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Speaker 1: about a missing person in Taiwan, and it takes a
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Speaker 1: On the morning of February fourth, nineteen ninety one, a
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Speaker 1: taxi cab driver named Wang was chatting with the taxi
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Speaker 1: dispatcher at headquarters when suddenly, for no clear reason, the
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Speaker 1: dispatcher stopped talking to Wang and just began staring intently at.
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Speaker 2: Something behind Wang.
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Speaker 1: And so Wang noticed this and right away he turned
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Speaker 1: around to see what it was.
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Speaker 2: He was looking at.
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Speaker 1: But all Wang could see was just a window that
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Speaker 1: looked out to this huge fenced in parking lot that
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Speaker 1: was full of taxi cabs and their drivers. This is
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Speaker 1: where they would go to wait for fares, and where
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Speaker 1: the taxi headquarters were located was right near the airport
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Speaker 1: in a very busy city called gaus Hung City in Taiwan,
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Speaker 1: and so taxi cabs in this area were really in
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Speaker 1: high demand. And so as Wang looked out at the
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Speaker 1: very busy parking lot full of drivers talking to potential customers,
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Speaker 1: you know, to Wang, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
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Speaker 1: It was just a typical busy day. But when Wang
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Speaker 1: kind of looked at the dispatcher like, I don't really
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Speaker 1: see what you see, the dispatcher just raised his finger
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Speaker 1: and kind of pointed in the direction that he was staring,
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Speaker 1: and so Wang turned around again, and this time when
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Speaker 1: he looked in the direction the dispatcher was pointing. He
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Speaker 1: could see immediately why the dispatcher was reacting the way
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Speaker 1: he was, because the dispatcher was pointing.
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Speaker 2: At one of their colleagues.
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Speaker 1: So another taxi driver whose name was Leo Shue Chung,
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Speaker 1: and as Wang looked out at him, he saw Leo
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Speaker 1: was sprinting across this very busy parking lot full of
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Speaker 1: all these cabs and drivers and customers.
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Speaker 2: And Leo was.
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Speaker 1: Clutching this big golden statue of Buddha in his arms
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Speaker 1: as he ran, and so Wang and the dispatcher watched Leo,
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Speaker 1: and what he did is he kept running all the
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Speaker 1: way across the lot until he got to his taxi cab,
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Speaker 1: at which point he practically dove inside of it. He
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Speaker 1: slammed the door, locked every door, and then began looking
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Speaker 1: around frantically like he was expecting someone to show up
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Speaker 1: who had been like chasing him or something. But there
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Speaker 1: was nobody around his car, And Wang and the dispatcher
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Speaker 1: kind of scanned the parking lot and they didn't see
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Speaker 1: anybody who seemed remotely interested in Leo, and so Wang
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Speaker 1: and the dispatcher continued to watch Leo from the window
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Speaker 1: and they saw. Eventually Leo stopped kind of scanning around
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Speaker 1: for other people, and at that point he took that
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Speaker 1: golden statue of Buddha and he placed it up on
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Speaker 1: the dash of his cap. And this was not the
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Speaker 1: first Buddha statue that he had put up there. From
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Speaker 1: Wang and the dispatcher's perspective, it looked like he had
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Speaker 1: at least two or three that were right up there.
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Speaker 2: Alongside this new one.
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Speaker 1: And then after Leo placed this new golden statue, he
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Speaker 1: sort of sat back in his chair, and from Wang
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Speaker 1: and the dispatcher's perspective, it sort of looked like he
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Speaker 1: had closed his eyes and was praying or mumbling something.
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Speaker 1: But you know, whatever he was doing, it just seemed
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Speaker 1: kind of odd. And so eventually Wang and the dispatcher
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Speaker 1: stopped watching Leo, who still just continued to sit back
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Speaker 1: in his chair and you know, mumble or pray or something.
