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Prosecutors appeal to give death penalty to Lee Ki-young

Prosecutors appealed for the death penalty against Lee Ki-young, the 32-year-old sentenced to life for murdering a taxi driver and his ex-girlfriend. The Goyang branch of the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors' Office appealed Friday's court decision...

2023.5.24

The 31-year-old Lee Ki-young, charged with murder and body dump, is being transferred to prosecutors in January. [NEWS1]

Life sentence given to man who killed his ex-girlfriend, taxi driver

A man who killed a taxi driver and his ex-girlfriend received a life sentence. The Goyang Branch of the Uijeongbu District Court on Friday morning sentenced Lee Ki-young, 31, to life in prison for murder and body dump.

2023.5.19

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Lee Ki-young's driver license photo [YONHAP]

Prosecutors demand death for man who killed ex-girlfriend, taxi driver

Prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Lee Ki-young, the 32-year-old man charged with murdering a taxi driver and his ex-girlfriend. Lee's crimes sparked public uproar when he was accused of the murders last year.

2023.4.12

Lee Ki-young, suspected of killing a taxi driver and his former girlfriend, completely hides his face under a hood and face make as he leaves a police station in Goyang, Gyeonggi, for handover to the prosecution on Jan. 4. [YONHAP]

[WHY] Releasing a suspect's identity: Does it help?

The controversy surrounding the disclosure of suspects' faces and its effectiveness arose once again after the identity of 31-year-old Lee Ki-young, who is accused of killing a taxi driver in addition to killing his ex-girlfriend, was divulged.

2023.2.3

Lee Ki-young points to where he allegedly buried the body of his former girlfriend at a stream in Paju, Gyeonggi, on Jan. 6. [YONHAP]

Alleged murderer of taxi driver, ex-girlfriend is charged

Lee Ki-young was indicted for murdering and concealing the body of a taxi driver and his former girlfriend on Thursday. The Uijeongbu District Prosecutor's Office also charged Lee with revenge killing, robbery and falsifying documents.

2023.1.19

Screen grabs show Lee Ki-young smiling while his cat struggles to get out of a swimming pool [SCREEN CAPTURE}

Accused taxi murderer was filmed torturing a cat

Footage of the man accused of murdering a taxi driver and a former girlfriend showed him torturing a cat in a swimming pool just days or weeks before the first murder.

2023.1.6

Murder suspect Lee Ki-young is escorted by the police in Ilsan, Gyeonggi, on Wednesday before getting on a van to the prosecutors' office. [YONHAP]

Man charged with murder of taxi driver, ex-girlfriend makes first public appearance

The man charged with murdering a taxi driver and his ex-girlfriend appeared in public for the first time since his arrest last week.Thirty-one-year-old Lee Ki-young tried to conceal his face by pulling his hood over his head...

2023.1.4

Body hunt

Police search Gongneung stream in Paju for the remains of a woman on Tuesday. Lee Ki-young, who is accused of murdering a taxi driver in December, allegedly confessed to murdering his girlfriend last August.

2023.1.3

Photo of Lee Ki-young used for his driver's license [YONHAP]

Search is on for unsolved crimes linked to taxi murder

The police are tracking down 380 contacts of Lee Ki-young, accused of murdering two people including a taxi driver, to see if he might be connected to unsolved crimes.

2023.1.2