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00:00A young woman murdered and dumped in a roadside ditch. What we have is we have a
00:08body that's folded up in a fetal position in a suitcase. The police had
00:14little to work with. Who was she? Where did she come from? And who committed this
00:19terrible crime? You're really just waiting for the
00:24breakthrough. But this wouldn't be the investigation's only victim. Al and I sat
00:31there and said this is just bizarre that this could have happened. We've got two.
00:36Is there more? He would have done more. He wouldn't have stopped. Would he? Because he liked it.
00:41Could the smallest of clues help convict the killer? I was looking for insect
00:48evidence. Anything that could help in establishing a potential time of death.
00:52This was probably the most complex case that I investigated in 30 years of
00:58police work.
01:04When there's a murder with no suspect, no leads, perhaps not even a body, that's
01:11when investigators face their toughest test. The evidence must be gathered. The
01:19evidence must be analyzed. But the evidence is worthless if you can't pin it to a suspect.
01:24The only way to crack the hardest cases of all. The only way to prove what actually happened. The
01:45difference between success and failure is critical evidence.
01:51North Yorkshire, 2001, senior investigating officer Alan Anchors was about to finish his shift for the evening when his phone rang.
02:11It was a cold winter's evening in November and I received a call which suggested that on a dark country lane just outside York, near a village called Asking Richard, that a suitcase had been discovered by a member of the public and that when that suitcase was examined closer by the attending police officers, that it may have contained body parts, in particular an eye and some human hair.
02:39What goes through your mind is that you generally only get one chance to maximise your forensic opportunities. The dark, unlit street didn't give us many opportunities at that time. If it is a body, we really need to be in a controlled environment to carry out our investigation.
02:59For that reason, for that reason, I just took a decision on that evening that we would erect a protective tent over the case. The police cordons would remain in place until the following morning.
03:11Did the suitcase contain a body? Alan had an agonising overnight wait to discover the truth.
03:19Under careful supervision, the suitcase was lifted and moved to the mortuary where we proceeded to open the case.
03:30It's the smell of post-mortems that you never rid yourself of really for some time.
03:36We discovered the body of a female of Asian or Oriental persuasion. The body was at that stage suffering some decomposition and discolouration.
03:48The only dress that she had was a bra and it appeared that her hands and her face had been taped.
03:55My thought process, being a parent as well, was one of sorrow, you know, someone has had their life ended in this way, dumped in a quiet lane in North Yorkshire.
04:07Subsequent enquiries revealed the suitcase had first been noticed by members of the public 14 days earlier.
04:15The investigation was already weeks behind.
04:19Could the post-mortem offer further clues?
04:24She'd had tape wound around her lower face very, very tightly, covering both her mouth and her nose.
04:32The likely cause of death was suffocation.
04:36Other tests were carried out, but really I think because of the state of the body, those samples yielded no further evidence or information for the enquiry team.
04:48This unusual tape was the investigation's first piece of critical evidence.
04:53The killer's modus operandi, the unique manner in which the victim had been bound and murdered.
05:01The tape was quite unusual.
05:05It had a pattern on it.
05:07That was tape that was produced, or commissioned really, based on designs by the contemporary artist Gilbert and George.
05:15The outlets for the tape were the four tape galleries, the two in London, one in Liverpool, one in St. Ives.
05:22Death, hope, life and fear.
05:32The title of Gilbert and George's artwork.
05:34Of the 2,000 rolls produced, 851 had been sold.
05:39Alan knew one of the rolls could prove critical to the inquiry.
05:45Quite clearly we have an investigation to run, and it will be a murder investigation.
05:50So we set about with certain lines of inquiry.
05:53We need to establish the identity of the victim.
05:56We need to establish who placed her in the suitcase, who dumped the suitcase in North Yorkshire.
06:02An appeal for information was released describing the unknown victim, believed to be Asian or Oriental, aged between 20 and 40 and 4ft 11 inches tall.
06:17But the appeal drew blank.
06:20Five weeks after the suitcase was first spotted, Alan was still no closer to knowing who she was.
06:27After weeks of not being able to successfully identify our deceased, looked for other avenues of opportunity.
06:34And Sue Black was a name given to us who may be able to assist in actually narrowing down the ethnicity of our victim.
