Chapter 116: Nature Or Nurture (2)

"I don't know. Perhaps for the same reason so many people go to Seoul: to start anew. Seoul is the capital of Korea, where any killer with a gimmick and a catchy name is guaranteed nationwide coverage. Clearly Jaen Songok craved publicity. He loved the news reports, the headlines, the panic his murder spree inspired. And Seoul. is a big city, easy to get lost in. He may have felt he had less chance of being caught there than in a small town.

"Before he left Mokpo, he appears to have come into some money—enough to permit the purchase of that storage trailer and the parcel of land. Our best guess as to the source of his sudden windfall is a rash of burglaries in the area that occurred around that time. Jaen Songok, you remember, had experience in breaking and entering from his teenage years.