Sophia Prior
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
October 4th
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
The article by the New York Times called, “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police say”, they discuss a man's confession to a crime committed more than twenty years ago. The crime consisted of the suspect raping and murdering fourteen women. The murders were gruesome, ranging from all ages, and the killer left the victims mutilated. The forensic evidence found to lead the investigators to the killer, who was already in prison for life from raping and killing his sister in law in 1994. This man is now 56 years old, called Lee Chun-Jae. Based on DNA evidence matching taken from the last four out of nine total likking they were able to match them to Chun-Jae. Now because of recent developments in DNA testing, they were able to decipher the suspect of the case. They were able to take the bloodstains found from his murder of his sister in law to connect him to the many other crimes.
In addition, Mr. Lee can not be prosecuted for the crimes he committed because the statute of limitations, which is 15 years has ended. This is part of the problem with the statute of limitations, because many cold cases, each year remain unsolved. However, recently South Korea has changed its rules on the statute of limitations, later abolishing the fifteen-year deadline. Due to Mr. Lee being a model person in prison it will be harder for him to be granted parole. The police are still unsure as to why Mr. Lee had confessed but they believe he was already in prison for life and had a guilty conscience.
Overall, this article gave a good in-depth summary of the case, those who worked on the case, its victims and the suspect Mr. Lee. The author Choe Sang-Hun gave a good summary of how the DNA was found at the crime scenes connecting Mr. Lee to the other crimes committed years before. It helped to expand my knowledge on DNA analysis as well as the statue of limitations in different countries.
12 comments:
Isabelle Kennedy
Forensics C Odd
10/6/19
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
For this week's current events I decided to analyze Sophia Prior's response to Choe Sang-hun's article, "Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea." First off, Sophia does an excellent job of providing context as to what the man, Lee Chun-Jae's crimes and describes them in great detail. "The crime consisted of the suspect raping and murdering fourteen women. The murders were gruesome, ranging from all ages, and the killer left the victims mutilated. The forensic evidence found to lead the investigators to the killer, who was already in prison for life from raping and killing his sister in law in 1994." Sophia provides context about how forensic evidence suggested Lee committed mass murders. She describes that Lee had already been convicted for crimes, but is now being suspected of committing more. Then, Sophia goes on to provide evidence on how developments in DNA testing were able to identify Lee. "Now because of recent developments in DNA testing, they were able to decipher the suspect of the case. They were able to take the bloodstains found from his murder of his sister in law to connect him to the many other crimes." She describes very well, and in great detail how Lee is being linked to the crimes, and how bloodstains were used to come to this conclusion. As well as discussing the background of Lee's murders, and the development in DNA testing that caused him to get caught, Sophia also does a good job of discussing the issues of the statute of limitations. "Mr. Lee can not be prosecuted for the crimes he committed because the statute of limitations, which is 15 years has ended. This is part of the problem with the statute of limitations, because many cold cases, each year remain unsolved. However, recently South Korea has changed its rules on the statute of limitations, later abolishing the fifteen-year deadline." Here she describes the issue of the 15-year limitations on closing cold cases but then discusses how South Korea has changed the rules, providing question as to what is next for Lee's future.
Although Sophia did an excellent job summarizing the article, it would be very beneficial to add direct quotes from the article to showcase the author's direct point of view in the response. Additionally, more descriptive language could have been used to spice up the article, but mostly it was very well written.
Overall, Sophia does a great job informing the reader on Lee's case and provides interesting information on how DNA technology has drastically changed and is now able tto solve cases from the past.
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
I really liked how when you stated the evidence from the article you also gave an explanation to where the man is now. I also really liked how you used parts of the original article to back up your argument. Another thing that you did that I enjoyed was you included where Chun-Jae is now in his life.
I think that you need to work on not making some parts so repetative. For example, you used statute of limitations twice in two sentences which I personally don't think it was needed to use both times. Another thing I think you need to work on is also spelling.