06:42Professor Sue Black is a forensic anthropologist specialising in establishing identity through human remains.
06:50Until we know who they are, what we're not able to do is investigate what's happened to them.
06:56Because we can't go and talk to their friends or their family or their work colleagues because we don't know who they are.
07:02So for us, what we had was a young female in a suitcase, not badly decomposed.
07:08Our job, what's our identity? Within that, it's her sex, her age, her height and her ancestry.
07:14Her sex and her height already determined for us. That leaves us with age and ancestry.
07:20Nowadays, what we do is we take the body, we'd put it into an MRI scanner and we would do a three-dimensional scan.
07:26We would remove visually all the soft tissue so we could look at the bone on the screen.
07:30We couldn't do that here because we didn't have that technology at that time.
07:34Sue turned to the only method available to try and determine the victim's age. X-ray.
07:43What we could see on the sternum was there are little flakes of bone.
07:47Those start to form about 20 years of age and they're gone by the time you're 25 at the very latest.
07:54So I could tell she was going to be somewhere between 20 and 25 years of age.
08:00In terms of our ancestry, we were able to look at the general morphology of her face, the level of what we call epicanthic folding.
08:08So the position of the eyelids and her hair, very blue-black coloured hair.
08:15Everything about her ancestry pointed to the areas around Korea, around southern China and that's the information the police will bring together as her biological identity that hopefully will lead to her personal identity, which is her name.
08:33The smallest detail to any murder inquiry can prove vital.
08:38And in this instance, that included the means in which the body was disposed.
08:43It was a suitcase made by a company in South Korea for the domestic market.
08:48That, coupled with the finding by Dr. Black, started to point us a little bit in that direction.
08:56By the end of 2001, Alan had still not identified the murder victim.
09:01But unbeknownst to him, an investigation of another kind was taking place halfway around the world.
09:07The family of the unknown girl was making their own inquiries.
09:18In November 2001, just outside York, a suitcase was discovered containing the remains of a young woman, suffocated to death and bound with a distinctive tape.
09:31The suitcase and forensic anthropology pointed towards a Korean origin for the unidentified victim.
09:38Alan Ankeress was about to receive a fortuitous tip from a fellow officer, but this officer's beat was a long way from the wet and windy north of England.
09:47We didn't really get a break until just after Christmas and into the New Year when a South Korean policeman called Superintendent Im.
10:00And he'd become aware there was some concern for a missing South Korean girl who had visited London while studying across in Lyon, in France.
10:13Could the missing student be the girl in the suitcase?
10:17To determine if she was, the team received a set of fingerprints from the South Korean government for comparison.
10:24On the 2nd of January 2002, 45 days after she was first discovered, Alan finally had a name.
10:33The necessary comparisons took place and we were able to identify our deceased as Miss Jin.
10:41The identification of 21-year-old Miss Jin, a South Korean student studying in France, may have been welcome news for the investigation, but it would prove devastating for her family, as her brother recalls.
10:57Firstly, it was so unbelievable, and secondly, my mother struggled with the news, and my main focus was to look after her.
11:13Now, I feel sad about the reality of it all, and that I can continue to live like this, even though my sister has gone, and my memories of her are fading.
11:32Miss Jin had finished her studies in France, and arrived in London on the 24th of October for a short sightseeing trip.
11:38She asked my mother if she could travel around in the time remaining, before returning home.
11:53My mother agreed that it would be a good thing to gain precious memories as Korea is so far from Europe.
12:01So, my mother told her on the phone, wherever you go, make sure you enjoy it, and don't have any regrets in later life.
12:13She told my mother on the phone, before she left, that she will go to England, and will stay in London for a few days.
12:21Miss Jin's brother, once he realized that it was out of character for his sister to be, you know, not making contact with home,
12:33he went on the social media sites, and he was putting appeals out, really.
12:41So, I left posts related to the Korean community staying in guest houses in England.
12:48We desperately hoped for any information or any news about my sister.
12:56The family received no information.
12:59Having already established Miss Jin had travelled to London, the next stage was to work out her movements whilst there.
13:06It was common practice for particularly the Korean community to seek out properties which were often run by Koreans,
13:17where they could put their heads down for a couple of nights whilst doing the sightseeing.
13:22And those were the types of enquiries that we were pursuing in terms of Miss Jin.
