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Elevator security footage solved her murder - MrBallen · 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: let's get into today's story. Late on the night of
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  Speaker 1: October thirteenth, two thousand and eight, a forty three year
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  Speaker 1: old named Hua Sihway sat in her parked car in
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  Speaker 1: a dark, desolate area off the side of Highway sixty
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  Speaker 1: one in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Hua rolled down her
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  Speaker 1: driver's side window and then turned the engine off, and
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  Speaker 1: for a second she just sat there and let the
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  Speaker 1: warm breeze blow in on her face. It wasn't often
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  Speaker 1: that she got a moment alone because she had three
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  Speaker 1: kids who all lived at home, so she just.
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  Speaker 2: Took a moment to enjoy the silence.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually she turned to the center console and
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  Speaker 1: she grabbed a piece of paper that was sitting there,
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  Speaker 1: and she tore the paper into tiny pieces and then
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  Speaker 1: tossed them out the open window. But when she did that,
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  Speaker 1: she didn't realize that the breeze kind of blew back
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  Speaker 1: in at the same time, and a few of those
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  Speaker 1: ripped up pieces actually found their way back inside of
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  Speaker 1: her car and settled in the pocket on the driver's
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  Speaker 1: side door. A little while later, around three am, a
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  Speaker 1: Coastguard officer drove along Highway sixty one doing his regular
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  Speaker 1: nighttime patrol. He went under an overpass and into an
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  Speaker 1: area where there weren't very many street lights, and there,
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  Speaker 1: in the relative darkness, he saw something that was pretty odd.
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  Speaker 1: There was this gray sedan parked half on and half
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  Speaker 1: off the road. Intrigued, the Coastguard officer pulled up behind
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  Speaker 1: the car parked.
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  Speaker 2: And got out to investigate.
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  Speaker 1: The seddan's lights and engine were both off, and so
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  Speaker 1: the officer wondered.
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  Speaker 2: 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. 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 2: Inside the car was dead.
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  Speaker 1: She had a small circular wound right below her left
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  Speaker 1: ear that authorities immediately recognized as a bullet wound. Officer
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  Speaker 1: Glow immediately pushed his men out to secure the scene,
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  Speaker 1: and then once the cordon was in place, they began investigating.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing Wo did was just to look more
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  Speaker 1: closely at the woman's body. He saw there was a
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  Speaker 1: bullet casing on the ground nearby, and also what appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be some bullet fragments in the car, like little
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  Speaker 1: bits of shiny metal like copper, but there was no gun,
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  Speaker 1: and so at this point Officer Glow and his team
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  Speaker 1: realized they were very likely dealing with a murder. But
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  Speaker 1: as he stood there sort of taking it all in
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  Speaker 1: and looking at the car and the body, he started
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  Speaker 1: to realize that the whole scene just seemed off. First,
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  Speaker 1: there were no skid marks behind the car's tires, so
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  Speaker 1: it appeared like the woman must have pulled over in
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  Speaker 1: a controlled way, not like she'd been forced off the
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  Speaker 1: road by another car. Second, her window was all the
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  Speaker 1: way down. The driver's side window was completely down, which
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  Speaker 1: meant either she'd been driving with the window down to
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  Speaker 1: begin with, or after she had pulled over, or while
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  Speaker 1: pulling over she had rolled it down. And then thirdly,
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  Speaker 1: there was no evidence of a struggle or really any
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  Speaker 1: sign that this woman had been panicked in any way.
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  Speaker 2: 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 2: They said sixty five, DOW, LEO, Z, and DA.
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  Speaker 1: Now, none of these fragments appeared to have any meaning
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  Speaker 1: on their own. They likely you needed to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of a bigger piece of paper to make sense.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, honestly, the words were just pieces of words
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  Speaker 1: rather than actual full words themselves. And also when they
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  Speaker 1: began sort of arranging the four pieces to see if
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  Speaker 1: they could find meaning in these words in this number.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't do it. 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 bagged.
