GRANADA HILLS : City Renews Reward Offer in Yoo Killings
Hoping to stimulate new leads in a 1991 multiple murder case, the Los Angeles City Council renewed Tuesday a $25,000 reward for information that would solve the murder of a Korean-American family in Granada Hills.
On a unanimous vote, the council approved the reward in hopes of generating information that would lead to the conviction of those who killed four members of the Yoo family in their home in November, 1991.
The bodies of Hee Wan Yoo, 36, his wife, Gyung Jin, 34, and their children, Pauline, 6, and Kenneth, 4, were found in the Granada Hills home by family members Nov. 20, 1991.
Investigators have said the Yoo family members were all murdered with a sharp weapon, but have declined to elaborate.
Since then, police have had few solid leads and have been unable to identify a motive, prompting Councilman Hal Bernson, whose district includes Granada Hills, to renew the reward.
The council originally offered the $25,000 reward a month after the killings. But it went unclaimed and provided no substantial new information, police said.
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