A woman in her 20s surnamed Kim, accused of handing over drinks mixed with drugs and causing the deaths of two men, has been sent to prosecutors under arrest.
The Gangbuk Police Station in Seoul said on the 19th morning that it had referred Kim to the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office under arrest on charges of murder and violating the Narcotics Control Act.
Kim is accused of handing drinks containing psychotropic medications to three men in their 20s from mid-December last year to the 9th of this month, causing two to die and one to lose consciousness.
In questioning, Kim said, "I mixed medicine prescribed at a hospital into a hangover cure and carried it around," and noted, "A dispute broke out at a motel, and I only handed it over to make the other person sleep; I did not expect death." The drug in question was reportedly prescribed to Kim through psychiatric treatment. Kim also claimed to have learned of the victim's death only after being contacted by police.
However, police determined that Kim sufficiently recognized the possibility of death, given her statement that she increased the amount of the drug after the first crime and the forensic data from her mobile phone, and sent the case to prosecutors on a murder charge rather than causing death by injury.
In particular, a police investigation confirmed that before the crime, Kim had entered questions into ChatGPT such as "What happens if you take sleeping pills with alcohol," "How much together is dangerous," and "Could it be fatal."
During the Lunar New Year holiday, police deployed profilers to conduct a psychopathy assessment and interviews with Kim. They plan to forward the results to prosecutors as soon as they are available.
A police official said, "We will continue to investigate whether there are additional victims."