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Speaker 1: And then Wang and the dispatcher looked at each other
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Speaker 1: and they exchanged very concerned looks because they both knew,
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Speaker 1: you know, Leo was kind of a weird guy, but
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Speaker 1: from his behavior today, it just seemed like, you know,
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Speaker 1: something must be wrong with Lao.
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Speaker 2: There has to be some issue.
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Speaker 1: So for context, Leo was this thirty five year old
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Speaker 1: guy who lived alone, and he had this reputation of
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Speaker 1: being very antisocial and kind.
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Speaker 2: Of just rude, like he had terrible manners.
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Speaker 1: But recently, Wang and the dispatcher and other taxi drivers
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Speaker 1: who worked at this company had noticed that Leo's behavior
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Speaker 1: had gone from being kind of awkward and antisocial to
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Speaker 1: being kind of menacing, like not even including the weird
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Speaker 1: behavior he was exhibiting now, just like in his day
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Speaker 1: to day interactions with people, he was just really aggressive.
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Speaker 1: Like he always would tell his colleagues at the taxi
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Speaker 1: company how much he hated stray cats and dogs. And
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Speaker 1: you know a lot of people found these stray cats
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Speaker 1: and dogs in their neighborhood in the city to be
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Speaker 1: a bit of a nuisance. You know, they'd rummaged through
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Speaker 1: trash and make noise or whatever, but nobody really paid
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Speaker 1: them much attention. They were just stray animals trying to survive,
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Speaker 1: like it wasn't a big deal. But for Lao, he
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Speaker 1: like obsessed over hating the stray cats and dogs and
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Speaker 1: how much he wanted them to to get out of
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Speaker 1: his neighborhood and somewhat recently, he had come to work
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Speaker 1: and told his colleagues that he had gone out and
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Speaker 1: gotten a crossbow, and at night he'd begun shooting at
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Speaker 1: the stray cats and dogs, which totally horrified his colleagues.
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Speaker 1: And now Leo had this weird thing going on with
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Speaker 1: his Buddhist statues that he was putting inside of his cab.
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Speaker 1: And also in addition to those statues, he had begun
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Speaker 1: putting on the windows inside of his cab these things
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Speaker 1: called fulus, which are these little strips of yellow parchment
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Speaker 1: paper that basically warred off evil spirits. And so Leo
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Speaker 1: had basically transformed the interior of his cab into this
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Speaker 1: sort of like weird shrine or temple. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: Leo had put up so many of these fulus on
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Speaker 1: the inside of the windows, and again all those statues
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Speaker 1: that sat on the dash that when he drove he
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Speaker 1: could barely see because his view was totally obstructed.
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Speaker 2: But despite everybody at.
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Speaker 1: The company seeing this totally weird behavior playing out with Leo,
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Speaker 1: nobody went up to him and said, hey, what are
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Speaker 1: you doing with these statues and pieces of paper, Like
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Speaker 1: what's going on here? Because nobody wanted to interact with him.
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Speaker 1: He seemed like kind of a menace, and so people
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Speaker 1: just kind of let him.
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Speaker 2: Do his thing.
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Speaker 1: But now, as Wang and the dispatcher are watching Leo
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Speaker 1: like run across the lot and act totally psychotic, they
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Speaker 1: looked at each other and they were like, maybe we
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Speaker 1: should do something, and so Wang volunteered to call the police.
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Speaker 1: And as Wang turned to go walk out and make
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Speaker 1: the call, he saw Leo peeling out of the parking lot,
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Speaker 1: nearly smashing into cars and people just driving like a
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Speaker 1: total maniac, and so Leo really felt like, Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this really is the time to step in.
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Speaker 2: Someone's going to get hurt here.
