In June 1991, Su-Ya Kim—a South Korean immigrant and devoted mother of two—went on a routine evening grocery shopping trip in Queens, New York. She never returned.
Hours later, a security guard patrolling a secluded alleyway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, spotted a suspicious man fleeing in a blue Nissan. Inside a commercial dumpster, a horrific discovery was made.
Despite a star witness, a partial license plate, and distinct geographic clues suggesting the killer had intimate local knowledge of the neighborhood, the leads went cold. Decades later, the killer has never been identified, and the family ultimately returned to South Korea with no answers.
In this episode, we break down the exact timeline of June 29, 1991, the forensic evidence left behind, and the failed pursuit of justice that keeps this file open in the NYPD’s cold case unit.
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