True Crime Fan Committed A Murder "Out of Curiosity"

Bing b it's 3:00 a.m. in South Korea May. 27th of 2023 so literally like a month. ago a taxi driver pulls over to pick up. a young girl and her suitcase he pops. open the trunk even offers to help her. put it into the trunk but she's like no. I'm good don't worry it's not a big deal. I can do it by myself she puts it in the. trunk closes it slides into the back. seat and he glances at her in his. rearview mirror it's kind of late to be.

going on vacation and on top of that her. destination isn't even to an airport or. a bus terminal or anything like that. it's to the local park near the river. but who is he to judge what time was it. 3:00 a.m. oh yeah I mean he was just. thankful that it was a pleasant polite. nice young lady rather than a drunk. businessman which is typically the. clientele at 3:00 a.m. he drives quietly. to the park she directs him where to. stop the car and she pays him she slides. out of the back seat and hauls her own.

suitcase out of the back of the trunk. again it looked really heavy really. really heavy she said no don't worry. about it sir I can do it myself I mean. the physical strength of the youth never. sees to amaze this Taxi Driver they say. their goodbyes and he watches with a. little bit of curiosity as she. practically skips into the park towards. the grassy field what a strange strange. girl she looked like what a middle. schooler a high schooler at most she. looked really young I mean what is she.

even doing alone at this hour and where. is she going with the suitcase in the. park he decides to take a smoke break. right then and there he honestly thought. that she probably would need a ride back. I mean no taxi was going to stop in the. middle of the park for her to get onto. the taxi it's near the river at 3:00. a.m. I think nothing good can happen to. a young girl roaming around looking for. a ride at this time so he's smoking it. up and he looks up it's been about what. 15 20 minutes and There She is again and. he's just watching her as she walks out.

of the park towards him and her suitcase. looks very light all of a sudden cuz you. know earlier it was dragging on the. wheels it was kind of forcing her body. to lean a little bit forward to pull it. and now now it's practically flying. around as she's moving it about the girl. asked him for a ride back the whole. energy seemed strange it seemed like she. didn't even notice that it was the same. taxi driver and he kept glancing at her. in the rearview mirror as he drove her. to her destination.

something in his gut told him this isn't. right like something feels wrong I mean. the whole I mean where would she have. gone with that suitcase and why would it. be lighter coming out of the park nobody. just throws away their clothes in the. park she might be a middle schooler but. there is this energy about her he would. alert the Police and they found that she. had been transporting a victim's. dismembered body from the victim's own. apartment to that very Park the taxi. driver had unknowingly transported human.

remains dismembered human remains in the. trunk of his car he had sat in the car. with a young babyfaced killer not once. but twice wait wait he called the police. just because how suspicious it was they. searched the grassy field in the park. wow this case has recently gone viral in. Korea for a number of reasons I mean. just the brazenness of the crime the. CCTV footage of the killer looking like. a happy person I'm going to show this to. you she's just skipping around with.

dismembered remains in her suitcase. she's got a cute little Bob and it's. almost bouncing about people say it's so. unsettling because she has this. childlike mannerism to her this energy. to her there's dismembered remains in. the suitcase but also the fact that the. killer was stated to have an unhealthy. fascination with serial killers and an. obsession with true crime. documentaries she killed dismembered and. disposed of a victim because she quote. just wanted to see what it feels like to.

[Music]. kill as always full show notes are. available at Rotten mango podcast.com. but this is a developing case and as. always this is the information that we.

have as of now things could change they. could get worse I don't know if we'll. get too much information considering the. privacy laws in South Korea also as per. South Korean laws the victim of this. case and her family have chosen to stay. Anonymous so throughout this case we. will refer to her with the Alias of. Hannah and with all foreign cases we had. our Korean researchers work on this case. to get as much as of what we could. that's out there and compile it in this. video for you guys so let's get into it. the victim Hannah was a young woman in. her 20s she was tutoring high schoolers.

in English I would not say tutoring is. an easy job in South Korea it it's a. very serious job parents are picky over. involved very diligent in picking the. absolute perfect tutor for their perfect. children whom they believe are entitled. to be the next Einstein so it's a. difficult job but Hanah liked it she was. a university student at a prestigious. school it worked well with her schedule. and it made it easier for her to get. tutoring position to begin with and she.

liked being able to help these grade. schoolers get interested in English she. made the whole process fun for them and. just wanted to be like a cool tutor that. was her genuine Vibe that's her goal so. in 2023 with all of the available apps. out there there is a platform for tutors. tutors will sign up and they will be. verified by the platform for having the. specific credentials they will verify. with the school that they're a student. they will verify their transcripts. grades everything to make sure that. these these tutors that are online are.

being advertised they're background. checks it's basically a tutor securing. app that parents are obsessed with. parents will go on there and they will. look for tutors in every single subject. for their elementary middle school and. high school kids the demand for English. tutors was actually pretty high and the. pay was fairly good so Hannah had a lot. of parents messaging her inquiring about. her services including the mom of a. middle school student who was um this. mom was very adamant about hiring Hannah. originally Hannah declined this Mother's.

