The 23-year-old woman in South Korea was obsessed with crime shows and hunted for victims on a tutoring app.

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.

  • interceder270@lemmy.worldBanned from community
    4·
    2 年前

    Is that really what true crime is like? I’ve only seen more grounded things like Rob Dyke and Lordan Arts, but that sounds terrible.

    Seems more like ‘reality’ crime.

    • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 年前

      It used to be. There’s a lot of true crime podcasts/YouTube channels out there that isn’t like that at all.