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Bizarre call led them to a horrific crime scene - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you about two shocking murders that,
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Speaker 1: at first glance, just seemed impossible. Like, how did anybody
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Speaker 1: Around noon on November 19th, 1976, a housekeeper named Ying
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Speaker 1: Gu pushed her cleaning cart down the hallway of a
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Speaker 1: hotel in Hong Kong.
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Speaker 2: Eventually she reached room number.
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Speaker 1: Two and she called out, you know, housekeeping through the
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Speaker 1: door to let the occupants know she was here. She
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Speaker 1: knocked a couple of times, but there was no answer.
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Speaker 1: So after a few moments, Ying pulled out her master.
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Speaker 2: Key and she unlocked the door.
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Speaker 1: And pretty much the instant she opened the door, even
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Speaker 1: just a little bit, Ying heard this electrical whirring sound
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Speaker 1: coming from inside the room.
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Speaker 2: And Ying knew exactly what that sound was.
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Speaker 1: Because all of the guest beds in this hotel were
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Speaker 1: these big circular beds with electric motors so they could rotate.
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Speaker 2: It was sort of a novelty.
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Speaker 1: And so Ying just figured that, you know, the occupants
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Speaker 1: of this room, who clearly were not here, must have
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Speaker 1: just accidentally left their bed on.
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Speaker 2: And that's why she heard it.
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Speaker 1: However, when Ying pushed the door all the way open,
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Speaker 1: she immediately stumbled back in shock because in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the room, there was a bed that was still spinning.
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Speaker 1: That's why it was making that whirring sound. But it
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Speaker 1: was set to the fastest setting. So it's rotating really quickly.
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Speaker 1: And on the bed was clearly a dead body, a
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Speaker 1: naked woman, a dead naked woman. And her body is
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Speaker 1: like bouncing around. And every time she bounces, blood is
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Speaker 1: is spraying from her body all over the room. A
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Speaker 1: few days later, the chief of the Hong Kong Police's
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Speaker 1: Major Crimes Unit, Wong Ting Pong, knocked on the door
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Speaker 1: of a house that was not far from the hotel
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Speaker 1: where that body was found. A woman eventually answered the door,
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Speaker 1: and she had obviously been crying, but she stepped aside
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Speaker 1: to let Wong in. This woman was the sister of
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Speaker 1: the dead woman, and by this point, the victim had
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Speaker 1: been identified as 22-year-old.
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Speaker 2: Guo Ming Lu.
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Speaker 1: And Guo had been stabbed more than two dozen times.
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Speaker 1: And the medical examiner had put her time of death
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Speaker 1: at around 11 o'clock in the morning, so just about
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Speaker 1: an hour before the housekeeper ultimately found her. The only
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Speaker 1: other clue that Chief Wang had to go on at
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Speaker 1: this point about what had happened inside of that hotel
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Speaker 1: room was that 20 minutes before Guo checked into the hotel,
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Speaker 1: she'd gotten a pager notification from somebody named Lu. So
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Speaker 1: now Chief Wang stepped into the sister's home and immediately
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Speaker 1: asked her if the name Lou sounded familiar. And Guo's
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Speaker 1: sister immediately broke down crying even more and just kept nodding,
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Speaker 1: saying yes. 30 minutes later, Chief Wang had left the
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Speaker 1: sister's house and walked up to a stand at a
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Speaker 1: nearby fish market, where a man behind the counter was
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Speaker 1: busy slicing fish and then setting.
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Speaker 2: Them in a bed of ice.
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Speaker 1: Chief Wang had been told by the sister that this
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Speaker 1: guy who worked at the fish market was Lou, the
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Speaker 1: man he was looking for. And so Chief Wang asked
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Speaker 1: the guy, hey, are you Liu Junxi. And the man
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Speaker 1: with the fish, he didn't even look up from what
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Speaker 1: he was doing, and he just said, yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then kind of rudely, he asked, what is this about?
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Speaker 1: So according to Guo's sister, the Liu who had paged
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Speaker 1: Guo on the night of her death was her boyfriend.
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Speaker 2: And his name was Liu Junxi. And this guy's claiming
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Speaker 2: that's who he is.
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Speaker 1: And Liu, this Liu we're talking about, was married with kids,
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Speaker 1: but he'd secretly been dating Guo.
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Speaker 2: For six months. and apparently it had gotten pretty serious.
