A woman was found dead in a car she had no connection to on Sunday afternoon, according to police in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province.
The owner of the blue vehicle parked in the residential area of Gonghang-dong, Seoul, near Gimpo International Airport, was in for a surprise when police discovered a dead woman’s body splayed across the backseat of his car.
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He reportedly did not know the deceased 56-year-old surnamed Lee, and said his car had been parked in the same spot for over a week.
A black box recording retrieved from another car that had passed by the parked vehicle at 3:45 p.m. on the day the body was discovered showed no noticeable movement inside the car.
Five hours after the footage was recorded, the car was surrounded with police tape and marked as a crime scene.
Police have so far found no evidence pointing to a homicide.
The witness who first saw the body inside the car said the interior lights were turned on, with the car not appearing out of the ordinary aside from the awkwardly positioned body in the back.
Police will look through surveillance camera footage for leads.
By Lim Jeong-yeo (
kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)