{"id":9169,"date":"2019-09-20T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T01:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/20\/south-korea-serial-killer-suspect-found-after-30-years-but-wont-face-prosecution"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T01:07:51","slug":"south-korea-serial-killer-suspect-found-after-30-years-but-wont-face-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9169","title":{"rendered":"South Korea serial killer suspect found after 30 years, but won&#8217;t face prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNA technology links man to Hwaseong murders that inspired a film, but the statute of limitations has expired<\/p>\n<p>South Korean police have identified a suspect more than 30 years after one of the country\u2019s most notorious serial murder cases, but are unable to launch proceedings because it\u2019s too long ago.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1986 and 1991 a record number of police officers were mobilised to try to find the person who raped and murdered women in rural parts of Hwaseong, south of the capital, Seoul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/20\/south-korea-serial-killer-suspect-found-after-30-years-but-wont-face-prosecution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA technology links man to Hwaseong murders that inspired a film, but the statute of limitations has expiredSouth Korean police have identified a suspect more than 30 years after one of the country\u2019s most notorious serial murder cases, but are unable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}