Korean American homicide detective looks back at 2022 gruesome murder that she solved

On the evening of Aug. 2, 2022, Detective Sharon Kim of the Los Angeles Police Department was called to Martha Street in a residential neighborhood of Woodland Hills. When she headed to the scene, she knew it was a possible home invasion and murder case.

But she did not expect a gruesome crime scene that would become her obsession for the next three years.

What Kim found at the home was astonishing: an elderly Asian woman in her bedroom — stabbed, strangled and burned. It was apparent that someone had broken into the woman’s house before killing her…

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