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http://rokdrop.com/2006/11/20/convicted-usfk-murd…

I haven't done an in depth posting on what happened that day but probably should. I have actually met Markle before when he was in jail and found him to be quite odd but he didn't seem dangerous. He has since been released from prison:

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_…

Thanks for commenting and providing more background information about Markle.

I was stationed at Cp Casey in '92 and remember the rape/murder case mentioned in this post. The soldier was 18 and this was his duty station (I believe he was a medic assigned to 5/20 infantry). The victim was a juicy girl/prostitute in one of the local clubs (I don't remember which one) and apparently they knew each other. The rape portion reportedly included object rape and may have occurred post mortem. Of course this crime set off a wave of protests/riots, both in TDC and in Seoul. I remember that the Chief (the statue in front of Cp Casey) was splashed with blue paint and had it's arm broken off.

The soldier was handed over to the Koreans for prosecution and was convicted. When he was being moved around for trial he was heavily guarded (to protect him) and had to be moved by helicopter instead of by truck/van for his safety. Interestingly, the Korean courts ended up sentencing him to (if I remember correctly) 15 years, citing his relative youth at the time of the crime. We GI's thought that this was incredibly lenient for such a horrific murder.

A couple of interesting background facts. The convicted GI's father was a foreign service officer in the State Dept. Apparently, he was considered a head case (technical term) a something of a ticking time bomb by some of the NCO's who supervised him, and his NCOIC was pushing to get him out of Korea and chaptered out of the Army, both for the good of the service and the soldier. HHC 5/20 had a rapid turnover of company commanders (something on the order of 3-4 commanders in a 4 month period) and each new commander, when presented with the paperwork decided to give the soldier a chance. At the time of the murder, the soldier's chapter was approved at the company level and he was probably a few weeks from being shipped out. I do not remember if he was restricted to post at this time.

I am going off memory for the above comments, so I may have gotten some parts wrong. Perhaps GI Korea can do his usual excellent job of researching the incident and posting a complete accounting of this case.