offer because her house was so far away. from Hannah's I mean she naturally. wanted something closer because why. commute if you don't have to so she said. thank you so much like I'm sure that. your middle schooler will find a great. tutor but it's just too far for me this. mom really seemed to like Hannah though. she even offered to send her daughter to. Hannah's house drop her off for these. English sessions Hannah kind of felt bad. I mean the mom seemed really desperate. for her daughter to have an English. tutor Maybe may she had an exam coming.

up maybe she was the only tutor that. seemed to fit the mom's profile it was. strange but she found it hard to say no. besides she really did like tutoring she. really did like helping students May. 26th of 2023 Friday right around dinner. time so right around 6:00 p.m. Hannah. slowly gets her house ready because this. is the first day that this student is. going to come over and they're going to. tutor in English together so she's. cleaning up wiping the table down and. she hears a knock on the door she peers. through the little camera and she sees a.

pre-teen student a middle schooler kind. of short bob haircut that's curled. outwards like how middle schoolers do it. it kind of stopped at her chin her. glasses would make her cheeks look even. rounder and in many situations I think. most people would look at this face and. think a like what a cute middle schooler. she's got like cute little cheeks and. she's standing there wearing her school. uniform so Hannah opens the door and. she's ready to start tutoring there. would have been no way for Hannah to. have known that this little middle.

schooler that she had just led into her. home was not actually a middle schooler. Tong yuong was her name she was not a. middle schooler Yu Jong was not 12 or 13. or even 14 or 15 years old but rather 23. years old she could have potentially. been older than Hannah we don't know the. victim's precise age the Middle School. uniform that she was wearing was. purchased at a thrift store and. underneath it she was hiding a knife.

within minutes of entering Yu Jong. established that Hannah lived alone she. pulled out her knife and viciously. stabbed Hannah she repeatedly stabbed. Hannah in the neck only on like a. particular spot SL side that's what a. lot of the reports said which would. later indicate to a lot of psychiatrists. that she had researched where to stab. she knew what she was doing she also. stabbed this same area on the neck over. 20 times once the 23-year-old pretending. to be a middle schooler finished killing. the victim she relished in the.

satisfaction of a job well done she. would spend the greater part of the. evening at Hannah's apartment possibly. pretending as if this was her own. apartment even changing into the jacket. that Hannah wore she took a jacket out. of Hannah's closet and wore it the rest. of the night the jacket that you see on. CCTV camera is Hannah's jacket CCTV. cameras would catch this 23-year-old Yun. going in and out of Hannah's apartment. going back and forth from her own place. hauling cleanup tools and other times. she would bring a suitcase which.

indicates that while everyone believes. that this is a premeditated murder she. was underprepared but more shocking than. that was that she was caught on CCTV. looking very relaxed she's taken taxis. to and from Hannah's place to her place. to the store to buy supplies she's. bringing around giant suitcases from her. house to Hannah's house she's going to a. local store buying bleach knives trash. bags that's crazy to me cuz Korea you're. saying there's camera every corner Korea. is like the city I'm sure it's similar.

in China and maybe Japan like the city. of CCTV what I don't understand either. yeah we're going to go down kind of a. few conspiracy routes later but it gets. weird she brings the suitcase and all. these supplies back to Hannah's and she. gets to dismembering the victim she. spends the rest of the night and into. the early hours of the morning doing. this she then stuffs unspecified parts. of the victim's body into a suitcase and. hauls a cab and again just seeing her. with that suitcase out in the streets. just the way that she's walking is so.

nonchalant she's almost practically. skipping people say she almost has this. childlike demeanor meaning that if we. were to bump into her in the street we. would probably think oh my God I just. bumped into like a little high schooler. oopsie sorry like oh she looks cute and. innocent she very much had a girl next. door sweet innocent appearance that had. viewers and netizens absolutely floored. when they found out what was in that. suitcase around 3:00 p.m. she puts the. luggage into the trunk of taxi directs.

the driver to drop her off near a wooded. area near hopo station this is near like. the nakong river and reportedly the. killer Yu Jong she loved going on walks. in this park this was her favorite spot. she gets dropped off by the taxi driver. walks into the grassy area and starts. scattering the remains of Hannah so. University forensic Professor would say. that even the grassy location by the. nakdong river could have been planned. the tall grass by the water it holds a. lot of insects and disinfectants like um.

I'm assuming it's like pesticides that. would accelerate the decomposition of. the body parts within a week so if she. had not been caught by then there's a. high chance the body would have been. hard to recognize or even how to ID the. body Professor U is quite certain that. she knew about all of this which is why. she chose to go this far with the body. and even get in a taxi to scatter The. Remains at this park perhaps her. frequent walks around this park made her. familiar with the area it made her want. to leave a body here. now it's all going according to.

