Victims were found dead in local South Korean motels
“The police are glancing around. There's nothing particularly alarming about the room. There's no signs of evident trauma. It doesn't appear that he passed with the sign of a struggle. There's no external injuries. This is not a self-exit. There's no gunshot wounds, stab wounds, no strangulation marks. There is, however, small amounts of vomit in the mouth, airways.”
Kim Soyoung was a pathological liar and manipulator
“The whole date feels like a prolonged game of two truths and a lie. Every question he asks, she'd just be making up stuff on the spot and he can tell. Why would you make your age older? He's confused by that. She's just blatantly telling so many lies with so many inexplicable inconsistencies. Even a toddler would think that she's a pathological liar.”
Perpetrator used ChatGPT to research lethal pill dosages
“Sam, this is a pseudonym, he's about ready to go on a date... His date is also on ChatGPT right before the date. Asking questions. Her searches include, what is a lethal overdose of sleeping pills? If you take sleeping pills with alcohol, can you die? And she's taking notes in her journal with each date. This dose doesn't even kill them.”
Kim Soyoung drugged dates using spiked hangover drinks
“Using the back of her kitchen knife, she would crush up all of her prescription pills that she is prescribed for PTSD. She uses a piece of paper, funnels them into the hangover drink, and throws those in her purse for dates. Instead of sobering up, these men would take the hangover drink. They would suddenly start feeling nauseous, as if the world is getting distorted.”
“Netizens also noticed that in her Instagram post, she doesn't have a single picture with anybody else, none, not even one where she's sitting at a restaurant and someone is sitting next to her, but she covers their face. She has zero pictures with anybody else. People are saying, this is kind of odd. She doesn't have any friends, she doesn't have any family.”
Public sympathy shifted after unedited mugshots were released
“People went from defending her because she was the prettiest killer alive to now hating her because she's quite ugly in her mugshots. The retouching on her photos must be insane. The level of editing she does for her photos would bankrupt AI. It would use too many resources to sustain that just for her Instagram page.”
Motives involved petty theft and avoiding sexual advances
“I'm not denying that I didn't give him the drugs, but I want to properly explain why I did it. Because I was scared of being essayed. No one ever listens to my side and it's so hard. I never thought and wanted to kill someone. I was just so scared that they would essay me and keep me there and not let me go.”