SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top court on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. citizen to 20 years in prison for murdering a South Korean college student in 1997. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s conviction of Arthur Patterson, 37, accused of stabbing Cho Joong-pil, a college student, multiple times at a Burger [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – An appeals court on Tuesday convicted a U.S. citizen accused of murdering a South Korean college student in 1997, delivering a 20-year prison term that is the severest penalty possible for the defendant who was then an adolescent. Upholding a lower court’s decision, the Seoul High Court found Arthur [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The prime suspect in a famous unsolved murder that occurred at a fast food restaurant in Itaewon, Seoul, will be extradited to Korea after 16 years on the run. The Ministry of Justice announced that Arthur Patterson, who is suspected of stabbing a college student in the restroom of [...]