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Lee Eun-seok sat in his apartment uncertain if he would get away with what he had done. He asked himself. “Am I a servant of Satan, or am I a piece of trash that should just end his own life"? When the public discovered he had murdered his parents, they decidedly labeled him a monster, but after his diaries were found the answer became uncertain. Can a crime so heinous and unforgiveable, be understandable?

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