1. Kim Dae-doo was a South Korean serial killer who killed 17 people during a 55-day killing spree from August to October 1975.
10 Facts About Kim Dae-doo
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Kim Dae-doo was born on November 17,1949, in rural Yeongam County, South Jeolla, the eldest of three sons and four daughters from a poor family.
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Kim Dae-doo's parents had high aspirations for him, wanting to send him to a top-class middle school in a big city and eventually study abroad.
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Kim Dae-doo is said to have attacked the woman and two of the male children with a meat cleaver, smashing it into their faces so hard that the faces were mutilated beyond recognition, and the cleaver's handle eventually breaking.
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Kim Dae-doo fled back to Seoul, where he attempted to enlist another ex-convict he had met in Dobong District as his accomplice.
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The young man instead stole his belongings and tried to run away, but Kim Dae-doo caught up with him and killed him, stealing his would-be helper's jeans.
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Not long after, Kim Dae-doo was arrested and taken a police station.
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Two days after his arrest, Kim Dae-doo was ordered to go on site inspections to showcase how exactly he had committed the murders.
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On December 28,1976, Kim Dae-doo was hanged at the Seodaemun Prison in Seoul, despite protests from his lawyer Lee Sang-hyeok, who had requested that his sentence be commuted and his case thoroughly examined to prevent similar incidents in the future.
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Just before his execution, Kim Dae-doo is said to have left behind a will, requesting that the justice system segregate small-time offenders and dangerous recidivists from one another, so that first-time offenders would not learn how to commit further crimes.