Daegu 'Suitcase Body' Case: Son-in-law Kills Mother-in-law After Prolonged Assault, Saying "She Was Noisy"

Multiple Fractures Found in Ribs and Pelvis
Son-in-law in His 20s Charged with Parricide

The autopsy of the woman in her 50s, who was the victim in the Daegu "suitcase body" case, revealed multiple fractures in several areas, including the ribs and pelvis.

Daegu Bukbu Police Station is investigating a woman in her 20s and her husband for allegedly placing the body of a woman in her 50s into a suitcase and abandoning it in Sincheon, Chilseong-dong, Buk-gu on the 1st. Photo by Yonhap News Agency

According to Yonhap News on April 1, Daegu Bukbu Police Station announced the preliminary autopsy results for the deceased woman, identified as Ms. A, who was in her 50s.

The police stated, "The presumed cause of death is multiple traumatic injuries caused by external force."

Accordingly, the police have determined that Ms. A's daughter, Ms. B (in her 20s), and her son-in-law, Mr. C (20), who were urgently arrested on charges of corpse abandonment, had the intent to kill. The police plan to apply for arrest warrants for each of them on charges of parricide and abandonment of a body, among others.

Mr. C, who was urgently arrested the previous day, admitted during the police investigation to assaulting Ms. A. He reportedly stated, "I hit her because she was noisy and did not organize things."

The police investigation found that the deceased, Ms. A, had been living apart from her husband and residing with her daughter, Ms. B, and her son-in-law, Mr. C, prior to the incident.

The residence of Ms. B and Mr. C is a studio apartment with a single room, located within walking distance of the Sincheon riverside in Chilseong-dong, Buk-gu, where the body in the suitcase was found.

Ms. A is believed to have died at around 10 a.m. on March 18. It was revealed that Mr. C assaulted his mother-in-law for an extended period in their residence. After she died, he placed her body in a suitcase and, together with Ms. B, abandoned it by the riverside of Sincheon.

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