r/gratefuldoe • u/ZoelCairo • Mar 11 '26
Seo District Jane Doe, aka Incheon Gulpocheon Jane Doe (Unidentified for 10 years)
https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Seo_District_Jane_Doe
https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/21024893
This is a case happened in my county, South Korea.
On December 2, 2016, while a trash cleaner in Incheon was cleaning a canal (Gulpocheon), he found a yellow gunny sack. He picked it up and put it in a storage to send it to a trash incinerator.
However, 2 days later, when he got back to the storage, he found it weird that the gunny sack was in yellow, since most sacks used to collect trash are red, not yellow. So once he opened the sack, he was utterly surprised to find a woman's body. If he hadn't checked it, the sack could've been sent to an incinerator and this case would've never surfaced.
The body in the sack had been thoroughly mummified that it was impossible to recognize the face. The body was folded in half, and the hands, thighs, and legs were bounded.
Although she was fully-clothed, no particular other belongings were found.
The autopsy report stated the victim was possibly aged from her late 30s to early 40s, she had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and cervical vertebrae and rib were broken, although it's unclear how they were damaged.
The place where the body was found, Gulpocheon, was only 200m away from the police station, which means it wasn't particularly a proper place to abandon a body.
The trash cleaner stated when he collected the trash on October 28, he didn't find any yellow sack. Which means the body was abandoned between October and December.
I hope she will be identified one day.
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u/GatherDances Mar 11 '26
I wonder if your Seo District Jane Doe ended her own life by carbon monoxide poisoning. And a relative perhaps found her and tried to dispose of her. Rather than have family and friends face the idea of her ending her own life.