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.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    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·
      1 year ago

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