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Elevator security footage solved her murder · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today's story is about a murder, but it starts to
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's sort of a typical true crime case
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  Speaker 1: until you get to the end. I'm telling you right
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  Speaker 1: now you will not be able to guess who the
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into today's story. Late on the night
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  Speaker 1: of October thirteenth, two thousand and eight, a forty three
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  Speaker 1: year old woman named Hua Sihway sat in her parked
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  Speaker 1: car in a dark, desolate area off the side of
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  Speaker 1: Highway sixty one in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Hua rolled
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  Speaker 1: down her driver's side window and then turned the engine off,
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  Speaker 1: and for a second she just sat there and let
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  Speaker 1: the warm breeze blow in on her face. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: often that she got a moment alone because she had
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  Speaker 1: three kids who all lived at home, so she just
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  Speaker 1: took a moment to enjoy the silence. And then eventually
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  Speaker 1: she turned to the center console and she grabbed a
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  Speaker 1: piece of paper that was sitting there, and she tore
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  Speaker 1: the paper into tiny pieces and then tossed them out.
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  Speaker 2: The open window.
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  Speaker 1: But when she did that, she didn't realize that the
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  Speaker 1: breeze kind of blew back in at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: and a few of those ripped up pieces actually found
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  Speaker 1: their way back inside of her car and settled in
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  Speaker 1: the pocket on the driver's side door. A little while later,
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  Speaker 1: around three am, a Coastguard officer drove along Highway sixty
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  Speaker 1: one doing his regular nighttime patrol. He went under an
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  Speaker 1: overpass and into an area where there weren't very many
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  Speaker 1: street lights, and there in the relative darkness, he saw
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  Speaker 1: something that was pretty odd. There was this gray sedan
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  Speaker 1: parked half on and half off the road. Intrigued, the
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  Speaker 1: Coastguard officer pulled up behind the car parked.
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  Speaker 2: And got out to investigate.
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  Speaker 1: The sedan's lights and engine were both off, and so
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  Speaker 1: the officer wondered if maybe this car had been abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: But as he got closer, he saw that the driver's
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  Speaker 1: side window was wide open. Now again, it was pretty dark,
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  Speaker 1: but the officer could make out the shape of what
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  Speaker 1: appeared to be a woman sitting inside the car in
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  Speaker 1: the driver's seat, and so the Coastguard officer took out
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  Speaker 1: his flashlight to wake this person up.
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  Speaker 2: But when he.
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  Speaker 1: Shined the light into the car, he immediately reeled back
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  Speaker 1: in horror because the woman was not asleep. Her entire
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  Speaker 1: head and her chest were covered in blood. A few
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, a police officer named Guo Hue When arrived
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  Speaker 1: on the scene, along with the small team of other
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  Speaker 1: police officers and several EMTs. The EMTs quickly determined what
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  Speaker 1: basically everybody on scene already knew, which was the woman
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  Speaker 1: inside the car was dead. She had a small circular
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  Speaker 1: wound right below her left ear that authorities immediately recognized
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  Speaker 1: as a bullet wound. Officer Glow immediately pushed his men
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  Speaker 1: out to secure the scene, and then once the cordon
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  Speaker 1: was in place, they began investigating. The first thing Wo
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  Speaker 1: did was just to look more closely at the woman's body.