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Speaker 1: The following day, Wang would contact his friend in the
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Speaker 1: police department and he would explain what was going on
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Speaker 1: with Leo, and to Wang's surprise, his friend told him
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Speaker 1: that actually the police were well aware of Leo, and
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Speaker 1: that was because not all that long ago, Leo was
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Speaker 1: actually a suspect in a murder case. So about ten
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Speaker 1: months earlier, in April of nineteen ninety, a twenty three
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Speaker 1: year old woman from Japan named Mariko Iguchi had visit
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Speaker 1: Taiwan on vacation and during this vacation she had gone missing. Now,
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Speaker 1: at the time, the Taiwanese economy really relied heavily on
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Speaker 1: Japanese tourism, and so Taiwan really aggressively marketed to Japan.
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Speaker 1: You know, come visit, come on vacation here, and so
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Speaker 1: it was pretty common for Japanese college students to visit
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Speaker 1: Taiwan on vacation to celebrate things like a graduation or
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Speaker 1: a birthday party. And so that's what Mariko was doing.
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Speaker 1: She was here celebrating, and she was traveling alone. Also,
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Speaker 1: one sort of quirky thing about Taiwanese culture at the
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Speaker 1: time was it was pretty common for taxi cab drivers
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Speaker 1: to open up their own personal homes to their fairs,
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Speaker 1: basically saying, hey, don't stay at a hotel. I'll give
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Speaker 1: you a ride wherever you're going to go, but then
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Speaker 1: at night, you can stay at my house with my family.
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Speaker 1: And so it was just kind of a thing in
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Speaker 1: Taiwan that people visited and stayed at the homes.
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Speaker 2: Of their taxi cab drivers.
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Speaker 1: So when Mariko came to Taiwan on this vacation, this
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Speaker 1: is what she did. She stayed in the home of
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Speaker 1: the taxi cab driver, and it was during this period
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Speaker 1: of time that she went missing, and so naturally, when
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Speaker 1: the investigation began into her disappearance, the first place police
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Speaker 1: went were the taxicab drivers, and so first the police
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Speaker 1: focused on a driver in the capital of Taiwan who
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Speaker 1: said he had given Marico a few rides, he had
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Speaker 1: brought her sight seeing, and then he had let her
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Speaker 1: stay in his home, but he said, you know, after that,
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Speaker 1: she left and he didn't see her again.
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Speaker 2: He had no idea what happened to her.
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Speaker 1: And the police would actually discover that after Marico left
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Speaker 1: that particular driver's house, she would send a postcard to
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Speaker 1: her family that was dated after she had left, and
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Speaker 1: so basically this ruled out the first driver as a suspect,
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Speaker 1: and so for a little while this case went cold
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Speaker 1: because the police couldn't find any other taxi cab drivers
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Speaker 1: that had given Marico a ride. But then a few
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Speaker 1: months later the police offered a reward for information about
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Speaker 1: what happened to Marico, and it was then that police
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Speaker 1: got a tip that Marico had been seen speaking to
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Speaker 1: Leo at the train station before she disappeared. But when
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Speaker 1: police spoke to Leo, he immediately said yes, I did
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Speaker 1: give Marika go a ride, but that was it.
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Speaker 2: She didn't stay at my house.
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Speaker 1: It was just this one ride from the train station
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Speaker 1: into town. And you know, after she got out, I
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Speaker 1: have no idea what happened to her. And so police
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Speaker 1: would ask layout dozens more questions and they would try
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Speaker 1: to get more information from him, but he.
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Speaker 2: Just didn't have any.
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Speaker 1: And then at the same time, there was this flood
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Speaker 1: of all these new tips that began coming into the
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Speaker 1: police station about this case. But it would turn out
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Speaker 1: a lot of these leads, like all of them were
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Speaker 1: just terrible tips. People were calling in totally random stuff
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Speaker 1: just because now there was this monetary reward for information,
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Speaker 1: and it was kind of incentivizing people to just call
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Speaker 1: in anything, and it was actually making the investigation much
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Speaker 1: harder because now the police had all these bad tips
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Speaker 1: and so they really weren't getting anywhere. But despite these
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Speaker 1: slow progress the police were making in this case, this
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Speaker 1: case had really been elevated and become like a huge
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Speaker 1: international news story and lots.
