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Before targeting his fellow man, Yoo Young-chul began by slaying helpless animals (mainly dogs), and in September of 2003 — the same year as his release from prison — he murdered Lee Deok-su and his wife, Lee Eun-ok. The elderly and defenseless couple were killed in their home in Sinsa-dong, an affluent area of South Korea. Yoo used a hammer to bludgeon the Lees to death — a grisly method that would ultimately become his preferred means of killing. A month later, he murdered a family of three. The subsequent slayings over the course of those months following displayed a distinct pattern: all the victims were exceptionally wealthy (via All That's Interesting).

Once Yoo became comfortable with his own system of inhuman atrocity, he started mutilating, dismembering, and even cannibalizing the bodies of his victims (or so he claimed). "The scariest moment was not when a decapitated head fell off from a hanger or when a headless body came running to me. It was when my son called to ask if I still have cold," Yoo shared following his arrest. The phone call allegedly took place while he was butchering the corpse of one of his victims. 

Nonetheless, the killing spree was far from over. Police couldn't put a face or name to the sadistic murderer whose crimes were becoming exponentially worse with every drop of blood spilled, and many more would die before Yoo Young-chul was finally brought to justice (per The Korean Herald). 

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