The reality of Kim Shin-hye, who was imprisoned even after 25 years of unfair imprisonment and acquittal (G.R.)
Feb 02, 2025
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SBS 'I Want to Know It', which aired on the 1st, re-examined the events of 25 years ago under the subtitle of 'I'm not Kim Shin-hye - 25 years of controversy, 9,069 days of tragedy', and shed light on Kim Shin-hye's recent status after being released from prison.
Kim Shin-hye, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for perpetual murder at the age of 22. On January 6, he was found not guilty in a retrial and came out of the world for the first time in 25 years. 'I want to know about it' also dealt with the case of Kim Shin-hye in 2014, and a request for retrial was filed the following year, and he was acquitted 10 years later. At the age of 47, she was released from prison.
At around 5:50 a.m. on March 7, 2000, the body of a man was found in front of a bus stop in Wando, Jeollanam-do. Kim Shin-hye's late father Kim Jae-hoon was the owner of the body, which was found with broken car parts at the time. Initially, it was believed to have been a hit-and-run traffic accident, but autopsy showed no trauma and a large amount of the sleep-inducing drug doxylamine was detected in severe intoxication.
Based on the fact that it was found in an unaccompanied place 6km away from his father's house, the police suspected that someone had disguised himself as a car accident and abandoned the body. And two days after the incident, Kim Shin-hye, who came down to Wando from Seoul at dawn, was arrested urgently. Police claimed that her early morning activities were unclear and that a note found at the house had written 'a plan to kill her father and disguise her as a car accident using alcohol and sleeping pills'
In the end, police announced that Kim Shin-hye confessed to all the crimes, concluding that she deliberately killed her father for insurance money. However, lawyer Park Joon-young, who was in charge of Kim Shin-hye's retrial, refuted that there were poor investigations, coercive investigations, and inducement of false confession by the police. Kim Shin-hye, who has consistently insisted for 25 years that `I did not kill my father.' What was the truth of the day she told me.
After being released from prison, Kim Shin-hye showed unexpected behavior. While staying at her younger brother's house in Wando, she locked herself in her room, was busy, and then suddenly left the house one day. Kim Shin-hye rushed to Seoul by taxi from Wando. Why did she suddenly run away from home. And what happened in Seoul.
`I want to know about it,' Kim Shin-hye said on the show, tracing why she had to be imprisoned for 25 years and what happened to her after she was released from prison, shedding light on still unresolved questions.
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