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Speaker 1: Although recently they'd been fighting terribly and Liu was known
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Speaker 1: to have a very violent temper. And so when Chief
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Speaker 1: Wang had heard this from the sister, I mean, his
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Speaker 1: first thought is, this has got to be the killer.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Liu, whoever this guy is, he's got to
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Speaker 1: be the killer.
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Speaker 2: He's having an affair.
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Speaker 1: He's sent Guo a pager notification right before she was killed.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's even right now, you know, cutting up
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Speaker 2: a fish with a knife. He's using a knife. It's
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Speaker 2: got to be him. I mean, she was killed with
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Speaker 2: a knife, right?
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Speaker 1: And so now Chief Wong just went right at Lu,
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Speaker 1: asking him pretty point-blank questions. He started by telling Lu
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Speaker 1: that Guo was dead. She had been murdered nearby in
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Speaker 1: the hotel. And Lu didn't really seem fazed by this information,
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Speaker 1: barely looked up from his fish. But then Chief Wong
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Speaker 1: asked him, like, hey, were you dating Guo? We heard
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Speaker 1: you're having an affair. And she was the person you
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Speaker 1: were having an affair with. And Lu, again, barely looking
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Speaker 1: up from his fish that he's still butchering, he's like, yeah...
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Speaker 1: You know, I was having an affair with her.
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Speaker 2: That was true.
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Speaker 1: And he actually even admitted that he had been at
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Speaker 1: the hotel with Guo around the same time she had
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Speaker 1: been killed. But he said he had nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with her death, even though he really seemed sort of
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Speaker 1: unfazed by her death. Like he wasn't even shocked that
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Speaker 1: this woman apparently he was having an affair with is
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Speaker 1: now dead. It's like he couldn't have cared less, but
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Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I didn't do it though. And so
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Speaker 1: now Chief Wong is thinking like, okay, for sure, this
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Speaker 1: guy is the killer. Like he's way too nonchalant. He
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to care at all. Like, I've got my guy.
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Speaker 2: He's the killer.
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Speaker 1: And so thinking he had basically caught Lou, he asked
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Speaker 1: Lou where he was at 11 a.m., which was the
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Speaker 1: supposed time of death. But Lou, when he heard this,
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Speaker 1: he just sort of smirked and said, nah, I left
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Speaker 1: the hotel. So I was with her, but I left
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Speaker 1: the hotel around 3 a.m. And, you know, my co-workers
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Speaker 1: can confirm that. You know, I've been here, you know,
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Speaker 1: at the fish market. So I'm assuming 11 a.m.
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Speaker 2: Is when she was killed. Wasn't me. wasn't there. Now,
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Speaker 2: Chief Wong still did not believe Lou.
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Speaker 1: He felt like he was just way too smooth and
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Speaker 1: still just like not affected the way he should have
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Speaker 1: been by the death of his girlfriend. But Chief Wong
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Speaker 1: spoke to Lou's boss and his coworkers, and they all
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Speaker 1: confirmed that by 11 a.m., you know, he certainly was
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Speaker 1: not anywhere near Guo.
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Speaker 2: He was at work and had been for several hours.
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Speaker 1: And so ultimately, as much as Chief Wong really wanted
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Speaker 1: Lou to be the killer, it was like he was perfect.
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Speaker 2: This has got to be the guy.
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Speaker 1: As much as he wanted that to be the case,
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Speaker 1: it seemed like it just couldn't be. And so ultimately,
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Speaker 1: Chief Wong told Lou that he would, you know, be
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Speaker 1: in touch, but he just left and realized he would
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Speaker 1: have to find a new suspect.
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Speaker 2: And so Chief Wong, he.
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Speaker 1: Gets in his car and he starts driving back to
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Speaker 1: the police station. And on his ride, he just can't
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Speaker 1: shake this idea that Lou had to have been involved.
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Speaker 1: Like there's too many factors at play here. Like I
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Speaker 1: get it. He has an alibi, but How could he
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Speaker 1: sit there and just chop up those fish, you know,
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Speaker 1: using a knife? How callous is that to be sitting
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Speaker 1: there using a knife as I'm sitting here telling him
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend's been stabbed to death?
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Speaker 2: He doesn't seem to care. He's using the knife and
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Speaker 2: he's just saying he didn't do it. Like, I get it.
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Speaker 1: He has the alibi, but it's just, it's like I've
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Speaker 1: missed something. And so Chief Wong, he's driving home and
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Speaker 1: he's just so frustrated. And he starts thinking more and
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Speaker 1: more about like the fish, like specifically the fish. that
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Speaker 1: Liu was chopping up as they were having their interview
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Speaker 1: just moments ago.
