UNSOLVED HOMICIDE: SU-YA KIM

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When a New York woman doesn’t return home from a routine errand, her husband endures a sleepless night of worry before being called to the medical examiner’s office to identify her body. A case gone cold receives new scrutiny when a notorious serial killer is identified in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Su-Ya Kim and her husband, Su-Young Kim, moved to NYC shortly after marrying in Seoul. They aspired to become business owners, and succeeded. Prior to Su-Ya’s death, they owned and ran two popular clothing stores together. Image source: family photo.
Su-Ya was the loving mother of two young sons. Her murderer deprived them of her when they were still small children. Image source: family photo.
Su-Ya and Su-Young worked hard to build a life together, running their own business and raising a family. Su-Young was devastated by her death. Nearly two years afterward, he moved back to South Korea with their children, unable to bear life in the US without her. Image source: family photo.
This map shows the distance between the approximate locations where Su-Ya lived in Queens, and where her body was found in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.. Image source: Google Maps.
This sketch depicts Su-Ya’s killer, as described by the security guard who interacted with him. Image source: police photo.

Sources used to research this episode:

Su-Ya Kim (Unsolved Mysteries)

Body Found in Dumpster (Daily News via newspapers.com)

Cold Cases in Areas of Brooklyn Linked to Accused Gilgo Beach Killer Re-examined (Mary Murphy / PIX11 News)

VIDEO: Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack – Season 6, Episode 5 (Unsolved Mysteries via YouTube)

Suspect in Gilgo Beach Serial Killings, Rex Heuermann, is Accused of Another Murder (David K. Li and Brittany Kubicko / NBC News)

Suspect in Gilgo Beach Killings May Have Begun Preying On Women More Than Three Decades Ago (Corky Siemaszko / NBC News)

Exclusive: Inside The Mind Of A Serial Killer (CBS News)

Joel Rifkin (Radford University Department of Psychology)

Gilgo: Strangulation, Taunts To Family Common In Serial, Sexual Murders: Psychologist (Peggy Spellman / Patch.com)

New York Murder/Homicide Rate 1979-2018 (macrotrends.net)

Crime in the United States: 2018 (US Bureau of Justice Statistics)

If you know anything about the murder of Su-Ya Kim, please contact the NYPD Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1-800-577-8477, or report an online tip HERE. You may remain anonymous if you wish.

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