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  Speaker 2: Them up as evidence just in case.
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  Speaker 1: apartment complex in New Taipei City that was about forty
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  Speaker 1: miles away from where they had found the woman inside
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  Speaker 1: of the gray sedan earlier that morning. They went to
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  Speaker 1: a specific apartment and they knocked on the door, and
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  Speaker 1: after a moment, a middle aged man open the door
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  Speaker 1: up and he looked very surprised to see police standing
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  Speaker 1: at his door. Officer Guow asked this man if his
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  Speaker 1: name was Shu b Chung, and the man nodded and
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  Speaker 1: said yes. By this point, Officer Guow and his partner
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  Speaker 1: had identified the murder victim.
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  Speaker 2: She was forty three year old.
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  Speaker 1: Hua Saihuei, and when they'd started looking into Hua's relationships,
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  Speaker 1: they'd learned that she lived in this apartment with her
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  Speaker 1: three kids, and the man who had opened the door,
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  Speaker 1: Shu b Chung, he was her ex husband. Even though
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  Speaker 1: the couple had actually gotten divorced five years earlier, they
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  Speaker 1: had ultimately decided to continue living together and co parenting.
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  Speaker 1: As Hua's ex husband, Shu was an obvious person of
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  Speaker 1: interest in this murder, but at this point Officer Gua
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sure how much Shu even knew, so he had
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  Speaker 1: to be careful how he approached the conversation. Officerqua started
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  Speaker 1: by introducing himself and his partner and then asked Hu
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  Speaker 1: if he had spoken to his ex wife recently, and
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  Speaker 1: U shook his head and said he actually hadn't spoken
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  Speaker 1: to her since the previous night, but he did say
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  Speaker 1: that their last conversation had definitely been kind of weird.
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  Speaker 1: He said that the previous night, around eight forty five pm,
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  Speaker 1: Hua had left to go to this meeting with a
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  Speaker 1: pawn shop owner on the opposite side of the city.
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  Speaker 1: He said that she owed this pawn shop owner a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money and they were supposed to be discussing
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  Speaker 1: a repayment plan. But around nine thirty pm, while she
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  Speaker 1: was on her way to this meeting, Chu said that
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  Speaker 1: Hua had actually called him to say she was out
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  Speaker 1: on Highway sixty one and another car was now following her.
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  Speaker 1: Chu had told her that very likely this was just
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  Speaker 1: somebody driving a similar route as her, like this was
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  Speaker 1: not a cause for concern, and so ultimately Hua had
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  Speaker 1: sort of agreed and said okay and hung up, And
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  Speaker 1: according to Schu, he'd tried calling Hua back a bit later,
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  Speaker 1: but she hadn't picked up. Chu said he actually called
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  Speaker 1: Hua an additional ten more times after this, but she
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  Speaker 1: never answered, and so she said he really didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what became of his ex wife.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't know how the meeting went he didn't know
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  Speaker 2: where she was. Now.
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  Speaker 1: After hearing this, Officer Gua's first reaction was sort of
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  Speaker 1: to be like, that's absurd, you know, if you knew
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  Speaker 1: that Hua was potentially being followed at night, no less,
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  Speaker 1: while she's out by herself going to this relatively high
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  Speaker 1: stakes meeting with this pawnshop owner, and then she suddenly
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  Speaker 1: stops answering her phone. Why wouldn't she have eventually called
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  Speaker 1: the police or at least tried to go look for
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  Speaker 1: her instead. He'd just called Hua a bunch of times,
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  Speaker 1: and then when she didn't answer, he just shrugged the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing off, you know, the mother of his kids.
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  Speaker 2: He just sort of set up no big deal.
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  Speaker 1: It just felt like a really bizarre way for somebody
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  Speaker 1: to react to this situation. So Officer Gua watched she
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  Speaker 1: very carefully as he told him, you know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: He said he was very sorry, but early that morning
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  Speaker 1: they'd found his ex wife murdered inside of her car
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the highway.