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  Speaker 1: He saw there was a bullet casing on the ground nearby,
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  Speaker 1: and also what appeared to be some bullet fragments in
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  Speaker 1: the car, like little bits of shiny metal like copper,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no gun, and so at this point
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  Speaker 1: Officer Glow and his team realized they were very likely
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a murder. But as he stood there sort
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  Speaker 1: of taking it all in and looking at the car
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  Speaker 1: and the body, he started to realize that the whole
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  Speaker 1: scene just seemed off. First, there were no skid marks
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  Speaker 1: behind the car's tires, so it appeared like the woman
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  Speaker 1: must have pulled over in a controlled way, not like
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  Speaker 1: she'd been forced off the road by another car. Second,
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  Speaker 1: her window was all the way down. The driver's side
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  Speaker 1: window was completely down, which meant either she'd been driving
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  Speaker 1: with the window down to begin with, or after she
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  Speaker 1: had pulled over, or while pulling over she had rolled
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  Speaker 1: it down. And then thirdly, there was no evidence of
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  Speaker 1: a struggle or really any sign that this woman had
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  Speaker 1: been panicked in any way before she was ultimately shot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she hadn't even dropped her phone or taken
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  Speaker 1: off her seat belt, and so overall it just sort
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  Speaker 1: of seemed like this woman had been remarkably calm in
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  Speaker 1: her final moments, like she had no idea she was
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  Speaker 1: about to be killed, and this made Officer Quoth think
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  Speaker 1: that whoever shot her was very likely somebody she knew
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  Speaker 1: and trusted. And so Gwo knew he needed to identify
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  Speaker 1: this woman and then determine who was close to her.
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  Speaker 1: So he took down the license plate number of the
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  Speaker 1: car and he was about to go run it through
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  Speaker 1: a system to see who the car belonged to, But
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  Speaker 1: suddenly another officer came running over and they told him
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  Speaker 1: they'd found something really weird inside the car. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: sure if what they found was related to the crime,
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  Speaker 1: but in the pocket on the driver's side of the door,
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  Speaker 1: they'd found four small scraps of paper, and each scrap
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  Speaker 1: had what looked like numbers or word fragments handwritten on them.
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  Speaker 1: They said sixty five, dal, LEO, Z, and DA. Now,
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  Speaker 1: none of these fragments appeared to have any meaning on
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  Speaker 1: their own. They likely you needed to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of a bigger piece of paper to make sense. In fact, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: the words were just pieces of words rather than actual
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  Speaker 1: full words themselves. And also when they began sort of
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  Speaker 1: arranging the four pieces to see if they could find
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  Speaker 1: meaning in these words, in this number. They couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: It just was all sort of nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: And so Officer Guo he figured these scraps were likely
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  Speaker 1: just garbage, but as a precaution, he had his officers.
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  Speaker 2: Bagged them up as evidence just in case.
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  Speaker 1: A few hours later, Officer Gwow, along with a member
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  Speaker 1: of his team, walked into this huge apartment complex in
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  Speaker 1: New Taipei City that was about forty miles away from
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  Speaker 1: where they had found the woman inside of the gray
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  Speaker 1: sedan earlier that morning. They went to a specific apartment
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  Speaker 1: and they knocked on the door, and after a moment,
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  Speaker 1: a middle aged man opened the door up and he
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  Speaker 1: looked very surprised to see police standing at his door.
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  Speaker 1: Officer grows So asked this man if his name was
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  Speaker 1: Shu b Chung, and the man nodded and said yes.
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  Speaker 1: By this point, Officer Guo and his partner had identified.
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  Speaker 2: The murder victim.
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  Speaker 1: She was forty three year old Hua Sai Hue, and
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  Speaker 1: when they'd started looking into Hua's relationships, they'd learned that
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  Speaker 1: she lived in this apartment with her three kids, and
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  Speaker 1: the man who had opened the door, Shu b Chung,
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  Speaker 1: he was her ex husband. Even though the couple had
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  Speaker 1: actually gotten divorced five years earlier, they had ultimately decided
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  Speaker 1: to continue living together and co parenting. As Hua's ex husband,
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  Speaker 1: Hu was an obvious person of interest in this murder,
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  Speaker 1: but at this point, Officer Gua wasn't sure how much
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  Speaker 1: Shu even knew, so he had to be careful how
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  Speaker 1: he approached the conversation. Officer Qua started by introducing himself
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  Speaker 1: and his partner and then asked Hu if he had
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  Speaker 1: spoken to his ex wife recently, and Chu shook his
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  Speaker 1: head and said he actually hadn't spoken to her since
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  Speaker 1: the previous night, but he did say that their last
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  Speaker 1: conversation had definitely been kind of weird. He said that
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  Speaker 1: the previous night, around eight forty five pm, Hua had
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  Speaker 1: left to go to this meeting with a pawn shop
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  Speaker 1: owner on the opposite side of the city. He said
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  Speaker 1: that she owed this pawn shop owner a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money and they were supposed to be discussing a repayment plan.
