'I'm surprised I was not caught,' says South Korea's most notorious serial killer in court hearing

A man who has confessed to being one of South Korea’s most prolific serial killers has told a court in the city of Suwon that he was surprised he had not been not caught earlier. Lee Chun-jae, 57, was appearing in court on Monday for the retrial of a man who was wrongly convicted of one of Lee’s killings, serving 20 years in prison for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in 1988. The man, Yoon Sung-yeo, was released in 2008 but is appealing to have his conviction quashed. He alleges - and police have admitted - that he was coerced into making a false confession in the death of the girl as police struggled to identify the perpetrator of a series of killings attributed to "the Hwaseong Strangler." Lee told the court that he murdered 14 women and girls around the city of Hwaseong between 1986 and 1991, Yonhap News reported. All the victims were discovered bound, gagged, raped and, in most cases, strangled with an item of their own clothing, usually their underwear. His first victim was 71 years old and two other victims were 14.

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