Episode 69: Daejeon Kookmin Bank Robbery-Murder (대전 국민은행 강도살인 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 21, 2026 · 17m

Four days before Christmas 2001, two masked men walked into the basement car park of a bank in Daejeon carrying a revolver they had taken from a police officer. Within moments, a forty-five-year-old bank cashier — a father of two — had been shot, and three hundred million won was gone. The police interviewed thousands of people. They arrested three young men who confessed — and then said they had been forced to. For twenty-one years, nobody paid. What finally cracked it wasn't a witness or a confession. It was a cigarette butt, thrown away in an illegal gambling den, in a different province…