Episode 66: Kim Dae-du Serial Murders (김대두 연쇄살인 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 17, 2026 · 20m

In October 1975, a young man walked into a small laundry near Cheongnyangni Station in Seoul and handed over a pair of jeans. The jeans were soaked with blood. When the owner asked about it, the customer said he'd had a nosebleed in a fight with a friend. The owner didn't believe him. He called the police. And that single phone call ended fifty-five days in which seventeen people — farmers, grandparents, a young couple, a three-month-old baby — had been killed across three provinces. The man who came back for those jeans was twenty-five years old. South Korea had no word for what he was yet…