The Jakarta Globe, Mar 25, 2014
Jakarta. An Indonesian driver has been named a suspect over the alleged beheading of a South Korean woman, police in West Java said on Tuesday.
The victim, Kim Jueng Sim, 51, was reportedly strangled with a cable in her house in Kemang Pratama, Bekasi, by her former driver, identified as A.L.B., on March 15.
Her headless body was found naked in Sela hamlet, Cianjur, West Java the next day by a worker in the area. Her head was later found 70 kilometers away on March 24 in a garbage can in Cileungsi, West Java.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said on Tuesday that police were still investigating the motive for the murder, although the alleged perpetrator admitted that he committed the deed because of a debt payment he owed to his employer.
“He was asked to pay his debt,” Rikwanto said. “Then he disposed of the victim’s body using her [Toyota] Kijang car.”
Rikwanto said that Kim Jueng Sim was a South Korean citizen, but had been working as a production manager in a factory in Bekasi for 10 years.
Kim’s friends — who had searched for her since she had gone missing for days — identified her body at the Cianjur hospital. Police then investigated her last communications and questioned witnesses, including A.L.B.
“We found who she had met and police apprehended a man with the initials A.L.B.,” Rikwanto said. “The person is being taken from Cianjur to Bekasi.”
Dwi, the victim’s neighbor, said Kim had lived in the Kemang Pratama housing complex for 18 months.
“She worked and had a driver, but I never saw her driver,” Dwi said. “The victim rarely communicated [with neighbors]. If we met, we only exchanged small talk. We never talked for long.”
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di 25 maa 2014 - 20:51