23-year-old yong's plan except the taxi. driver she believed the taxi driver. would not be able to tell the difference. between a girl traveling with luggage. for vacation at 3:00 a.m. versus a girl. traveling with luggage full of body. parts the taxi driver would call the. police and it was very quickly traced. back to Yu Jang in a show called we want. to know in Korea it was revealed that. another bystander actually saw Yu Jong. throw away this huge trash bag of bloody. blankets bloody leggings before she.

walked away with her rolling. suitcase again just 5 hours later she. was. arrested wow that was fast yeah now side. note there was a rumor circulating that. the taxi driver had gotten out to help. Yu Jong unload her luggage from the. trunk and as he was trying to help her. he had touched the luggage and felt that. it was wet upon impact the rumor was. that he got back into the tax and you. know how like the car lights turn on.

when you open the door yeah and he. briefly glanced at his palms and they. were dripping with blood that is a rumor. from what I can tell someone anonymously. came out and said that they were a. colleague of the taxi driver and that. didn't happen he just noticed that the. weight difference and where she was. going and all these suspicious things. added up for him to call the police he. did not see blood he did not feel blood. you know like for him to call the police. he must has some kind of like that gut. feeling that you're like I know I'm not. going to be able to sleep at night and.

it must have been so strong and it must. be really really bad I wonder if he's. actually thinking oh my God is this a. body yes I did see a lot of nzen say the. fact that um it's speculated it was a. male Taxi Driver the fact that a male. taxi driver that has probably seen so. much in South Korea so many bizarre. things at 3:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. you know any time of the day but this. little girl with luggage unsettled him. so much because I think it's one thing. if a girl is driving and there's like a.

creepy man with luggage we're already on. guard there's always this feeling of. like M I always think something is wrong. but for him to be this upset and. unsettled by what looks to be a middle. school girl it must have been bad there. must have been some sort of and I hate. to say it like some sort of energy that. she was giving off like some sort of. weirdness that was happening so the. police rush to the field where they find. the scattered remains and with the help. of the taxi driver describing what she. looked like a o imately where he picked.

her up and where he dropped her off she. was quickly located and. arrested authorities asked her why would. you do this how could you do this who. did you do this to because at this point. they did not have an idea of the victim. now upon arrest Yu Jong seemed very calm. and collected she was young just 23. years old but when the police were. questioned questioning her she didn't.

seem that alarmed she just very calmly. explained well the dismembered remains. that you saw if you must know they were. my baby I delivered a baby at home and I. killed it because I don't want to be a. mom obviously I'm young I was going. through a psychotic break and I killed. the baby and Scattered The Remains I'm. not sure how she thought that she could. get away with a lie like that because. very easily you could pick up some of. the remains I'm sure that there are. medical examiners that can give you like. a brief hey that's not a baby's bone I'm.

also not sure how she had so much. confidence even though this is so easily. medically debunk I mean her body doesn't. even have evidence that she was even. pregnant so after arresting her the. authorities also found Hannah's ID. nearby this was left near the remains. along with some bloody clothes and other. body parts so now they know who the. victim is they go back to hanah's. apartment they find more evidence of the. crime and they tell you dong like that's. not your baby we know it's not your baby. give us the real truth that's when she.

starts complaining of stomach pain she's. like oo my stomach hurts I oh my God I'm. going to die because she's in police. custody see this is where the police are. better than me because if you've. committed like a blatant murder and. you're telling me that your stomach. hurts you never told me that you and. your stomach can hurt for the rest of. the interrogation you're not going to. die okay why should I care about you. when you don't care about human life but. because she's under police. responsibility they rush her to the. hospital and surprise surprise she's. lying there's nothing wrong with her so.

after the hospital debacle the police. bring her back into the interrogation. room and they ask her about the events. of the previous night the police also. take her phone and they start searching. through it and you know they just have. so many questions did you know the. victim did you target this victim why. would you do this how long have you been. planning this are there other victims. are you working with someone she clearly. was not being the most honest person so. the police they start going through her. phone and we're going to come back to. all of her lies but let's go through the. phone first the police check her phone.

hoping to get some answers they found a. colorful search history where she had. searched online for tips on how to hide. a corpse she also had watched a ton of. true crime documentaries allegedly. feeding off on. um it said that she just really wanted. to know what it felt like to. kill yeah we're going to get back to it. but something the police rarely see was. that her phone was. empty just like everything not like she.

had wiped her phone and deleted. everything but digital forensics. revealed that tongyong her phone she was. not in contact with a single person she. had no contacts in her cell phone which. I know some people don't save contacts. but she had no messages no calls coming. in or out none nothing no friends no. family no social media interactions no. one was contacting her.

in this day and age of. 2023 how nearly impossible is that she. was truly almost like a. ghost Tona Jung was born in. 1999 very young she um like a lot of. people was born into a pretty volatile. house her parents were always busy. working they were too busy to take care. of her she was sent off to live with her. grandfather and he was the exclusive. Soul Guardian throughout her entire. childhood which I think is interesting. so in a lot of cultures and Korean.

culture as well it's common for. grandparents to move in and raise the. grandchildren while the parents are busy. working but her grandfather was listed. as her soul Guardian so I mean that to. me indicates whether her parents were. divorced or they were not present at all. in her life if it was to the extent of. negligence or abandonment I'm not sure. but the fact that her grandfather was. listed as her soul Guardian I think. something must have happened with her. parents I'm sure it probably impacted. her in some way to not have her parents. s around to not having this loving.