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Speaker 2: And suddenly, Chief Wang thought of something.
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Speaker 1: And the more he thought about this new angle that
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Speaker 1: he hadn't thought up to this point that has been
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Speaker 1: inspired by these fish, the more it made sense and
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Speaker 1: the more it would explain this very bizarre case. And
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Speaker 1: so by the time Chief Wang got back to the
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Speaker 1: police station, he had this great idea. He runs into
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Speaker 1: his office, he picks up the phone, and he calls
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Speaker 1: the medical examiner, and he tells them, need you to
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Speaker 1: recalculate something. What Chief Wong had ultimately thought of when
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Speaker 1: he had been thinking about those fish that Liu had
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Speaker 1: been butchering in front of him was that Guo's time
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Speaker 1: of death had very likely been determined based on a
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Speaker 1: phenomenon called liver mortis. Liver mortis refers to the way
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Speaker 1: the blood pools in the body after the heart stops beating. Basically,
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Speaker 1: a medical examiner can tell how long ago a person
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Speaker 1: died by how their blood has settled in their body. Guo,
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Speaker 1: when she was found, she was deceased, for sure. She's lying,
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Speaker 1: you know, stationary on the bed. But the bed, that
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Speaker 1: rotating bed, was moving. It was spinning really quickly and vibrating.
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Speaker 1: And it was causing her body to shake. And that
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Speaker 1: shaking was causing the blood in her body to sort
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Speaker 1: of artificially continue to move around, even though she was dead.
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Speaker 1: And so it prevented the onset of liver mortis. And
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Speaker 1: so Chief Wong, as he's seeing the fish that lose
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Speaker 1: handling being moved around, it somehow inspired that thought that like, well,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, Guo, she was moving around. And so
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Speaker 1: I bet her time of death was miscalculated. And so
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Speaker 1: with this in mind, Chief Wong calls the medical examiner
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Speaker 1: and says, hey, I think you need to recalculate Guo's
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Speaker 1: time of death because of this phenomenon.
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Speaker 2: She was shaking on that platform.
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Speaker 1: And so the examiner recalculated, taking into account the fact
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Speaker 1: that her body was moving. And wouldn't you know it,
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Speaker 1: Her new time of death was not 11 a.m., but instead.
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Speaker 2: Eight hours earlier at 3 a.m.
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Speaker 1: And guess who didn't have an alibi for 3 a.m.? Lou,
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Speaker 1: the angry boyfriend. And sure enough, forensic evidence would confirm
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Speaker 1: he was Guo's killer.
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Speaker 2: It's believed that because he was a.
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Speaker 1: Butcher himself, he was a of the phenomenon of liver mortis,
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Speaker 1: and after stabbing Guo to death, he put her on
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Speaker 1: that rotating bed and set it to high speed, specifically
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Speaker 1: to throw off her time of death in order to
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Speaker 1: create an alibi for himself. But of course, the alibi
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Speaker 1: fell apart. Ultimately, Lou was found guilty of murder, and
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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of October 27, 2000, a secretary at
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Speaker 1: a major electronics company in Taoyuan, Taiwan, answered the phone
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Speaker 1: at her desk. But when she put the receiver to
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Speaker 1: her ear, all she heard was frantic screaming. And for
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Speaker 1: a second, she just thought it must be a wrong
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Speaker 1: number or a prank. But then this caller, who sounded
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Speaker 1: like an elderly woman, said she desperately needed help because
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Speaker 1: someone at the electronics company where this secretary worked was
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Speaker 1: in horrible danger. And now, even though the secretary still
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Speaker 1: had no idea what was going on, she listened more
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Speaker 1: closely as this older woman told her this just completely
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Speaker 1: bizarre story. She said that her grandson worked at this company,
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Speaker 1: the electronics company, and apparently he had gotten into a
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Speaker 1: fight with another employee. And so to get even, her
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Speaker 1: grandson had planned a kidnapping, but had accidentally kidnapped the
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Speaker 1: wrong person. And she said now her grandson was holding
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Speaker 1: this wrong employee hostage at this nearby pond. Now, this
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Speaker 1: older woman's story was insane, and she really did sound
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Speaker 1: completely hysterical. And so the secretary did just want to
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Speaker 1: write her off and be done with this and just
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Speaker 1: chalk it up to mental illness. But the secretary thought
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Speaker 1: of something that for a second made her stomach drop.
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Speaker 2: Just prior to this phone call, she had.
