#319: Korean TV show accidentally CAUGHT a SERIAL husband killer

25:38none of Sam's co-workers even remember working with her or let alone seeing her Sam had been working this office job for a while he was making around 60 to 70 ,000 a year which is great considering the national average in South Korea is around 35 ,000 a year so he makes double the average salary and on top of that Sam has always been a big saver so by the time that he meets Eun-hae he already saved up like 300 over 300 ,000 dollars which in this recent economy that's a huge, huge accomplishment very few people are able to do that and it's clear that Eun-ae was attracted to that and the fact that Sam was very kind, did not care that she had a daughter from a previous relationship I know here it's like nothing but in Korean culture it tends to be a bit more of a quote, I guess you could say relationship obstacle than in the US.

26:27They got married and Sam initially thought, okay, we're gonna have a regular normal life, right? but right out the gate things are difficult. Eunhae insists that they have two places. Sam was tied to Suwon City for work but she's like I'm not moving there. I hate it there. I refuse over my dead body. She wanted to live in Incheon which is where the airport is. She demanded he get her a nice luxury apartment in Incheon and that would be considered their marital primary residence and he would rent a dingy basement unit in Suwon and he would just stay there during the weekdays. That was a plan. And during the weekends, he would come home to the luxury apartment in Incheon.

27:05A few major problems with this. Sam is the one working and paying for everything. He would be spending most of his time in a below ground basement unit. Korean basement units are known to just be really, really, really rough to live in. Technically, you weren't even supposed to live in those. They were created for the purpose of being bunkers in case North Korea waged war. But now they're being rented out because of the housing crisis. And there has recently been a lot of discourse on these units. They were flooded during the last monsoon season. A lot of families were either killed or lost everything because there was no way out of the water.

27:39Like water was treading in. It's a really bad living situation. It's basically what the whole Oscar winning movie Parasite is about. It's below ground. Usually the units will get little windows at the top of their walls, very close to their ceilings because their basement level that let in just like the tiniest bit of light. But right outside the window, it's ground floor. That's the pavement. So there's bugs, rats, cockroaches, dust, pollution, dirt, trash that just gets swept into their apartment. And anyone can bend down and just look straight into their unit. In the winter, it's freezing and it's worse in the summer.

28:14So in the summer, it gets unbearably humid and there's rapidly growing mold, but you can't open the window because then rats will crime in and the tiny cramped bathrooms in these units, most of the times they don't even have sinks. You can barely stand up in the restrooms without bumping your head on the ceiling. I mean, if you watch the movie Parasite, apparently there's a basement smell that you can't even get rid of. That's how people know that you live in a sub-basement unit is because of a smell. And regardless, it's just not a great place to live. It's more affordable than regular apartments, but it's rough.

28:45The South Korean government is actually trying to phase out the leasing of these units because of how bad it is. Sam is living in one of these basement units while Eun-He lives in this expensive high-rise building. Sam had to take out a$100 ,000 loan just to be able to afford the deposit on that building. He borrowed tens of thousands of dollars from his family to be able to support Eun-He's life there. And Sam's family didn't know this, but his friends did. And they all tried to tell him like, hey, this is weird. Like this is not normal. Normal relationships don't work like this. What if she's cheating on you?

29:19You don't know what's going on in that house. You don't even have the key to that apartment. But he would just dismiss all of their concerns. And he said, it's nonsense. We're in love. And right now we're apart because she has a daughter and I work in this city. And there's there's no way for us to be together right now. The thing is, the original plan was Eun-E was supposed to visit every weekend or Sam was to go. She never let Sam come to their luxury unit that he was paying for. But she also never went to Sam's basement unit. It was probably too gross for her compared to her luxurious apartment.

29:49She probably turned her nose up like she's too good for a place like that. But two days after Sam's death, Eun-E was caught on CCTV cameras entering Sam's basement unit with Joe. They went in and they came out with boxes of valuables. Sam's computer, laptop, tablet, anything that he needed for work that had some sort of financial value, resale value, they took it. Neighbors said that was like one of the only times she was probably around. But what do we expect from someone like Eun-E and Joe? I mean, And she's the type of monster that really wouldn't mind watching her husband starve and suffer right before her eyes as long as she had a new Chanel bag.

30:23Every time Sam got paid, the money, all of it, would go in and out of his account. His bank was just a connection point. It went from his company's account to his bank account, lasted for two seconds, and then directly into Unez. She had full control over all of his finances. Even if he wanted to buy his own food and groceries, he would have to ask her for money. No, really, beg her for money. But even that's not enough. Eun-Nae blew through Sam's entire life savings,$300 ,000, spent all of his salary, still wanted more. Like, she always had an excuse of why she needed more money. He would take out loans for her.

30:58She would use her disabled parents as an excuse of where all this money is going. And in just five years, Sam went from being one of the most financially secured people in his friend group to being in heavy amounts of debt. The year before his passing in 2018, he had to file for bankruptcy and his total debt was listed at$120 ,000 Eunha did not care. She demanded more money Sam took out more loans like the loan for that apartment She refused to share even a penny of Sam's own money with Sam Sam's friends would later say, yeah, Sam died in June 2019 But he was dying for the past two years Starving to death He didn't even have money to buy$2 ramen at the convenience store or a piece of bread.

