Suwon Torso Murder Suspect Re-enacts Crime

lsquo;He had a grudge about girlfriend since breakup'

By Lee Kyung-min

Park Chun-bong, the Korean-Chinese suspect in the highly publicized "torso murder" in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, has re-enacted how he killed his girlfriend, dismembered her and discarded the parts in plastic bags.

Investigators and local residents watched him re-enacting the killing at his rented room in Maekyo-dong, Suwon.

There, he re-enacted severing the body into two parts: the lower body and torso, and later cutting off her right arm and left leg.

Onlookers cursed Park as he arrived, but he showed no emotion.

Park, 56, initially would not say why he killed the Korean-Chinese woman, 48, surnamed Kim, since being, but he confessed this week that he murdered her because she refused to meet him

After living together for eight months, Kim ended the relationship a month ago, and Park has been holding a grudge since then, according to police.

Park insists that he killed her accidentally, but police believe it was pre-meditated.

On Nov. 26, the day of the murder, Park took leave from work.

Surveillance camera footage shows that Park visited Kim that day at 1:30 pm at her workplace, a shopping mall, and...

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