THE RAINCOAT KILLER

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to Inside the Criminal Mind podcast, where we analyze
some of the most notorious criminal cases with psychology and
criminology combined. Here's your host, doctor carlos.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well. I thought today we look at you Young Chool,
the raincode killer. The Netflix is doing a documentary on
and they have never before seen archive footage and interviews
conducted with those investigating the case, So it'll be an
interesting one to look at. I'll take my look to
give my two cents on it, but we'll look at it.
Who is he? You Young Chool? It's Yoo then Young

(00:49):
Dashed Chool Chu l Hope I'm pronouncing right, is a
Southern South Korean serial killer and sex offender. So we
have an international serial killer here. It's always harder to
find by graphical information for this individual, but again we
can kind of surmise by their behavior what could have
happened at least from probability, right from September November two

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thousand and three, you killed several wealthy senior citizens that
they're breaking into their homes and attacking them. So we'll
look at to see what the victimology was on this
in a little bit. He initially covered his tracks by
stage in the crime scene to lead the police into
thinking to have been a robbery and homicides. So we
have here as an organized killer, somebody who's aware of
what's going on, so they're not having really severe psychotic
delusions or severe psychosis orchizophrenia because they have to be

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much more cognizant of what's happening. This force is but
the forces Sodent became suspicious and spotting no money had
been taken. You later targeted from female messeuses. So he
had some level of organization, which is interesting because he
tried to cover it up as that, but he wasn't
completely thorough about it, which makes me wonder. The b

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biography we have is very limited. Again, so we'll take
a look at what we got. He got married in
nineteen ninety two, and what we also have is he
had one son. He was previously convicted fourteen times for
several different charges and served as whold seven years in
prison prior to his string of murders. My guess what

(02:18):
you're having here is possibly I'm curious to see if
he had conduct disorder. Remember conduct disorders the criteria you
need for anti social personality disorder or to hire or
to a more extreme cases psychopathy, So I'm wondering to
see what he had. He was jobless. He confessed to

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this eleven month long series of brutal murders. This also
kind of reaffirms again the psychopathy issue because they tend
to be very transient in their jobs. They don't seem
to hold jobs well. The marriage can throw people off,
but psychopaths can get married a lot of times. In
fidelity is usually the issue. So we'll find out more.

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See if we can find out more about his background,
but it doesn't look like it. He was married again
in nineteen ninety two. He married his messuse identify as
miss Wang and his one has one son. Two thousand
and two, ten years later, he was serving time for
a rape conviction. He told his wife had divorced him.
He was released in December two thousand and two and

(03:22):
afterwards started dating a woman, but she left him when
she learned of his criminal background. Probably the best thing
for so let's take a look at some of his
killings to see what happened. You killed again several seasons
senior citizens are breaking into their homes and bludgeting them
with a hammer, So he's targeting wealthy senior citizens. So
this does fit his narrative that he's trying to create

(03:45):
about robbing bludging them with a hammer is pretty intense
and violent, so I'm curious to see what's going on there.
To cover his tracks, you made the scenes of his
crime look like robbery homicide. However, no money was ever taken,
which confused the police investigators. When the investigators start to intensify,
you switched to targeting female messuses. This is very interesting

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as victimology switched to wealthy senior citizens to female messuss.
I'm wondering if he had some issue in his background.
Did he have wealthy parents and neglected him that abused
him something of that nature. Was there some other vendetta
against wealthy individuals. I don't know. These were just speculations
on my part. In January two thousand and four, you
was briefly arrested on a minor theft charge, but was

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released two days later. Starting in two thousand and four,
the thing is frustrating, folks, is that I don't even
have a birthday for this individual. So I'm trying to
figure out, Yeah, there's no birthdate almost anywhere I can find,
so we haven't, which is kind of, Oh there, it
is age fifty one. Now, he was born in nineteen seventy,

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so let's go backtrack for a second. So he got
married at twenty two years of age. He had already
convicted fourteen times for several different charges. Probably his youth
definitely going to be probably a conduct disorder issue. He's
probably a delinquent, which gives us more information about him.
Starting in January two thousand and four. Now he was
what is it, thirty four years of age at this time,

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so he started killing at thirty three, which is kind
of it's a little older than most of them. You
called prostitutes to his residence in Western Soul when he
switched his mo and bludgeoned them after having sex with them.
He prostituted victims were dismembered and mutilated to hinder their identifications.
So again you see the organized the fashion of the
killer because he tried to cover it up. So he

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was well aware of that fact, and he definitely from
mensrhea right whether or not he was guilty of mind,
he was obviously he knew from right from wrong. He
was trying to hide their bodies. He's obviously got some
kind of anger issue with them. So maybe the prostitutes
are connected in some capacity with these wealthy citizens, senior
citizens that he was targeting in some way. Maybe not,