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Speaker 1: Been made aware that the company's deputy manager hadn't shown
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Speaker 1: up for work yet. And this was odd, like he
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Speaker 1: was late enough that people were sort of worried about
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Speaker 1: what was going on with him. And furthermore, the secretary
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Speaker 1: had learned, again, right before this call with this woman,
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Speaker 1: that this deputy manager's boss had tried getting in touch
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Speaker 1: with him and he couldn't get in touch with him.
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Speaker 1: So like there was something happening with the deputy manager.
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Speaker 1: And so the secretary couldn't help but wonder, is the
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Speaker 1: deputy manager of this company the person who's being held
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Speaker 1: hostage if this woman's story is true? Like that's crazy,
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Speaker 1: but what if that's actually going on? What if that's
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Speaker 1: the real story? And so the secretary, now she's sort
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Speaker 1: of frantic and she asked the woman, like, who's your grandson?
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Speaker 1: Like who's doing this? but the old woman didn't answer.
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Speaker 1: She just told the secretary, you need to call the
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Speaker 1: police right now. And then she hung up the phone.
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Speaker 1: Later that night, a police detective named Zhang Guowei walked
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Speaker 1: down an embankment at a park on the outskirts of Taoyuan,
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Speaker 1: and he stopped at the edge of a big mossy pond.
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Speaker 1: At this point, all around him, a forensics team was
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Speaker 1: searching the pond and the rest of the park for clues.
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Speaker 1: Because just a few hours ago, Police officers had rushed
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Speaker 1: here after they received a tip about some kidnapping from
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Speaker 1: the secretary of a major electronics company. And when the
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Speaker 1: police had arrived, they hadn't seen any kidnappers, but they
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Speaker 1: had found a huge canvas bag floating conspicuously out in
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Speaker 1: the pond. And when they pulled the bag out of
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Speaker 1: the pond and unzipped it, they had found a dead
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Speaker 1: body inside. They had identified the body as Chun Rung Chung,
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Speaker 1: and he was the missing deputy manager at that same
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Speaker 1: electronics company. And so now, Jung knelt down under a
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Speaker 1: floodlight and began to look at Chun's body, and as
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Speaker 1: he did, he began to think to himself that this
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Speaker 1: is gonna be one of the most complicated cases he.
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Speaker 2: Had ever worked.
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Speaker 1: So the tip that had led the police here was
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Speaker 1: already just totally bizarre. Apparently, one of the victim's coworkers
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Speaker 1: had kidnapped Chun by mistake, like they meant to kidnap
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Speaker 1: somebody else at the company, but they scooped up Chun.
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Speaker 1: And then what does the kidnapper do? Well, after telling
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Speaker 1: their grandmother, and again, having the wrong person they're holding,
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Speaker 1: they don't release Chun. No, they brutally murder him. They
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Speaker 1: tie his wrists and his ankles, and then they nearly decapitate.
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Speaker 2: Him and then throw him in the pond. Why?
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Speaker 1: What in the world's going on here? What would cause
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Speaker 1: someone to do that to the wrong person? And why
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Speaker 1: were you kidnapping in the first place? Like the whole
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Speaker 1: thing just seemed insane. And so to Officer Zhang, it
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Speaker 1: seemed like either the kidnapper had the worst whoopsie daisy
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Speaker 1: ever and, you know, kidnaps the wrong person, panics, tells
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Speaker 1: his grandmother, continues to panic and kills the wrong person.
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Speaker 1: And it's a big whoops, got the wrong guy and
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Speaker 1: it went really badly. And so if that's the case,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about a, A true amateur. Like, this is
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Speaker 1: not a professional job. This is just sloppy, amateur, emotional madness. Or, frankly,
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Speaker 1: the more likely scenario in Officer Zhong's mind.
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Speaker 2: Is this wasn't an accident.
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Speaker 1: That the idea that this was a kidnapping gone wrong
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Speaker 1: and Chun was the wrong guy, that was just a
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Speaker 1: cover story. That in reality, you know, if we're going
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Speaker 1: with this alternative scenario, Chun was the target. He was
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Speaker 1: scooped up and he was murdered. and the grandmother calling
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Speaker 1: in saying that this was a big mistake was sort
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Speaker 1: of part of the cover. And so that's the way
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Speaker 1: Officer Zhang was looking at this, either sloppy amateurs or, frankly,
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Speaker 1: hardened professionals. And so as Officer Zhang is thinking about
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Speaker 1: these two scenarios and sort of what they're going to
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Speaker 1: do next, somewhere behind him near the pond, he hears
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Speaker 1: this piercing scream, and he turns and he sees this
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Speaker 1: woman who's standing at the top of the embankment, and
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Speaker 1: she's staring down at Chun's destroyed body under the floodlight.