31:42The cheapest meal at the convenience store, you could probably get it for$2. Yeah, with a drink, a triangle kimbap. Sam didn't even have that. He couldn't even afford the power and water in his basement unit. He would ask friends to borrow$3 for food and his friends were getting concerned. They love Sam and they knew that Sam isn't the type to ask for money unless it was urgent. So they're like, what's going on? Like, of course we can give you$3. We can give you a lot more, but dude, what the heck is going on? Like, what are you doing with your life? And they weren't trying to be rude about it.

32:12They were just like, Sam works nonstop all day. He's got a great job. He's always been great with money. And now he doesn't even spend lavishly on himself. His shoes are always broken down. His glasses, they're crooked. He's not even fixing his glasses. So what do you mean you don't have$3 for food? Sam would just respond, you know, at the office, I get my lunch taken care of, but there's no solution for the days that I'm not at the office. I've already lost 14 pounds the past two weeks and I don't want people in the office to look at me any weirder a few times friends would send$100 and Sam would spend$3 and send$97 back his friend said for the past two years before his death Sam was constantly losing weight and he just seemed so out of energy and Eunha knew this like Sam was struggling to feed himself and she knew that he was basically starving he would text her breaking down asking for some some money he would text her things like i'm really sorry they said that they're going to cut off my electricity i won't make this type of request next week really but please can i just have a little bit of money i used the last money you gave me really frugally also you must be so busy you don't have to call me please just help me with my electricity bill and like i said you must be really busy you really don't have to call it's really okay I guess if you need an explanation to make an excuse, my payday is the 21st and I was going to pay the electricity bill that day, but they said that they're going to cut it on the 14th.

33:35I'm really sorry again for making this type of request. Unfortunately, these text messages would only mean something to people with some sort of conscious or empathy and Eunha had neither. Okay, sometimes Sam would take the lighter approach. He would text her pictures of his shoes that were all ripped up or his glasses that were broken and he would text, When the money comes in, please buy your husband new glasses and running shoes. My shoes ripped, so I'm a little embarrassed at work. Eun-hye could not care less. She even asked Sam for a credit card under his sister's name so she could spend that.

34:08She racked up another$5 ,000 on Sam's sister's account. In another really, really sad text, Sam texted Eun-hye a picture of a lunch at the convenience store. This was like a very lavish lunch for him. It was no longer cup ramen. it's like a bento box with some vegetables and he texted i have no money i have too much debt and debt from the company i don't know how much this is i think it's like seven or eight dollars please can you just send me ten dollars i promise i would have asked someone else but i have nowhere else to go to ask for money now he goes on to say i was gonna do whatever it took to live off that $30 that I had, but it auto-drafted away into the car payment.

34:50Side note, he doesn't even drive his car. She does. So it's not like he's out here just being bad with his money management, clearly. The situation got so bad that Sam didn't even see a way out of it. He started having thoughts about exiting. He purchased tools online that he thought he would need to do so, but he realized it'd be a very selfish choice to make. He felt like if he was going to die, he would leave something to Eunhae before he did. I mean, yeah, he's got life insurance, but maybe he can do a little bit more. So Sam went online and stated that he was selling a ghost helicopter. He started getting messages from people all over the world inquiring about his weight and his age.

35:30Ghost helicopter in South Korea is a black market term. Ghost in Korean sounds a little bit like kidneys. And then And helicopter is an acronym of sorts in English. H-E for heart, L-I for liver, C-O for corneas, P for pancreas, T-E for tendon, and R for retina. He wanted to sell his whole body, all of his organs. And he thought, at least I could bring in some extra money for Eun-hye before I exit. Meanwhile, there is a recorded conversation of Eun-hye asking him, rather demanding him to give her more money. Sam sounds confused. He says, today you need the money today? Oh, I told you not today.

36:14Why? Because I told you I had to give it to Redacted. I guess you had to pay someone back. No, I told you, Sam, I needed to be given the money first. It was supposed to be 500 today. You said that you would give it to me. Oh, but you always just let my words go out one ear and out the other, don't you? Eunhae would use most of the money to splurge on designer goods and go on these abroad travels with her friends. In a letter Sam wrote when he was thinking of exiting, he wrote it to Eun-hye and it reads, Eun-hye thinks I'm upset with her. She's so dumb. I'm not upset. I'm just exhausted. I don't have the energy anymore and I just feel really sorry for Eun-hye.

36:55But I know that she won't even feel the empty spot that I leave behind. Eun-hye probably won't even come to my funeral. She's always so busy. Eun-ha did show up at Sam's funeral with her boyfriend and her ex-boyfriend. It stated that she was sitting outside the funeral hall with her little boyfriends playing mobile games on their phones. They weren't respectful at all, and if you just saw them, you wouldn't even know that they're attending a funeral right now. It seemed like a lighthearted gathering. The only time Eun-ha seemed emotional or even passionate about her husband's death was when it was about the life insurance payout, which she got for Sam within five months of being married.

