It was found that the owner of the apartment where the body of the taxi driver was found in the closet was neither the suspect nor the reporter, but a completely different person. 



Currently, the person cannot be contacted, so the police are trying to find out where he is. 



According to the Gyeonggi Ilsan Dongbu Police Station on the 26th, it was revealed that the owner of an apartment in Paju City where A, a man in his 30s who was charged with murder and hiding a body, was a woman's house. 



The police are looking for this woman by adding additional investigative personnel, and are also looking into whether her disappearance is related to another crime by Mr. A. 



Meanwhile, the owner's cell phone was found among the belongings of Mr. A, and it was found that the woman had not been reported missing to the police.



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Mr. A had an accident with a taxi while driving drunk around 11 pm on the 20th. 



He is accused of hiding the body in a closet after luring a taxi driver, a man in his 60s, to a house and killing him with a blunt weapon, saying he would give him settlement money and repair costs if he did not call the police. 



In addition, Mr. A abandoned Mr. B's taxi in a nearby vacant lot about 1km away, deleted the black box record, and when contacted by Mr. B's family, he sent a message such as "I'm busy. No battery" on his cell phone instead. Attempts were made to cover up the crime. 



During the police investigation, it was confirmed that Mr. A stated that he killed in anger. 



Mr. A's crime was revealed in about 5 days. 



Mr. B's family, who found the reply in a different tone strange than usual, reported missing to the police at around 3:30 am on the 25th, saying, "My father hasn't come home for several days." .



Then, at around 11:20 am on the same day, Mr. A's girlfriend called 112, saying, "There is a body in the closet of my boyfriend's house," and it was confirmed that it was Mr. B's body.

The blunt weapon used in the crime was also found at the scene. 



Afterwards, the police, who identified Mr. A as a suspect and started to find out his whereabouts, arrested Mr. A, who was being treated for a hand injury at Ilsan Paik Hospital in Goyang City around noon.



The police applied for an arrest warrant for Mr. A this afternoon. 



A police official said, "We are in contact with people related to the suspect in the process of investigating Mr. A." 



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