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| ▲ On the afternoon of December 17, 2020, at the retrial sentence of the 8th case of the serial murder of Lee Chun-jae, held at the Suwon District Court in Suwon-si, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Mr. Yoon Seong-yeo, the petitioner for retrial, was condemned and congratulated by acquaintances. | |
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On the 25th, those who were confined as suspects in the serial murder case of Lee Chun-jae, who were subjected to unfair affairs such as torture by an investigative agency, submitted a’Truth Investigation’ to the Truth Reconciliation Committee on the 25th.
A total of three people, including Yoon Amugae, who were found not guilty at a recent retrial after having been imprisoned for 20 years in the eighth serial murder of Lee Chun-jae, who requested the investigation of the truth.
In addition to Yun, the father of elementary school student Kim Amugae, who was murdered by Lee Chun-jae, but remained in the disappearance case for more than 30 years due to the police concealing the body. Also, in 1990, he flocked as a suspect in the 9th case and confessed falsely as a coercive investigation by the police and was released thanks to DNA testing. He is the older brother of 19-year-old Yoon Amugae at the time.
After being released from the detention center, Yoon contracted cancer and struggled with the disease for about 7 years, and died in 1997.
Attorney Joon-Young Park and Dasan Law Firm, who had been delegated the truth-finding case, held a press conference with the victims in front of the Truth Reconciliation Past and Reconciliation Committee (Jung-gu, Seoul) on the morning of the 25th, explaining the background and background of the request for truth investigation.
Attorney Park Joon-young and Dasan Law Firm have been in charge of retrial of Mr. Yoon, leading to a conviction.
According to attorney Park et al., the victims’ request is’finding the truth of the investigation process for six years in which a total of 14 serial murders of Lee Chun-jae took place.
It is necessary to know how the victims were driven as suspects, what coercive investigations resulted in false confession, and how the body concealment and destruction of evidence in the elementary school student Kim Yang case were carried out.
At a press conference, lawyers and others said, “Even after it was revealed that the true criminal of the serial murder case was Lee Chun-jae, the crimes of those who had been tortured by the investigation agency as suspects, the concealment of the body of Kim Yang, the elementary school student, and the destruction of evidence were beyond the statute of limitations. He said, “This unfair death is the homework left to us.”
Right after the press conference <오마이뉴스>In a phone call with “We (lawyer) can be investigated, we will emphasize that the case is within the scope of the investigation (legally).” I will do everything.”
In this regard, attorney Park Joon-young said, “The serial murder of Lee Chun-jae falls under the purpose of the Basic Law on the Reconciliation of Past Affairs, which is a’significant human rights violation case caused by the exercise of unreasonable public power, a historically important case, and the truth needs to be investigated’. “I said. It is said that it has the legal requirements to be the subject of investigation.