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Seo District Jane Doe was a woman whose body was found inside a bag in the Ara Canal in the Seo district of Incheon, South Korea. It is estimated that she was killed several months before her discovery, with the cause of death being stated as carbon monoxide poisoning.
Case[]
On the morning of the 8th of December, 2016, an environmental sanitation worker known as "Ms. Hwang" found a yellow cloth sack amongst a pile of bags in the Ara Canal and transported it to a garbage collection point. Upon opening the sack, Ms. Hwang discovered the heavily decomposed body of an adult woman lying inside. She immediately contacted the authorities, whose station was only 100 meters from where Ms. Hwang stood.
Due to the decedent being dressed in casual clothing and lacking shoes, detectives suspected that she had been killed inside a home several months before and thrown away in the sack. The decomposition of the deceased had made fingerprinting impossible, resulting in South Korea's fingerprint submission law being unable to identify her. During her autopsy, it was found that she had died from carbon monoxide poisoning but also bore fractures on her cervical vertebrae and ribs, but it was unclear when these fractures occurred.
The sack that held the decedent's body was traced back to a community center in the Bupyeong district of Incheon that was distributed between 2011 and 2012 but was never circulated in stores. This discovery led detectives to conclude that the victim and the perpetrator lived in the Bupyeong district. Furthermore, authorities checked security cameras in the proximity of the body's discovery for any sign of the victim or suspect but failed to gain any further knowledge. As a final attempt to add to the case, the National Forensic Service tried to make a 3D reconstruction of the victim, but this is stated to have never come to fruition.
Characteristics[]
- Type B blood.
- Fractures in cervical vertebrae and ribs.
Clothing[]
- Shorts.
- Short-sleeved T-shirt.
- Socks.
Sources[]
- SISA Journal (Korean)
- Jung Rak-in's Case Tracking (Korean) POSTMORTEM WARNING
- Incheon Ilbo (Korean)