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Speaker 2: Of people all over the world were following it.
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Speaker 1: And during this time, when all these people are tuned
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Speaker 1: in to this case, really weird things.
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Speaker 2: Began happening surrounding this case. People in the city.
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Speaker 1: Began receiving all these strange phone calls from this kind
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Speaker 1: of frantic woman speaking Japanese. And in Taiwan, people predominantly
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Speaker 1: speak Taiwanese and Mandarin, not Japanese, so this is a
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Speaker 1: weird phone call to be getting in Taiwan. And also
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Speaker 1: at this time, you need to remember that Mariko's disappearance
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Speaker 1: was kind of all over the news, and so to
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Speaker 1: get these weird calls from a woman speaking Japanese who
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Speaker 1: sounds totally frantic, it made people in the city believe
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Speaker 1: that it was Mariko placing these strange phone calls. But
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Speaker 1: these calls, they didn't make any sense. It was just
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Speaker 1: a woman kind of yelling in Japanese and then she
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Speaker 1: would just.
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Speaker 2: Abruptly hang up.
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Speaker 1: And also there were all these reports of people claiming
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Speaker 1: to have seen Mariko or heard Mariko just in the
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Speaker 1: city walking around. None of it was substantiated, but there
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Speaker 1: was just kind of this eerie quality to the case.
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Speaker 2: And so when.
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Speaker 1: Wang called his friend at the police department to report
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Speaker 1: Leo for his totally weird behavior. This was at a
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Speaker 1: time when the Mariko missing person case was still totally
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Speaker 1: front of mind in Taiwan and around the world. And
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Speaker 1: also the police were still actively investigating this case. And frankly,
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Speaker 1: Lao had not been ruled out as a suspect in
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Speaker 1: this case. He was not considered a primary suspect by
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Speaker 1: any means, but he wasn't ruled out yet, And so
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Speaker 1: the police are hearing that Lao's acting really funny, and
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Speaker 1: it made them think, hey, maybe we should reinvestigate this
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Speaker 1: guy and see if he really is connected to the
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Speaker 1: Marico missing person case. And so ultimately, after Wang hung up,
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Speaker 1: his friend in the police department got in touch with
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Speaker 1: the lead detective on the Marico case and told him
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Speaker 1: about what was going on with Leo, and this lead detective,
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Speaker 1: whose name was Lynn Shiauji, decided he would just put
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Speaker 1: in the middle of February of nineteen ninety one, Detective
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Speaker 1: Linn and a few of his colleagues began taking turns
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Speaker 1: trailing Layo basically twenty four to seven. And so the
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Speaker 1: police just kept their distance and they followed Layo all
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Speaker 1: around the city as he picked up his fares. And
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Speaker 1: you know, the police never got out to talk to
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Speaker 1: any of the fares, you know, to get insights into
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Speaker 1: whatever Layo might have been saying inside the cab. They
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Speaker 1: just kind of watched from a distance and just wanted
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Speaker 1: to see if there was any obvious red flags. Detective
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Speaker 1: Linn figured, you know, if Leo was somehow involved in
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Speaker 1: whatever happened to Marico. Let's say she was killed, and
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Speaker 1: let's say Layo was responsible for killing her. Maybe if
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Speaker 1: they followed Layou long enough, he might drive to an
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Speaker 1: area that was kind of connected to her murder, maybe
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Speaker 1: her grave site or the place where he killed or something.