13:27We knew that her last known place of residence was Eagle Street, London.
13:34Alan's next move took him to the capital, but this meant working within another force's jurisdiction.
13:42The protocol dictates that we would make contact with our colleagues in the Metropolitan Police, and that we did.
13:49And I took a small team down to the Metropolitan Police area, so we could conduct our further enquiries.
13:54But once you step outside of your comfort zone into another force area, and with a force like the Metropolitan Police,
14:01then it's interesting to, shall we say, compare working practices, compare results, etc.
14:08In London, senior investigating officer of the serious crime unit Vic Ray was preparing for the arrival of Alan and his team.
14:17But a knock on his door was to take the murder investigation into a worryingly new dimension.
14:22There was a possible second victim.
14:26We had an officer coming to see me who said that they had a missing person enquiry in relation to another Korean girl from an address in the Poplar area.
14:37Bearing in mind, I was now liaising with Alan Ankers about his Korean girl.
14:42This is just bizarre that this could have happened. We've got two. Is there more?
14:47So I decided to take that enquiry off the borough, and that would fall in our remit of investigation, my team, the Murder Command.
14:56This time, they had a name, Miss Song.
15:03She'd come to Britain in 2000 to study English in Surrey.
15:08And by November, she was living in the flat in Poplar.
15:12The detectives were now investigating two female students, both in their early twenties, both visiting London.
15:27One of them dead, another missing.
15:30Could there be a connection between the two?
15:33As we started to look at it, we then realised that the landlord of the Poplar address
15:39was also the landlord of the address that Alan Ankers was looking at from where his victim had disappeared from,
15:48and that really was too much of a coincidence.
15:51Both properties were sublet by the same landlord, a gentleman called Kai Soo Kim.
15:58Our initial enquiries were to obviously try and locate Mr. Kim, but those enquiries soon indicated he'd left the country.
16:06We didn't know exactly where he had sent an email purporting to be in Germany at the time.
16:13But in truth, we didn't know where he was.
16:16But clearly, he was a matter of interest to us, and we would carry out standard procedures for someone in that position.
16:23The 29-year-old South Korean Mr. Kim arrived in London on September 2000 after a failed marriage in Korea.
16:33He'd come to study English. By October 2001, had abandoned his studies, was making a living subletting cheap rooms in the two properties to mostly Korean visitors.
16:46Mr. Kim was described as a charming man, and particularly in relation to his women tenants.
16:56But nobody ever had any uncomfortable feelings about him. They said he was a charmer.
17:03Miss Jin's family revealed that Mr. Kim was in regular contact with him after she went missing, offering assistance and explanations as to the events surrounding her disappearance.
17:15He didn't just simply answer, she left on a trip, but rather he gave a more detailed description, like a man took her to the station.
17:31She wanted to go, and that man looked like this. So obviously my mother thought, oh, so he really took her to the station, and she trusted him more.
17:46And also, his attitude and reaction was so natural that it was difficult to doubt him.
17:53But the trust the family had in the amiable landlord soon faded.
18:00That story tended to change, that he took her, and then he took her and three other females to Victoria bus station,
18:07and that they were going to be travelling around, which of course aroused further suspicion.
18:12The landlord of the guest house continued to say that Hyojung went on a trip to another country.
18:25But mother slowly began not to trust him, as his stories changed a little bit every time she called him to ask,
18:33who actually took her, to which country, and for how long?
18:38These same lies would be repeated in the case of the other missing Korean girl, Miss Song.
18:45Miss Song became good friends with Mr. Kim.
18:47And then when she went missing, Mr. Kim was saying that she had gone off for an interview for a job in a hotel.
18:55But then, when she failed to start contacting her parents back in Korea, which she regularly did,
19:01then that's when the alarm bells rang, and that's when she got reported as a missing person.
19:05We had two South Korean families here whose children were a long way from home.
19:12One we knew was dead, and the second we had strong suspicions was also dead.
19:17This just didn't add up.
19:21One girl murdered, another missing, presumed dead.
19:25The landlord, a person of interest linked to both girls, is out of the country.
19:29The team needed physical evidence. A search warrant was issued.
19:38We have a body, and that body is associated with that address.
19:44So, in relation to that set procedure, we will go in and we will forensically examine that address in great detail.
