Lee Choon-Jae - The Night Walker

Lee Choon-Jae - The Night Walker

From The Serial Killer Podcast by Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune

April 27, 2026 · 40 min · Episode 275

About this episode

This episode discusses the chilling details of the first murder committed by Lee Choon-Jae in 1986.

The killings began on the 15th of September 1986. The first victim was a 71-year-old woman whose name has never been officially released to the public, a decision perhaps made to protect the dignity of her grieving family in a conservative society. She was found the following morning in a field near Taean township in Hwaseong County. Her body lay face-up among the late-summer stubble of a harvested rice paddy, the stalks brittle and dry beneath her. Her clothing was torn and rearranged around her body in a way that suggested both violation and deliberate staging. Her wrists were bound tightly behind her back with strips torn from her own garments. She had been sexually assaulted. She had been strangled. The ligature—a length of her own stocking—was still knotted around her throat when police finally arrived at the scene after a farmer discovered her at dawn Patreon :  https://www.patreon.com/theserialkillerpodcast Website : https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com Facebook :  https://www.facebook.com/theskpodcast Instagram :  https://www.instagram.com/serialkillerpod X : https://x.com/serialkillerpod Support this show…

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Host: Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune

Topics covered

  • true crime
  • murder
  • serial killer
  • investigation
  • society
  • documentary

Keywords

  • Lee Choon-Jae
  • murder
  • Hwaseong
  • true crime
  • serial killer
  • investigation
  • 1986

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Places: Hwaseong County, Taean township

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