Content note: this piece describes the disappearance and murder of several young children between 1979 and 1996, and — at its center — the wrongful imprisonment of an innocent man for seventeen and a half years based on DNA evidence that was later proven false. It also discusses a contested, unproven suspect theory raised by … Read more
Content note: this piece describes the murder of a 21-year-old university student in her own home, two days before she was due to leave the country, and the thirty years her family has spent since with no name to put to the man who did it. It is a companion, in the hardest way, to … Read more
Jang Mi-ran walked out of her house in Jeju in slippers on May 12, 2026. A police sergeant with a domestic violence record in his file typed ‘traffic accident fatality’ into the system two hours after her boyfriend reported her missing, and deleted her name. She was one of 298 cases he closed the same way.