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Speaker 1: And then the woman, she runs down the embankment and
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Speaker 1: collapses next to the body. A few minutes later, Officer
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Speaker 1: Zhang sat on a bench with the woman who had
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Speaker 1: collapsed as paramedics checked her vitals and gave her fluids.
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Speaker 1: The woman had told Zhang that her name was Zhang
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Speaker 1: Yiyuan and that she was actually Chun's fiance. Now, Yiyuan
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Speaker 1: was obviously very upset. She was sort of hysterical. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, she kept demanding to know what had happened.
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Speaker 1: And she kept saying that she and Chun... We're supposed
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Speaker 1: to get married in just 10 days. Like, what happened?
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Speaker 1: And so Officer Zhang, as gently as he could, explained
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Speaker 1: to her that, you know, Chun's office had gotten a
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Speaker 1: very strange phone call about a mistaken kidnapping.
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Speaker 2: And apparently Chun was the mistaken victim here.
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Speaker 1: And then he asked Yi Wan if she or anyone
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Speaker 1: else in her family or Chun's family had been contacted
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Speaker 1: by kidnappers or if they had received any kind of
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Speaker 1: ransom note or anything to do with a potential kidnapping.
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Speaker 1: But Yi Wen, she just, she shook her head and
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Speaker 1: said no, and just seemed really confused by the idea
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Speaker 1: that this was a kidnapping. And so Zheng asked her,
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Speaker 1: when was the last time you heard from Chen? And
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Speaker 1: Yi Wen, she thought about it for a second. And
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Speaker 1: then she said she had seen him two days ago.
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Speaker 1: She said they had rented a hotel suite in a
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Speaker 1: nearby city so they could have a getaway before the wedding.
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Speaker 2: But she said she hadn't heard from him since then.
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Speaker 1: But she clarified that that was normal because he worked
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Speaker 1: a lot. Zhang asked if there was anybody who might
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Speaker 1: have wanted to hurt Chun.
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Speaker 2: But he won. She said, no, not that you could
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Speaker 2: think of.
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Speaker 1: You know, he lived a generally pretty quiet life. Mostly
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Speaker 1: all he did was work. She did say that at
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Speaker 1: one point he did like to gamble, but he didn't
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Speaker 1: do that anymore and he'd paid off all of his debts. Now,
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Speaker 1: Zhang did not immediately follow up and ask a bunch
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Speaker 1: of questions about Chun's potential gambling habits, but it definitely
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Speaker 1: piqued his interest that maybe gambling had something to do
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Speaker 1: with this as much as E1 was saying that her
19:11
Speaker 1: fiancé was no longer involved in gambling.
19:14
Speaker 2: And so the two of them, they spoke for a
19:15
Speaker 2: bit longer.
19:16
Speaker 1: But then pretty quickly, Zhang cut the interview and left
19:19
Speaker 1: E1 with the paramedics. And then at that point, Zhang
19:23
Speaker 1: was really starting to think that he had a new
19:25
Speaker 1: theory about what could have happened here. Maybe Chun was
19:27
Speaker 1: not a reformed gambler. Maybe he was just a gambler.
19:31
Speaker 1: And maybe he was hiding that from his fiancé. The
19:35
Speaker 1: next day, Officer Zhang was back at the electronics company.
19:38
Speaker 1: and he was rummaging through the desk that had belonged
19:40
Speaker 1: to Chun. He opened up the top desk drawer and
19:43
Speaker 1: began searching through all these stacks of papers inside. But
19:47
Speaker 1: so far, he hadn't found anything that pointed to who
19:50
Speaker 1: might have killed Chun or what even happened to him.
19:52
Speaker 1: And at this point, Zhang was thinking that, you know,
19:55
Speaker 1: the original theory that this was either a very sloppy
19:59
Speaker 1: botched kidnapping or a very professional kidnapping, that neither were true.
20:04
Speaker 2: It was not a kidnapping at all.
20:06
Speaker 1: Nobody had received any ransom calls.
20:08
Speaker 2: And so this was just murder. Chun was snatched up
20:12
Speaker 2: and just killed.
20:14
Speaker 1: Also, at this point, the police had not been able
20:16
Speaker 1: to trace that call from the older woman who had
20:19
Speaker 1: called the company to say that her grandson had kidnapped
20:22
Speaker 1: Chun by accident, so they had no idea who she
20:24
Speaker 1: was and really didn't have a good way to find her.