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I don't know, but he did have sex with them
and then he would kill them and dismember them. Police
recovered eleven bodies from the mountain behind Bongwan Temple after
use arrest, so he was pretty prolific on this. You
confessed to killing nineteen people in July eighteen, two thousand
and four. He admitted to an additional murder, the killing

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of a forty four year old male vendor, and he
went off on script there. So I'm wondering why you
eventually confessed to killing twenty six individuals in July of
two thousand and four, several day after arrest. Although no
details were given, the list of purported victims included several
individuals that did not match his prior pattern of wealthy
seniors or messuses. Friends of two of the messus victims

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whose bodies have been recovered claimed they were not involved
in massacs therapy, meaning that you could have other unreported victims,
So he might have changed his mo So why was
he called the rainy coat raincoat killer? Well, it was
because of the rainy Thursday, and murderer was active contempt
and raneously starting in April, so it was reigning a lot.
I guess this is probably one of the ways they

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identified him. He stabbed multiple women in April two thousand
and four late at night in southwest Soule. Police were
unable to link you to those murders, though several days
later you could confess to killing a young woman, a
worker in a clothing store in six February sixth after
he suspected her being a prostitute. So this is interesting.
He suspected her being a prostitute, So I'm wondering if

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he's trying to We've seen this before. We're trying to
cleanse the world. You had approached her for questioning by
pretending to be a police officer, so again you can
see the organized fashion. Approximately a month after his arrest,
you confess to eating the flash of his victims, although
no evidence to prove this was available, So there is
something going on here. He's taking credit for a lot
of additional murders. Now he's trying to really blow the

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story out of proportion by saying he's eating them. So
he might have some kind of psychosis, but it might
be more transient, and he's still loocid enough to be
able to be organized. You was taken into custody in
July fifteen, two thousand and four, confessed to murdering his
nineteen As we mentioned, he had raised suspicions by calling
a massage parlor where several employees had recently goteen missing
after receiving similar phone calls, so the owner of the

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massage parlor company by several employees and a single officer
went to the agreed upon meeting place. The police officer
left before you arrived, and you was apprehended by the
employees of the massage parlor. Reverse thing, and another police
officer placed handcuffs on you after he was detained by
the massage parlor employees. While in custody, You've feigned epileptic

(08:31):
symptoms and escaped from the police after his restraints loosen.
So sharp guy in this aspect, he was re arrested
twelve hours later. You had attempted to escape after being
arrested in two thousand and two as well for rape
by faking an epileptic seizer. So he's done this before.
The mother of the only Emun Dong murder victim rushed
at you with an umbrella when he was brought to
the prosecutor's office, screaming that her daughter would still be

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alive if the police had captured him earlier. A policeman
kicked the mother in the chest to subduer, claiming that
his hands were occupied and holding you. Based on the
content of his apartment searched after his arrest, there's some
speculation that he patterned his killings after several movies Public Enemy,
Very Bad Things, and Normal Life. You later confess, actually,

(09:16):
let me tell You'll tell you a little bit about
those movies. So Public Enemy is a Southern Korean action
film directed by Kang Wu Suk. The film was well
received by audiences. And let's see what kind of movie
it was. The plot is a tough louse canon cop
and a psychopathic killer, so he's probably going after the
psychopathic killer named Cho Kio and Juan who goes after

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who challenges the cop Kan. The other movie is called
Very Bad Things. It was a black comedy, a dark comedy.
The plot here is Kyle Fisher organizes a bachelor party.
A stripper of prostitutes accidentally killed by Michael in the bathroom.

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Soon after, security guard comes to investigate, discovers the body,
and desperation, Robert stams the guard to death. He then
convinces the group to dismember the body so he could
be well getting information from these movies. This does not
mean that these movies caused him to do this. He
just he was going to do it one way or another,
but he was probably he could be following their mo

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Another movie was called A Normal Life. The Normal Life Moves,
an American crime drama film based on the real lives
of husband and her wife bank robbers. Luke Perry played it.
The former Luke Perry. A young police officer meets the
attractive and sexually Pamela. Actually Judge immediately falls in love
with her. Even her drug and alcohol problems cannot affect

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his mad love for her. As a relationship continues, more
problems arise, and then they get into a life of crime.
So I don't know what he followed there, but maybe
he did. You O later confess to being inspired by
serial killer jeongd Yung, who had murdered nine He was
a South Korean serial killer as well, who killed eight

(11:06):
people actually or no, nine people. He killed eight with
nine victims from June nineteen ninety nine to April two thousand.
Just a few years before him in eighteen eight, nineteen
eighty six, when he was eighteen years old, he was
sentenced to eleven years in prison for killing forty three
year old officer Kim Chinese. After his release, he was
again arrested for theft and sentenced to six months. Were
not so eleven years in prison then released again. The

