S2 E14: The Genius Teen Murderer with a 160 IQ: Case of Ashley Kim

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Hailey Elizabeth

True Crime

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sonny Kim ever since he was a child was described as an extremely gifted. Sonny grew up very advanced for his age and as young child took a big interest in computer science. Sonny’s knowledge and understanding of computers excelled and he landed a job with a computer company at just 13 years-old. Sonny then (with a 160 IQ) graduated high school at 15 and at 16 attended the Georgia Military College where he majored in Computer Science. Sonny also had a warm and loving family with his mother Nicole, father James and 23 year-old sister Ashley. It seemed like everything in Sonny’s life was going really well. So in 2016, 6 days before Christmas, when the Martinez, Georgia police station receive a call from James Brazzel saying that his 16 year-old son Sonny Kim had shot and killed his daughter, Ashley Kim then attempted at killing him and his wife, this was a shock. Investigators would later uncover what Sonny was actually going through behind closed doors and the terrifying motive for his crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Christmas time for most is the
0:02.0	of year.
0:03.2	It's where family and friends come together for the holidays.
0:07.1	You have cheerful Christmas music and gorgeous light displays,
0:11.3	but unfortunately Christmas for the Brazel family wouldn't be as cheerful.
0:16.4	In 2016, six days before Christmas, James and his wife Nicole were having their typical evening.
0:23.6	Their front yard had been decorated for the holidays
0:26.1	and everyone in the house was just winding down from a long day.
0:29.7	James and Nicole had headed off to bed around the same time that their 16 year old son
0:33.8	Sony Kim had returned from work. Sony Kim's sister, 23 year old Ashley Kim,
0:39.2	had come home from college for the holidays and was sleeping on the couch. James's wife
0:43.8	Nicole heads off to bed and right after she takes off her robe and lays down in
0:48.7	bed she starts to hear what sounds like firecrackers. Now it was close to New Year's Eve so she
0:54.8	really didn't think much of it until it hit her that before she heard the
0:59.4	cracking noises she had heard her daughter Ashley yell Sony before the firecrackers had started.
1:05.5	Nicole puts back on her robe and James goes out there to investigate the area and James
1:10.9	actually had a gun in the bedroom so he went to go reach for the gun before going out into the living room to investigate what was going on. But before he grabbed his gun, something in his he was
1:34.0	standing right in front of the doorway with a gun in his hand.
1:38.0	James told Sony to put the gun down and
1:40.0	Sony being the very responsible and obedient child that he was, he without hesitation put the gun down.
1:48.0	When the gun was on the floor, James grabbed Sony by the shirt, slung him onto the couch and off to the side before Nicole ran out to check up on Ashley to see what had happened.
1:58.0	And so Nicole is sitting there trying to wake up Ashley and while James and Nicole are attending to Ashley,
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