April 18, 1970 - Yoo Young-chul
Over a span of months in 2003 and 2004, he carried out a sustained series of killings in Seoul that targeted two distinct groups — wealthy elderly residents and women in the sex trade — a pattern that reflected calculated opportunism rather than random violence. The eventual conviction on 20 counts made him one of South Korea's most prolific convicted killers, and the investigation exposed significant gaps in how the Seoul metropolitan police coordinated responses to linked crimes.
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Yoo Young-chul (Korean: 유영철; born 18 April 1970), also known as the Raincoat Killer or Raincoat Man, is a South Korean serial killer, sex offender, and self-confessed cannibal. After he admitted to the murders of multiple people, mostly prostitutes and wealthy old couples, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders, although one case was dismissed when it turned out that the crime had been committed by another serial killer, Jeong Nam-gyu. Yoo burned three and mutilated at least 11 of his victims and admitted that he ate the livers of some of his victims. He committed his crimes between September 2003 and July 2004 and was apprehended on 15 July 2004.
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