Post by mysticsnowangel on May 22, 2006 20:11:50 GMT -5
Sung Koo Kim of 13156 S.W. Bouneff St., Tigard, was out on bail when Brooke Wilberger went missing on the morning of May 24. Kim's attorney, Michael Greenlick of Portland, said Kim had nothing to do with Wilberger's disappearance and is a target of police "speculation."
He is a U.S. citizen, but a native of South Korea, where he lived until he was 6.
Kim first came to police attention two weeks before Wilberger's disappearance, on May 13, when he was arrested on a burglary charge. According to an account in the May 21 edition of the Linfield College newspaper, The Review, some students at George Fox University, a Christian college in Newberg, noticed they were suddenly seeing a lot of Kim, who is not a student, around campus.
At about the same time, the students noticed garments were going missing. One of the students followed Kim and wrote down the license number to his black 1991 Honda Accord, and when the Newberg Police investigated they turned up enough information to get a search warrant.
In Kim's parents' house, police found more than 1,000 pairs of women's underwear — much of which was dirty and some of which had pantyliners still attached, according to legal records.
The soiled condition of the underwear led police to suspect that Kim wasn't just pilfering panties out of washing machines in dorm laundries, as they had initially thought, but was actually entering women's rooms and rummaging through their dirty clothes.
Also attached to some of the panties were labels — identifying the college, dorm and woman from whom they'd been pilfered. One such label read, "Sackett Hall, OSU, (number) Floor, (two women's first names)" and "5/2," apparently a date.
With this information, Oregon State Police troopers at OSU got involved. They tracked down the two women, confirmed that they were missing the items and obtained a new search warrant for Kim's car and his parents' house.
They served the warrant at 2:40 a.m. May 29. According to the application for the search warrant, police said they picked such an early-morning hour because "when they executed their search warrant (on May 13), Mr. Kim had a substantial number of weapons including rifles and pistols, all of which were loaded and ready for immediate use."
During the late-night search of Kim's car and home, police seized a variety of computer equipment, video and digital cameras, receipts, videotapes, a cell phone and various notebooks and computer disks. According to Trooper Timothy Gallagher's written request for a warrant, he believed Kim may have used recording devices to clandestinely observe his targets.
According to the property report issued after the search, police lifted fingerprints from the inside of Kim's trunk, the back of the driver's seat, and the back of the passenger seat. The report also stated that hair samples were taken from Kim's bedroom closet and bed, and a substance that may have been blood was found on the garage floor.
Also found were a blue surgical mask, a pair of safety glasses, a book titled "The Beginner's Guide to Lock Picking" and another box of bras and panties.
According to a report in the June 3 edition of the McMinnville News-Register, Kim is facing five counts of first-degree burglary and three counts of second-degree theft in Yamhill County, plus one count of first-degree burglary in Benton County. He is due to appear in Yamhill County Circuit Court on June 8.
He is a U.S. citizen, but a native of South Korea, where he lived until he was 6.
Kim first came to police attention two weeks before Wilberger's disappearance, on May 13, when he was arrested on a burglary charge. According to an account in the May 21 edition of the Linfield College newspaper, The Review, some students at George Fox University, a Christian college in Newberg, noticed they were suddenly seeing a lot of Kim, who is not a student, around campus.
At about the same time, the students noticed garments were going missing. One of the students followed Kim and wrote down the license number to his black 1991 Honda Accord, and when the Newberg Police investigated they turned up enough information to get a search warrant.
In Kim's parents' house, police found more than 1,000 pairs of women's underwear — much of which was dirty and some of which had pantyliners still attached, according to legal records.
The soiled condition of the underwear led police to suspect that Kim wasn't just pilfering panties out of washing machines in dorm laundries, as they had initially thought, but was actually entering women's rooms and rummaging through their dirty clothes.
Also attached to some of the panties were labels — identifying the college, dorm and woman from whom they'd been pilfered. One such label read, "Sackett Hall, OSU, (number) Floor, (two women's first names)" and "5/2," apparently a date.
With this information, Oregon State Police troopers at OSU got involved. They tracked down the two women, confirmed that they were missing the items and obtained a new search warrant for Kim's car and his parents' house.
They served the warrant at 2:40 a.m. May 29. According to the application for the search warrant, police said they picked such an early-morning hour because "when they executed their search warrant (on May 13), Mr. Kim had a substantial number of weapons including rifles and pistols, all of which were loaded and ready for immediate use."
During the late-night search of Kim's car and home, police seized a variety of computer equipment, video and digital cameras, receipts, videotapes, a cell phone and various notebooks and computer disks. According to Trooper Timothy Gallagher's written request for a warrant, he believed Kim may have used recording devices to clandestinely observe his targets.
According to the property report issued after the search, police lifted fingerprints from the inside of Kim's trunk, the back of the driver's seat, and the back of the passenger seat. The report also stated that hair samples were taken from Kim's bedroom closet and bed, and a substance that may have been blood was found on the garage floor.
Also found were a blue surgical mask, a pair of safety glasses, a book titled "The Beginner's Guide to Lock Picking" and another box of bras and panties.
According to a report in the June 3 edition of the McMinnville News-Register, Kim is facing five counts of first-degree burglary and three counts of second-degree theft in Yamhill County, plus one count of first-degree burglary in Benton County. He is due to appear in Yamhill County Circuit Court on June 8.