Episode 33: Kim Gil-tae Case (김길태 사건) — Busan Deokpo-dong Schoolgirl Abduction and Murder

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 15, 2026 · 31m

In February 2010, a thirteen-year-old girl in Busan was home alone, a week away from starting middle school. When her brother got back that night, she was gone. For eleven days the police searched a neighbourhood of half-demolished houses, printed twenty thousand flyers, and put thirty thousand officers on the ground — and the man they were looking for never left. He was sleeping in the empty houses around them. At one point an officer's torch beam found him at five in the morning, fifty metres from the girl's front door, and he went out of a window and off a wall three and a half metres to…