Episode 51: Nakdong River Murder Case Wrongful Conviction (낙동강변 살인사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 2, 2026 · 33m

On a freezing January night in 1990, a woman was killed in the reed beds beside the Nakdong River in Busan. There were no fingerprints. No usable forensics. One surviving witness who said it was too dark to see a face. Twenty-two months later, the police announced they had the men who did it. Two of them. Friends. Ordinary. One of them had been picked up over thirty thousand won — about the price of a couple of meals. They confessed. Both of them. In detail. And then they spent the next thirty-one years saying the confessions had been beaten and drowned out of them. They served twenty-one…