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following ten months, he committed sixteen robberies and killed nine
people in Busan, Ulsan and the rest of South Korea.
Police admitted they had little physical Actually, so Yo you
stated his resentment of the rich stem from early childhood.
So I was right when he felt envious that people
with a large house due to his childhood poverty. Actually

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I was wrong. Was reversal, So he did have abuse
of rich parents. He envied the rich, so he was adder.
He was bitter and resentful against them. He was resentment
of women's stem from a lover who worked as a
messeeus leaving him after learning of his criminal past. This
is typical. We've seen this with other serial killers who
get rejected and then they start targeting and then they

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project that anger onto other people, and they also do
what they call displacement, which means they displaced anger instead
of on the person who they want, to everybody else.
I mean, they may also kill that person, but obviously
they're projecting their anger and they're displacing the anger to
these other individuals. So now we know a little bit
more about why he was doing these killings and why

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he had that victimology. Police admitted they had little physical
evidence linking you to the murders. You first appeared in
court September two thousand and four, refusing to defend themselves,
declaring his attention to boycott the remainder of the trial,
apologizing to the victims, which is actually kind of the
opposite of what psychopaths do. You boast that he had
no intention of stopping. When he was forced to return
two weeks later, he lunched three judges. Oh, it looks

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like he's definitely his delusions are catching up now. He
refused to appear at the next court session after attempting
suicide the night before. You again disrupted hearing three weeks
later when he tried to attack a spectator who had
cursed at him, prosecutors requested the death penalty, which You
thanked them for, and You was sentenced to death on
December thirteen, twenty and four, for twenty counts of murder.

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Prosecutors appealed to verdict to secure actually hold on the
count of murder for the woman in em You and
Dong in February twenty fourth of two thousand and four
was thrown out. Prosecutors appealed to vertict to secure the
twenty first counter murder, but the lower court sentence was upheld.
His case, which appalled South Koreans, has fueled the debate
on capital punishment. Although the death death penalty in South

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Korea is still permissible under law, has not been carried
out since nineteen ninety seven. It appeared capital punishment might
be abolished prior to use arrest, but support for the
death penalty has grown since learning of his crimes. You, though,
was not put to death, and he's currently detanedt to
Sole detention Center. His murder was many twenty people were
on precedent in the nation. Kind of a list of

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his events and crimes. In nineteen eighty eight, he as
eighteen years old, he was arrested for theft twenty one
years of age. He was arrested again for theft and
he married his girlfriend at twenty three. I remember he
started killing right around in two thousand and three, killed
his first victims, so he was thirty three years of
age and lasted for about a year, and then he
was sentenced to death, but he was currently in prison.

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Execution is not carried out. In two thousand and three,
he killed a seventy two year old, stabbing her in
the neck with a knife. He and his wife were
then beaten to death with a hammer. So he stabler
first with a knife and then beating them with a hammer.
Again very violent. So he can see the anger towards
the rich. If that's really the psychology behind us, it
would make sense of why he bludged them in such

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horrific manner. Then he killed an eighty five year old
and her daughter who was sixty and their handicapped grandson
thirty five were killed in the same manner soon afterwards,
so again the anger. Then he killed a sixty year
old who was beaten with a hammer. These were all wealthy,
so that makes sense that he was targeting these people
because of the money that they had. Maybe he was envious,

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maybe they treated them badly all the above. You also
killed another individual at eighty seven years of age and
their housekeeper of fifty three. And this attempt, he actually
cut himself well attempting to open a safe, so he
burned down a house instead to destroy the DNA evidence.
In December of two thousand and three, he met a
new girlfriend in escort, but she inevitably discovered his criminal record,

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and that's the one we talked about earlier, didn't want
to see him. He then decided to kill escort girls
as revenge. So this could be why he switched his victimology.
While he was targeting, he went from one group to
now this new group that has upset him. So the
first one, the prostitute he killed, who sex worker was killed,
it was forty seven years of age. On February ninth,
March sixteenth, he killed another one at twenty three years

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of age. He then cut her corpse into pieces and
dumped him on a trail. That's interesting. He dumped him
on the trail near so Gang University. So I'm not
sure why he would do that to send a message.
This is not definitely a place to hide it unless
the trail was in the back somewhere and people couldn't
see it. April fourteenth, the vender who had scammed you
by giving him fake viagra was wrestled in his own van,

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handcuffed and murdered. He saw the victim's hands off and
disposed of him in a plastic bag. He then set
the van on fire, So again you can see that
organized the ability definitely covering up his tracks. May of
two thousand and four, he loured a twenty five year
old sex worker in his apartment, bludgeoned her unconscious with
a hammer. He then decapitated her in his bathroom and