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Speaker 1: You know. Going to kind of strange random locations without
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Speaker 1: affair would likely be an indication to police that that
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Speaker 1: was a place of interest. But as the police tailed Layou,
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Speaker 1: that's not what he did. Layou basically never ever left
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Speaker 1: his cab. Layou basically just picked up a passenger, drove
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Speaker 1: them where they needed to go, and then repeat it
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Speaker 1: over and over and over again all day long. And
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Speaker 1: then at the end of the night, instead of going
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Speaker 1: home to his apartment that police knew he had, he
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Speaker 1: would just sleep inside of his cab, just like in
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Speaker 1: parking lots and stuff. And the only times he would
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Speaker 1: go into his apartment appeared to be just so he
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Speaker 1: could go to the bathroom or maybe shower or something,
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Speaker 1: because they would see him through the window. But whenever
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Speaker 1: Layou went into his apartment, he went through the same
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Speaker 1: totally weird ritual every time he would be in his
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Speaker 1: cab parked out front of his apartment and the police are,
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Speaker 1: you know, parked far enough away that they can watch this,
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Speaker 1: and layout at some point would begin kind of frantically
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Speaker 1: looking all around him, as if he was looking for
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Speaker 1: somebody who was trying.
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Speaker 2: To hurt him or who was spying on him or something.
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Speaker 1: And then after kind of making sure the coast was clear,
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Speaker 1: Layou would open up his door and sprint like absolutely
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Speaker 1: as fast as he could into his apartment building. And
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Speaker 1: he'd only be in there for like a couple of
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Speaker 1: minutes before he'd come bombing back out and practically dive
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Speaker 1: into his cab, and he would shut all the doors,
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Speaker 1: lock all the doors, and then you know, he'd clutch
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Speaker 1: his golden statues and he'd rub his fulus that were
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Speaker 1: taped all over the inside of his cab, and he'd
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Speaker 1: continue frantically looking around, you know, to make sure nobody
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Speaker 1: was there.
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Speaker 2: To hurt him or something.
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Speaker 1: And then after a little while he'd kind of calmed down,
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Speaker 1: he'd put a statue back on the dash, he'd kind
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Speaker 1: of make sure his fulus were all in place, and
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Speaker 1: then he would drive away. So of course Layou's behavior,
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Speaker 1: you know, from the police perspective, was totally bizarre, But
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Speaker 1: in Detective Linn's mind, it didn't really seem like the
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Speaker 1: behavior of a murderer. It seemed more like the behavior
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Speaker 1: of someone who had lost their mind. Finally, on March fourth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, Detective Lynn decided that he just needed
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Speaker 1: to speak to Layout, which required you know, basically ambushing Layout.
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Speaker 1: So Detective Lynn coordinated with his officers who were out
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Speaker 1: surveiling Layou, and he had them tell him when Layou
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Speaker 1: was at his apartment, you know, going in to use
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Speaker 1: the bathroom. And when they called into Detective Land that, hey,
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Speaker 1: he just got to his apartment, He's about to run inside,
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Speaker 1: Detective Linn and some other officers raced to the apartment
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Speaker 1: and they were already outside for whenever Layout came running
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Speaker 1: back out to dive.
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Speaker 2: Back into his cap they were going to intercept him.
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Speaker 1: And now Detective Linn and his colleagues didn't really know
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Speaker 1: how Layou was going to react to having all these
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Speaker 1: police standing there ready to grab him. I mean, was
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Speaker 1: this guy going to be hostile? Was he going to
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Speaker 1: be aggressive? Was he going to be scared?
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Speaker 2: Sad? They had no idea.
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Speaker 1: It just seemed like Layout was totally unstable, so they
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Speaker 1: all kind of had to be ready for whatever reaction
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Speaker 1: he was going to have.
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Speaker 2: However, the way Layout.
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Speaker 1: Ultimately reacted to this was not the way any of
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Speaker 1: the officers suspected. When Layout came bombing out of his
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Speaker 1: apartment after a very short bathroom break, he began charging
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Speaker 1: down the stairs towards his cab and then seemed to
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Speaker 1: kind of realize there were all these detectives and police
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Speaker 1: officers all standing in front of him, literally getting ready
17:24
Speaker 1: to grab him, and Layout just collapsed to his knees
17:27
Speaker 1: and began sobbing and thanking them over and over and
17:31
Speaker 1: over again. Now Detective Linn had no idea what this was.
