The tragic life of famous South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil cannot find peace even in death:

Police investigating the theft of an urn containing the ashes of the late actress Choi Jin-sil said yesterday the crime actually took place on Aug. 4, not last Saturday.

Detectives found footage of a man in his late 30s to early 50s destroying the late actress’s tomb with a hammer when they examined closed-circuit surveillance camera recordings taken between June 27 to Aug. 12, the Yangpyeong Police Precinct said.

Woo Jae-jin, head of the investigation team, made public the footage of the theft during a press briefing.

Woo said the camera is located 17.5 meters (57.4 feet) from the burial site. The film suggests the theft took place between 9:55 p.m. and 10:58 p.m on the day in question, he said.

In the film, a man appears near Choi’s burial site inside Kapsan Park in Yangpyeong around 9:56 p.m. He had short hair and wore a jacket and gloves. He appeared to wonder around the site, checking he was alone, before removing a hammer from a sack smashing the back of Choi’s headstone several times and then taking out the urn, containing her ashes.

The suspect then placed a flower basket over the damaged part of the headstone and departed. He returned to the location next morning at 3:36 a.m. with a bucket and a cloth and cleaned up the tombstone, presumably to hide his trails.  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

For those that don’t know, Choi Jin-sil committed suicide after suffering from depression when online rumors were being spread that said she was having an affair with the actor Ahn Jae-hwan who committed suicide a month before her.  To make matters worse after her death an advertising company won a court ruling against her estate for hundreds of thousands of dollars because she violated her contract when her husband, baseball player Cho Sung-min beat her up.