{"id":74391,"date":"2025-09-23T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/23\/new-zealand-suitcase-murders-mother-found-guilty-of-killing-her-two-children"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:40:10","slug":"mother-in-new-zealands-suitcase-murders-found-guilty-of-killing-her-two-children-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74391","title":{"rendered":"Mother in New Zealand\u2019s \u2018suitcase murders\u2019 found guilty of killing her two children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of Hakyung Lee\u2019s children were discovered inside suitcases bought at a storage unit auction in Auckland in August 2022<\/p>\n<p>A mother accused of murdering her children and hiding their bodies in suitcases, in a case that has become known as New Zealand\u2019s \u201csuitcase murders\u201d, has been found guilty by an Auckland court.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of Yuna Jo and Minu Jo, aged eight and six at the time of their deaths, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/new-zealand-suitcase-murders-suspect-is-mother-of-child-victims-court-hears\">discovered inside suitcases bought at a storage unit<\/a> auction in Auckland in August 2022. Authorities believed they had been dead for three to four years by the time their bodies were found.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/23\/new-zealand-suitcase-murders-mother-found-guilty-of-killing-her-two-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of Hakyung Lee\u2019s children were discovered inside suitcases bought at a storage unit auction in Auckland in August 2022A mother accused of murdering her children and hiding their bodies in suitcases, in a case that has become known as New Zea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74393,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74391\/revisions\/74393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}