19:52Miss Jin's last known place of residence was in Mr. Kim's flat in Hobart.
19:59Enter the Met's crime scene manager, Craig Rose.
20:04Yorkshire gave us the best briefing they possibly could, but it was still...
20:09We don't really know much more than this girl ended up in a suitcase.
20:12If you like, our wish list was some sort of attack site. We had no real idea what we would find in the scenes.
20:19Quite often, in a murder scene, you'll get blood splatterings.
20:22You'll get scenes which have been cleaned up, or they believe they've been cleaned up.
20:26But with ultraviolet light, you can pick up still traces of blood that's been cleaned up.
20:31OK, if this is a site of an attack, where would there be difficult to clean up?
20:35Where would he not clean up? So we moved the bed, and inside the room was a desk, a little white desk, not very big.
20:44When we moved that away from the wall, we could see there was blood splashes, low down on a skirting board, which really interested us.
20:51Bloodstains in the bedroom of Mr. Kim. Bloodstains were found on the carpet, they were found on the wall belonging to the deceased.
20:59There were paint samples recovered from the suitcase in which Miss Gin had been concealed in.
21:06Paint samples which were matching paint that was on the walls of the apartment.
21:12I mean, the view was that Mr. Kim had struck our deceased girl when she was low down with her head near the carpet or near the wall.
21:21And the blood spattering will travel some distance.
21:23And, of course, when you go into a scene of crime, that's what they're looking for.
21:29Not only did the investigation have the murder scene, they also had a date for Miss Gin's death.
21:36Witness statements from her fellow lodgers said they'd return on the night of the 26th of October to find her gone.
21:43But if the suitcase was first seen in Yorkshire at the beginning of November, where had Miss Gin been hidden in the intervening period?
21:53The interesting parts for us, really, were that the body had been stored in the suitcase for some time.
21:58The suitcase had been found reasonably quickly.
22:00So the idea was that there'd been a decomposing body inside a suitcase.
22:05Try and put ourselves, to a certain extent, in a suspect's frame.
22:09What would he do? How would I do it?
22:11If I was going to put someone in a suitcase, would I leave that suitcase in the middle of the room?
22:16I would hide it away. I would wait for the appropriate time.
22:19And in that particular room, there were the big slidey door wardrobes.
22:23So there was carpet inside that wardrobe, which is good because, of course, it soaks up things.
22:27I opened the wardrobe door and there was a smell of decomposition.
22:31And sadly, from my experience, I know the smell of decomposition, especially human decomposition.
22:36So that smell struck me as quite strong.
22:39When we looked on the floor, there was a stain on the floor.
22:42In a very undignified kind of way, we got on our hands and knees and we got quite close to that stain.
22:47And that stained smell of decomposition.
22:49This is now becoming a real interesting crime scene.
22:54We tested that stain to see if we could see there was blood in it.
22:57That became positive.
22:59This was critical evidence.
23:02DNA gathered was consistent with the blood of Miss Jin.
23:07Another unknown sample was also collected.
23:10Detectors believed it could be from the landlord, Mr. Kim.
23:14But until he was traced, they had no way to verify.
23:17This discovery was crucial to the investigation.
23:21We've got a murder scene.
23:23We have got a very, very good suspect.
23:26And he's got a lot of questions to answer around what's been found in his bedroom.
23:30That was a time that really Mr. Kim starts moving from a person of interest to a suspect in the death of Miss Jin.
23:37In the winter of 2001, Korean student Miss Jin was bound and suffocated with a distinctive tape in London.
23:53Her body was hidden in a suitcase and dumped 300 miles away in a roadside ditch in Yorkshire.
24:03Her landlord, the suspected killer, Mr. Kim, was also sought in connection to another missing Korean girl, Miss Song.
24:13But Kim was at large and out of the country.
24:16I was worried, as was Alan, and to try and track him down could be nigh on impossible.
24:25So we were worried that we might not get him.
24:30By January 2002, the detectives still had no clear idea where Mr. Kim was,
24:37but continued chasing leads and building their case against him.
24:40We were looking at the witnesses that we could find that were associated with Mr. Kim.
24:49One of them was an ex-girlfriend of his.
24:52A search was carried out at the home address of Mr. Kim's former girlfriend.
24:58And it was whilst at the house that officers discovered part of a roll of tape
25:04exactly the same as that used to tie Miss Jin together.
