Episode 21: Lee Hyung-ho Kidnapping and Murder (이형호 유괴 살해 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 2, 2026 · 43m

For sixteen days in the winter of 1991, a man in Seoul phoned a father some fifty times and told him what to do next. Where to drive. Which bakery. Which lamp post. How many minutes to wait before opening the boot of his car. He was calm. He was polite, sometimes. He never raised his voice. And the whole time — every single call, every note, every drive across the city in the dark — the nine-year-old boy he was selling back had already been dead since the first afternoon. Forty-three days after the boy disappeared, workers found him in a drainage outlet by the Han River. By then the police…