Court TV Presents: Murder in Room 103: The Death of an American Student in Korea--and the Investigators' Search for the Truth
By Harriet Ryan
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Exchange student Jamie Penich left her small Pennsylvania hometown to see the world, but her journey ended with a brutal attack in a shabby motel room in Seoul, South Korea, where the raven-haired 21-year-old was found naked and stomped to death. Investigators zeroed in on soldiers, turning out barracks and trolling seedy bars for the GIs who partied with Jamie in the hours leading up to her death. But every lead produced only new mysteries. There were unbreakable alibis, a roommate who claimed she had slept through the crime, and lab tests that hinted at a secret lover. The investigation seemed destined for the cold case file until a high-powered American senator pressed for answers. Soon, a greenhorn detective settled on a shocking new suspect, a pretty blonde exchange student named Kenzi Snider. During an interrogation, the teenager confessed to killing Jamie during a lesbian encounter . . . but it was what happened next that was truly surprising.
What really happened in Room 103?
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder in Room 103 might appear to be a cheap true-crime garbage novel better suited for soaking up spills with its low budget cover and pseudo-tantalizing title but I urge you to read it. It's much more fascinating than it appears. Just when you think the story is going to wrap itself up with justice, it gets weird. The crime occurred in 2001, gained a shocking false conclusion in 2002, upset many in 2003 and then was published in 2006. However, the story got even more strange after that in 2007. If you have no desire to read the book yourself, then by all means check out the public record results of a bizarre suit that was filled in 2009. Simply shocking. Way more than I expected out of a fifty cent used book off of half.com. Plus, it seems I have a minor connection to the book: one of the accused murderer's lawyers is an acquaintance and the victim's ex-fiance was the drummer from a band I was really into for a long time. Go figure that Zao would have a tie to an unsolved murder.
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