A woman buried alive by her husband uses Apple Watch to call 911 before escaping tape and dirt
A Washington woman was stabbed by her husband, taped and buried in a shallow grave in the woods before digging up and seeking help.
Young Sook An, a 42-year-old woman from a Washington suburb about 60 miles southwest of Seattle, was kidnapped by her husband on Sunday afternoon. The couple who are getting divorced fight over money.
Her husband reportedly told her he would “rather kill her than give her his retirement money.”
Chae Kyong An, 53, who doesn’t live with the woman but stopped by to do the laundry, according to the couple’s daughter, attacked his wife at around 1pm on Sunday October 16 at the home he used to share with her .
An followed Young Sook into the bedroom where she was changing and attacked her.
He beat her and taped his wife’s hands behind her back and put duct tape over her eyes, thighs and ankles.
Young Sook was able to use her Apple Watch to call 911 and send an emergency alert to her 20-year-old daughter and best friend before her husband dragged her into the garage and smashed her watch with a hammer.
It was then towed into the garage and placed in An’s 2006 Dodge Caravan.
Surveillance footage from a neighbor’s home shows the van parked by the family home and speeding away a short time later.
Young Sook told police she was tied up and taken somewhere in the van where she could hear her husband digging in the dirt. He then stabbed her in the chest and laid her in the ground.
The probable cause document states that “a heavy tree” was also “put on top of her.”
“After being stuck in the ground, she could hear her husband walking around the hole and earth being placed on her,” it said.
She said her husband told her she was dying.
Chae Kyong An, 53, has been held without bail since Wednesday. He faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and first-degree assault
Young Sook An, 42, was allegedly beaten, taped, kidnapped and buried in a shallow grave by her estranged husband, with whom she is in the midst of a divorce
The couple previously shared a home together in the Washington suburb of Lacey, about 60 miles southwest of Seattle. According to the couple’s daughter, An would still come by to do his laundry
Surveillance footage from a neighbor’s home showed An’s 2006 Dodge Caravan pulling into the garage Sunday afternoon and speeding away a short time later
Young Sook recalled the authorities struggling for air in the shallow grave and managing to keep dirt off her face by constantly wriggling around.
She estimated that she had spent several hours in the shallow grave.
As day turned to night, Young Sook said she was able to free herself from the duct tape.
Once the tape was removed from her eyes, she saw that the van’s window was steaming and the light was on inside.
Then she got up and ran for about 30 minutes until she found a home.
She was found hiding behind the shed in the front yard of a property just before 1 a.m. Monday, October 17, according to court documents. The residents dialed the emergency number 911.
When police arrived and identified her as the missing woman, she exclaimed, “My husband is still in the woods somewhere!”
Later, investigators were able to find the shallow grave at the edge of a clearing.
“The hole appeared to have been freshly dug. Outside the hole was a piece of tape,” the report said.
According to a Thurston County Superior Court filing, when Young Sook finally escaped and called police, “she still had duct tape wrapped around her neck, lower face and ankles.”
“There was also extensive bruising on her legs, arms and head, and her clothes and hair were covered in dirt.”
Young Sook told police she was put in the van and taken somewhere where she could hear her husband digging in the dirt
Police in Lacey, Washington, responded to the woman’s home on Sunday afternoon after hearing the screams of a woman who sounded “gagged” on an 911 call.
Arriving officers found the house empty with signs of disturbance inside.
The garage door was left open and the front door unlocked.
Neither of the couple’s two children were initially present at the scene.
According to the probable cause report, the home has a “history of domestic abuse and violence.”
Sook Young’s friend, who received an emergency notification and was at the home when police arrived, told authorities An had previously told his estranged wife, “I’m not going down alone.”
Chae Kyong An faces first-degree attempted murder, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree assault, although he has not yet been formally charged.
He was booked into the county jail on Tuesday and has been held without bail since Wednesday.
Young Sook asked the judge to keep her husband in prison. She described her husband as “extremely smart” after he worked in intelligence for the US military.
According to a statement by Young Sook made on her behalf by her lawyer in court, she has requested that he continue to be held without bail.
“No bail, please. I’m really scared for my life. I just want to stress that I fear him so much and he will kill me again when he is out.’
Young Sook’s lawyer called for her client’s husband to be held without bail, citing the victim’s grave fear that he would try to kill her again
When Young Sook called the police with her Apple Watch, they heard a woman “screaming” who sounded like she had been “gagged.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11340543/Woman-BURIED-ALIVE-husband-calls-911-Apple-Watch-escaping-duct-tape-dirt.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 A woman buried alive by her husband uses Apple Watch to call 911 before escaping tape and dirt