37:33She bought four different policies for Sam's life, and she was the sole beneficiary for every single one of them. His life insurance totaled to be around$650 ,000. The worst part is, the insurance agent that she bought these life insurance policies from was another ex-boyfriend of hers. Wow. Who knows if they were still seeing each other or sleeping with each other at this point. I mean, I would not put it past Ine. So she's got Joe, her boyfriend on the side, Leo, her ex-boyfriend that she's still probably still sleeping with. And then the insurance agent that sold her her husband's life insurance policy probably made commission from it that she's probably sleeping with.

38:12And a really sad detail is Sam knew the life insurance was a big part of his relationship with Inhe. He even joked to his friends, oh, don't worry about me. I've got, I've got life insurance. So when I die, a lot of money comes out. And in the insurance world, timing is everything. Sam died just four hours before his insurance expired. There's a Japanese delicacy that can kill 30 adults. It's puffer fish. So you know those like squishy looking fish? Some of them have like the spikes. Some of them have small spikes. Others have like the large huge spikes that are protruding out of them. And when you get too close, they puff up.

38:49So it's harder for them to become prey. That's just one of the ways that they protect themselves. Another way is their blood. Their blood is highly poisonous. But humans are out here eating pufferfish. It's a delicacy called fugu, and it requires a highly specialized chef with just years and years of culinary experience because one wrong cut of meat from the pufferfish or too much blood, certain death. The pufferfish toxin is actually 1200 times more poisonous than cyanide. One pufferfish has enough toxins to kill 30 full adult humans. There's no known antidote. Once it's in your system. There's nothing that can be done.

39:25Sharks are the only species that are immune to the pufferfish toxin. Humans are not immune. February 25th, 2019, just a few months before Sam's death, Eun-e took Sam to eat pufferfish. For the last few months, Eun-e had stopped paying for Sam's life insurance because it was too expensive to pay every single month, right? But just a week before eating pufferfish, she started paying for his life insurance again. And this would be a pattern. The unbelievable part is Eun-e didn't even pay the monthly fee for Sam's life insurance. It came from Sam's own money. But even then, Eun-e feels like this is a waste of money.

40:00She hated seeing money that she could be spending on anything else like herself going to Sam's life insurance policy, the one where she's the sole beneficiary of. So she would constantly stop paying. He would not be insured. And then suddenly Eun-e would be like, you know what? I'm going to pay the life insurance again. She would start paying for his life insurance and conveniently Sam would have a near-death experience almost immediately afterwards. Side note Eunhae would even stoop so low and have the shameless audacity to even ask for money from Sam's siblings to pay the life insurance. So like clockwork February of 2019 she takes him to eat puffer fish.

40:38I don't know how she was able to get the puffer fish toxins only onto his plate but she was able to. Sam ate the plate but he only just got a little bit sick. stomach ache really Eunha was so frustrated she texted her boyfriend Joe I put so much blood and poison onto his plate why didn't he die? for a month or two after that Eunha stopped paying for Sam's insurance again but suddenly started making those payments again and soon after Sam almost drowned to death so this is not even the day that he died this is a different incident this was exposed through a Korean YouTuber one of Joe's ex-girlfriends was anonymously interviewed so I know it's confusing Eun-hae's boyfriend's ex-girlfriend.

41:18So Joe is also seeing like a bunch of women at the same time. He's half Eun-hae's boyfriend, half her pimp. We're going to get into it. Yeah. So one of Joe's ex-girlfriends was anonymously interviewed by a YouTuber and she shared a story of how they all went on this cabin trip together in May of this year, just like a month before Sam died. She said so much of that trip was so familiar to what she was hearing on the news about his murder. She remembered the whole group bullying Sam While Eun-hae recorded They knew that he couldn't swim So they tried to make him use this floating Floating device that you would need a lot of people So you know those big floatables That has handles on the side And it needs a certain number of even weight distribution To stay floating They would all go out into the water like that And then they would scream and ditch So he's like frantically trying to like stay afloat But this floating device doesn't really work When it's just one person on one side It just kept flipping over and Eunha's laughing, saying things like, Oppa, are you having fun?

42:15Like, why is he so cute? He's so cute, isn't he? Joe's ex-girlfriend said everyone could tell that he's not having fun. And no, she did not really think that that was cute. Joe's ex remembered anytime Sam would even look in Eunha's direction or even try to talk to her or even make small little moments of contact with her, she looked irritated. She looked so annoyed. That night at the cabin, this is like a cabin on the lake. So they have this dock right outside. the girlfriend ex-girlfriend tries to go to sleep and she hears this big scream and a splash outside on the docks she runs out and she sees both sam and joe in the water joe is calm but sam is screaming at unhe you pushed me you pushed me in the water so thankfully the water was not that deep he could stand because i think there hadn't been enough rain recently and unhe just calmly states what are you talking about you were so drunk you fell in the water sam screamed no you pushed me.

43:08The ex-girlfriend said it was odd. It was really odd. It's like Eun-ae was almost rewriting his memory. She kept saying things like, what are you talking about? You think I pushed you in? Okay, fine. I pushed you in. I'm the bad guy, huh? I pushed you in on purpose. That's what I did, right? She would do this enough times. Finally, Sam submitted and said, okay, you're right. You're right. You didn't push me. It was so weird, but it seemed like there was a pattern of water-related accidents happening to Sam. And it was always right after Eun-Hee reinstated his life insurance policy. Almost like she had a plan where she started paying the life insurance policy again and then tried to enact her plan.

43:49So just to give you a few examples, insurance reinstated February 17th, 2019. Near death puffer fish incident February 25th, 2019. Insurance canceled. Insurance Reinstated April 30th 2019 Near death drowning incident May 10th 2019 Insurance cancelled Insurance reinstated Right before he died And before Sam's death Eun-hae received Multiple letters from the insurance company Because she was paying like earlier in June And he died on the last day of June And it was saying hey if you don't get us the next payment July 1st 2019 We're gonna cancel the plan Sam was found dead 9pm the last day of June 4 hours before the insurance was null and void

44:47But Eun-ae had some fans in Korea though Yeah So you know those reality makeover shows Extreme makeover In Korea, I think there's some here in the US where they do extreme home makeovers. So the producers, they go out and they find families with touching backstories. They come into their house, give them a full home makeover, and the viewers tune in. Everybody feels good. The whole thing is wholesome. Eunha's family was chosen for an episode for one of these shows called Love House. She was 13 at the time. And Eunha's parents, they were impoverished. Both of her parents were disabled. The entire family lived in a one-bedroom house, survived on a government check that was only like$350 a month.

45:25Both of her parents were wheelchair bound And Eun-hae, ever since she was young She did all the housework She cared for her parents She's like forced to grow up and mature really quickly And she's 13 when this show comes into her life She had a lot of fans from this episode So like, yeah, the focus is on the remodel of the house, right? The design choices But they also really focus on the homeowner's backstories So they would show clips of Eun-hae just taking care of her parents Cleaning up around the place and she seemed so dedicated for a little 13 year old girl. Like parents at home were like poking their kids.

45:59Hey, look at you. Get off your little Nintendo. Look at that kid. What are you doing for me? Do you even love your parents? Look at this girl. Do we get all upset? The producers, they even asked Eun-Hee, if you had one wish in the whole world, like what would it be? I mean, it could be anything. The producers aren't saying I'm going to give it to you. It's a hypothetical question. She could have wished for a million dollars, a pet pig, anything. She's 13. But she said, I wish I could have my own room because I feel bad. I share a room with my parents and I'm a really noisy sleeper and I move around and I kick in my sleep and I talk and I have all these bad habits and I know it makes them uncomfortable when they're sleeping.

46:39So I don't think that they can get a good night's sleep because of me. It was such a mature, kind, selfless answer. She didn't even want her own room because she's 13 and wants her own room. She wants her own room because she feels like she's disturbing her parents' sleep at night. She would even say on the show, later when I'm older, I want to give what I receive to others during hard times. That same girl on Love House would grow up to be the main suspect of a true crime show in South Korea. And everyone is confused. How did she even get there? A few years after being on the home makeover show, Eunae would meet joe this is the boyfriend that was on the trip with her they've been friends since like high school they were on and off dating and the thing that bonded them together was sex une started hanging out with boys in her school and the school in the town over and every time she would spend time with boys the rumor was she would be paid a fee so eventually it would evolve into full-blown sex work by the time that she was in high school and joe was essentially her handler slash pimp and after getting into this crowd Une's life just takes a 180 she runs away from home she abandons her parents she drops out of school her highest level of education is middle school and in one year Une was in and out of the police station like 10 times for petty offenses at 18 Une finally shows back at home and drops a baby off a little baby girl and is like I can't do it bye leaves Une's parents they take full custody over this child and we have no further information on like who the dad is or really anything about that a lot of people said that Eun-ae just just lost sight of everything that really mattered she abandoned her parents refused to take care of her own kid didn't care about anyone but herself she started getting a lot of plastic surgery on her face now I don't think it's our place to judge when someone has plastic surgery right but I think that the reason that netizens were really dogging on her for this later is you know one she's a shady evil person but also she gave her disabled parents the huge responsibility of raising her child because she stated she didn't have the money to be a mom, but she spent a ton of her money on plastic surgery.

48:46So I can see how that feels gross to netizens. Like just making sure it's known that it's not the act of plastic surgery that they don't like. It's just, you know, you get it. And I think in hindsight, it's really to see her as this like vapid, manipulative, shallow, gross person that she is. But at the time for Sam, I think that he just saw the girl from Love House. I think that he knew it was rough for her but he saw this sweet girl who had to grow up too fast and maybe now she's a little reckless with the money because she wants to be a kid again she never had a childhood so maybe she wants to experience it now maybe that's why she tends to want to have more fun and wants more excitement than Sam does she's trying to live through her kid life again but she still feels like pressure and stress from her parents and being a single mom So it's just, I could see how people feel sympathetic towards her.

49:40He probably saw her as this very strong, sensitive woman that he could help. Sam would see the good in people because Sam was a good person. But like, what do you think is one of the last things you would do if your loved one passed from drowning? I don't know if this is a conscious choice, but I feel like most people would probably avoid bodies of water. Or at least I imagine it would take a lot for someone to go enjoy leisurely activities on bodies of water without thinking about their loved one who just passed. Eunha went to a water park two months after her husband's death. She even went wakeboarding in a lake.

50:19There's a video of her that she posted. She would later claim in prison that that video was taken way before Sam's death. But like, we don't know for sure. we do know for sure that she did go to a water park which feels wrong the 100 days after Sam's passing Eunhae was focused on having fun she went to the water park she went wakeboarding she went on an overseas trip with her friends and her daughter she hung out with her new boyfriend Joe but fine we say this all the time we really can't dictate how people grieve and process trauma but there's just so much in this case that does not add up even the events of that day so the forensics the expert testimonies they don't make sense for example, professionals state there is a chance, a possibility that even though Sam was okay when he first dropped into the water he could have had a sudden muscle ache from the cold water so he gets a muscle cramp, he starts drowning but they also argued that it's very suspicious that Joe couldn't reach him in time to save him I mean, even if he did reach him I get there's a chance that Joe can't save him when people are drowning there's a chance that it's very difficult to help them because they keep panicking and they might even try to take you down with them, right?

51:25But that wasn't even a consideration in this case because Joe was swimming extremely slow and never even made it to Sam. Another odd thing is Joe had a tube around his waist. When he took it off to, quote, swim faster, he threw it away from him and away from Sam. Une's actions, according to Chloe, I mean, it's all so strange. And it's alleged that before Chloe called emergency services, she said Joe turned to the group and said, make sure we don't look suspicious. The group would tell authorities that Sam did not struggle in the water. so they heard him hit the water he said and then went under never resurfaced that's why they couldn't find him because it was too dark to see in the water and he wasn't splashing around so they had no idea where he was they're looking around joe's like i don't even know where to swim right because i don't know where he is but that completely goes against the forensic findings of this case according to professionals who performed sam's autopsy they said that there was evidence that his lungs retained quick amounts of air and water how do they know because there was foam found in his lungs.

52:23Foam only occurs when air and water repeatedly enter and exit the trachea. It's a strong indication that Sam was struggling in the water. He was likely coming up trying to get air, then going back down, coming up, trying to get air, going back down. So their statement that Sam never struggled in the water, it did not match the forensics. It just didn't. Additionally, the police had a theory that his foot got caught on a rock and that's why he drowned because he was kept underwater. But like I said, the forensics don't match up to that because that would have resulted in very little or no foam in his lungs.

52:55He would not have had the chance to surface for air. And really add to the fact that Eunhen knew that her husband could not swim but kept encouraging him to jump off a cliff into deep water and peer pressuring him to do so, very questionable. And there's just so many other inconsistencies. Sam's friend stated that it was really out of character for him to jump into the water unless he felt like he absolutely had to. This man is not a risk taker, they said. So this is not something that he would have done unless he felt forced. Even Sam's wedding to Eun-hye, there was no official wedding ceremony.

53:27They just did paperwork. Sam told his family it was because Eun-hye's parents were upset that Sam was a decade older. They said that having a wedding ceremony would just make their daughter look strange. So while they approved of the marriage, they felt like they couldn't have a wedding for social judgment reasons. Then it gets weirder. After Sam's death, Sam's entire family finds out that Eun-hye had a daughter from a previous relationship. They didn't know about this kid. They only found out after Sam had passed, but it made things so much more complicated because Sam didn't have a will when he passed and he had legally adopted Eunha's daughter.

54:02Eunha's daughter is the rightful heir to basically everything Sam owns. But not only that, there could be potential that even Sam's parents could be responsible for the care of Sam's legally adopted daughter. and if they pass and have no will and if Sam's other siblings pass without a will, technically Sam's adopted child could fight for a piece of the rest of the family's inheritance and money. An attorney stated, according to the rule of inheritance by representation, the daughter is the direct descendant of the deceased Sam and because of that, she becomes the heir to the family according to Sam's ranking in the family tree.

54:35Sam's older sister, Mi Sung, is seeing all of this unfold and she thought, there's just no way. Like there's no way that she's not going to get justice for her brother. She posts a Blue House petition for the government. She stated that every single day since her brother's murder has been filled with pain and despair. She compiled a document with all the evidence she had so far and she made it public. Side note, this document was almost like a group project. Netizens who knew people close to the case or YouTubers that interviewed people that knew people close to the case, they all started contributing to this evidence document.

55:10and at the very end of it, it was signed from the people of the Republic of Korea. Sam's sister went on to state, married life looked a little bit difficult for Sam, but I never imagined it would be like this. My younger brother wanted love, but Lee Eun-hae seemed to have some other intentions. My younger brother wouldn't have known that, but I just wonder why couldn't he get away from her quickly? It makes my heart ache so much. I just want to know the truth. Her Blue House petition got 100 ,000 signatures in one day. Along with SBS's episode and production team's investigation, the police and prosecutors were forced to reopen the case.

55:50Now, if police had properly investigated the first time around, they would have learned that Eun-hae had very bad luck with guys and relationships. It was basically a pattern at this point. So before Sam, Eun-hae was almost married at least four times in the past 10 years. Out of the four, it's said that three of them are now dead. Her first relationship ended in a car crash. And this is an alleged story, by the way. It's alleged that Eunhae and her husband were in a car driving around Incheon and they were T-boned. A hit and run. It's rumored that Eunhae's husband died because they were T-boned from that side.

56:25She received insurance money from this. And again, this is a rumor on how the first marriage ended. The speculation being Eunhae set up a hit and run to kill her first husband to get insurance money and she survived the car crash. This is an allegation. Then her second marriage or relationship This one has a lot more confirmed details Eun-hye started dating a man named Mr. Lee He was working at a host bar And if you watch our Yandere case I do a deep dive into the host bar culture Go check it out But he worked at a host bar And Eun-hye was a customer They hit it off, they move in together And they're young, you know, this is early 20s So Mr.

57:00Lee, he's like I gotta go do my mandatory two-year military enlistment So our relationship feels a little shaky Eun-hye's like, don't worry about it Like, I'm going to wait for you. Don't worry. I think we should do one last trip, though, to remember each other by. She requested he pay for a last trip to Thailand together. Both of them boarded a plane and only Eunhae came back. July 16th, 2014, almost exactly five years before Sam's death, Mr. Lee died in Thailand. The couple went snorkeling to see coral reefs. And in the process, Eunhae claimed that her boyfriend fainted and eventually died. When she came back to Korea, all of Lee's friends were like, what are you talking about?

57:38Why? How could he just faint and then die? Like, we want answers. She said, oh, he drank too much and then got swept away by the waves. Lee's older brother said, none of it made sense. I think she's hiding something. I thought even in that moment, there was a possibility that she killed him. But the confusing part is, Lee's father was the beneficiary of Lee's life insurance policies. The Lee family cannot confirm if Eunhae had other policies in his name that they just don't know about. But the one that they did know about, his one life insurance, it was paid out to the Lee parents. The police briefly investigated the suspicious death of Lee and closed the case, deeming it an accidental death.

58:14Now with what happened to Sam, I mean, the suspicion is that she drowned him. But there's no way to prove it. Lee was cremated in Thailand. Then in Eunhae's last relationship before Sam, she did something really bizarre. She was engaged to a man, let's call him Patrick. And according to those who knew Patrick, they said that Patrick was just like head over heels in love with Eunhae. He really, really loved her, wanted to marry her, but everyone in his life is like, pump the brakes. This girl is weird. Patrick's parents, his friends, they all said, I don't know. Just something is weird about that girl.

58:47First of all, Eun is going around meeting all of us, meeting your family, meeting your friends. But you've never met a single one of her friends or family. Does she not have friends? Does she not have family? But she talks about them, so why can't you meet them? Patrick thought, oh, they're just being so cautious, you know, so skeptical. Love is love. The couple go ahead and they start planning their wedding. The weekend of the wedding shows up and it's like a full weekend of festivities. They had rehearsal dinners, parties before the actual wedding. And this would be the first time that Patrick would actually meet in his friends and family.

59:17And Patrick's friends immediately off the bat are like, this is so suspicious. It's the wedding weekend. All of them are showing up in clothes that are not appropriate for the wedding weekend. It looked like they didn't even know that they were coming to a wedding. Or they either straight up didn't care, which I don't know which one's worse. and Eunha's parents, they barely know a thing about her. They don't even seem like her parents. Patrick's parents were so suspicious that they immediately hired a PI and they discovered that all the people that Eunha had invited to this wedding paid actors.

59:48Wow. Even her parents. It's another Anna. Anna Delvey. Yeah. Patrick confronted Eunha about it and she left him at the altar, abandoned him. it really really messed with Patrick his friend said after this Patrick developed severe depression social phobia I mean he's still struggling mentally what's crazy is even after leaving Patrick at the altar Eun-ha comes back knocks on Patrick's door with her daughter and is like this is your baby the timeline didn't match up it was clear that was not Patrick's baby so then Eun-ha just left again and I don't think that she ever tried to contact him ever since and because fall of 2016 Eun-ha married Sam Yoon.