20:27
Speaker 1: But to Zhang, that whole weird fake kidnapping story was
20:31
Speaker 1: just so bizarre and really didn't make any sense with
20:34
Speaker 1: the rest of the facts. Zhang had actually looked into
20:37
Speaker 1: all the other employees at this company But everybody who
20:41
Speaker 1: missed work the day Chun was killed had an alibi.
20:44
Speaker 1: So it wasn't even possible that he'd been, you know,
20:47
Speaker 1: accidentally kidnapped by a co-worker. And so at this point,
20:50
Speaker 1: Zhang felt really confident that the mistaken kidnapping thing, that
20:54
Speaker 1: was just a cover story. And so part of this
20:56
Speaker 1: new theory he was developing that had to do with
20:58
Speaker 1: Chun maybe being a gambler also involved someone murdering Chun
21:02
Speaker 1: and then staging that call from the old woman to
21:05
Speaker 1: throw off the investigation.
21:07
Speaker 2: However, as much as he.
21:08
Speaker 1: Wanted gambling to be the reason why Chun was dead,
21:12
Speaker 1: he hadn't found evidence that actually showed gambling had anything
21:16
Speaker 1: to do with it. And so he still was stuck
21:17
Speaker 1: on why was Chun targeted. And so that's what he
21:21
Speaker 1: was doing. He was looking through the desk to find
21:23
Speaker 1: something that gave away why Chun would be a target.
21:26
Speaker 1: And at some point, he opened up one of the
21:28
Speaker 1: lower drawers in the desk and he found a crumpled
21:31
Speaker 1: piece of paper.
21:32
Speaker 2: And so he pulled it out.
21:34
Speaker 1: He flattened it out, and it's this handwritten note that
21:36
Speaker 1: Chun had clearly written to himself and hastily stuffed in
21:39
Speaker 1: his drawer that was reminding himself to calculate how much
21:44
Speaker 1: debt he owed to a man named Sher Non Fong.
21:49
Speaker 1: It seemed an awful lot like Zhang had just found
21:52
Speaker 1: his why, like why somebody would want Chun dead.
21:56
Speaker 2: Seemed like gambling might actually be the issue here.
21:59
Speaker 1: The following day, Officer Zhang walked into an interrogation room
22:03
Speaker 1: at the police station in Taoyuan, and he sat down
22:06
Speaker 1: across from Sher Nanfeng, who was now his top suspect.
22:10
Speaker 1: So after Zhang had found that note in Chun's desk,
22:13
Speaker 1: he had called Chun's fiancée to ask about this Sher
22:16
Speaker 1: Nanfeng guy. And the fiancée had immediately sounded really anxious,
22:21
Speaker 1: and she said that she did recognize his name. And
22:24
Speaker 1: she said he was a gambler. And a couple of
22:26
Speaker 1: years ago, Chun had owed him a ton of money.
22:30
Speaker 1: And it had taken Chun so long to pay Shure
22:32
Speaker 1: back that Shure had at one point actually threatened Chun's life.
22:36
Speaker 1: But Chun's fiancé was adamant that Chun had eventually paid
22:41
Speaker 1: Shure off completely and then promised her, promised the fiancé,
22:45
Speaker 1: that he was done gambling for good.
22:47
Speaker 2: And as far as she knew, he really was. So,
22:49
Speaker 2: you know, that note must be old.
22:51
Speaker 1: It must be about his old debts because he's not
22:53
Speaker 1: currently in debt to Shure. But to Zhang, it seemed
22:57
Speaker 1: like this note was pretty recent. Like, this is not
22:59
Speaker 1: some ancient note tucked away in the back of his desk.
23:02
Speaker 2: This looked fresh.
23:04
Speaker 1: And if we believe the note is true, well, it
23:06
Speaker 1: looks an awful lot like Chen was currently in debt
23:09
Speaker 1: to this guy, Shi, who apparently has made death threats
23:12
Speaker 1: against Chen. And so now, Zhang stared across the table
23:16
Speaker 1: at Shi Nanfang, and he asked him, how much money
23:20
Speaker 1: did Chen Runcheng owe you? And now, Zhang expected Shi
23:24
Speaker 1: to act nervous or maybe get defensive.
23:26
Speaker 2: But instead, Shi just seemed really confused.