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  Speaker 2: When she heard this, his eyes went wide and he
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  Speaker 2: began to tremble.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, from Gua's perspective, it looked like sort
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  Speaker 1: of a shocked response.
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  Speaker 2: A genuine shocked response that he can't.
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  Speaker 1: Believe what he's being told, but he also really couldn't
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  Speaker 1: read the guy. He couldn't tell if this was genuine
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  Speaker 1: or if he was just performing. Either way, Guan knew
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  Speaker 1: what he needed to do next was follow up on
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  Speaker 1: Shiu's story and see if maybe he could poke.
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  Speaker 2: Some holes in it.
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  Speaker 1: Following this interview, Guan and his team asked the manager
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  Speaker 1: of the apartment complex for any available surveillance footage so
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  Speaker 1: they could see if Hua really did leave the apartment
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  Speaker 1: when Hu said she did, and the manager was able
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  Speaker 1: to recover some footage from inside the apartment complex elevator.
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  Speaker 1: And while it did prove that Hua left around eight
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  Speaker 1: forty five pm like Sheu had said, it also showed
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  Speaker 1: something else that struck Officer Gua as kind of strange.
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  Speaker 1: In the video, Hua wrote down the elevator supposedly on
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  Speaker 1: her way to meet with this pawn shop owner, but
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, her ex husband Shu rode the elevator
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  Speaker 1: with her, and during this ride, U kissed Hua for
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  Speaker 1: eight seconds straight and then hugged her until the elevator
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  Speaker 1: stopped and.
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  Speaker 2: The doors opened.
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  Speaker 1: Now, to most people, this would just look like a
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  Speaker 1: sort of normal tender moment between a loving couple. But
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  Speaker 1: it was odd in this case really for two reasons.
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  Speaker 1: First because Hua and Sheu were divorced.
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  Speaker 2: As far as Gua understood.
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  Speaker 1: They were definitely not a romantic couple at all anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And then secondly, it was also weird because in Taiwanese culture,
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  Speaker 1: public displays of affection are very taboo, especially among older generations,
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  Speaker 1: like it would be really uncommon for a middle aged
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  Speaker 1: couple to kiss and hug pretty much anywhere except inside
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  Speaker 1: their own home. So Officer Gua felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the only reason that made sense for you to behave
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  Speaker 1: the way he had on the elevator was if he
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  Speaker 1: knew something bad was about to happen to his ex wife.
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  Speaker 1: And as they continued investigating Shiu's story, they found more
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  Speaker 1: problems with it. They learned that the pawnshop owner did
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  Speaker 1: exist and Hua did owe him a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: but when they actually spoke to him, he said he
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  Speaker 1: had not been planning to meet with Wa on the
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  Speaker 1: night of her death. He didn't know what she was
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  Speaker 1: talking about. Police also got access to surveillance footage from
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  Speaker 1: Highway sixty one, where Hua's body had been found. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the cameras didn't cover the part of the road where
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  Speaker 1: the murder actually took place, but police were able to
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  Speaker 1: get footage of Hua driving along the highway at nine
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm, the time Su said she had told him
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  Speaker 1: she was being followed, but on this video there was
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  Speaker 1: clearly no other car following Hua. Now, it was technically
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  Speaker 1: possible that Hua had lied to her ex husband Chu
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, but to Officer Gua, it seemed much
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  Speaker 1: more likely that Sheu was now lying to him and
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  Speaker 1: making up this story about the car following his e X.
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  Speaker 1: After learning all of this, Officer Gua and his team
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  Speaker 1: went back and looked at all the surveillance footage from
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  Speaker 1: the apartment complex, and they also got access to she
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  Speaker 1: U's cell phone GPS records to see if they could
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  Speaker 1: track his movements on.
