20 Police Officers Listened On The Phone As He Sliced Her Into 365 Pieces To Make Human Flesh Pills

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There's a very famous apartment unit
in South Korea.

This one apartment unit was all
over the news for months,

I mean, almost everyone in Korea
at the time knew about it.

And it's interesting, because typically
South Korean apartments

will go viral for being expensive.

There's complexes like Nine One Hannam
(나인원 한남) complex in South Korea,

We briefly covered it on my other channel,
Stephanie Soo,

but it almost has this
Black Mirror feeling to it,

it's like a fortress in the middle
of Seoul, South Korea.

Even in order to get in,
not into somebody's personal unit,

But just onto the grounds,
the walking path outside,

you need to pass
a four step verification system.

The complex it's like a city inside a city,
it's really crazy,

a lot of kpop idols live there.

And typically these units will go viral

because a kpop idol will come,
and drop seven million in cash for it,

fifteen million in cash for it,
and it's all over the news.

You don't really hear about random
regular apartments going viral.

This one bedroom apartment
went viral for what happened inside.

You step inside this unit,
and you're going to feel like

you're in some sort of
serial killer's bunker.

The place is foul,
even just looking at pictures of it.

There's not many surfaces,
it's barely furnished.

But the few flat surfaces there are,
they're greasy.

They're not even sticky looking,
they look greasy,

like they're covered slick and oil.

The whole place is said to smell like
perpetually wet towels

It's like there were towels bunched up,

and thrown into the corner,
and just forgotten.

That pungent sour mildew smell.

The whole place is a mess,
it looks almost trashed.

There's women's feminine pads
littered all over the place,

except there's no women that lives there.

There's dozen of graphic photos of women

just laying around on the floor,
on the bed, on the desk,

next to crumpled up dirty tissues.

There's poisonous snake liquor bottles
in the restroom.

(Rui Qian) Poisonous snake liquor bottle?
What is that?

Where they put a dead poisonous snake
into the liquor

(Rui Qian) Ohh!

Yeah, we talked about it
in the North Korea case.

Yeah
(Rui Qian) Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, business cards for traveling sex workers:
"We come to you" they say.

All cramped into two hundred square feet.

Even the door to the unit,
it's this storage shed looking steel door,

no peephole,
just a random dirty steel door

bolted to the side of a brick building.

Right when you walk in,
the whole place is said to be very dark.

On the left, there's a small kitchen,
refrigerator, sink, kitchen knives.

Then to your right,
there's a door to the bathroom.

You don't even need to walk in
to know that the entire room

is gonna reek of stale urine.

For whatever reason,

if you do decide to keep walking in
deeper into the unit,

you step further in.

You're gonna see a bedroom,
it's even more grimy.

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There's a dirty bed pushed up
against the wall,

open suitcases all over the floor,

they're all stuffed with dirty clothes.

Dirty underwear is poking out
with marks on them.

It's nasty!

Look, some psychiatrists believe
the home is a window into the patient's mind.

Which, if that's the case,

whatever is going on in this apartment,
it's not looking good.

But it is absolutely perfect
for forty-one-year-old,

Oh Won (오원).

This is his kitchen,
he's got his washing machine in the unit,

what more can he ask for?

And the rent is only
a hundred fifty dollars a month.

And more importantly,
the neighbors do not bother him,

that is the most important thing
to this man.

To get into a flow state,

he needs complete and utter privacy,
isolation.

The night of April first, Sunday night,

Oh Won is getting into his next
at home project.

Everything is just set up for success.

He's got a whole bottle
of his favorite Chinese liquor,

fifty five percent alcohol by volume,
vodka is about forty percent.

This is stronger,
and he drinks it like water.

He sips on it all day long
since he got home.

He's still sober,
but the alcohol is making him dehydrated.

Every sip that he takes,

his dry cracked lips are sticking
to his rotting yellow teeth.

He's wiping his lips
with the back of his hand,

and he's grabbing his phone,
because it's that time again.

He feels the urge.

First, the urge starts in his stomach,
but then it's basically autopilot mode.

He's staring at the screen,
swiping, swiping.

And it's a whole debate:

Does he finish the video
that he started earlier?

Or, does he find a completely
new, more exciting video?

Maybe go with the unknown?

It could be his comfort video,

just playing in the background
while he works.

He presses play,

and he puts his phone up
against the bathroom sink,

and the woman's moaning
is just echoing off the bathroom wall.

He lights a cigarette, squats down
with his eight inch kitchen knife,

and starts moving it back and forth.

He has a plastic bag next to him.

And he starts slicing thin,
uniform slices of meat,

like the ones your get
at hotpot or shabu-shabu.

And the key
is that each cut has to be uniform,

all the same thickness and size,

it's the most enjoyable
for consumption that way.

He makes another thin slice,
he looks up, stares at his phone,

the woman is still making explicit noises,
because it's an adult video.

He makes another slice,
looks up,

the woman on his screen is now screaming.

He makes another slice,
looks up,

the woman on his screen
is close to crying now.

Before Oh Won knew it,
six hours had passed.

