Itaewon murder case

The Itaewon Burger King Murder took place on April 3, 1997, when 22-year-old Hongik University student Cho Jung-pil (Korean: 조중필; born 1974) was stabbed to death at a Burger King in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea. Arthur Patterson, 17 at the time of the incident (born to an American father and a South Korean mother), was the main suspect. Patterson and his friend Edward Lee were arrested, but they were released by the Supreme Court of South Korea in 1998 due to lack of evidence, and Patterson fled to the United States. In October 2012, the case was reopened, and Patterson was extradited back to South Korea in 2015. A year later, he was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison.