South Korea's First Modern Serial Killer

The Hwas Song murders are notorious all over South Korea for being the country's first modern serial killer. In September of 1986 in April of 1991 a total of 15 women and girls were found bound, gagged, violated and in most cases strangled to death with an item of their own clothing. Over 20 million man hours spent poring over witness statements,. analyzing crime scenes and interviewing over 21,000 suspected culprits. The list of suspects had grown to include a mind-boggling 21,000 different people. A whopping 40,000 people had their fingerprints taken, but the true list of suspects could potentially be narrowed down to just a few hundred that actually had DNA samples taken from