Dynamic that a lot of kids have but I. mean it's been proven time and time. again that a child's first example of a. relationship is with the. parent so we don't know it's just. something to consider ultimately we have. no idea what happened if anything but we. know that it wasn't the most stable home. regardless growing up yuong was regarded. as a very specific word that I've never. really heard in. cases. invisible not just quiet not just shy.

not just introverted but invisible her. former classmate said if you said hi to. you Jong in the hallway like if you. waved to her in the hallway she would. never say anything back she wouldn't. even smile back she wouldn't nod in. acknowledgement she wouldn't even weigh. back she would basically just ignore. your. existence they said that Yong never. spoke or replied to any of her. classmates so if you were a classmate. and you were asking her a question and. she knows you're asking her a question. the room is silent and you go hey y Jong. can you pass me that she wouldn't even. look at you she would not respond to you.

if it was an elder like a teacher. authority figure or even a neighbor if. they asked her a question she would. avoid eye contact and answer just yes or. no outside of school yuong never even. left her home neighbors reported almost. never seeing her out walking around. hanging out with friends going on walks. with her Grandpa inviting friends over. nothing. [Music].

it's stated and this is kind of random. and super specific but Yu Jong hated. talking to people but if she were at the. convenience store and she was owed like. a penny back in change most Koreans. stated that they just wouldn't ask for. the change they'd be like oh keep the. change cuz they don't want to walk. around with this Penny they don't know. exactly what to do with this Penny it's. just kind of a hassle you young the. person who hates talking would ask for.

that penny back no matter what that was. like the one time she was very vocal she. was like give me my penny back which is. fine it's she's entitled to it but. people just thought it was kind of. interesting to. note contrary to a lot of speculation. former classmates also stated Yu Jong. was absolutely never bullied so as far. as we know nobody picked on her nobody. forced her to retreat into her shell and. go unnoticed nobody verbally physically. HIIT her nobody bothered her because she. wouldn't even wave back at you it's like.

she would just float through her. childhood like a ghost this seems to be. like a choice that she made for whatever. reason she would be so good at being. unnoticeable that she could walk into a. room and no one would look up or even. hear. anything her presence was unknown she. was unseen she was unremarkable in. almost every way we have no idea if she. desperately desired to talk or to say. something or wanted someone to listen to. her as if um she was invisible and she.

didn't want to be she just couldn't she. couldn't stop maybe her brain blocked. that part of her life or blocked that. part of her socialization I don't know. or on the flip side You could argue that. this was a choice she didn't like people. this was her own little Rebellion to not. talk to people she was deliberately. ignoring them but she did kind of. unsettle her former classmates so they. never bothered to get to know her but. they reported that she would sit behind. curtains alone so like imagine there's a. curtain she would just sit behind it.

just like hiding herself but not really. hiding herself because you would see. that there's a human behind the curtain. and then you would look at the shoes and. then you'd be like why is you young. behind the. curtain sometimes you would hear. crunching noises from behind the curtain. and she would just be behind the curtain. eating snacks. [Music].

a professor named IU Jang was. interviewed about this case and as an. expert in teen psychology and behavior. they stated that she was very she had. unusual behavior for a teenager they. said that adolescent ages are a time of. pure curiosity of your peers you want to. know what your peers have to think have. to say about everything how they dress. you want to get to know everyone your. age you have this like innate desire to. understand them because you want to be. part of your peers this is not like. anything we've heard yeah this one's.

very weird and it it's going to get. weirder so far it's weird but it gets. weirder the professor stated that if. they were to evaluate this type of. behavior they would categorize it as. Psychopathic Tendencies Andor behavior. that is being displayed at an early age. so Yu Jong puts in as much effort into. her schoolwork as she does getting to. know her classmates another thing that. stood out to former classmates is that. yuang was never angry she was never. upset she was never depressed she never. had this like passion against everyone.

like oh I don't want to talk to any of. you guys because you don't understand me. I stand out I'm Different she never had. that she just seemed so utterly neutral. about everything so incredibly passively. indifferent and in hindsight a lot of. people said that might be scarier but. she still managed to graduate in 2018. from the kungi girl high school she had. no clue what she wanted to do with the. rest of her life which you know is very. normal but she also had zero intention.

of trying to explore things and figure. it out after she graduates high school. Yu Jong had no social outlet she had. nothing on her schedule that would force. her to interact with people with. teachers like high school did like she. doesn't have college she has become. totally disconnected from society the. day she graduates high school she would. stay in her room all day no connection. with anyone she would tell her. grandfather that she was Hol Up in her. room studying for the public government. official exam but it is clear Yu Jong. used this as a delay tactic an excuse to.

have in her back pocket if her. grandfather ever noticed that she has no. social life that she's not getting a job. that she has no plans for her future she. would just milk the crap out of studying. for this exam for the next 5 years every. day it was oh you know Grandpa I'm. studying for the entrance exam she was. receiving financial support from her. grandfather while she studied he. expected that she would pass and. afterwards she would find a job and she. would get paid and hopefully pay him. back for all the hard work that he's. done because he she a grandfather now. and I'm sure that there were even.

