Frozen Body of Missing Woman Found in Paju Cafe Freezer

Police are investigating the discovery of a frozen body belonging to a woman in her 60s inside a freezer at a cafe in Paju, Gyeonggi Province.

Police have arrested and are currently detaining a cafe owner in his 30s as a suspect.

At around midnight on the 4th, a missing person report was filed in Seoul regarding a woman in her 60s, surnamed A.

Tracing her whereabouts based on the location of A's mobile phone, police discovered her body at around 2:00 p.m. on the same day inside a cafe freezer in Munsan-eup, Paju.

Police identified a man in his 30s, surnamed B, the owner of the cafe who was with the victim at the time of her disappearance, as the suspect.

B was arrested in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul, around the time the body was discovered.

Police subsequently applied for an arrest warrant for B on charges of murder of an abducted person.

The Goyang branch of the Uijeongbu District Court issued the warrant yesterday (the 6th).

A and B reportedly met for the first time at the cafe on the 3rd.

A had met with B, who engaged in the so-called "gift certificate cash conversion" business of buying and selling gift certificates for cash, to talk about gift certificates.

It was found that the two did not know each other prior to this.

Police have secured circumstances indicating that B lured A into the freezer by telling her, "The gift certificates are in the storage," and are investigating the case.

A's body was found frozen, suggesting it had been left in the freezer for a considerable period of time.

The freezer is a horizontally long container-type structure measuring around 30 square meters.

It was found to be located right next to the main building of B's cafe.

However, it has not yet been confirmed whether B murdered A inside the freezer and left her there, or if he locked a living A inside the freezer, causing her death.

Police stated that the exact cause of death and details of the crime need to be further verified through an autopsy and other investigations.

The cafe is known to be a popular spot that attracts many customers even from outside Paju.

B reportedly told his employees not to come to work and closed the cafe starting from the 3rd.

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