1:00:30So she had four very serious relationships in the past 10 years and she probably did have a ton of other relationships with a ton of other partners but she's a serial cheater. These were like her four main ones. So out of the past four, three allegedly died and Eun-hae was determined to be the one that got away. When the police start looking for Eun-hae, she is on the run with joe beginning of 2022 unhae and joe are placed on interpol's most wanted list everyone is on the lookout for this child star turned potentially serial killer people are concerned since joe has a lot of shady businesses they've got contacts in the criminal world and other countries that could help them flee korea and keep them hidden i mean it would be really hard to find them if that were the case but three months in police get a hit unhae and joe never left korea they were in south korea in a smaller town and they weren't even trying to hide they were caught in a city hanging out with friends not even just them two with friends like how bold and how cocky do you have to be yeah that's bizarre and korea is filled with cameras yes they were caught on cctv cameras as well authorities descended on the region but they tried to watch the couple for a few days i don't know if either they were trying to gather more intel on them or likely they were probably trying to find a way to apprehend them without putting other lives at risk, but they were finally apprehended four months into being on the run.

1:01:52They only made it this far because Joe had a ton of cash from his alleged shady businesses. Now, side note, authorities stated the little apartment that they rented was trashed by the time that the police got there. It was filled with designer goods. There was no furniture. They found five phones, a laptop, and a USB hidden in the ceiling of the master bedroom of the rented apartment. Eun-hae was arrested, then Joe, then the ex-boyfriend Leo. But prosecutors they're mainly focused on Eunha and Jo. Leo is being charged for like being an accomplice and like conspiracy to commit, but not really for murder.

1:02:24During the trial, Eunha and her parents, they try to do damage control to her image. And now I want to make it clear, I don't blame the parents at all. I think maybe they either truly thought she was innocent or maybe I imagine they might've felt guilt, like they had a role in this. If they hadn't made her grow up too quickly, I just feel like they probably put a lot of blame on themselves. Her father tried to tell the judge that Eun-hye was innocent and she has a reputation in their neighborhood for being a great daughter who always cares for their parents. But it was also proven that Eun-hye had not spoken to her parents in over a year and the residents of the parents' neighborhood said, I have never not once seen that girl, ever.

1:03:05And there's just a lot of things that Eun-hye lies about that comes out during the trial. Like when does she not lie? I don't know. When she was reaching out to SBS producers to try and get her insurance money, which is insane, that she went out of her way to reach out to television show producers and wanted a whole episode of a docu-series on her, of her story just to get her paid. I mean, I'm sure part of it was also an opportunity to get sympathy and potentially even some fame from it, who knows. But she told producers that her parents were being sent money by Sam and that everyone in the family was going to starve without this insurance payout.

1:03:37When SBS contacted Eunha's mom, she had no idea what money they were talking about. Eunha never sent them money. so before she reached out to sbs the case was closed yes but the insurance company they they were like your sauce yeah yeah it's for insurance so they just don't want to pay but now she's like trying to get some money out of this and that's what opened it up right yes she it's her first of all filing a lawsuit against the insurance company but even then i don't think that this case would have blown up the way that it's it but she reached out to sbs producers to do a whole episode on how shady this insurance company is and how the public should riot with her to get her paid is the incentive that she had see that's the that's the audacity that the the most evil people yes like they just really really think like oh my gosh i need to get my money and and wow like you would think that most people if they i don't think most people would commit murder but let's say they did i would think that most of them would be like i gotta just be quiet and go live in a corner somewhere but she's like no i need the world to know about my injustice of not being paid this is unfair yeah and then the sbs producers they just felt like something was so off about her they started investigating and they were picking up these little rumors by people who knew the couple and they started doing a full-blown investigation on their own into this case so yeah i mean even the whole money thing sbs producers were told by unhead that sam was the breadwinner for her parents and that's why the insurance money was a big deal sam was under the impression that he was paying for in his parents unhead was lying about it her parents never received any funds it went straight into unha's just lavish lifestyle like this woman is honestly pure evil even when the sbs episode aired that exposed her for who she was she applied for a provision injunction to ban the episode from continually airing.

1:05:36Needless to say, Eunice's trial did not go over well. It did not help that she was a shameless person, like her history of past relationships, her history of turning Sam's insurance on and off, the videos of them torturing Sam the day of his death. I mean, all of that, like, I don't know how a defense attorney would even defend something like that. Even filing the lawsuit against the insurance company. It's just an extra level of gross. You know, Joe, Joe also sued more than 100 people for defamation before he was arrested. If anyone commented on this case, they were getting slapped with a lawsuit by Joe.

1:06:12And since this was before he was arrested, a lot of the people were terrified of being sued for defamation. So they tried to settle. Now, I want to say that most of the people that he sued, and don't quote me on this, from what I can gather, most of them were small people online. So they were not YouTubers, influencers, mainstream media, podcasters, press journalists, news networks. These are just like random commentators that are posting like on Reddit. They're like, oh, like, look at this case. Look at what's going on. I think he's guilty. Random people. They would try to settle. They would say, OK, like, can I just take the post down and give you a thousand dollars?