moments that the grandfather was proud. of her because she never spent time. hanging out with friends or just doing. nothing she was always studying she. seemed so dedicated to her. studies now if you think that he's in on. it or gulli or that he should have known. it's a different generation he didn't. even know that you needed to have a. college level Proficiency in English to. even qualify to take the exam which Yu. Jang was clearly not proficient in. English and that's that's kind of. something something that is pretty easy. to tell and it might be why she chose.

her victim now we're going to circle. back to that in 2017 Yu Jong applied. multiple times for a job as a golf caddy. she submitted her resume and wrote after. leaving High School I started preparing. for the college entrance exam I enjoy. being active and meeting other people. and I really want to try this role thank. you but once she got a call for an. interview she did not say a single word. even when the interviewer asked her. standard interview questions it was.

silence on the other line silence she. refused to talk the recruiter was so. confused because she's like you applied. for the job why won't you talk because. you applied for the job it didn't look. good in the recruiter's eyes and of. course she didn't get the job but when. she found out that she was rejected from. the position she went as far as to call. them back and curse them out for their. decision she kept demanding to know why. why was I rejected and they didn't. really want to tell her because well you.

were strange you didn't respond to any. of the questions we thought you were a. little weird they didn't want to say. that so they just said oh well we're. looking for an English speaker and. you're not proficient in. English it is speculated that Yu Jong. started developing a hatred for those. who were good at English and maybe this. is why she ended up online searching for. English tutors to. murder wow her victim Hannah was a young. successful accomplished University. student at a prestigious school who was.

also an English tutor she was everything. that yuong was not and that may have. been why she was targeted now let's talk. about her True Crime Obsession but first. why was she even obsessed because of the. lack of any contact on Yu jong's phone. after she was taken in by the police the. word hikiko Mori has been coming up in. discussions about her case and quick. disclaimer I don't think that Yu Jong. was but there is a connection we've. talked about this previously on the. Japanese zal killer that we've covered. but since that's been like over a year.

let me give you a refresh in Japanese. culture there is a phenomenon right now. where Adolescent and young adults have. become very reclusive usually after. graduating high school and into their. adult lives they will live in basically. voluntary solitary confinement usually. in their parents' home some of them will. go years without even talking or running. into their own family members that they. live with in the same apartment not. massive white house with a west wing and. an East Wing I'm talking a three-bedroom.

apartment many of them stated they will. coordinate their comings and goings out. of their room to not run into a single. human being sometimes these people will. also go decades without seeing anyone. outside of their immediate family. members now according to the Japanese. Ministry of Health labor and Welfare. side note there is no good translation. of hikiko Mori but the Japanese. government has defined it as the state. of avoiding social engagement education. employment and friendships with. generally persistent withdrawal into.

one's residence for at least 6 months as. a result of various factors so while. it's pretty difficult to get exact. numbers estimates say that there are at. least over 1 million hikiko Mori in. Japan alone probably close to a million. in South Korea and potentially millions. in China and it's become such a problem. for Japan and really everywhere else but. the Japanese government even released a. guide for the hikiko Mori on what to do. in the event that their parent passes. away. oh for them yeah cuz there was um a case.

where a hioko Mori his mom had passed. away in the house and he did not report. her body or do. anything so I was looking through a. Reddit Forum to understand the mindset. of the community and I don't think that. Yu Jong is one of them and I want to. clarify that hikiko Mori are not. dangerous people Yu Jong is not one of. them I mean she could go out she liked. to take her little walks in the park the. only same consistency that they have is. that they had no social interaction with. people there is a redditor who wrote If.

something forced me to go outside like a. sudden fire inside my house I would be. unable to step outside into the world. another redditor said see it sneaks up. on you you think it's okay for a month. and then you do it for 6 months and you. think it's not that bad then you do it. for a year and then 2 years and then you. realize that all of your peers are. Lighty years ahead of you economically. socially mentally you feel like there's. no way you can even try to catch up now. so what's the point it's been to. psychologists that the more one doesn't. socialize the less they know how it's.

something that you can technically. forget it's like talking you have to. learn to talk again and it's this. vicious cycle of not socializing for. even longer because you forget how to do. it and then repeat and repeat it's. happening in Japan China South Korea the. United States some behavioral scientists. have credited this Retreat from society. to the overwhelming pressure of. succeeding in Asia's work culture After. High School so in China some people. actually attribute it also to the fact. that the ation has profoundly more men. than women saying that this puts so much.

pressure on men looking for partners. whereas women can be a lot more. selective so these men decide I don't. even want to partake in this game that. Society plays I want to completely. withdraw so why is this happening all of. a sudden in this day and age because of. technology so back then there were. hikiko Mori in Japan and most of them. would Read Manga they would watch like. DVDs and stuff but now with the internet. people feel like they really don't have. to go outside side everything can be. done online they can watch shows they.

can watch YouTube videos they can talk. to people anonymously without the threat. of feeling exposed or vulnerable they. can go to Safe forums that they can. communicate with they can do everything. online especially in places like South. Korea Japan and China where everything. can be delivered at your fingertips in. record time it's so easy to never leave. I mean it's gotten so bad there's. actually Services where you can hire. young pretty women and typically they're. hired by parents of hikori and um.