17:34
Speaker 1: He didn't really understand what Layou was thanking them for,
17:37
Speaker 1: but he didn't waste any time trying to figure out
17:40
Speaker 1: what was going on. Instead, Detective Lynn just went up
17:42
Speaker 1: to Layout and said, Hey, we need to speak to
17:45
Speaker 1: you at the station.
17:46
Speaker 2: Will you come with us?
17:47
Speaker 1: And Layou was like, of course I will, of course
17:49
Speaker 1: I will, And so Detective Linn drove Layout to the
17:52
Speaker 1: police station and when they got there, Layou was saying
17:55
Speaker 1: things like, oh, I wish I could just stay at
17:57
Speaker 1: the police station with you all like, this is where
18:00
Speaker 1: I'm safe.
18:00
Speaker 2: I want to stay here. Now. Lynn didn't really respond
18:03
Speaker 2: to this, He just kind of.
18:03
Speaker 1: Said okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then they went inside
18:06
Speaker 1: together to head towards the interview room. And as they're
18:09
Speaker 1: walking there, Layou is saying over and over again to
18:12
Speaker 1: Detective Linn and any of the officers who passes by,
18:15
Speaker 1: you know.
18:16
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, You're my savior. Thank you. Now.
18:19
Speaker 2: The police had no idea why layout.
18:21
Speaker 1: Was treating them like his saviors, because to them, they're like, dude,
18:24
Speaker 1: we just ambushed you and brought you to the police
18:27
Speaker 1: station to question you about potentially being involved in a murder.
18:31
Speaker 2: So I don't know how we saved you, but it
18:33
Speaker 2: would turn.
18:33
Speaker 1: Out Layo had a really compelling reason to believe they
18:37
Speaker 1: really had just saved him, because it would turn out
18:41
Speaker 1: Lao had this absolutely terrifying thing happening inside of his
18:46
Speaker 1: apartment just several minutes earlier. When Layou had run into
18:50
Speaker 1: his apartment, so right before he charged back outside and
18:53
Speaker 1: police grabbed him and took him to the station, you know,
18:56
Speaker 1: when he was still inside of his apartment, he stepped
18:59
Speaker 1: inside and the apartment was totally dark. All the lights
19:02
Speaker 1: are off, all the shades are drawn, and immediately Layo
19:05
Speaker 1: felt his heart starting to race, and he looked around
19:07
Speaker 1: his apartment and it was totally silent.
19:10
Speaker 2: But then he heard it.
19:11
Speaker 1: He could hear on the far side of his apartment,
19:13
Speaker 1: in a room that he couldn't quite see into, the
19:16
Speaker 1: sound of breathing. But Layoo lives alone. There shouldn't be
19:19
Speaker 1: anybody here. He has no pets. There's nobody here. But
19:22
Speaker 1: he hears breathing in another room. But Layoo knew there
19:25
Speaker 1: was nothing he could do. The only thing he could
19:27
Speaker 1: do was just try to get in there, go to
19:29
Speaker 1: the bathroom and get out as quickly as possible.
19:32
Speaker 2: And so very.
19:33
Speaker 1: Slowly, Layou began kind of tiptoeing across the living room floor,
19:37
Speaker 1: kind of making sure to stay out of eyesight of
19:39
Speaker 1: the doorway that led into the room where the breathing
19:42
Speaker 1: was coming from. And as soon as he kind of
19:44
Speaker 1: got past an area where he could be seen from
19:46
Speaker 1: the doorway.
19:47
Speaker 2: He ran the rest of the way down the hallway.
19:48
Speaker 1: He cut into the bathroom and shut the door and
19:50
Speaker 1: locked it, and then as quickly as he could, you know,
19:53
Speaker 1: he did his business.
19:54
Speaker 2: He used a washcloth to clean himself because he didn't.
