A private detective is accused of preying on a grieving widow’s desire to solve her husband’s eight year old murder case, reports the Washington Post.
Sun Hui Jung found her husband, Yong Suk Yun, bloodied and dead from multiple stab wounds in the couple’s garage in Virginia in 2010.
Yun would be stabbed more than a dozen times, according to NBC Washington.
“It’s quite possible that whoever went there, that they didn’t expect him to be there,” Fairfax County Police Detective Connie Morris said to NBC Washington. “They were surprised. That’s possibly why they use weapons from the house.”
Police say the nature of the stab wounds make it possible that more than one person participated in the killing.
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Jung called detectives every Monday and Friday for the first five years after the murder hoping to learn of a big break in her husband’s murder, but that break never came.
It was in 2015 when Jung was approached by David Park, a private investigator, who offered to help her find her husband’s killer. According to the Washington Post, Park eventually produced an affidavit from a chauffeur who claimed to have driven three men to her home the day of her husband’s death.
The chauffeur said once the men were inside the home, he heard a big commotion. Two of the men were said to have sped away in her husband’s SUV. A third man ,who the chauffeur said was his employer, emerged from the home with a woman and carrying a brown paper bag.
All four who came from the house would later rendezvous and split $40,000 with the two men and the chauffeur.
Jung saw the affidavit as the big break she had long sought. She urged Park, the private investigator, to go to police with this information.
The chauffeur agreed to give a statement in exchange for $50,000. Jung agreed. The chauffeur, after giving the affidavit, demanded $100,000 to testify. Jung was reluctant, but again agreed, desperate to find her husband’s killer.
But when police read the affidavit, they expressed doubts the chauffeur really existed. They urged her not to give Park anymore money. Jung did not tell the police that by then, she had given him $300,000 in payments and expenses.
Jung eventually sued Park. The jury awarded her $125,000, but the judge reduced the award to less than $25,000 saying there were holes in her story.
After all that, nearly a decade later, the murder of Yong Suk Yun remains unsolved.
You can learn more about the murder and the evidence surrounding it in the report below.
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