The aha moment for me in the article was when you wrote, "Now because of recent developments in DNA testing, they were able to decipher the suspect of the case."
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
I really liked how you used specific pieces of the original text to support what you were trying to prove. I also really enjoyed that you included where the man is now in the stage of his life. One other thing that I liked was that you tied everything you said back to the authors point.
One thing I think you could improve on is making less spelling errors. Another thing I think you should work on is repetativeness. You used the statement statute of limitations two times in two sentences when for me personally the use of the second one wasn't really necessary.
The aha moment for me was when you said, "Now because of recent developments in DNA testing, they were able to decipher the suspect of the case."
Sophia wrote a great review of Choe Sang-hun’s NY Times article, “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” There were three aspects of her review that I liked in particular. First, Sophia wrote in a sophisticated, engaging manner that made me want to keep reading. Sometimes when writing scientific articles and reviews, it can be difficult to captivate the reader, but Sophia was absolutely able to engross me in her writing. Second, Sophia did a great job in her first paragraph, in which she summarized the original article. I found it very interesting to read that new DNA analysis was used to determine he was the unsub. Third, I enjoyed Shophia’s conclusion. I think that she did a nice job synthesizing the information and finding some takeaways.
However, there were two parts of her review that I believe could be improved upon. First, there were some blatant spelling and grammatical errors that could have easily been corrected. If she had made these edits, her review would have seemed a lot more professional and legitimate. Second, Sophia did not follow the correct formatting or layout. Whether it was intentional or not, she only wrote two paragraphs, instead of three.
I really enjoyed reading Sophia’s review. In particular, I found it incredibly interesting to hear about just one more example of how DNA analysis is being used for crimes committed decades ago.
Sarah Whitney
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
10-7-19
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
In her review of “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” by Choe Sang-Hun, Sophia did many things well. First, her summary was very concise and contained all the relevant information. Second, Sophia included a great amount of specific details throughout her review that prove her understanding of the topic as well as give the reader further information. I also think Sophia’s connection to today was well thought out and didn’t need further explanation.
Although Sophia did many things well, there are two things in which she could improve upon. First, her last paragraph was lacking something that the author could have improved upon. Adding this would give the reader a sense of Sophia’s full understanding of the article. Second, I wish Sophia would have included some quotes to give the reader a sense of the author’s view.
I found this review particularly interesting as it gave an insight into how DNA is used to solve murders. It was also surprising that they only discovered this man due to recent developments in forensics.
Eve Balseiro
10/7/2019
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police
Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
Sophia Prior Review of “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings that Terrorized South Korea, Police Say” was well written and analytical. She accomplished this through three very well done factors. First, Sophia’s summary was the perfect length, encapsulating all necessary details without going overboard. Secondly, I think Sophia did a very good job with her description. These murders are obviously very gruesome and Sophia made sure to emphasize that without getting too far into detail. From reading her description, it’s easy to comprehend that the murders were violent but it’s not too detailed to the point where I want to turn away. Lastly, Sophia did a good job of expanding the statute of limitations. She briefly defines it and then goes on to explain why it sometimes has shortcomings.
Though all this is true, I feel that Sophia had primarily two places she could improve. Firstly, she does not give the author’s name until one of the last sentences. This would have given more clarify earlier on which would have made comprehension to the reader much faster. Secondly, Sophia did not list any shortcomings of the article which would have made her analysis more dynamic.
From this article, I learned more of the law enforcement system in South Korea and more of true crime from that area as well. I now have a much better understanding of the lengths DNA testing can go.
Michael Burstein
October 7, 2019
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
Sophia’s review of “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say” by Choe Sang-Hun was very informative. She did a good job of setting the scene by introducing the reader to the suspect, Mr. Lee and why he was in jail. In addition, Sophia did a good job of discussing the statute of limitations and how it has impacted his case in South Korea. Lastly, Sophia also did a good job in terms of sharing her opinion, both with the issues pertaining to statute of limitations and how it is applied, as well as sharing her opinion on the overall article.
