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submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A South Korean court has given a life sentence to a true crime fan who told police she murdered a stranger "out of curiosity".

Jung Yoo-jung, 23, had been obsessed with crime shows and novels and scored highly on psychopath tests, police said.

Fixated with the idea of "trying out a murder", she used an app to meet an English-language teacher, stabbing her to death at her home in May.

The brutal killing shocked South Korea.

Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty - a request typically reserved for the gravest of offences.

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[-] stifle867@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

She would have left a strand of hair at the scene that they DNA test then the whole case gets busted upon. That's how it works in the shows anyway

[-] wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

if the shows are any indication, the hair strand won't be tested, and innocent person will be charged, and in 20 years, they'll figure it out after the innocent person basically became their own lawyer and found out about the hair, then managed to get the hair tested on their final appeal.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

DNA testing is only useful if someone is already in the system, so long as the killer isn't in the system then they need a sample from the killer somehow to compare the DNA. This is why if you're interviewed formally by police at the station they offer you something to drink, so they can get fingerprints from the glass/cup and DNA from your saliva on the rim.

[-] stifle867@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah it was just a joke about the cliches of the true crime category. To be fair I don't watch true crime myself.

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