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buried her in the bong Wan temple. This makes more sense.
He's definitely trying to hide that body. May seventh, thirty
three year old was killed in the same procedure as
the fall of the previous one, and the next three
or four were all killed in the same exact way.
They're all bludgeoned to tenth decapitated. On June first, he's
really escalating now. Every month it was a month, and
then the June ninth was another one twenty six year old,

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and then June eighteenth, another nine days later, a twenty
seven year old twenty fifth, seven days there, so when
Junie had four in a row, the twenty eight year
old sex worker, twenty six year old six worker in
July second, July ninth was another one, all in the
same fashion. The very last one was July thirteenth, twenty

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seven or old was killed. So we got cut off
there and apologized for that. But you saw the last
seven or eight escalated in the months of June and July.
Actually Jed July thirteenth was his last victim. She was
killed twenty seven a sex worker. So let's wrap this up.
We see here, Remember I have three criteria that I
look at for serotoys I believe that can create this

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kind of monster. Usually we have neurologic impairment. Neurological compairment
consists of several factors. A lot of times we see
traumatic brain injuries associated with serial killers as well as pedophiles.
This could be from abuse, physical abuse, getting hit on
my head, could be falling before that, I mean take
it back. It could be tyatogens, which are agents that
can to fear with neurodevelopment, and the teratogens are appearing

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in utero. In other words, the mother well pregnant is
exposed to either chemicals, pesticides, maybe exposed to lead, all
the above, if she's drinking while pregnant, if she's smoking
while pregnant, all this can affect the neurodevelopment of the
prefontal cortex, which controls our impulsivity, monitor modulates our emotional

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reactivities to keep us calm, regulates aggressiveness, helps us to
anticipate consequences. Morality is based in that pre funnal cortex area,
So you can see if this area is compromised, this
person's not going to make the right decisions or decision
making is going to be compromised. So I'm looking at
here at prenatal effects, brain trauma. We don't know if

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you had this, but we can definitely know. We can
definitely tell who's very aggressive, very angry towards the wealthy,
very angry towards these sex workers, hate, a rejection. We
could have seen abuse, physical child abuse. This is part
two of my three components that you need for the
serial killer. The other component one neurological impairment. As I
just mentioned. Number two is physical abuse, sexual abuse, some

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kind of abuse in childhood which could exploit could also
participate in why he's emotionally reactive and so aggressive and
angry and targeting these individuals, so he could have this.
And then the third one is psychosis. And I remember
most mental health disorders, if not all of them, are
on a continuum, so there's different degrees of psychosis. You

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can actually function with a low level of psychosis, and
then you can have so much psychosis completely detached from reality,
and it can vacillate. With him. We can see kind
of a vacillation of psychosis with him. It seems We're
getting a very little amount of information, so I'm completely speculating,
but we can see some psychosis going back and forth
in some of these things in the court trials. I'll
say here responded supposedly saying he hate the people, cannibalism.

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So when I look at all these factors I can see,
I'm going to surmise he probably has some kind of
neural logical impairment, maybe exposure to some tyatogen, maybe an
agent it's a member. A tragan is an agent that
causes interference with neuro development. So if the brain isn't
developing properly in the right areas, especially in that mid
gestation period around the second or third month is when

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his brain starts developing that pre final cortex area. Hormones
are being flushed into the brain. This can all cause issues.
I'm pretty sure he had antisocial personality, sort of psychopathy.
I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking he probably does a
bouy his behavior pattern because of his issues with marriage,
issues with women. Also his job transiency. He wasn't able

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to hold a job. He's unemployed at least. Also, his
bind have had conduct disorder because he had delinquent behavior
when it's a teenager. But we don't have enough information,
so AL surmise he probably had it, but I don't know.
He's in jail now. Obviously he did not get through
the death penalty. They proposed the death penalty for him,
but he didn't remember. He was attacking all these individuals

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in the courtroom, so they never did go with the
death penalty, but he was. You think he's still in
the jail now. So again, those are the things we're
looking at. I see neurolog I'm guessing how neurological impairment
in some capacity. That also includes genetics, so he could
be predisposed to having genes that made them more aggressive,

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but it's always a combination of all three, and really
it's more than that, because the neurological impairment can be
several factors. Could be genetics, it could be the tyatogens
affecting them in prenatal aspect, It could be the traumatic
brain injury, so you have multiple factors in that neurological
impairment category. So it could be a combination of five
or six factors, which I think ninety nine percent of

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these individuals is exactly what explains their behavior. You have
a multivariate explanation for their causal interpretation. What's that mean?
Why they did it? Usually is explained by several factors,
not just one set. For NOUT folks,