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  Speaker 1: But around nine thirty pm, while she was on her
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  Speaker 1: way to this meeting, Chu said that Hua had actually
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  Speaker 1: called him to say she was out on Highway sixty
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  Speaker 1: one and another car was now following her. Chu had
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  Speaker 1: told her that very likely this was just somebody driving
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  Speaker 1: a similar route as her, like this was not a
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  Speaker 1: cause for concern, and so ultimately Hua had sort of
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  Speaker 1: agreed and said okay and hung up, And according to Sue,
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  Speaker 1: he'd tried calling Hua back a bit later, but she
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  Speaker 1: hadn't picked up. Chu said he actually called Hua an
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  Speaker 1: additional ten more times after this, but she never answered,
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  Speaker 1: and so Chu said he really didn't know what became
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  Speaker 1: of his ex wife. He didn't know how the meeting went,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know where she was now. After hearing this,
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  Speaker 1: Officer Gua's first reaction was sort of to be like,
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  Speaker 1: that's absurd, you know, if you knew that Hua was
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  Speaker 1: potentially being followed at night, no less, while she's out
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  Speaker 1: by herself going to this relatively high stakes meeting with
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  Speaker 1: this pawn shop owner, and then she suddenly stops answering
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  Speaker 1: her phone. Why wouldn't she have eventually called the police
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  Speaker 1: or at least tried to go look for her instead.
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  Speaker 1: He'd just called Hua a bunch of times, and then
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  Speaker 1: when she didn't answer, he just shrugged the whole thing off.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the mother of his kids. He just sort
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  Speaker 1: of said, up, no big deal. It just felt like
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  Speaker 1: a really bizarre way for somebody to react to this situation.
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  Speaker 1: So Officer Gua watched Shu very carefully as he told him,
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  Speaker 1: you know what happened. He said he was very sorry,
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  Speaker 1: but early that morning, they'd found his ex wife murdered
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  Speaker 1: inside of her car on the side of the highway.
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  Speaker 1: When she heard this, his eyes went wide and he
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  Speaker 1: began to tremble. And you know, from Gua's perspective, it
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  Speaker 1: looked like sort of a shocked reps, a genuine shocked
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  Speaker 1: response that he can't believe what he's being told. But
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  Speaker 1: he also really couldn't read the guy. He couldn't tell
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  Speaker 1: if this was genuine or if he was just performing.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, Guan knew what.
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  Speaker 1: He needed to do next was follow up on Hu's
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  Speaker 1: story and see if maybe he could poke some holes
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  Speaker 1: in it. Following this interview, Guaan and his team asked
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  Speaker 1: the manager of the apartment complex for any available surveillance
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  Speaker 1: footage so they could see if Hua really did leave
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  Speaker 1: the apartment when Chu said she did, and the manager
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  Speaker 1: was able to recover some footage from inside the apartment
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  Speaker 1: complex elevator. And while it did prove that Hua left
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  Speaker 1: around eight forty five PM like Sheu had said, it
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  Speaker 1: also showed something else that struck Officer Gua as kind
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  Speaker 1: of strange. In the video, Hua rode down the elevator
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  Speaker 1: supposedly on her way to meet with this pawn shop owner,
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  Speaker 1: but for some reason, her ex husband Hu rode the
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  Speaker 1: elevator with her, and during this ride, she kissed Hua
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  Speaker 1: for eight seconds straight and then hugged her until the
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  Speaker 1: elevator stopped and the doors opened. Now to most people,
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  Speaker 1: this would just look like a sort of normal, tender
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  Speaker 1: moment between a loving couple, but it was odd in
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  Speaker 1: this case.
