A man in his 20s was urgently arrested after killing his girlfriend, whom he had been seeing for about a month, and dumping her body on the shoulder of a highway.
According to police on the 29th, the Siheung Police Station in Gyeonggi urgently arrested A and is under investigation on suspicion of murder and abandonment of a body.
A is suspected of strangling to death B, a woman in her 20s who was his girlfriend, inside his car parked in a dwellings area in Seonbu-dong, Danwon-gu, Ansan, at about 9:40 p.m. the previous day. A then drove as is and dumped B's body beyond the shoulder of a highway in Pocheon, it was found.
After the crime, A told a friend, "I hit my girlfriend and she is not breathing," and the friend reported it to police.
Police found A at the reporting friend's home and accompanied A voluntarily, and at about 10 a.m. that day A confessed to the crime and was urgently arrested.
Police plan to seek an arrest warrant for A. They also plan to request an autopsy of B's body to determine the exact cause of death.