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 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

Wait, poisonous snake liquor bottle?
What is that?

Where they put a dead
poisonous snake into the liquor

OhooOhh

Yeah we talked about it in
the North Korea case

Yeah
- 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

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

And 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 has passed

He had fallen into his flow state

He had three hundred
and sixty five plus pieces of meat

Cut meticulously in uniform
and 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
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