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  Speaker 2: Really for two reasons.
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  Speaker 1: First, because Hua and Hu were divorced, As far as
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  Speaker 1: Gua understood, they were definitely not a romantic couple at
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  Speaker 1: all anymore. And then secondly, it was also weird because
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  Speaker 1: in Taiwanese culture, public displays of affection are very taboo,
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  Speaker 1: especially among older generations, like it would be really uncommon
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  Speaker 1: for a middle aged couple to kiss and hug pretty
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  Speaker 1: much anywhere except inside their own home. So Officer Gua
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  Speaker 1: felt like, you know, the only reason that made sense
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  Speaker 1: for you to behave the way he had on the
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  Speaker 1: elevator was if he knew something bad was about to
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  Speaker 1: happen to his ex wife. And as they continued investigating
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  Speaker 1: Shiu's story, they found more problems with it. They learned
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  Speaker 1: that the pawnshop owner did exist and Hua did owe
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  Speaker 1: him a lot of money, but when they actually spoke
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  Speaker 1: to him, he said he had not been planning to
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  Speaker 1: meet with Wa on the night of her death.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't know what she was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Police also got access to surveillance footage from Highway sixty one,
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  Speaker 1: where Jua's body had been found.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the cameras didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Cover the part of the road where the murder actually
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  Speaker 1: took place, but police were able to get footage of
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  Speaker 1: Hua driving along the highway at nine thirty pm, the
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  Speaker 1: time she said she had told him she was being followed,
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  Speaker 1: but on this video, there was clearly no other car
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  Speaker 1: following Hua. Now it was technically possible that Hua had
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  Speaker 1: lied to her ex husband Chu for some reason, but
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  Speaker 1: to Officer Gua, it seemed much more likely that Sheu
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  Speaker 1: was now lying to him and making up this story
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  Speaker 1: about the car following his ex wife. After learning all
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  Speaker 1: of this, Officer Gua and his team went back and
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  Speaker 1: looked at all this balance footage from the apartment complex,
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  Speaker 1: and they also got access to she U's cell phone
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  Speaker 1: GPS records to see if they could track his movements
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  Speaker 1: on the night of the murder.
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  Speaker 2: But what they found really only.
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  Speaker 1: Complicated things because, according to the footage and she U's
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  Speaker 1: cell phone pings, he was inside of his apartment all night.
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  Speaker 2: There was no way he was the one who shot Hua.
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  Speaker 2: But to Officer Gua, this didn't mean she was innocent.
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  Speaker 1: He wondered if maybe Sheu had hired someone to commit
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  Speaker 1: the murder on his behalf. He didn't know, but he
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  Speaker 1: just felt like Sheu had to be involved. But that
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  Speaker 1: theory still left a lot of unanswered questions, like why
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  Speaker 1: would Sheu have wanted Wah dead in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: and why would Hua have calmly pulled over and opened
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  Speaker 1: her car window for a hitman potentially, And so Officer
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  Speaker 1: Gua thought about it for a little bit, and then
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  Speaker 1: he had an idea. Maybe the person Shu hired wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a stranger. Maybe the hitman was somebody who Wa knew
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  Speaker 1: and trusted. Several months later, Officer Gua and one of
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  Speaker 1: his teammates were sitting inside of an office in a
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  Speaker 1: high rise building and New Taipe City. They were in
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  Speaker 1: front of this huge desk and behind this desk was
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  Speaker 1: the man who worked in this office, and he was
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  Speaker 1: Huas brother. So Officer Gua and his team were still
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  Speaker 1: working off the idea that whoever killed Hua likely knew
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  Speaker 1: her personally. So they'd spent the last few months methodically
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  Speaker 1: tracking down and interviewing everyone in her cell phone contacts list.
