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Prof Canceled Class for Personal Reasons. Days Later, a Murder Arrest
Newser ^ | Feb 20, 2020 | Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Feb 20, 2020

Posted on 02/21/2020 4:16:25 PM PST by nickcarraway

An assistant economics professor at Iowa's Simpson College canceled her classes for what she called a "personal issue." Three days later, she was arrested for the alleged murder of her husband, the Des Moines Register reports. Gowun Park emailed students Sunday to cancel the upcoming week of classes and postpone a test to the following week; police say the 41-year-old had, on Saturday morning, used zip ties and rope to bind Sung Woo Nam's hands and feet to a chair in their home, gagged him with an article of clothing, duct-taped his mouth shut, and duct-taped a towel over his head. About six hours later, they say, Nam, in distress, asked to be released, but Park allegedly refused. Less than two hours after that, officers were called to the condo, where they found Nam unresponsive with ligature marks on his neck. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

"Ms. Park made efforts to hide and conceal the binding items prior to the arrival of emergency personnel," police said in a criminal complaint. "The injuries sustained by Mr. Nam were not self-inflicted." She was arrested Wednesday, per the college's student newspaper, and faces charges of first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. "She was one of the sweetest ladies I've ever known," says an economics major who took five of Park's classes, worked with her on a research project, and had her as an academic adviser. He says in the three years he knew her, Park never mentioned a husband, saying that she was single and that all her family lived in South Korea. Park got her doctorate in 2017 and was hired at Simpson the same year; she has since been suspended. "The recent news has left me and other classmates in shock," says another of her advisees. "We never would have expected her to do anything like this." (Read more murder stories.)


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To: nickcarraway

Well, at least she was kind enough to notify her students...that should count for something...


41 posted on 02/22/2020 3:23:40 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Jane Austen
Two larger questions are,

What did he have on Hillary?

And was this an Epstein moment?

42 posted on 02/22/2020 4:55:53 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: nickcarraway

Sung Woo Nam didn’t kill himself.


43 posted on 02/22/2020 6:44:32 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Ezekiel
Did have the *C* virus? You can catch some nasty germs fooling around, ya know. Wash your hands.


44 posted on 02/22/2020 3:58:09 PM PST by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: BipolarBob; Ezekiel
Its almost as bad as the chairman of the Harvard chemistry department who was arrested for giving secrets to the Chinese yesterday.

Another career in the terlit

Maybe these things happen in threes. Wonder who is next?

45 posted on 02/22/2020 4:05:05 PM PST by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: Daffynition
“We will help you change the cash for you when you come to Wuhan,” his Wuhan liaison wrote in 2017, the indictment says.

Winning!

46 posted on 02/22/2020 4:24:22 PM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Ezekiel
Wuhan weather report. Cloudy with chance of sulpur gas...


47 posted on 02/22/2020 4:27:16 PM PST by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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