Freezer Delivered to Alleyway Captured a Week Before Paju Murder Case

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It has been revealed that the freezer in a cafe in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, where a woman in her 60s was found dead, was delivered and installed a week prior to the incident. Police have booked an additional man who drove the victim from Seoul to Paju on the day of the incident, and are investigating his possible connection to counterfeit department store gift certificates found inside the freezer.

Reporter Cho Min-ki has the details.

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A large cargo truck carries a giant white container through an alleyway.

About five hours later, the truck returns empty.

On August 27, a man in his 30s surnamed Shin, the suspect in the Paju freezer murder case, brought the container-style freezer into the cafe a week before the incident occurred.

Residents said they found the sudden appearance of the freezer puzzling.

[Nearby Resident: We were puzzled too. It wasn't there at all. But we wondered why they brought in a freezer....]

The 50 billion won worth of counterfeit department store gift certificates found alongside the body of the woman in her 60s inside the freezer were reportedly ordered by Shin, who visited a printing shop last July and requested them under the pretext that they were needed for a movie shoot.

Police have booked another man, identified as A, on charges related to the counterfeiting of the gift certificates.

According to reports, Man A drove the victim in his vehicle from Seoul to Paju on the day of the incident, after which the woman boarded the vehicle of the cafe owner, Shin.

Man A was also the person who informed the family that evening that they could not reach the victim.

Police have identified circumstances suggesting that Man A was involved in the production and distribution of the counterfeit gift certificates and are verifying his specific role.

Since Shin gave false statements regarding the victim's whereabouts while she was missing, which disrupted the investigation, police are examining the credibility of his statements through mobile phone forensics.

As the real name and photos of the suspect Shin are spreading via social media, public attention is also focused on whether the police will disclose his identity.

(Cameraer: Kim Nam-sung, Video Editing: Choi Hye-ran)
※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.