they'll come and try to talk to the. predominantly male Community like. they'll come and talk to your son and. try to lure him out of his. room yeah it's estimated that this. phenomenon is affecting millions of. people around the world and it's. honestly very heartbreaking it's just. it's very lonely existence I imagine and. again I don't think that yuong can be. fully categorized as hikiko Mori but. regardless she probably felt the effects. of the lack of social connection and. almost complete social isolation which.

risk of that is mental health issues. like depression anxiety substance abuse. you can even get chronic conditions like. high blood pressure heart disease. diabetes higher risk of dementia because. you're not. socializing and again just another. disclaimer like most mental illnesses. the hikiko Mori lifestyle I mean this is. typically only detrimental to the person. themselves and maybe perhaps their. family members who have to interact with. them and try try to provide for them and. help them but most of the time they are.

just non-violent introverted modern-day. Hermits there were a lot of hikiko Mor. that were interviewed and they said you. know it didn't matter cuz it just. started like one or two days I would. just stay in my room and be on the. internet and I thought this is nice I. like it and then it was a month and then. they were thinking this isn't too bad. and then 6 months crept in a year crept. in two years crept in and then a lot of. them report feeling like it was too late. like they had already ruined their. life they felt like I already spent the.

most formative years the most important. years of my career there's no way I can. get a job in the competitive Asian work. economy like people just out of college. of prestigious colleges they can't even. get a job I've been doing nothing for. the past 5 years how am I going to get a. job a lot of them report deteriorating. Health a lot of weight gain and you know. when you're in your room and eating CBL. man all the time and just staring at. your computer a lot of them report. having um a lot of acne and that would. just prevent them from going out even.

more they felt awkward around people. they felt like everyone was staring at. them weirdly they just felt like they. didn't fit in and the longer it went on. the harder it was to reintegrate back. into society and so most of them just. thought I'm just going to stay with my. computer that's it that's what I'm going. to do and Yu Jang was kind of like that. in the sense that she was obsessed with. her computer with her electronics and. she was primarily obsessed with. consuming true crime documentaries now I. know that most of you guys that are. listening to this episode because you.

have an interest in current events Andor. True Crime itself now I can't speak for. you guys but that's how I started I. would watch a true crime documentary and. I had nobody to talk about it with and I. just wanted to talk to someone about. what I had seen what it made me feel how. it made me think about the world how it. made me think about the justice system. and I wanted to share these like. thoughts and stories with someone but I. think I think like if I really look back. on why I started watching these. documentaries years and years ago it. kind of made me feel like I knew what. was out. there cuz like it makes me feel like I.

know what kind of evil is lurking in the. shadows I know what kind of people scary. people are out there so maybe I can. prepare myself and understand some of. the warning signs so it made me feel. like I was being proactive in my safety. it felt like it was safer to know than. not knowing what kind of evil existed. and it eased a little bit of my anxiety. like that's kind of how I felt and I. read a lot of comments in here that say. very similar things that is not what you. joh got out of it she fixated on the.

killers of each documentary and she. asked herself I wonder how they feel I. wonder how it felt for them to. kill and unlike most of us she did not. have a healthy human level of curiosity. where we have other interests in life Yu. Jong did not care to even watch. documentaries about cases of Injustice. or about all these cases that have gone. unsolved that need people's attention or. to help bring justice to all these.

victims families she literally watched. these documentaries for. inspiration how do we know this though. so they found a bunch of True Crime in. her phone records like shows like. digital footprint and that is what a lot. of psychiatrists believe and she said. that she wanted to feel what it felt. like to. kill that's another thing there is a. conspiracy that she actually didn't kill. because she was obsessed with True Crime. yeah so I think this is where the whole. video games argument kind of comes in I.

don't think that there's a single thing. in this world especially a piece of. media like a documentary video game or a. movie nothing could make me kill someone. and I'm sure that the same goes for all. of you psychiatrists have actually come. out and said we don't know for sure if. this is her motive so as of right now. she's being labeled as someone who was. so obsessed with True Crime that she. killed someone just to feel how it feels. to kill a couple of psychiatrists said. we don't know that for sure we think. that um a lot of us are connecting these. dots because as a society we feel better.

knowing like kind of what I just said. about true crime documentaries we feel. better knowing that um there's almost a. reason when we don't know it makes it. scarier so we're going to get into all. of that but anyways she escaped her. reality to exist and relish in the. reality of being a murderer she would. eventually become so engrossed allegedly. so obsessed that she had made up her. mind and she was going to kill to see. how it felt so we know how the crime. went down she was arrested and she tried. to lie and said the remains belonged to.

her baby that she had to kill and when. that lie was exposed the police found. out who the victim was she changed her. story once more she stated I did not. kill this girl I was just hired to. dispose of her body I am not the one who. killed the victim someone else did it. and I'm just helping because they. promised me something in exchange what. would they promise you I was promised. Hannah's identity she's saying I just. wanted to commit identity theft and. identity not. murder many psychiatrists would later.

