Korean true crime fan murdered stranger 'out of curiosity'

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Korean true crime fan murdered stranger 'out of curiosity'
bbc.com

A South Korean court has given a life sentence to a true crime fan who told police she murdered a stranger "out of curiosity".

Jung Yoo-jung, 23, had been obsessed with crime shows and novels and scored highly on psychopath tests, police said.

Fixated with the idea of "trying out a murder", she used an app to meet an English-language teacher, stabbing her to death at her home in May.

The brutal killing shocked South Korea.

Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty - a request typically reserved for the gravest of offences.

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She was discrete - there was exactly one of her, and one suitcase, and one victim. I think you might mean discreet.

Oh shit, I've probably been making the discrete/discreet mistake for years. Discreet just looks like it's spelled wrong, so I'll probably keep making that mistake.