He had fallen into his flow state,

he had three hundred
and sixty-five plus pieces of meat.

Cut meticulously in uniform,
same sized thin pieces,

he's portioned them out,

and placed them into seventeen
separate black plastic bags.

And now all that's left
really, are just the bones,

and the parts that don't really matter.

He flips over the piece
that he's been working on all morning,

and he stares at her face.

He didn't take any meat from there

Because,
You know those fish drawings?

Where it shows the fish's head and tail
that are intact,

but the middle part are all bones.

Her face and hair were still intact

But below her neck,
every piece of her body,

all the flesh had been sliced off
up until her knees.

He had deboned her.

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But a few quick disclaimers
before we get started

The identity of the victim
in today's case is protected

and she is often referred to as

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Or just "the victim" in official sources

Because of that, unfortunately
there's just gonna be a

lot less of a focus on
the victim's life before the crime

However the victim's family have
been very outspoken

about their thoughts of
the handling of this case

So this episode is going to
primarily focus more on that

and an additional note,

The family members have also
chosen to stay anonymous as well

Lastly, the theory included
in today's video

is not just an internet theory

It was actually debated in
court during the trial

And the victim's family firmly
believes this to be the truth

So we're not diving into
a deep sensitive online theory

I mean, this is truly what the victim's family
believe happened to their loved ones

Or at least they believe
there is a strong connection here

So with that being said, let's get into it

A few years ago at

[] International Airport in South Korea

Customs officers are doing routine checks

in the incoming luggage

They're expecting occasional
expected violations

Prohibited food items, live wildlife

I mean, you would surprised

At how often people try to smuggle in

live animals into a foreign country

Live tarantulas, pigeons wrapped
in padded envelopes

Stranger things have happened
in the customs department

But they're like, "wait.

don't let that one through,

the scans are all ringing off on that one"

The customs officers, they pull
a few suitcases off to the side

They open them up, and they're just
staring at each other

They're staring at thousands

almost twenty thousands

or not even just thousands

like think about twenty thousand pills

stuffed into clear ziploc plastic bags

capsules or?

capsules!

clear capsules that have this
weird dark orange

almost brownish powder inside

no label, no identifying markers,
no bottle

Just pills inside of plastic bags

I mean, they do kind of
look like supplements, but

I mean, do you really
need seventeen thousand pills

in a plastic bag for a light vacation?

no, what is it? labels, nothing?

nothing. not even a note.

Is this just magnesium? nothing

not suspicious at all

yeah, and so South Korea being South Korea

the first thought they have is drugs

we have just stumbled upon a massive
narcotic smuggling operation

To them this is El Chapo level activity

They confiscate all the pills

They start testing every
single one of them

"what the hell is in this?"

Apparently the pills were
being smuggled into Korea

And being advertised as
performance enhancing pills

For vitality and sex drive

It's supposed to boost your stamina

Beyond that, they have
no idea what this pill is for

Some people say, "actually,
that pill cures cancer.

it cures everything.

If you've got a problem,
you take these pills.

That's why we're bringing it into
South Korea to save South Koreans."

That's the thing, right?

But no label?

No label! Nothing. It's a magic pill
to fix your life's problem

and your entire body

You can't get excited
during intimate time?

Take this pill.

Do you have a terminal illness?

Take this pill.

Ok, so what are they made out of?

Illegally strong Viagra?
Methamphetamines? Fentanyl?

The lab techs start testing them all

Opioids? Negative.

Ketamine? Negative.

Cocaine? Negative.

Fentanyl? Negative.

It is a mystery pill

They have no idea what's inside this pill

But there is something interesting

Some of the pills were tested

And they showed high levels
of super bacteria

super bacteria

Super bacteria is typically a bacteria

that cannot be killed with antibiotics

So if it's ingested by a human

It's very hard to kill it
once it's inside your system

So like a virus

Yeah, they're like antibiotic resistant

So, is this some sort of
bioterrorism attack?

Bioweapon?

Yeah, they're mean- they're gonna

pass these out to civilians and
get them sick on bacteria

that are hard to treat

it's gonna cause an outbreak

I mean, it's not gonna kill the country,

But it- it is gonna cause problems

It would've been a very strange plan though

Which gave someone an idea

They test the pills for something else

And they finally come back positive

The pills were a match for humans

Human flesh, powdered, concentrated,
packed into neat, little doses

The pills were made from powdered humans

There were even little hairs found inside
the capsules

But where would you even get the raw
material for the human flesh capsules

And that leads them to the
very pressing question of

How many humans does it take to make
seventeen thousand human flesh capsules

Suwon (수원시), South Korea is actually a
really beautiful city

It's typically incredibly safe too

It's the place where Samsung has
their huge facility

Literally called Samsung digital city

A city inside of a city

Employees get access to their own
health services, facilities,

kindergartens, bus systems,
sports facilities, restaurants

Like all the big tech zones
Suwon is relatively very safe

But in the span of a few years

Something strange did happen

A hundred fifty women in Suwon
mysteriously vanished