speculate while this is a blatant lie. she is the killer but it does give. insight into her own thoughts and. desires she wanted Hannah's life she was. jealous of Hannah's life she wanted her. identity and side note police found a. digital footprint of her watching the. South Korean movie helpless multiple. times prior to the murder and this is. allegedly one of her favorite movies. it's a Korean Thriller the movie is. about a couple who are traveling to meet. the husband's parents in the country. side of Korea they end up stopping at. this rest stop and getting coffee and.

when the husband returns to the car his. wife is gone she's not picking up her. phone she just vanished he's like. searching through the rest stop he finds. a little hair pin in the bathroom she's. not in the bathroom he drives all the. way back into the city goes to her. apartment the apartment looks like it's. been completely rans sacked so he's like. what the hell is going on he gets his. cousin involved who was a former police. officer and they find out that the. wife has been stealing other women's. identities and is probably a killer it's.

like a dark and windy Thriller but the. fact that that's her favorite movie I. don't know some people say see like she. really wanted someone else's life and. maybe she's trying to recreate the movie. others said what if she's setting up. some Twisted alibi what do you mean like. some psychiatrists believe we can't. trust a single thing that comes out of. her mouth so we don't know the motive we. don't even know if she wanted to take. Hannah's life because she was jealous of.

Hannah they said that this could be a. well spun fabrication that she was. watching this movie to find out her lie. I'm going to lie and say I was trying to. steal her identity M mhm so does that. make sense yeah so she's just constantly. lying yeah I mean it's just we don't. know at all anyway the police know that. this is a lie though that she did not. kill Hannah she definitely killed Hannah. so they keep pushing and yuong quickly. changes her story once more and she. stated that she killed Hannah because. she got into a fight with Hannah and the.

police are fed up they don't believe. this because why would you get into a. fight with someone you don't know and. why would you trick them into being your. English tutor if you don't even know. them like it doesn't make sense so they. did not believe this lie either and. while she's being stalled by. investigators the cops were able to look. up her family registry in the system and. call Grandpa Jung the man who raised her. he rushes to the police station and his. whole universe shattered that day this. was his only family he raised her like. his own daughter and he felt like a. complete and utter failure how could he.

have failed Korea so badly by raising a. killer grandfather Jung rushed to the. station and the police asked him to talk. to his granddaughter to get the truth he. cried as he begged his granddaughter to. confess to her crimes he pleaded with. her just admit your sins for me do it. for me and my integrity and she I mean. she had given her grandfather nothing. except a lifetime of pain and Grandpa. Jung had given her absolutely everything. this was the least that he could ask of. his. granddaughter and Yu Jang confessed her.

crimes I don't know if she did it for. love for her grandfather I don't know if. she felt like this is it I mean I'm. going to have to fess up I don't know. what it was Grandpa Jong would later be. interviewed as he was hounded by the. South Korean media and he reported I. feel really sorry for the bereaved. family because I'm a sinner who raised. my granddaughter wrong I never expected. this situation I never even imagined. this.

when Grandpa Jung's neighbors were also. interviewed after the fact one of them. reported I mean the girl was calm quiet. and kind kind of but the grandpa was a. really nice. person so it's safe to assume that Yu. Jong was just a bad apple Grandpa Jang. was potentially just another one of her. victims when y Jong confessed to the. police she cited her motivation as I. just wanted to experience murder I just.

wanted to know what it feels like she. said that she had been planning this. murder since February so a full 3 to 4. months and with a confession and a crime. scene full of Illuminating evidence the. authorities prepared for her prosecution. she was officially charged with murder. damaging of a body dismemberment and a. third charge of body abandonment. scattering of the remains on June 2nd. around 9:00 a.m. before appearing before. the prosecution she said two short. sentences as the media questioned her.

for her crimes she said in I quote I was. out of my mind like I didn't have my. right mind I'm sorry for the victim's. family fore.

fore.

she also ended her press interview with. thank you which professionals believe. that she copied from past criminals. interviews behaviors and. attitudes yeah so a lot of like Killers. act weird yeah like a lot of killers and. documentaries they'll give press. conferences and like end it with a thank. you in Korea and I guess the way she. said it didn't feel natural kind of felt. like mocking Behavior not mocking but. copied.

Behavior so many netizens who followed. this case as it blew up have criticized. her words here believing that her. apology is this pathetic attempt at. appealing for a lower sentence they said. that she was using her childlike. innocence or her youthful facial. features to try and get away with murder. however due to this case blowing up. there's a chance that the high-profile. nature is going to pressure authorities. to sentence her with a much stricter. sentence yet the length of a sentence. doesn't seem to mean much to Y Jong. according to police she's doing great in.

jail she's calm and not the least bit. scared or anxious she's eating well. sleeping well and not feeling much. remorse or at least none that people can. see side note neisens were so enraged. about this comment that many of them dug. into the puan prison menu and they found. out that the prisoners were eating. better food than given to the military. during their services oh my God the menu. is high in quality lots of healthy. options fresh veggies and even has. dessert options netizens were wondering. how the food is better than the food.

that they eat at home and there were. questions of should our tax money really. be used in this way after her appearance. in front of the media on June 2nd her. results from a test that measure. psychopathy was released four days later. on the 6th the psychopath test was. created by a Canadian psychologist Dr. Robert D hair in the 70s it's called the. hair psychopathy checklist and it asks. 20 questions that are supposed to hone. in on your true nature professionals. allegedly use it to assess cases of.

