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The suspect of the recent Suraksan Mountain murder case has admitted to the police that his motive for killing was money, the Nowon Police said Friday.
The identity of the suspect, Kim Hak-bong, 61, was made known out of public interest and safety.
Kim turned himself in 13 hours after the killing of a woman in her 60s, on May 29, on a hiking trail in Suraksan Mountain in northeastern Seoul.
In the latest police investigation, Kim said he committed the crime for money to buy food.
He claimed that he had first only threatened the victim by poking her in her abdomen and shoulders with a weapon, but later stabbed her in the throat when she started screaming.
He found nothing in her pockets.
In his initial testimony to the police, Kim had said that he “intended to kill the first person he met in the mountain,” raising suspicions of yet another misogynistic unprovoked murder amid a spate of similar crimes recently.
Ahead of the reenactment of the crime scheduled for Friday, Kim repeatedly apologized to the bereaved family.
Kim was released from prison for four months, after serving 15 years for robbery and murder.
By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)
