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- worldnews@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@kbin.social
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.
Everyone here is getting tunnel vision. Person obsessed with true crime podcasts kills someone makes for a good headline but it’s not the reality. It should really say mentally ill person who happens to listen to podcasts kills someone.
Wait… Do people not consider psychopathy and empathetic deficiencies mental illnesses? I sure do.
I think the defining feature is whether or not it negatively affects your daily life. Hers obviously did
It’s basically a copy paste of the whole “violent videogames make kids violent” clickbait for helicopter parents.