Joe Son Killed His Sex Offender Roommate

You probably shouldn’t be applauding that title because Joe Son aka Joseph Hyungmin Son aka Random Task from Austin Powers aka the guy who got punched in the balls over and over and over again by Keith Hackney at UFC 4 is serving life in prison without parole for raping a woman with a gun in 1990.

First, a quick back story. DNA evidence from an unrelated case in 2008 brought Joe Son to justice for the Christmas Eve rape case gone cold. He plead guilty in January to kidnapping, sodomy, rape, forcible oral copulation and forcible rape with a sentencing enhancement for committing rape while armed with a firearm.

Prosecutors in the torture case said the woman was walking back to her apartment alone with her dog after going to look at Christmas lights with a relative and friend and was stopped by Son about 12:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve 1990.

Son asked her for directions and then, with another man, dragged her to a car, threw her in the back and drove away.

Son and the other man told her they were driving to Compton, pistol-whipped her and repeatedly threatened to kill her.

Son’s cohort, Santiago Lopez Gaitan, 40, of San Antonio, raped the woman, prosecutors said.

Afterward, Son threatened to kill the victim and counted the bullets in the gun out loud as she pleaded for her life.

Son and Gaitan finally allowed the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, to leave, naked and with her pants tied around her eyes. The woman went to a nearby Huntington Beach home, where the residents called police. LA Times

He’s now the primary suspect in the death of his 50-year-old cellmate who was a parole violator sentenced to two years in prison for failing to register as a sex offender. Joe was the only other person in their cell at the time.

Not sure what this guy’s alibi could be as everything points to him killing his cell mate. His best bet is to point to something behind the police questioning him and run the opposite direction.