It is a good thing this guy is off the streets because who knows how many more women he would have killed:

A 38-year-old man who admitted murdering a female undergraduate last month has also confessed to having killed six other women in southwestern Gyeonggi Province since 2006, police said Friday.

Kang Ho-soon was arrested last Sunday in connection with the killing of the student whose body was found in a nearby town,Sunday.

Police said Kang approached his victims with the intent to rape them, and then strangled them with stockings. Kang said he began to have the temptation to kill women after his fourth wife and her mother died in a fire in 2005.

“Kang said that dejected after his wife’s death in a fire he wandered the nation for a year and began to feel the compulsion to kill when he looked at women,” said Park Hak-keun, a senior police officer in Suwon, at a press briefing. “He said he could not hold back the urge after the first killing.”

He killed three out of the seven after having sex with them in singing rooms and the remaining four, including the collegian, after kidnapping them.

The stunning confession came one day after he said that he had killed a missing 48-year-old housewife, identified only as Kim, last November. Her body was found buried on a hillside in Ansan, Thursday night.

On Friday, police found four other bodies again in the area after his confession to the killings. Police said they were having difficulty unearthing the seventh as the burial spot Kang indicated has been turned into an indoor golf range.

Following his detention, police focused their questioning on whether he was connected to other unsolved missing persons cases in the province, since many of them took place in the vicinity of his stock farm.

The collegian’s body was also found buried in a rice paddy in Hwaseong, only a few kilometers away from Kang’s workplace in Suwon.  [Korea Times]

I have to wonder if this guy was trying to be a copycat of the Memories of Murder killer?