23:29
Speaker 1: And he said that he had no idea who Chen
23:32
Speaker 1: Rencheng was. Officer Zhang felt like, you know, clearly Shi
23:36
Speaker 1: is just lying. And so he just pulled out that
23:38
Speaker 1: crumpled up note that he had found in Chen's desk,
23:41
Speaker 1: and he passed it across the table. And Zhang, he
23:43
Speaker 1: kept his eyes locked on Shi's face as he read
23:46
Speaker 1: the note, you know, searching for any hint of fear
23:49
Speaker 1: or recognition as he sees what's in front of him.
23:52
Speaker 1: But eventually, Schur just looked up and shook his head
23:55
Speaker 1: and said, there's got to be a mistake here. He
23:58
Speaker 1: admitted that he was involved in illegal gambling and a
24:01
Speaker 1: lot of people in town did owe him money. But
24:04
Speaker 1: Chun was not one of them. He said that he
24:06
Speaker 1: literally had no idea who Chun was. And Schur said that,
24:10
Speaker 1: you know, besides that, he also had an alibi for
24:13
Speaker 1: the night Chun was murdered. And he said several people
24:16
Speaker 1: could confirm it. Now, Officer Zhang did not believe him.
24:20
Speaker 1: And so when he left the interrogation room to check
24:23
Speaker 1: Schur's alibi, he expected his story would just fall apart. However,
24:27
Speaker 1: later on that day, Zhang was able to actually verify
24:31
Speaker 1: Schur's alibi.
24:32
Speaker 2: He'd been telling the truth.
24:34
Speaker 1: So just to be sure, Zhang checked Schur's phone records
24:37
Speaker 1: and bank statements, and he also couldn't find any records
24:41
Speaker 1: of him ever having any contact with Chun. which meant
24:45
Speaker 1: something was off about that note. Either that note was
24:48
Speaker 1: misinterpreted or was planted by someone or something, or maybe
24:53
Speaker 1: there was another sure that Chun owed money to. And
24:56
Speaker 1: so that night, Officer Zhang sat down at his desk
24:59
Speaker 1: and he pulled out Chun's handwritten note, and he stared
25:02
Speaker 1: down at it and just, you know, tried to rack
25:05
Speaker 1: his brain to figure out what he could possibly be
25:07
Speaker 1: missing here. But he just couldn't think of anything. Like
25:10
Speaker 1: there wasn't a a logical reason for why this note
25:13
Speaker 1: existed and why it was here.
25:14
Speaker 2: Inside of this drawer.
25:16
Speaker 1: So at some point, Zhang set the note aside and
25:19
Speaker 1: he began shuffling through the rest of the papers that
25:21
Speaker 1: he had taken from Chun's desk, hoping that maybe something
25:24
Speaker 1: else would pop out and help him make sense of
25:26
Speaker 1: this case.
25:27
Speaker 2: And so he began flipping through page by page. And
25:30
Speaker 2: then at some point he stopped because he noticed something.
25:34
Speaker 1: And he looks really closely at one of the pages
25:35
Speaker 1: that had a lot of Chun's handwriting on it. And
25:38
Speaker 1: then he pulled out the original crumpled up note, the
25:40
Speaker 1: handwritten note from Chun, and he compared the two. And
25:44
Speaker 1: something clicked. Like there was a discrepancy here. The handwriting,
25:47
Speaker 1: it didn't look the same. And so Zhang, he jumps
25:50
Speaker 1: up and runs down the hallway to his supervisor's office.
25:53
Speaker 1: And he tells his supervisor that we need handwriting samples
25:56
Speaker 1: from everyone who could have had access to Chun's office.
26:00
Speaker 1: Because the note they'd found in Chun's desk drawer was
26:03
Speaker 1: clearly not his handwriting.
26:05
Speaker 2: Someone else had planted it there.
26:07
Speaker 1: A few days later, Officer Zhong finally knew who really
26:11
Speaker 1: had written that note in Chun's desk. But the answer
26:15
Speaker 1: only seemed to deepen the mystery around what happened to Chun.
26:18
Speaker 1: Because the handwriting belonged to a woman named Luo Mayun,
26:24
Speaker 1: who on the surface made absolutely zero sense as Chun's
26:28
Speaker 1: killer or having anything to do with Chun's death. She
26:32
Speaker 1: was just this random woman who was married to a
26:34
Speaker 1: local police officer. And for a second, they thought maybe
26:38
Speaker 1: her husband was involved in this case. But no, her
26:40
Speaker 1: husband was not involved. He'd actually been on an assignment
26:44
Speaker 1: 25 miles away during the entire investigation.
26:47
Speaker 2: So he was not remotely involved.
26:48
Speaker 1: So Officer Zhang just began diving into Luo's past, looking
26:52
Speaker 1: for some connection, any connection to Chun.