25:10Coincidence? The investigation didn't think so.
25:14Only 851 rolls had been sold,
25:18and here was one in the home of the landlord's ex-girlfriend.
25:22That was sent for forensic examination.
25:24We could see that the amount of tape that had been used off the roll
25:27was sufficient to have been used on Miss Jin,
25:33and she did verify that Mr. Kim had access to that tape.
25:38Not only did the investigation have a probable match,
25:42but the roll of tape also had blood staining,
25:45not of Miss Jin, but reportedly that of Mr. Kim,
25:49to add to those samples recovered from Eagle Street.
25:53The detectives continued building their case against the elusive landlord
25:59and uncovered a motive.
26:02Mr. Kim, it would seem by the time that we were making our inquiries,
26:07he had run into some financial difficulty.
26:10I think he was something like £22,000 in debt.
26:13Further investigations revealed Mr. Kim's income from subletting his properties
26:18was not making enough to pay off his debt.
26:20The team focused on the two girls' financial transactions.
26:26Miss Jin's records threw up an irregularity.
26:30Money had been withdrawn from her account back in France
26:34after she'd been killed.
26:37During our inquiries,
26:39we then find that an ATM machine in Paris had been used,
26:44and that kind of threw us off a little bit at that point
26:46because we had Mr. Kim saying to the tenants that she'd returned to Paris,
26:53and then, lo and behold, we then get her card being used,
26:57which was an anomaly that we couldn't quite work out.
27:01This withdrawal had given Miss Jin's family back home in South Korea
27:05hope that she was alive and well.
27:07My mother and I were so relieved when we heard that money had been withdrawn from the account in France.
27:18We thought, oh, thankfully nothing bad has happened to her as we first imagined.
27:22She had travelled safely and had taken some money to do that, and we just simply couldn't get in touch with her.
27:31It made sense that if money had been withdrawn, then it would be highly likely that it was my sister who withdrew it,
27:39because she was the only person who knew the pin.
27:47This discrepancy did not add up.
27:50Miss Jin was murdered on the 26th of October,
27:54yet the mysterious withdrawal happened on the 1st of November.
27:58The investigation soon established the truth.
28:00There was a witness, a girl that said she'd taken a card for Kim to Paris and had drawn money out for him.
28:10Clearly, that would be an attempt by Mr. Kim to suggest that Miss Jin had returned at least safely back to Paris.
28:20Mr. Kim's cold and calculated deception had netted himself 5,300 French francs from Miss Jin's account.
28:28Equivalent to a mere 500 pounds.
28:37I was sad about the futility of it, that the cause of my sister's death was the money.
28:44She died because of such a small amount, which made her life worth so little.
28:51This was so hard to understand.
28:54The detectives then turned their focus to the money trail of Miss Song.
29:02This led to a breakthrough in their hunt for Mr. Kim.
29:05We find that a large sum of money has been taken out very close to a travel agent.
29:13We go into that travel agent, they look the records up, they say,
29:16yes, we did have a Mr. Kim book a ticket to Canada, Toronto for this date.
29:22At 1pm on the 13th of December 2001, Mr. Kim boarded an Air Canada flight to Toronto and fled the UK.
29:33We carried on evidence gathering. At some stage, we were of the view that Mr. Kim would come into our possession.
29:44Whether he came home of his own volition or whether we had to extradite him, we would get to see Mr. Kim.
29:50But time is of the essence. The suitcase had been in the ditch for nearly two weeks.
29:55Miss Song, of course, was undiscovered. But you had to gather the evidence that was available.
30:01So it was a case of really both of us making sure we were bringing the investigation together.
30:06There was a lot of pressure on this investigation.
30:11We did have the Korean authorities asking us why our suspect hadn't been arrested.
30:17But we obviously had to get our case in order for extradition.
30:27Miss Song's financial records gave detectives a vital lead into Mr. Kim's whereabouts.
30:31Miss Jin's now revealed the final piece of the puzzle.
30:36How did her body end up hundreds of miles away?
30:42We established that around the period of the time that the suitcase was dropped in North Yorkshire.
30:49Mr. Kim had hired a Peugeot motor vehicle in Camden.
30:53Looking at the bank details of Miss Jin, we saw that he'd taken money out of the ATM not far from
31:01the rental company for the car.