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  Speaker 2: The night of the murder. 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 1: 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 Hua 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.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit, and then he had an idea.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the person Shoe hired wasn't a stranger. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: hitman was somebody Whoa knew and trusted. Several months later,
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  Speaker 1: Officer Gua and one of his teammates were sitting inside
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  Speaker 1: of an office in a high rise building and New
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  Speaker 1: taipe A City. They were in front of this huge desk,
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  Speaker 1: and behind this desk was the man who worked in
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  Speaker 1: this office, and he was wh was brother. So Officer
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  Speaker 1: Gua and his team were still working off the idea
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  Speaker 1: that whoever killed Hua likely knew her personally, So they'd
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  Speaker 1: spent the last few months methodically tracking down and interviewing
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  Speaker 1: everyone in her cell phone contacts list. Now, so far,
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  Speaker 1: they had not found any new suspects, but they had.
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  Speaker 2: Learned some pretty interesting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently Hua had not just been in debt to that
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  Speaker 1: pawn shop owner, she also owed money to multiple banks,
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  Speaker 1: to friends, to family members, She even owed money to
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  Speaker 1: some very shady black market lenders. Altogether, she had the
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  Speaker 1: equivalent of nearly half a million US.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars in debt.
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  Speaker 1: And knowing all of this actually made Hua and her
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  Speaker 1: ex husband Shu's relationship make more sense. Several people had
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  Speaker 1: told Gua that the reason Hua and Sheu had gotten divorced.
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  Speaker 2: Was not because they wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: It was because Jua's credit was terrible because of all
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  Speaker 1: this debt, and she wanted to keep his finances separate
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  Speaker 1: from hers, and so, by all accounts, the couple, despite
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  Speaker 1: being divorced, were still very much in love and they
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  Speaker 1: were both devoted to each other and to their kids.
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  Speaker 1: And so this new information had kind of left Officer
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  Speaker 1: Gua and his team floundering because she had initially seemed
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  Speaker 1: so suspicious, but Gua still didn't have any hard evidence
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  Speaker 1: against him, and now he didn't even seem to have
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  Speaker 1: a motive for him. So now, as Gua sat inside
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  Speaker 1: of this office across from Jua's brother, he just hoped
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  Speaker 1: that some new piece of information would come to light,
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  Speaker 1: Gua and his partner asked the brother to please tell
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  Speaker 1: them everything he knew about Hua, her marriage, and anything
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  Speaker 1: else he thought might be relevant.
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  Speaker 2: The brother nodded and started talking.
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  Speaker 1: But pretty quickly what he was saying just sounded a
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  Speaker 1: lot like all the other stuff that Gua already knew.
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  Speaker 2: This was not new information.
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  Speaker 1: It was the same as always, and so as the
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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.
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  Speaker 1: Now Gua could only see a little bit of it,
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  Speaker 1: but he could tell that there was handwriting on the
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  Speaker 1: paper that looked familiar, and so, without saying anything like
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  Speaker 1: while the brother is still talking, Gua got up, walked
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  Speaker 1: around to the bookshelf, and he pulled out that piece
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  Speaker 1: of paper, and right away, as he's looking at it,
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  Speaker 1: his heart began to race because he saw that the
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  Speaker 1: handwriting on this piece of paper was the same handwriting
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  Speaker 1: that were on those four little scraps of paper that
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  Speaker 1: were found at the crime scene those pieces of paper
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  Speaker 1: that were sort of ruled out as trash. He's seeing
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  Speaker 1: this is definitely the same handwriting. But more than that,
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  Speaker 1: Gua is seeing that literally the actual words or portions
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  Speaker 1: of words and the number that were on those fragments
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  Speaker 1: are literally on this piece of paper. Clearly, he's looking
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  Speaker 1: at a duplicate of whatever document was in the car
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  Speaker 1: that got ripped up. He only had four little pieces before.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's looking at the full copy of that document.