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  Speaker 1: Now so far they had not found any new suspects,
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  Speaker 1: but they had learned some pretty interesting stuff. Apparently, Hua
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  Speaker 1: had not just been in debt to that pawnshop owner,
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  Speaker 1: she also owed money to multiple banks, to friends, to
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  Speaker 1: family members. She even owed money to some very shady
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  Speaker 1: black market lenders. Altogether, she had the equivalent of nearly
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  Speaker 1: half a million US dollars in debt, and knowing all
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  Speaker 1: of the actually made Hua and her ex husband Sho's
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  Speaker 1: relationship make more sense. Several people had told Gua that
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  Speaker 1: the reason Hua and Sheu had gotten divorced was not
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  Speaker 1: because they wanted to. It was because Hua's credit was
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  Speaker 1: terrible because of all this debt, and Sheu wanted to
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  Speaker 1: keep his finances separate from hers, and so by all accounts,
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  Speaker 1: the couple, despite being divorced, were still very much in
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  Speaker 1: love and they were both devoted to each other and
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  Speaker 1: to their kids. And so this new information had kind
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  Speaker 1: of left Officer Gua and his team floundering because Sheu
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  Speaker 1: had initially seemed so suspicious, but Gua still didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any hard evidence against him, and now he didn't even
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  Speaker 1: seem to have a motive for him. So now, as
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  Speaker 1: Gua sat inside of this office across from Jua's brother,
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  Speaker 1: he just hoped that some new piece of information would
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  Speaker 1: come to light. Gua and his partner asked the brother
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  Speaker 1: to please tell them everything he knew about Hua, her marriage,
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  Speaker 1: and anything else he thought might be relevant. The brother
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  Speaker 1: nodded and started talking, but pretty quickly what he was
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  Speaker 1: saying just sounded a lot like all the other stuff
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  Speaker 1: that Gua already knew, like this was not new information,
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  Speaker 1: it was the same as always. And so as his
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  Speaker 1: brother just kind of began to talk, Gua's eyes sort
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  Speaker 1: of left the brother and began wandering around the room,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually Gua's gaze landed on a bookshelf behind the brother.
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  Speaker 1: Behind the desk, he noticed there was a piece of
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  Speaker 1: paper sticking out from between two books on the shelf. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Gua could only see a little bit of it, but
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  Speaker 1: he could tell that there was handwriting on the paper
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  Speaker 1: that looked familiar. And so, without saying anything like while
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  Speaker 1: the brother is still talking.
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  Speaker 2: Gua got up, walked around.
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  Speaker 1: To the bookshelf, and he pulled out that piece of paper,
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  Speaker 1: and right away, as he's looking at it, his heart
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  Speaker 1: began to race because he saw that the handwriting on
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  Speaker 1: this piece of paper was the same handwriting that were
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  Speaker 1: on those four little scraps of paper that were found
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  Speaker 1: at the crime scene, those pieces of paper that were
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  Speaker 1: sort of ruled out as trash. He's seeing this is
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  Speaker 1: definitely the same handwriting. But more than that, Gua is
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  Speaker 1: seeing that literally the actual words or portions of words,
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  Speaker 1: and the number that were on Those fragments are.
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  Speaker 2: Literally on this piece of paper.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly he's looking at a duplicate of whatever document was
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  Speaker 1: in the car that got ripped up. He only had
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  Speaker 1: four little pieces before. Now he's looking at the full
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  Speaker 1: copy of that document. And as Gua looked over this document,
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  Speaker 1: it was like everything just snapped into place. Those fragments
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  Speaker 1: that he saw, those things that were found in the
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  Speaker 1: car that now have been laid out in this document.
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  Speaker 1: Those were bits and pieces of street names and addresses.