19:57
Speaker 1: Have time to take a shower because of what was
19:59
Speaker 1: going on inside of a apartment. And then once he
20:01
Speaker 1: was all done, you know, he took a deep breath
20:03
Speaker 1: and then he opened up the door, and this time
20:06
Speaker 1: the apartment was absolutely silent. There was no more breathing,
20:09
Speaker 1: and so Layou, thinking he had this opportunity to get
20:12
Speaker 1: out of here without being caught by this thing inside
20:15
Speaker 1: of his apartment, he turned and just started running towards
20:18
Speaker 1: the door, and as soon as he did, he began
20:20
Speaker 1: to hear a voice, a hoarse female voice, screaming at
20:24
Speaker 1: him from the other side of his apartment, screeching.
20:27
Speaker 2: Why why why.
20:29
Speaker 1: And as Leo is just about to get to the door,
20:31
Speaker 1: he turns and he sees Marico, the missing woman, running with.
20:36
Speaker 2: Her hair all nodded and matted, hanging over her face,
20:39
Speaker 2: sprinting towards him from.
20:41
Speaker 1: That back room, and Layo, he only managed to barely
20:44
Speaker 1: get out of his apartment and shut it and lock
20:46
Speaker 1: it before she ran into the door, and then it
20:48
Speaker 1: went silent again. This is why Leyoo was acting totally crazy,
20:53
Speaker 1: because he was terrified of what he believed was like
20:56
Speaker 1: this demonic entity inside of his apartment. He didn't think
20:59
Speaker 1: that was a person. He thought it was like the
21:02
Speaker 1: spirit of Marico or something, and she was haunting him,
21:05
Speaker 1: and so he had no idea what to do. He
21:07
Speaker 1: didn't know who to tell, and he just began living
21:09
Speaker 1: out of his cab instead of dealing with whatever was
21:12
Speaker 1: going on in his apartment. And so when Layou charged
21:15
Speaker 1: outside after this latest encounter with Marico, you know, he
21:18
Speaker 1: sees the police and layout is just overwhelmed with relief.
21:22
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's thinking they can get rid of her and
21:25
Speaker 1: his life can go back to normal. But as overjoyed
21:28
Speaker 1: as Layou appeared to be and now having the police
21:31
Speaker 1: on his side, you know, finally being able to deal
21:34
Speaker 1: with whatever was going on, when push came to shove,
21:37
Speaker 1: Lao actually did not feel comfortable immediately giving up details
21:42
Speaker 1: of whatever was going on with Marico inside of his apartment.
21:45
Speaker 1: But as Leyo was brought by Detective Lynn to the
21:48
Speaker 1: police station to tell them what was going on with
21:50
Speaker 1: how Marico was in his apartment and she was haunting him.
21:53
Speaker 2: You know, it seemed like it was the ghost of
21:55
Speaker 2: her or something.
21:56
Speaker 1: You know.
21:56
Speaker 2: As Leya was.
21:57
Speaker 1: Having that conversation, other police officers were sent to Layou's
22:01
Speaker 1: apartment to go see if maybe Marico really was in
22:05
Speaker 1: his apartment. Maybe that's where she had been this whole time.
22:07
Speaker 1: Maybe she broke into this guy's apartment and was just
22:10
Speaker 1: squatting there and harassing him, and that was the mystery,
22:13
Speaker 1: that's where she's been. But when police went into Layo's apartment,
22:17
Speaker 1: there was no sign whatsoever that anybody else besides Layou
22:21
Speaker 1: was living in that apartment.
22:23
Speaker 2: There was no sign of a break in. I mean,
22:25
Speaker 2: there was nothing. It was just Layou's apartment.
22:27
Speaker 1: And so this made police really suspicious of Layout because
22:30
Speaker 1: his story was so outrageous, and also he's talking about
22:33
Speaker 1: a person who's actively missing Marico, and so the police
22:36
Speaker 1: really pressured Layout to you come forward, give us more information.
