According to Seoul police, a lady thought to be a relative of the two kids whose bones were discovered in bags in New Zealand is now in South Korea.
The woman, a New Zealander of Korean descent, entered South Korea in 2018, and no record of her leaving has been found since, a police officer told Reuters.
It was unknown where she was or whether she had brought any other family members with her when she entered the nation.
The police official added, “New Zealand police had asked clarification as to whether the individual who could be associated to a criminal case was in South Korea,” adding that based on her previous residence and age, she might be the mother of the children.
The bodies of the children were discovered by a family searching through the contents of a storage locker they had unknowingly acquired, prompting New Zealand police to open a murder investigation in Auckland this month.
According to New Zealand police, the kids, who ranged in age from five to ten, had been deceased for a while.
The family that discovered the remains was unrelated to the victims.
The youngsters may have been inside the luggage for three to four years, according to Detective Inspector Tofilau Faamanuia Vaaelua’s statement from last Thursday. Similar in size were the two luggage.
Police have grounds to think the youngsters have unidentified relatives in New Zealand, according to Detective Inspector Vaaelua.
Detective Inspector Vaaelua said that “the investigating team is working very hard to bring accountable the individual or people responsible for the killing of these children.”
“We’ve started talking to foreign agencies.” I’m at a loss for words after that.
Detective Inspector Vaaelua said last Thursday that CCTV will be examined, but he also acknowledged that considering how long the remains had been kept in storage, police would have difficulties.
Given the amount of time that had passed between the time of the death and the time of the finding, he remarked, “The nature of this discovery presents some challenges to the inquiry.”
We (the police) have a job to perform, a lot of us are parents, and we’re doing all we can to find the victims.
‘What I can tell is that DNA research is moving along quite well.
“This is no simple inquiry, and no matter how many years or how long you serve, it’s never an easy assignment to look into gruesome instances like this.” Even though I have small children of my own, we still have work to do.
Detective Inspector Vaaelua acknowledged that the community was “very offended” by the event update.
On Thursday afternoon, he told reporters, “We’re still on a fact-finding expedition and we still have a lot of unresolved questions.”
There are relatives out there who are unaware that their loved ones are dead, particularly two small children, therefore I genuinely feel for the family of these victims.
The family won the online auction for the storage facility on August 11 and purchased its contents, which are said to have included “prams, toys, and a walker.”
Buyers are not permitted to thoroughly inspect the contents before to the auction and must place a blind bid on the item.
They often have overdue rent on storage sheds. Even the renowned US reality TV programme Storage Wars has used the auctions as its source material.
They are then permitted to thoroughly inspect the unit after they prevail in the auction.
Safe Store Ltd.’s director, who asked to remain unnamed, said that the business was assisting the police with their inquiry.
The director said, “We won’t say anything since it is under police investigation, and we are cooperating with authorities.”