SEOUL, March 9 (AJP) - Prosecutors on Monday released the mug shots of a suspect arrested for allegedly committing a series of killings.
The Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office released the suspect's photos along with personal information including her name and age, which will be made public until April 7.
Kim So-young is accused of giving drinks containing benzodiazepine-class drugs to three men on separate occasions between mid-December and early February, causing two of them to die and one to lose consciousness but recover after treatment.
Prosecutors also suspect she may have committed other crimes with laced drugs and that there could be more victims.
During questioning, the 20-year-old admitted, "It's true that I mixed prescribed psychiatric medication into a hangover remedy and gave it to them," but added, "I didn't know they would die."
Amid a sharp rise in a series of shocking crimes, such a disclosure becomes possible under relevant laws revised in 2010, which allow the publication of suspects' pictures in grave crimes such as homicide, serial killings, and the abduction or sexual abuse of children, but only when there are reasonable grounds to believe the suspect is the perpetrator and when it is deemed necessary for the public good.
The Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office released the suspect's photos along with personal information including her name and age, which will be made public until April 7.
Kim So-young is accused of giving drinks containing benzodiazepine-class drugs to three men on separate occasions between mid-December and early February, causing two of them to die and one to lose consciousness but recover after treatment.
Prosecutors also suspect she may have committed other crimes with laced drugs and that there could be more victims.
During questioning, the 20-year-old admitted, "It's true that I mixed prescribed psychiatric medication into a hangover remedy and gave it to them," but added, "I didn't know they would die."
Amid a sharp rise in a series of shocking crimes, such a disclosure becomes possible under relevant laws revised in 2010, which allow the publication of suspects' pictures in grave crimes such as homicide, serial killings, and the abduction or sexual abuse of children, but only when there are reasonable grounds to believe the suspect is the perpetrator and when it is deemed necessary for the public good.
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