Macabre crime in Mendoza: a Korean confessed to having murdered and buried his partner then wanted to poison himself

The city of Nueva California, in Mendoza, was the scene of a brutal crime after a Korean man confessed to murdering and burying his girlfriend. According to police and judicial sources, the attacker assaulted the woman after an argument and after killing her, buried her in a well on the farm where they worked. After committing the act, he attempted to poison himself with an herbicide, but was transferred to an area hospital for treatment.

It is Kim Seong-Jim34, now hospitalized out of danger after confessing to killing his partner Kyungja Yoo, 49 years. He femicide It could come to light after the suspected killer told a friend what had happened, who called 911 to report the incident.

According to this man, who is also a translator, Kim had a fight with his partner, to whom he was not married, because she no longer wanted to be with him, he dragged and hanged her and then buried her at the farm, after which she ingested the herbicide that was used to cure the plants.

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Learning of the fact, the police went to a house located in the Don Pedro farm, in Sullivan and Onetto streets, in the department of San Martín. The place is an area known as the “Farm of the Koreans”, since around 50 South Koreans live and work there, in the production of almonds and walnuts.

Upon arrival, officers began combing the indicated area, spotting a recent excavation and a six-foot-long mound of dirt to the west of the walnut grove. The earth seemed disturbed compared to the rest of the land and there was an abundant foul odor.

After hours of work, and after the arrival of the staff of the Scientific Police, experts in Anthropology and the Fire Brigade, after 2:00 p.m., the discovery of the corpse of a woman in a state of decomposition inside a ditch was confirmed.

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According to police sources, the whole event was recorded on security cameras, where experts were able to see how the killer dragged the woman into the house and then came out with the body to bury her. Also, in the same shoot, you can see the moment when the feminicide picks up his victim and takes him away.

In this sense, Deputy Commissioner Pérez, of the 39th Police Station, indicated that in the film recordings seized by the personnel of the Technological Crime Police, it can be seen that last Friday afternoon the woman was sleeping in the manger, when the man appears who climbs on her and literally hangs her.

Currently, after the confession, the attacker remains hospitalized in the Perrupato Hospital and awaits the indictment from the prosecutor on duty, as well as the possible statement with a translator since he does not speak Spanish.

As for his state of health, the doctors explain why the man did not die after consuming the herbicide: “He took a single sip of the poison, not a considerable amount to die, for which the damage is minimal and he only suffered a sore throat and is in custody.”

From this rural area, neighbors said today that members of the South Korean community “are closed and friendly people and little was known about them because they don’t speak Spanish or have any children to interact with the school community”, but they agree that “They are very hard workers and there have never been any conflicts”.

There, in this almond and walnut production farm located between the towns of San Martin and Lavalle, more than 50 kilometers from the provincial capital, “there were posters attached with the lady’s photo, because they thought that she had gone for a walk and it was lost”, commented the neighborhood.

Staff from the San Martin prosecutor’s office intervene, who have already summoned two Korean men who lived on the same farm to take their statements.

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