In the summer of 2019, a man drowned at a popular vacation spot outside Seoul while his wife stood just feet away on shore. What first looked like a tragic accident would unravel into a disturbing case involving financial control, multiple alleged murder attempts, an affair hidden in plain sight, and the television appearance that helped bring everything back into the spotlight.

Sources:

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-07-22/national/socialAffairs/Murder-by-gaslighting-Drowning-in-2019-a-tale-of-abuse-infidelity-and-homicide/2355265

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/2855456

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https://www.mk.co.kr/en/society/11175497

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In May of 1996 a young mother and honors student is murdered in her home and her newborn baby kidnapped. For 6 1/2 long years, there are no suspects nor baby sightings. Finally, once an anonymous tip comes in, the case is blown wide open and the child is found closer to home than anyone could have ever imagined.

Sources:

1. Fatal Attraction: I’d Kill to Be You. 2026.

2. Moss, Gethsemane. “Lathan ‘Young Lay’ Williams - Benicia Magazine.” Benicia Magazine, https://www.facebook.com/BeniciaMagazine/, 1 Dec. 2022, https://www.beniciamagazine.com/lathan-young-lay-williams/.

3. Unsolved Mysteries. 1987.

4. Young Lay On His Son’s Kidnapping & Fiancée’s Murder. YouTube, 15 Sept. 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgVoYEo8I1c.

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6. San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 1996.

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This week Current Affairs covers three cases. A Northern Ireland YouTuber is found guilty of murdering his pregnant girlfriend after staging a six-hour gaming livestream as his alibi — while she watched from home. In California, a 30-year-old father is found dead in his apartment and police arrest his ex-girlfriend and three accomplices across three states in what they're calling a deliberate murder-for-hire. And an update on the Hawaii doctor case: Arielle Konig takes the stand exactly one year after her husband allegedly tried to push her off a cliff.

Current Affairs is Love Murder’s shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.

Sources:

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/03/23/how-stephen-mccullagh-tried-to-get-away-with-the-murder-of-natalie-mcnally/

https://ktla.com/news/inland-empire/2-more-arrested-in-murrieta-killing-possible-murder-for-hire-tied-to-victims-ex-girlfriend/

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/murrieta-murder-for-hire-aaron-parr-jackson-avenue-arbors-at-california-oaks/

https://www.courttv.com/news/arielle-konig-testifies-defendant-told-her-nobodys-coming-to-save-you/

https://abcnews.com/US/wife-testifies-trial-doctor-accused-kill-hawaii-hiking/story?id=131374588

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