Accomplices who helped Kim Hun, 44, kill a woman he had been stalking by attaching a tracking device to the victim's car have been handed over to prosecutors.
The Gyeonggi Northern Provincial Police Agency said on the 30th that it had sent two men in their 30s and one woman in her 20s without detention on charges including violating the Location Information Act and the Stalking Punishment Act. Police also sent Kim Hun with additional charges, including violating the Location Information Act, the Stalking Punishment Act, and the Act on the Punishment of Domestic Violence.
The accomplices are accused of attaching tracking devices to the victim's car and the victim's mother's car from June last year through March this year. They are said to be acquaintances who got to know Kim Hun through online games or work.
Police believe Kim Hun asked for the tracking devices to be attached, and that after the accomplices agreed, they either bought five tracking devices together on an online shopping mall or received them and attached them to the cars. However, no indication of money or valuables changing hands as payment for the crime was found.
Around 8:58 a.m. on Mar. 14, Kim Hun was indicted and detained on charges of murder for going to find the victim on a road in Onam-eup, Namyangju, and stabbing the victim multiple times with a weapon he had prepared in advance. Immediately after the crime, Kim Hun cut his electronic monitoring anklet and fled with a temporary license plate he had prepared in advance attached to his own car, but was caught in about an hour.
It was found that starting 10 days before the crime, Kim Hun scouted the victim's home and workplace and prepared a drill, a weapon, and cable ties.