yonhap
Murder suspect Koh Yoo-jung is taken from Jeju Dongbu Police Station to the Jeju District Prosecutors' Office, Wednesday. Yonhap

By Kim Rahn

The current husband of Koh Yoo-jung, who is suspected of murdering her ex-husband, has asked the prosecution to investigate whether she also killed his son.

According to the Jeju District Prosecutors' Office, Friday, the man, whose name was withheld, filed a complaint the previous day against Koh, 36.

The complaint came a day after police transferred Koh's case to the prosecution, asking it to indict her on charges of killing her ex-husband and dismembering and discarding the body last month.

Koh married her present husband in 2017 and has been living in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province. In late February, they brought the husband's four-year-old son, whom he had with his ex-wife and had been in his grandmother's care on Jeju, because the husband wanted to raise the boy. Koh agreed, according to the husband.

But the boy was found dead on March 2, two days after coming to their home.

The husband told police then that he slept with the son and woke the next morning to find the boy dead beside him. Koh told police she slept in another room and had no idea why he died.

The National Forensic Service conducted an autopsy on the boy's body and said he was presumed to have died from suffocation. Police found no wounds or damage to organs, and no poisons or drugs were detected.

In the complaint, the husband failed to present clear evidence or circumstances that Koh killed the son, prosecutors said. But following the alleged brutal murder of her ex-husband, suspicions about the boy's sudden death are growing. The husband also claimed she did not attend the boy's funeral and the couple had quarreled because of this.

Koh was arrested on June 1 on suspicion of killing her ex-husband at a Jeju pension on May 25, after telling him she would let him meet their six-year-old son, of whom she had custody. She then allegedly dismembered the ex-husband's body and discarded the pieces in several places.

The motive remains unknown, although Koh claimed she committed the crime in self-defense to stop the ex-husband raping her. Police said they do not believe the claim because evidence suggests she planned the murder.


Kim Rahn rahnita@koreatimes.co.kr


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