GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A seventh arrest has been made in the case where a woman was beaten, starved and killed in the basement of a Gwinnett County home, arrest warrants revealed.
Mihee Lee is being charged with felony murder along with other charges, including false imprisonment, according to police. Mihee Lee is just one of six more suspects that were accused of playing a hand in the woman's death.
Jail records shows that Mihee Lee was booked into the jail early Wednesday morning. Police said on Thursday that Mihee is the mother of Juoonhyum Lee and Joonho Lee.
The other six suspects claimed they were a religious group, according to police. They were recently charged with criminal street gang activity in addition to the murder charges they were all facing. The murder suspects allegedly called themselves the “Soldiers of Christ" who are listed below.
- 25-year-old Joonho Lee
- 25-year-old Hyunji Lee
- 22-year-old Juoonhyum Lee
- 22-year-old Gawom Lee
- 26-year-old Eric Hyun
- A 14-year-old
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Police also said that Hyun was booked into the Gwinnett County Jail on Sept. 24 after he was released from the hospital.
According to Gwinnett County Police, earlier this summer a woman left her home in South Korea to join what she thought was a religious organization in Georgia, in Gwinnett County, a half-a-world away.
She ended up at a home in Gwinnett where she would later be tortured to her death.
Around Aug. 3, police said, five people in their 20s and one who is 15 -- calling themselves Soldiers of Christ -- imprisoned her in the basement, beat her, withheld food from her, and she died.
Police discovered her body last month in a trunk in front of a popular Duluth sauna spa, where she weighed only 70 pounds.
An expert in cults, Rick Alan Ross, previously said all of the acts matched a pattern.
“There have been many deaths tied to destructive cults, starvation deaths, deaths due to extreme living conditions, beatings, medical neglect," he said. "And I have no doubt that as this story unravels, we're going to learn more about this particular group and who led it.”
Attorneys for Hyun has stated that the 26-year-old is actually a victim and not a suspect in a letter released on Wednesday.
The letter also alleges that Hyun was recruited to join their "church" like the victim who died. It claims he was "physically tortured, beaten and shot with an airsoft gun." The attorney's letter also states that Hyun's torture for the "religious ritual" also happened in the basement of the home during the same time the woman's death occurred.
Hyun's lawyers also allege that he escaped the torture with the woman's remains leading to the gruesome discovery in front of Jeju Sauna spa.
The lawyer's letter also stated that the family "coerced him" to wire "tens of thousands" of money to Korea and maxed out his money.
Hyun's attorney appeared in court on Wednesday to advocate for him. A Gwinnett County judge granted Hyun a $100,000 bond with restrictions.