1:06:44Because I'm nobody like five people saw my post and like one of them was you. So why does it matter? And Joe refused. His lawyer would hit back with we're not settling for anything less than 1.5 1.5 what million no no no one like uh 1500 oh yeah i see so yeah the audacity they wanted they wanted more wanted more negotiating for like these people that genuinely like they did not have reach and i'm not saying that in an insulting way but like what are you suing them for greedy and yeah they're just like regular people on the internet not even journalists covering this case yeah just normal people another opportunity for them to harass more people a hundred people during the trial the word gas lighting was a huge thing i feel like gas lighting has been overused in the u.s to the point where it's kind of lost its meaning which is not good but in korea i think the word and definition were just recently starting to be taken seriously it would be thrown out during the trial because later judge would say that it's hard to prove gas lighting but the prosecutors they tried There are voice recordings of Eunha manipulating Sam by saying things like When I drink, I turn into someone else And I treat those who I feel like are the closest to me really badly I didn't do anything to you because I don't like you Or because I was trying to ignore you I'm just like that It was very hard for people to listen to Eunha was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison Joe, the boyfriend, was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison And in one last moment of shamelessness Eunha said this about her verdict.

1:08:17The investigative agency has already reached a conclusion, so I lost the opportunity to prove my innocence. Basically being like, I'm innocent, but they already made up their minds about me, so what can I do? Joe stated,

1:08:32Leo, the ex-boyfriend, is also awaiting trial, but it doesn't seem like prosecutors are really pursuing him aggressively. But I will say he's a very shady character. He's got 28 records on his criminal rap sheet. He was also arrested for like domestic violence, really heinous things. It said that he worked with Joe in all the shady illegal businesses. So there's that. And speaking of prison, I was hoping that maybe she would feel some human level of remorse. But netizens were shocked to discover that she made a pen pal in prison. His name is Cho Jubin. And we're going to be talking about him very, very soon.

1:09:08He was arrested for helping run the child's trafficking ring, Enthroam. Which is one of the most vile, evil. Yeah, I think even on an international scale, that is probably one of the most shocking vile things I've seen. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. And when he heard Eun-hye was in prison, he started writing to her, almost talking to her like he's some sort of sick mentor. It's that their letters to each other consisted of them basically babying each other and being like, oh, poor baby, the world is so mean to us. We're going to get out soon. I don't think the contents of the actual letters have been released, but these are what people have been saying were the contents.

1:09:48They're just consoling each other, really. Yeah. And remember how the police declared Sam's death an accidental drowning at first? The prosecutor of that jurisdiction that handled the case from the get-go had to post an apology to her Facebook page. It's very lengthy, but it's very PR standard. She apologized and stated that they were going to have an internal investigation into the case on why this happened. i would say that most people were shocked at just how evil these people could be and i mean some of them even wondered if there's anyone that unhead didn't date it just seemed like she seems to have some sort of romantic connection with everyone other comments mentioned the fact that there were still other people that weren't arrested that were there why did they do nothing someone commented really i think if i were in that position i would have done something to stop this how can people watch others suffer so much is that even possible this is like you would think this is happening in the high school right in school bully yes but you would not expect this to happen as an adult no especially okay you know i don't know what i would have done in high school i think high school i was a timid kid that just really wanted to fit in i think even in high school i would have said something right but now in my late 20s like you would you would genuinely have to hold me back from saying something.

1:11:07Like, that's kind of crazy. They said nothing, and they're watching it happen, not once, but throughout the entire day. Not one person? Another comment said, I have nothing to say. My heart hurts so much watching these videos. Still, he believed this was love, and he would have endured anything and everything for that bitch. He could have been loved by someone worthy, but I'm so angry that he met a woman who is not even a human being and went through all that pain. I hope these people live in pain till the day they die. And to those who resorted to victim blaming Sam, because there were some heinous people who said some heinous things about how he should have known it wasn't love.

1:11:46How could he not see that she was evil? Some people even made remarks about their looks. Yeah, some of the comments were really dark, but I think one comment that addresses it really well says, if you look at the way Sam was messaging his friends, he would ask for$3 just to buy ramen for a meal and if they sent more, he would send the rest back. Sam was kind by nature. I think because he was so kind, he could never really believe truly evil people existed. I think he never imagined evil people could do such things, especially his wife. It's so sad, it just breaks my heart how scary and cruel it must have been for him.

1:12:20But I hope he finds peace in heaven. But there were also some really bizarre comments. Some people still supported in it. They wrote, If you're pretty, everything is forgiven. The crime is not important. The face is important. If you're pretty, everything is forgiven. There's a saying in Korean, like, which is like, again, if you're pretty, everything is forgiven. Another comment was, honestly, if Lee Eun-hae did anything wrong, it was at least a pretty sin. And probably one of the worst. You can come to me, Eun-hae. But she can't because she's in prison for the rest of her life. So. Wow. Wow.

1:12:59Whoever said that really, I think they deserve each other. Yeah. Wow. Like after knowing everything and you're like, you can come to me. Okay, have her. Go to jail with her. Like you guys are great. What are your thoughts on this case? Please let me know and please be safe. I will see you guys on Wednesday for the main episode.