While Sophia did a good job of summarizing the article and the contents discussed there were a few things Sophia could have done to make her review better. First, she had a few spelling and grammatical errors that made certain sentences and ideas hard to comprehend. Similarly, one other thing Sophia could improve upon is in organizing her review. For the most part, it was one long paragraph with a smaller paragraph at the end. If she split the review into three paragraphs and spread out her ideas this piece would be much easier to read.
Overall, I found this article to be very engaging and important. The article talks about a serious issue while focusing on a real case from South Korea that brings the issue to life by including a real example and not just hypothetical talk. This helped give me a new perspective into forensic science and how it is used to solve crimes and how investigators use evidence from old crime scenes to look for similar DNA and find a suspect.
Lorelei Heath
October 7, 2019
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
Sophia’s review of the article was very detailed and was supported greatly. She begins her examination by summarizing and briefly writes about the case. She provides background and what happened during the time of the crime, “The forensic evidence found to lead the investigators to the killer, who was already in prison for life from raping and killing his sister in law in 1994”. I sincerely enjoyed this case, it was interesting and to the point. Which is good for comprehension and understanding.
Sophia’s review was very detailed in the summary but needed more forensic evidence and explanation in her analyzation of forensic science. The writing also needed more time to think through, it was very scattered and needed a main purpose. And could have explained her thoughts on the procedures of the tests the scientists made from the evidence. Overall, her review was good but could use more information and circulation.
This article was very interesting and went over the information I already knew before. This article was a review for everyone who is in class. It went over DNA in which we learned in class. As a result, I enjoyed reading the article and Sophia’s review.
Logan Glick
Forensics
Current Event Comment 4
10/7/19
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
Sophia’s review of the statute of limitations was very well done. I was very glad I read it because I learned a lot about how important DNA testing can be in a criminal case. Sophias explained how statue of limitations are in many cases unfair. It is crazy how someone can get away with something like this just beacuse the statue of limitations are up, “The crime consisted of the suspect raping and murdering fourteen women. The murders were gruesome, ranging from all ages, and the killer left the victims mutilated.” This is angered me as it is so unfaor for this man can get away with the rape of little children. Sophia did a great job of highlighting this aspect of the statue of limitations. Furthermore, she explained how the statue of limitations can be too light in many cases, “In addition, Mr. Lee can not be prosecuted for the crimes he committed because the statute of limitations, which is 15 years has ended.” Sophia brings the emotion necessary for such an article as she tops off the discussion of how the bodies were found,”The crime consisted of the suspect raping and murdering fourteen women. The murders were gruesome, ranging from all ages, and the killer left the victims mutilated.” The way these people were found shows just how horrible this man was and also how well Sophia articulates that.
I think Sophia did a great job with this article, but there are a couple things she could improve on. This sentence, “The author Choe Sang-Hun gave a good summary of how the DNA was found at the crime scenes connecting Mr. Lee to the other crimes committed years before,” is repetition of the rest of her paragraphs as this aspect of the case has been discussed previously a bunch of times. In order to correct this failure I would simply delete it. There was one more sentence that I felt was unnecessary, “However, recently South Korea has changed its rules on the statute of limitations, later abolishing the fifteen-year deadline.” This sentence is not needed and can simply be deleted in order to be improved.
I learned a lot about how important Forensics is to the Criminal Justice System. I cannot believe a man lost 20 years off his life just because of a false statement. I chose this article because I found the story fascinating and because I know there is a flaw in the statue of limitations. It will change my life because now I know that what I am studying in forensics has helped families find their relatives killers. Also, I now know how important it is to use DNA in a crime scene, even if it is a cold case.
Jordan Hoang
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics C Odd
10/8/19
Current Event #3 Comment
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.”