psychopathy and it has even been. described as the single best predictor. of violent Behavior currently available. the psychopathy measurement test. functions on a scale out of 40 so the. lower the score the least likely you are. to have traits of a psychopath so. Psychopaths they typically score on. average of 25 that indicates a very. likely tendency to be a psychopath I. think normal people fall around like the. five or six range but some of the. prompts so questions I guess include and. you answer them yourself so you would.

answer like oh I strongly disagree. somewhat disagree disagree and then I'm. neutral does not apply like all these. things and they would say things like I. generally evade responsibility and do. not answer to anyone in my life yeah. yeah so that's like really easily you. can pick whatever you want yeah so is it. in her best interest to fake that she is. I mean probably not because psychopathy. is is not related to being in a state of.

psychosis you are not like you're still. in the right head space you just lack. empathy and all these other things but. okay and um they would say things like I. have a grandio sense of selfworth I have. a history of exhibiting Cruelty to. others and the patient rates themselves. on her first evaluation Yu Jong scored. 15 points out of 40 and even though 15. is higher than the normal range which is. about 5 to six for a normal person it's. still below 25 points which is the. threshold for psychopathy however on.

June 7th she went through a second. evaluation and she reportedly received a. score of 28 points some notable. comparable scores include Ted Bundy who. got um 39 out of 40 and John Wayne gasy. the clown killer got 27 out of 40 so she. scored um one point higher than John. Wayne. gasy She ranked one point higher than. kosun as well which is a notorious. serial killer in Korea he kidnapped and. murdered eight women he scored 27 points.

she scored 28 I will say though the test. has been criticized by some researchers. and experts but regardless of what you. think a score indicates or doesn't. indicate it's clear that tongyu Jong was. at least not a normal person and at most. a budding serial killer police found. evidence that she had been contacting. multiple tutors according to a professor. yunong a specialist in criminal. psychology they said if she hadn't been. caught on her kill there's almost 100%. chance that she would have killed again.

I yeah I can see that but the fact that. the way she did it for the first time. it's so stupid yeah so I think that's. where a lot of people say the grand. sense of self comes into play a lot of. these. Psychopaths sometimes overestimate their. intelligence and ability to accomplish. things is the speculation cuz she does. she did seem pretty confident in that. CCTV video it just yeah it doesn't make. sense it doesn't make sense now another.

criminal psychology Professor chimed in. to state that they believed Tong Jong is. a pathological liar the professor even. goes as far to speculate that everything. tongyu Jong has stated so far her. obsession with True Crime her wanting to. feel like what is like to kill someone. all of that is a lie all except for the. fact that she killed Hannah that is the. only thing that they think we should. take as fact nothing else should be. considered the professor claims we might. not even know how meticulously she's. been planning or how far in in advance. or even what her final goal was another.

criminal psychologist States it's way. too early to determine why she even. killed they said that we as a society. are quick to believe her reasonings not. because we are glal but because. otherwise the message would be that no. one is safe from such a random type of. murder and monster and that is more. terrifying now side note on June 8th the. puan police gave an award to the taxi. driver who reported the crime to the. police however the taxi driver refused. to take the prize and he actually quit. his job according to colleagues media. has been looking for this Taxi Driver.

like hounding this man down people. around him said that he's terrified he's. has so much Trauma from this encounter. he had driven this young woman with. dismembered body parts in the trunk of. his taxi at 3:00 a.m. the taxi driver is. doing everything that he can to remain. out of the public eye he has not given. any public interviews and some theorize. because South Korea is notorious for. letting people out he does not want his. name out there because he was that. terrified of chongyu Jong that if she is.

released he believes that she will track. him down and kill. him is the speculation now as for the. tutoring app that Hannah had been. utilizing to find clientele a lot of. tutors have deleted their profiles. because of how easily accessible the. tutor's personal information is the. original purpose of this app is to. assure that the parents have tutors that. are actually credible that are going to. the schools that they say they are that. are getting the grades that they say. they are are the tutoring app though. they don't background check or verify.

anything about the parents just the. tutors and they responded to these. concerns and said yes okay yeah we get. it but because we cannot verify parents. of the students in the app it's you know. what can we do so they've done like. little to solve this problem and protect. the tutors and this type of crime is not. unheard of in Korea in 2022 December one. man faked his identity as a high school. student and lured a female University. student SL tutor to his house in a attt. to essay her reportedly in 2021 one man.

also faked his identity kidnapped a. university student that was a tutor. using a similar app keeping her hostage. for up to a month and subjecting her to. many. essays so this is the case as of right. now I'm sure that there will be more. developments but um I don't know what. are your thoughts on this case I do. think um and I'm obviously biased cuz. I'm someone who is deep in this true. crime world but I think it's like the.

argument of video games I don't think. that there is any piece of media that. can get someone to kill yeah and I think. the way she went about it and just her. callous nature in that CCTV footage it's. just very unsettling to know that she. had just killed and dismembered. someone what are your thoughts let me. know in the comments and I will see you. guys on Sunday for the main episode. please be safe bye.