How warped Korean cannibal clan hunted 'rich snobs' to eat and
UPDATED: 10:36 GMT, 27 October 2024
The Chijon family hosted a neighbourhood barbecue in the autumn of 1994, inviting people in the area around their isolated home in the small town of Bulgap-myeon, South Korea.
There was little to suggest that the seemingly-generous group were anything more than a set of amiable, if rag-tag, people who had selflessly spent their hard-earned money on renovating the house of one of their members' mothers.
But the barbecued pork they dished out to their neighbours was a facade that hid a terrible truth, involving rape, kidnapping, extortion, murder and cannibalism, masking the stench of cooked human flesh that was thrown into an underground incinerator just feet below the social gathering.
The truth was that the Chijon family, now-infamous for their gnawing hunger for human flesh and vitriolic hatred of 'rich snobs', were unlike any family who came before them.
They weren't related by blood, only the fury of the dispossessed, and worked more like a gang, interested only in leeching money from those unfortunate enough to come across them.
Between the family's formation and their subsequent executions just over a year later, they targeted and kidnapped those they deemed wealthy, subjected their victims to horrific gang-rape, and killed, dismembered and ate them, before using a hidden incinerator to dispose of their bodies.
They also inflicted cannibalism on one woman they kidnapped, forcing her to eat the livers of two people she was made to kill.
Her boyfriend, who was kidnapped alongside her the week before the barbecue, was disposed of, forced into a car that was thrown off a cliff.