The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019,
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.html?rref=collection
%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
One thing that I liked about Sophia’s review of the article “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say” was her detailed summary. I enjoyed how she gave a very comprehensive and specific overview on the murder itself. In addition, I thought she utilized good descriptive words throughout her review. Her use of adjectives and descriptions made her review more enticing. Finally, I enjoyed how Sophia explained what “statues of limitations” meant and how the Korean justice system works. I thought she gave a good background into what it meant and it made her article more easy to understand.
One thing that I believe Sophia could improve on is analyzing more of the scientific evidence that proved who the murderer was in the article. While she gave good overview and background of the actual crime, she only simply stated that they “took the the bloodstains found from his murder of his sister in law”. She didn’t put a lot of information as to how scientists were actually able to gather this evidence and come to the conclusion that he was the murderer. Additionally, Sophia also had some grammatical and spelling areas throughout her review. However, this could be fixed quickly by simply just proofreading more over her work.
It is almost unfathomable to me how someone could get away with so many murders over such a long period of time. However, it is also interesting to me how new science techniques can be used to solve a crime that occured so long ago. It shows to me that improved technology can really help improve how effectively we conclude and solve murders.
Sophia composed an incredible survey of Choe Sang-hun's NY Times article, "Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say." There were three parts of her audit that I loved specifically. To start with, Sophia wrote in an advanced, drawing in way that made me need to continue perusing. Some of the time when composing logical articles and surveys, it very well may be hard to enamor the peruser, however Sophia was totally ready to charm me in her composition. Second, Sophia worked superbly in her first passage, wherein she condensed the first article. I thought that it was fascinating to peruse that new DNA investigation was utilized to decide he was the unsub. Third, I making the most of Sophia's decision. I believe that she made a decent showing blending the data and discovering a few takeaways.
Nonetheless, there were two pieces of her audit that I accept could be enhanced. To start with, there were some explicit spelling and linguistic mistakes that could have effectively been rectified. On the off chance that she had made these alters, her survey would have appeared to be much progressively proficient and genuine. Second, Sophia didn't pursue the right designing or format. Regardless of whether it was purposeful or not, she just composed two sections, rather than three.I truly appreciated perusing Sophia's audit.
Molly Palma
Mr. Ippolito
Current Event 6
Due October 28th
Sang-hun, Choe. “Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019,
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/south-korea-serial-killer.htm
Immediately I was drawn to the review, considering how concise, but story-like the sentences read. She used words like “gruesome” and “decipher” to draw importance to the case. In addition to that Sophia thoughtfully considered information as she wrote her review, keeping it relevant to someone in the field of forensics. She described how many how many people Chun-Jae killed, how they were killed, how old his victims were, and how he was caught through DNA testing. Lastly, I found it interesting how she tied law into this review. Sophia definitely created some curiosity in the reader when she said “the police are still unsure as to why Mr. Lee had confessed” after the statute of limitations was increased, “but they believe he was already in prison for life and had a guilty conscience.”
Sophia would’ve wanted to quote Choe Sang-hun in her review. It is necessary to switch it up a couple of times from giving summaries of the author’s information to giving raw examples of it, in order to keep the reader satisfied. When Sophia says, “due to Mr. Lee being a model person in prison it will be harder for him to be granted parole” it would’ve been the perfect time to insert quotes. In addition to this her conclusion paragraph was a little too short. Maybe Sophia could’ve reflected a tiny bit more on how important this case is for the future of forensic technology or how she feels about the statute of limitations being increased.
Similar to Sophia, I have never been well informed about the statute of limitations in other countries. It was interesting how the statute of limitations in South Korea was fifteen years till that policy evolved. I didn’t realize that such a large movement would be represented through one criminal, Chun-Jae. I am blown away that a criminal can get away with these monstrosities for so long, but also blown away by the access to technology that we have nowadays to crack these ‘cold-cases’.
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