Post by HeadMarshal on Dec 27, 2014 22:29:01 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: NBC Los Angeles)
A $75,000 reward for information in the decades-old brutal murder of a family of four in Granada Hills was renewed Friday by the Los Angeles City Council in the hope of drawing out new leads in the cold case.
The bodies of Hee Wan Yoo, 36, his wife, Gyung Jin, 34, and their two children, 6-year-old Pauline and 4-year-old Kenneth, were found in their home Nov. 20, 1991. They had been stabbed to death.
Investigators told neighbors and reporters at the time of the slaying of the Korean-American family they did not believe it was racially motivated. There was also no indication robbery was a motive.
There also did not appear to be any sign of forced entry, according to reports to neighbors soon after the crime.
The children were found in a bedroom in their pajamas, and the parents were found under a blanket in the living room, discovered after Hee Wan Yoo failed to show up to work at the dental lab he owned in Koreatown.
Some speculation early in the investigation focused on the family’s deep roots in Los Angeles’ Koreatown community, but no arrests ever came of that lead.
In the more than two decades that has passed, a reward has been repeatedly offered for information that could lead to the arrest of the family’s killer, but there have been few leads.
The council originally offered a $25,000 reward a month after the killings, and has renewed it several times during the last 23 years.
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www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/City-Renews-Reward-Murdered-Family-280367532.html
Thoughts? Compared to other unsolved family murders, this case seems to have gotten far less attention. If detectives have any theories, then they've never publicized them. The only thing I can think of is regarding the family's deep roots in LA's Koreatown community. Perhaps the killer(s) have never been identified because they eventually traveled to Korea?
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