A man in South Korea has confessed to m*rdering his girlfriend and hiding her body in cement 16 years after she was reported as missing.
The guy in his 50s told police that he hit the woman with something hard while they were arguing at his apartment in Geoje, which is in the south of the country. After that, he put her body in a suitcase and buried it on his patio under bricks and cement.
Local media said that it stayed there unnoticed until last month, in August 2024, when a repair worker found it while drilling.
The body, which had been partially preserved by the suitcase, was identified as the missing woman's through fingerprint analysis.
An autopsy revealed that she had d!ed from blunt force trauma to the head.
The man, who police are calling Mr. A, wasn't living in the apartment when the body was found, but he was quickly caught and taken into custody.
He told the police that he and the woman had lived together in the Geoje studio flat for about five years before they got into a fight in October 2008 and he hit her with something hard. Then, he hid her body in a suitcase under a layer of bricks and cement on a small balcony on the third floor that could only be reached from one of the bedrooms.
Police say he stayed in the flat for another eight years before being arrested in 2016 on drug charges.
The landlord of the flat has left it empty since then and used it as storage space.
Police say the woman's family didn't report her missing until three years after she died. She was in her 30s at the time. It was said that they had lost touch with their daughter, and when they went to Geoje to find her, they were told that she had broken up with Mr. A and left the city.
The 16-year puzzle was finally solved this year when the building's owner asked for waterproofing work to be done.
The police say they are still looking into the case and plan to charge the man with murder.