31:04The mileage that he undertook in that car was close to about 655 miles,
31:10which gave him ample opportunity to have travelled from Holborn to North Yorkshire and back again.
31:18We started looking at his telephone data for his mobile phone,
31:21and we were able to prove that on the 30th of October, he had travelled up to North Yorkshire in that car.
31:30In a cruel twist, Mr. Kim used Miss Jin's stolen money to hire the very car he used to transport and dispose of her body.
31:40We managed to recover that vehicle, we carried out a forensic examination of that,
31:46and subsequently found traces of Miss Jin's blood in the boot.
31:50There was a particular pattern in Eagle Street inside a cupboard.
31:55It was in a pattern of dots, which when we recovered the Peugeot vehicle hired by Mr. Kim,
32:05that same pattern was found, again with the blood of Miss Jin identified,
32:11which indicated that the suitcase had been in the cupboard and also had been in the boot,
32:18probably in the same position, leading to why we had the same staining pattern.
32:21This was critical evidence. The unique staining further connected Mr. Kim to the murder of Miss Jin in Eagle Street,
32:30the suitcase and the disposing of the body in Yorkshire.
32:34But where was Miss Song?
32:37We were obviously trying to find Miss Song's body.
32:40Bearing in mind we had Miss Jin in North Yorkshire, our belief was that he had probably disposed of the body
32:46somewhere in the UK, but where we didn't know.
32:49The team were focused on discovering Miss Song, but there was soon to be an unexpected shift in the investigation's direction.
32:59Rumours reached them that Mr. Kim was planning a dramatic return.
33:05Initially, I didn't think it would happen.
33:08There was talk that he was going to return to the UK, but I thought that was too much to hope for.
33:13Our breakthrough in this investigation came when Mr. Kim, for reasons that we're still not sure of, came back to London.
33:22I believed that we could end up trying to hunt this man down for I don't know how long, but for him to return was a godsend.
33:34But if Mr. Kim was indeed responsible for the death of Miss Jin and Miss Song, why would he risk returning to the UK?
33:46I wonder if he came back to move Miss Song.
33:56He was uncomfortable with where she was and knew that it would only be a matter of time before she was found.
33:59The last thing we wanted was him on the run indefinitely, and this really was the icing on the cake when we realised he had landed at Heathrow.
34:11Tantalisingly close now, Mr. Kim was successfully tracked to an internet cafe in London.
34:19The team acted fast to get their suspect into custody.
34:24We're in North London. He is in an internet cafe in Oxford Street.
34:30He could get up and walk out at any moment. He is so close, but so far.
34:35Two tones, police two tones as we call them, blue lights to get down there, and then Alan and I waiting for the call.
34:50It's actually, I'm getting tingling up my spine now, thinking about it.
34:54The hairs on the back of my neck are standing up.
34:56Then the phone rings, governors, we've got him. Bang. And it was just elation.
35:09I think probably Alan and I probably hugged each other.
35:12You know, that was one evil man.
35:17Two weeks after first arriving in London, and two months after the discovery of the body in the suitcase,
35:22Alan finally faced his suspect.
35:28Mr. Kim, throughout his interviews, chose to say nothing really.
35:35He was very cold, calculating, no emotion whatsoever in relation to it.
35:41Regardless of the critical evidence stacked against him, Mr. Kim proclaimed his innocence.
35:47And in relation to Miss Song, he was trying to say that she was still alive.
35:56And he was trying to help.
35:58And that he couldn't understand where she was, which was total cock and ball.
36:03DNA taken from Mr. Kim matched that recovered from the bedroom of Eagle Street
36:07and the distinctive tape collected from his ex-girlfriends.
36:12Awaiting trial, the detectives had a strong case, but only for the murder of Miss Jin.
36:18The case against him for the disappearance of Miss Song, less so.
36:23They were still no closer to finding her two months after Mr. Kim's arrest.
36:28But this was all about to change.
36:30There was a workman carrying out some work in the bathroom at the house at Augusta Street.
36:40He took the bath panel off and he became aware of some flies of some description,
36:46more flies than he would have expected.
36:48He was aware of the police interest in Augusta House, so he notified the local police.
36:54Which obviously led to the discovery of just inside the front door of a sealed chamber, for might of a better word.