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  Speaker 1: And as Gua looked over this document, it was like
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  Speaker 1: everything just snapped into place. Those fragments that he saw,
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  Speaker 1: those things that were found in the car that now
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  Speaker 1: have been laid out in this document. Those were bits
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  Speaker 1: and pieces of street names and addresses. Message that Gua
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  Speaker 1: was now looking at was actually a set of geographical directions,
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  Speaker 1: and the directions would lead whoever was following these directions
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  Speaker 1: to the actual location where Hua was murdered. And so
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  Speaker 1: after this discovery, the police very quickly figured out what
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  Speaker 1: happened to Hua, like who the mastermind was behind her murder.
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  Speaker 1: But amazingly, the mastermind was not Hua's brother, despite this
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  Speaker 1: document being found in his office. No, it would turn
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  Speaker 1: out that The story of Huas murder was far darker
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  Speaker 1: and far more tragic than anybody could have imagined. It
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  Speaker 1: all began one month before Hua's death. That was when
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  Speaker 1: three people who all wanted Hua dead met up. That
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  Speaker 1: was Jua's brother, Jua's ex husband, and the mastermind, and
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  Speaker 1: the three of them, once they got together, they began
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  Speaker 1: formulating a plan. Now, what they all decided was of
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  Speaker 1: them wanted to get their hands dirty, so they would
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  Speaker 1: hire a hitman. They decided that once they had this
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  Speaker 1: hit man, they would kill Hua in a neutral location.
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  Speaker 1: They would shoot her on the side of the highway,
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  Speaker 1: and they chose a date for her execution that was convenient,
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  Speaker 1: a time when that section of the road would be
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  Speaker 1: basically empty and also was an area where there were
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  Speaker 1: no cameras and few street lights and so on the
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  Speaker 1: night that Hua is going to be executed, the reason
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  Speaker 1: Hua's ex husband, Shu rode down the apartment elevator with
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  Speaker 1: her and hugged her and kissed her. And this big
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  Speaker 1: display of affection was because he knew what was going
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  Speaker 1: 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, Hu 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. The
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  Speaker 1: hitman used those to get to the location where they
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  Speaker 1: were going to kill Hua. And when he got there,
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  Speaker 1: he just pulled off to the side of the road
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  Speaker 1: and he waited.
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  Speaker 2: A little while.
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  Speaker 1: Later, the hitman saw juas gray sedan pass by him
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  Speaker 1: and come to a stop on the side of the road.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point the hitman got out of
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  Speaker 1: his car. He walked up alongside Jua's car. Her window
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  Speaker 1: was down, He pulled out a gun, and he shot her.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out the third person who met up
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  Speaker 1: with the ex husband and the brother who wanted Hua dead,
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  Speaker 1: who was the mastermind behind Hua's execution, was Hua herself.
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  Speaker 1: The reason Ha had those directions in her car that
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: she ultimately ripped up at the end and tried to
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  Speaker 1: dispose of is because she needed directions to go to
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  Speaker 1: the place where she was going to get killed. It's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: why the hitman got out of the car, walked right
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  Speaker 1: up and killed her with no fight. She had rolled
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  Speaker 1: down the window and was waiting. Police later determined that
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  Speaker 1: Hua had taken out a life insurance policy on herself
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  Speaker 1: that was worth so much money it would pay off
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  Speaker 1: all of her debt and leave her family with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money left over. She'd planned her own murder
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  Speaker 1: as a sort of self sacrifice in the hopes of
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  Speaker 1: giving her family a better life. She'd ultimately convinced her
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  Speaker 1: ex husband and brother to help in exchange for a
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  Speaker 1: cut of the money, but her plan didn't really work out.
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  Speaker 1: Qua's death was ruled a suicide, not a homicide, so
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  Speaker 1: the life insurance company didn't pay out anything.
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  Speaker 2: To her family.
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  Speaker 1: She Hua's brother, and the hitman all faced a number
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  Speaker 1: of charges, including facilitating suicide and fraud. They each received
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  Speaker 1: between six and a half and seven years in prison.
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