February 4th, 2013 at 5:41 am » Comments (13)

So how long will it be before someone claims we need gun free zones at shooting ranges? STEPHENVILLE, Texas — An Iraq War veteran charged with murdering former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and a friend turned a gun on the pair while they were at a Texas shooting range, authorities said Sunday. Eddie Ray Routh, of Lancaster, was arraigned early Sunday in the deaths of Kyle, who wrote the best-selling book “American Sniper,” and Chad Littlefield, 35. They were killed at a shooting range at Rough Creek Lodge, about
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January 26th, 2013 at 6:24 pm » Comments (16)

He may have been issued a death sentence but it will be interesting to see if he is ever executed because Korea has not executed anyone since 1997: A court yesterday handed down a death sentence to Kim Hong-il, 25, who brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend and her sister in Ulsan last year. The Ulsan District Court headed by Senior Judge Seong Geum-seok sentenced Kim to be executed. A crowd in the court, which included relatives of the murdered sisters, cheered the sentence and gave judges a standing ovation. “We couldn’t
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October 25th, 2012 at 6:11 pm » Comments (7)

The amount of incompetence by Korean authorities in this case is staggering, but it appears that Arthur Patterson will finally be returned to South Korea to face murder charges: A U.S. federal court has approved the extradition of a suspect in the 1997 slaying of a South Korean university student near U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Justice. Police initially charged two 18-year-old Americans with the murder of Cho Joong-pil, who died after being stabbed repeatedly in the bathroom of a Burger King in Seoul’s Itaewon
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August 23rd, 2012 at 3:32 am » Comments (6)

A repeat sex offender has murdered another woman in Seoul: A 41-year-old ex-convict convicted of at least three sex crimes fatally stabbed a woman in eastern Seoul Monday after failing to rape her in her own house, according to police. The alleged killer prepared the attack carefully and chose a victim who lived a kilometer (0.6 miles) from his own residence in Gwangjin District, eastern Seoul, police said. The fact that he was a repeat sexual offender and was wearing an electronic tracking device on his ankle did not deter
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July 26th, 2012 at 3:48 am » Comments (15)

Here is an article about a tragic crime in Ulsan: A 27-year-old man is wanted for climbing into his ex-girlfriend’s Ulsan apartment, fatally stabbing her younger sister by mistake, and then returning to the scene 10 minutes later to fatally stab his ex 12 times. Friends of the suspect and the girlfriend who jilted him last week have been circulating the suspect’s pictures on social media networks like Twitter. Ulsan Jungbu Police Precinct have started a manhunt for Kim Hong-il, a 27-year-old company worker. Police say Kim scaled the exterior
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July 24th, 2012 at 5:40 am » Comments (0)

There was a murder recently on Cheju that has closed a popular trail as police hunt for evidence: Some parts of the famous trekking paths on the country’s southernmost island of Jeju have been temporarily closed following a recent kidnapping and murder case there, officials said Tuesday. A man identified only by the surname of Kang was arrested Monday on suspicion of kidnapping and killing a 40-year-old female tourist and abandoning her body. She went missing near the trekking course on July 12, one day after she arrived from Seoul
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July 23rd, 2012 at 3:34 am » Comments (6)

Truly a tragic murder down in Tongyeong: Police have found the body of a 10-year-old girl who went missing about a week ago on her way to school in Tongyeong, south Gyeongsang Province, police officials said Sunday. According to the investigators, a 44-year-old neighbor and repeat sex offender is in police custody as a suspect. The suspect has confessed to kidnapping and murdering the girl and her body was discovered in a sack on a mountain some 10 kilometers away from her home, where he said it was. The police
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April 30th, 2012 at 3:39 am » Comments (7)

Remember the Air Force NCO NCO murdered on Okinawa that ROK Heads pretty much deduced what happened before the facts became known?  Well his wife has now been sentenced for her part in the murder: A Brazilian woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison with forced labor after a Japanese court convicted her Friday of murder in the death of her Air Force husband. Barbara Keiko Eccleston, 33, helped plot the fatal stabbing of Tech. Sgt. Curtis Eccleston, according to the jury decision. Curtis Eccleston, of the 733rd Air Mobility Squadron at
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April 26th, 2012 at 11:39 pm » Comments (46)

A senseless killing like the one described below is just infuriating to me: A young cook returning home from work was shot dead in cold blood yesterday by a heartless thug — who stole his iPhone but ignored his wallet full of cash. Hwangbum Yang, 26, had finished his shift at The Modern, a restaurant in the Museum of Modern Art, and was only two blocks from his apartment in the Riverdale section of The Bronx when the killer attacked at about 12:32 a.m. Yang, a culinary-school graduate who taught
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April 20th, 2012 at 7:22 am » Comments (9)

Via a reader tip comes news that a Chinese fisherman that murdered a Korean coast guard officer has been sentenced: A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the captain of a Chinese fishing boat to 30 years in prison for murdering a South Korean coast guard officer during a confrontation in the Yellow Sea last year. The court in the port of Incheon also handed down prison terms to several other crew members of the Chinese vessel, which the South Korean coast guard officials boarded on December 12 because they
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