37:04Once it was opened, the second victim was discovered inside.
37:15Landlord Mr. Kim was arrested for the murder of 21-year-old Miss Jin.
37:21And in connection with the disappearance of 22-year-old Miss Song.
37:26Two months after his arrest, a workman had reported a suspicious infestation of flies
37:32coming from beneath the bath in Kim's second property.
37:37The property in which Miss Song had been staying.
37:41I sent my officers down there, they had a look, they took the panel off the wall,
37:45they could see that the blue bottles were coming from the floor below.
37:50What we decided to do was get what we called a Pulsar team in,
37:56which is a trained search team that will go into the address because of these blue bottles.
38:02The team followed the path of the flies down through the floor and revealed a possible disposal site for Miss Song.
38:09Which obviously led to the discovery of just inside the front door of a sealed chamber, for might of a better word.
38:17A cupboard with no door handle on it, but it had been masticed up to look solid.
38:22Once it was opened, the second victim was discovered inside.
38:25She has heaped on top of her clothing, everything like that. All we can see was a foot.
38:32When we eventually got down to her, she was wrapped in a duvet.
38:37When she was unwrapped from that, we found that she was bound up.
38:40And immediately, Alan and I could see the similarities between Miss Gin, the way she was bound, and the way Miss Song was bound.
38:50It was packing tape wrapped round her head to just above her eyes, hands were bound and her legs were bound.
38:58This was beyond coincidence.
39:01Critical evidence, modus operandi, the two victims killed in a similar manner.
39:08The hidden chamber offered up a wealth of evidence to the investigation.
39:11It became apparent that amongst the clothing that was dropped in with the body of Miss Song, there were two pairs of shoes, a pair of boots and a pair of trainers.
39:22Forensic examination of those revealed a DNA profile for Miss Gin.
39:27So quite clearly then, we had another link between Mr. Kim, Miss Gin and Miss Song.
39:33In the cupboard below, we then found the tube-type masking you get.
39:39We believe that was the one used to seal the top of the cupboard up.
39:43And on that masking gun was found Mr. Kim's fingerprint.
39:47Now they had physical evidence, but there was a problem.
39:55Mr. Kim left the country on the 13th of December.
39:59The team had to prove he killed Miss Song before he left.
40:03They turned to a very unusual source of help.
40:06The one that found Miss Song's body.
40:09Flies.
40:10The investigation called in the services of forensic entomologist Dr. John Manlove, a specialist in using insects to assist in criminal investigations.
40:22My part in the investigation was to assist in determining the length of time that Miss Song might have been deceased.
40:29As part of that, it was to answer the question, could Miss Song have been killed at the time that Mr. Kim was in the United Kingdom?
40:39Many species of flies, their rate of development is dependent on temperature.
40:44So quite simply, the warmer it is, the quicker they go from egg to adult.
40:48Which is why these flies are helpful to a forensic entomologist in terms of estimating their age.
40:56On the 25th of March 2003, Mr. Kim was convicted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court in London of two counts of murder.
41:06He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
41:09I am still very grateful to the British police.
41:15All during the investigation, they explained everything to us.
41:20Why they were doing certain things and what we needed to do.
41:24But solving the case and catching the killer can never bring back the one we lost.
41:33It is nice to catch people who think they are so clever that they can hide away from this.
41:37They can, you know, I'm so clever that the police never catch me.
41:40Because, you know, despite our outward appearance, we are quite clever ourselves really.
41:45There is no greater satisfaction in a murder investigation than to put away a murderer like that.
41:52And it was so, so satisfying for Alan and I, and all involved in the investigation, to see him go away.
42:01At the trial, it was highlighted how the investigation against Kim was built on an exceptionally powerful chain of circumstantial evidence.
42:11There was a professional pride in achieving the result we achieved.
42:18The judge was very, very complimentary.
42:21In fact, if I recall, he called it a Rolls Royce presented case.
42:26Upon sentencing, the judge told Kim, you snuffed out the lives of two innocent young girls who trusted you and believed you were their friend.
42:38A big part of it was he showed no remorse when he was convicted.
42:43And he's never tried to give any explanation to the family for why he did what he did.
42:50But more than anything, you're thankful that there are two families, you know, thousands of miles away in South Korea.
42:56who at least are aware that we've done our job.
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