22:40
Speaker 2: Why did you say this is.
22:41
Speaker 1: Marico in your apartment because there's nobody in your apartment,
22:45
Speaker 1: you know, tell us what's going on here. And so finally,
22:47
Speaker 1: after four days of intense questioning of Layout, Layout did
22:52
Speaker 1: finally admit to police that there was more to this story.
22:55
Speaker 1: It would turn out Layout really did pick Marico up
22:58
Speaker 1: at the train station when she in Taiwan for her vacation,
23:02
Speaker 1: so he did give her a ride, just like he
23:03
Speaker 1: said he had, but Layou had lied about what happened
23:07
Speaker 1: after that, It would turn out. After giving her this ride,
23:10
Speaker 1: Layoo stayed with Marico and they went sightseeing together, and
23:14
Speaker 1: then Layou invited Marico to stay with him at his apartment,
23:17
Speaker 1: which again was customary in Taiwan, and so Marico said yes,
23:21
Speaker 1: and she went to his apartment in the evening, and
23:24
Speaker 1: while they were there, Layoo did proposition Marico and she
23:28
Speaker 1: rejected him, and at first Leoo just let it go.
23:31
Speaker 1: But then after Marico fell asleep that night, he got
23:34
Speaker 1: his crossbow that he used to shoot dogs and cats,
23:37
Speaker 1: and he went into her room and he shot her
23:39
Speaker 1: four times with the crossbow and then cut her head off.
23:43
Speaker 2: Layo would bury her body the following night.
23:46
Speaker 1: But that same night was the first time Layou began
23:49
Speaker 1: hearing the breathing in his apartment. He couldn't quite place it,
23:53
Speaker 1: and then not long after that, the head of Marico,
23:57
Speaker 1: the severed head, would chase him all around his apartments,
24:00
Speaker 1: screaming why why why at him, And so basically, Mariko's
24:04
Speaker 1: severed head began haunting Layou incessantly, to the point where
24:09
Speaker 1: he moved into his taxi cab and put up all
24:12
Speaker 1: those Fulu papers to protect him from evil spirits, and
24:14
Speaker 1: also put up all those statues of Buddha for the
24:17
Speaker 1: same reason. I mean, he was living in his cab
24:19
Speaker 1: to protect himself from what he believed was this evil spirit.
24:23
Speaker 1: And so when people saw Layou in his cab kind
24:26
Speaker 1: of sitting back and muttering to himself, that was him
24:28
Speaker 1: praying that he would live through.
24:30
Speaker 2: Whatever was going on with this head.
24:32
Speaker 1: Layo would tell police where he buried Mariko's body, and
24:35
Speaker 1: he would tell police he buried her entire body in
24:38
Speaker 1: one location, including her head, but when police dug her up, it.
24:43
Speaker 2: Was only her lower half. Her head was missing.
24:46
Speaker 1: Layou was convicted of murder and to this day he
24:48
Speaker 1: is still in prison. Many people in Taiwan believe that,
24:52
Speaker 1: you know, this case was ultimately solved because of Mariko's spirit,
24:56
Speaker 1: that she played a big role. You know, her head
24:58
Speaker 1: haunting Layou is what drove him crazy to the point
25:01
Speaker 1: where he admitted to police what he did. And then
25:04
Speaker 1: also people in Taiwan think all those strange phone calls
25:07
Speaker 1: they were getting from that woman who was speaking Japanese
25:09
Speaker 1: and acting frantic and then hanging up they say that
25:12
Speaker 1: was Marico's spirit too, that that was maybe one of
25:14
Speaker 1: her attempts just to keep people engaged with the story
25:18
Speaker 1: so that it wouldn't fade and become a cold case.
25:20
Speaker 1: And in fact, even some of the police, including Detective Lynn,
25:24
Speaker 1: say they do believe Mariko's spirit played a role. And
25:27
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25:30
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25:33
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25:35
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