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  Speaker 1: The full message that Gua was now looking at was
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  Speaker 1: actually a set of geographical directions, and the directions would
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  Speaker 1: lead whoever was following these directions to the actual location
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  Speaker 1: where Hua was murdered. And so after this discovery, the
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  Speaker 1: police very quickly figured out what happened to Hua, like
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  Speaker 1: who the mastermind was behind her murder. But amazingly, the
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  Speaker 1: mastermind was not Hua's brother, despite this document being found
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  Speaker 1: in his office. No, it would turn out that the
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  Speaker 1: story of Hua's murder was far darker and far more
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  Speaker 1: tragic than anybody could have imagined. It all began one
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  Speaker 1: month before Hua's death. That was when three people who
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  Speaker 1: all wanted Hua dead met up. That was Jua's brother,
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  Speaker 1: Jua's ex husband, and the mastermind, and the three of them,
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  Speaker 1: once they got together, they began formulating a plan. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what they all decided was none of them wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get their hands dirty, so they would hire a hitman.
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  Speaker 1: They decided that once they had this hit man, they
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  Speaker 1: would kill Hua in a neutral location. They would shoot
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  Speaker 1: her on the side of the highway, and they chose
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  Speaker 1: a date for her execution that was convenient, a time
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  Speaker 1: when that section of the road would be basically empty,
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  Speaker 1: and also was an area where there were no cameras
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  Speaker 1: and few street lights. And so on the night that
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  Speaker 1: Hua is going to be executed, the reason Hua's ex husband,
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  Speaker 1: Shu rode down the apartment elevator with her and hugged
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  Speaker 1: her and kissed her, and this big display of affection
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  Speaker 1: was because he knew what was going to happen to her.
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  Speaker 2: He was basically saying goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: And then after Hua left the apartment, Shu contacted Hua's brother,
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  Speaker 1: who then called the hitman, and then the hitman used
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  Speaker 1: the directions the brother had written out for him, those
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  Speaker 1: same directions that Hua had found in his office.
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  Speaker 2: The hit man used those to get to the.
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  Speaker 1: Location where they were going to kill Hua, and when
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  Speaker 1: he got there, he just pulled off.
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  Speaker 2: To the side of the road and he waited.
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  Speaker 1: A little while later, the hitman saw juas gray sedan
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  Speaker 1: pass by him and come to a stop on the
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  Speaker 1: side of the road. And so at this point the
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  Speaker 1: hitman got out of his car. He walked up alongside
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  Speaker 1: Jua's car. Her window was down. He pulled out a gun,
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  Speaker 1: and he shot her. It would turn out the third
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  Speaker 1: person who met up with the ex husband and the
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  Speaker 1: brother who wanted Hua dead, who was the mastermind behind
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  Speaker 1: Hua's execution, was Hua herself. The reason Ha had those
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  Speaker 1: directions in her car that she ultimately ripped up at
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  Speaker 1: the end and tried to dispose of is because she
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: needed directions to go to the place where she was
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  Speaker 1: going to get killed. It's why the hitman got out
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  Speaker 1: of the car, walked right up and killed her with
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: no fight. She had rolled down the window and was waiting.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Police later determined that Hua had taken out a life
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  Speaker 1: insurance policy on herself that was worth so much money
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  Speaker 1: it would pay off all of her debt and leave
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  Speaker 1: her family with a lot of money left over. She'd
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: planned her own murder her as a sort of self
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: sacrifice in the hopes of giving her family.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: A better life.
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  Speaker 1: She'd ultimately convinced her ex husband and brother to help
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  Speaker 1: in exchange for a cut of the money, but her
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: plan didn't really work out. Qua's death was ruled a suicide,
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  Speaker 1: not a homicide, so the life insurance company didn't pay
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  Speaker 1: out anything.
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  Speaker 2: To her family.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: She juas brother, and the hitman all faced a number
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: of charges, including facilitating suicide and fraud. They each received
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: between six and a half and seven years in prison.
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