26:56
Speaker 2: And eventually, he did find one.
26:58
Speaker 1: He learned that eight years earlier, Luo and Chun had
27:02
Speaker 1: both been in the China Youth Corps together. It was
27:05
Speaker 1: sort of a stretch, but it was a connection. So
27:07
Speaker 1: Zhang brought Luo into the station for questioning. And during
27:11
Speaker 1: this interview, she confessed that she and Chen were not
27:15
Speaker 1: just old acquaintances. Ever since they met eight years ago,
27:20
Speaker 1: they'd secretly been carrying on an affair for eight years.
27:24
Speaker 1: And as she told the story of their relationship, Officer
27:27
Speaker 1: Zhang realized he'd been looking at this case all wrong.
27:31
Speaker 2: He thought Chen was living a double life as a gambler.
27:35
Speaker 1: But no, it was this woman Luo who had this
27:38
Speaker 1: major secret that involved Chun. And it would turn out
27:41
Speaker 1: during the course of their interview that during those whole
27:45
Speaker 1: eight years that Luo had been with Chun, Chun didn't
27:49
Speaker 1: know that Luo was married. So she was keeping the
27:52
Speaker 1: secret both from Chun and also from her police officer husband.
27:57
Speaker 1: And so Luo is living this totally insane double life,
28:00
Speaker 1: doing everything she can to keep these men from finding
28:03
Speaker 1: out about the other. At some point, just to showcase
28:06
Speaker 1: how extreme her lies were becoming, she actually got pregnant
28:10
Speaker 1: with the police officer's child, but she needed to hide
28:13
Speaker 1: her pregnancy from Chun, and so she began to tell
28:16
Speaker 1: Chun that she was going to be leaving the country
28:19
Speaker 1: and studying abroad for a couple of years. And then
28:22
Speaker 1: when Chun just didn't believe that, she said, well, actually,
28:25
Speaker 1: I'm an international spy, and so I need to be
28:28
Speaker 1: gone for a couple of years. And apparently Chun had
28:31
Speaker 1: believed that lie, and so she'd been able to to.
28:33
Speaker 2: Hide the pregnancy by pretending to be a spy.
28:36
Speaker 1: And Luo said Chun really had been madly in love
28:39
Speaker 1: with her. And so he was basically easy to manipulate.
28:42
Speaker 1: But over time, there was just so many lies that
28:44
Speaker 1: Luo had told Chun in particular, that he was beginning
28:48
Speaker 1: to become a little bit suspicious that something was off here.
28:51
Speaker 1: And so Luo needed to do something to show him
28:54
Speaker 1: that she was, you know, committed to him and that
28:56
Speaker 1: everything was okay. And so Luo said that she had
28:59
Speaker 1: ultimately agreed to marry Chun. And it would turn out
29:02
Speaker 1: that Luo was literally Chun's fiance, except she was going
29:07
Speaker 1: by a different name. Chun had no idea about this
29:10
Speaker 1: other life. He thought he was going to be marrying
29:12
Speaker 1: Zhang Yiyuan, that's what she called herself, but really it's
29:15
Speaker 1: this woman Luo, and she's living this double life.
29:19
Speaker 2: And she would say that with.
29:20
Speaker 1: 10 days to go until their marriage, you know, Chun's
29:24
Speaker 1: really excited about this. He's finally going to marry the
29:26
Speaker 1: girl he loves. She just couldn't handle it because she
29:29
Speaker 1: knew her con was going to be exposed because she
29:31
Speaker 1: would have to reveal herself her legal name, in order
29:35
Speaker 1: to get married. So in 10 days time, the eight
29:38
Speaker 1: year con was going to be up. And so she
29:40
Speaker 1: had to do something about it. And so what did
29:43
Speaker 1: Luo slash E1 do? Well, she ruthlessly murdered Chun and
29:48
Speaker 1: chucked his nearly decapitated body in the pond. And then
29:51
Speaker 1: to cover her tracks, she'd used another fake identity and
29:55
Speaker 1: made the phone call to Chun's workplace, pretending to be
29:57
Speaker 1: that older woman at acting like this was a botched kidnapping.
30:01
Speaker 1: And she also had been the one who wrote and
30:04
Speaker 1: then planted that note in Chun's desk about the gambling debts.
30:08
Speaker 1: And so despite all her efforts to protect her various identities,
30:12
Speaker 1: ultimately Luo Mayan was exposed and convicted of murder and
30:17
Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison. Thank you so much for watching.
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