Police search for father after two kids found dead in New Taipei City

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment homicide, New Taipei City, Taishan District

Police are searching for a man after a 10-year-old girl and her 7-year-old brother were found dead in their beds in their father’s apartment in Taishan District, New Taipei City, yesterday. The children’s mother, 36-year-old Ms Yang, expected her ex-husband, Mr Wu, 40, to bring her daughter home at around 5:00pm, after having spent the weekend with her father and little brother. When the girl failed to come home, and Wu did not respond to phone calls, Ms Yang called

suspect arrested in muddy vegetable field

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April 20, 2019April 20, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment homicide, Kaohsiung City, murder-robbery

A suspect was arrested in Tainan City today, after an elderly woman was found dead in her home in Kaohsiung City Wednesday, April 17. At around 8:00am Wednesday, the son of the 78-year-old woman named Wei, paid his mother a visit as was his daily routine, only to find the glass on the front door broken, and his mothers lifeless body in her bedroom. Paramedics who responded to the son’s 119 call found that Ms Wei was already dead and

woman fights against assailant attempting to rape her

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March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 Phillip Charlier 2 Comments sexual assault, Taichung City, victim blaming

A woman was evicted from her rented apartment in Taichung City last month, after a man attempted to rape her in the lobby, and the landlord decided that being too beautiful is troublesome. At around 1:00am February 18, Ms Lee, 40, was returning home after enjoying a night out with friends, when a man attempted to follow her into an elevator from the lobby of a building in Taichung City’s South district. Feeling uncomfortable being closely followed the man, Lee

suspect arrested after random knife attack in Tainan City

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February 23, 2019February 23, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment knife-attack, random attack, Tainan City

A woman in Tainan City was attacked by another woman with a knife in Tainan City in what is suspected to be a random attack yesterday, February 22. At around 6:15pm, a 68-year-old woman named Lin was sitting on a bench taking a rest with her 92-year-old mother after going out to buy dinner when she was approached by a woman and viciously attacked with a knife. As a passerby approached the women, the attacker fled the scene, leaving Ms

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February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment Kaohsiung City, shooting

A man was arrested this morning, suspected of having shot a taxi driver four times in the back, leaving him to die on the side of the road, and stealing his cab. The taxi driver, Mr Lee, 56, was found laying in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in Kaohsiung City’s Qiaotou District at around 8:30am yesterday, Sunday, February 10. Struggling to remain conscious due to massive blood loss, Lee said to police, “I’ve no strength,” before losing consciousness.

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February 2, 2019February 2, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment dismemberment, homicide, murder, Tainan City

The remains of a woman reported missing in January have been found, after her boyfriend confessed to killing her, dismembering her body, and dumping the remains in long grass in Tainan City. Ms Zhang (張), 42, was reported missing on January 24 after her son failed to make contact with her for several days. Police investigating the case located Zhang’s car, which was being used by her 30-year-old cohabiting boyfriend, Wu Maoteng (吳茂騰). The car showed signs of having been

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January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment Kaohsiung City, national highway, stabbing

A woman in Kaohsiung City jumped from a moving car to escape being stabbed to death by her husband as they traveled on National Highway 10 this morning, January 28. The 38-year-old woman named Sun was traveling with her 51-year-old husband, named Liu, and their 2-year-old son, when the couple began to argue at around 10:40am. Mr Liu lost his temper, grabbed a knife, and stabbed Ms Sun. Ms Sun then jumped from the car at high speed, according to

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January 12, 2019January 12, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment aggravated robbery, armed-robbery, New Taipei City, Ruifang District, taxi

Two men were arrested today after an attempted armed robbery of a taxi driver in Shuangxi District, New Taipei City in the early hours of the morning. Two unemployed residents of the rural Ruifang and Shuangxi districts, a 25-year-old man named Huang, and a 27-year-old named Lin, hatched a plan to obtain some money to tide them over the upcoming Lunar New Year holidays. At around midnight last night, Huang hailed a taxi at the Ruifang train station and asked

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January 3, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment armed-robbery, Changhua County, knife-attack

Two men armed with watermelon knives jumped into a woman’s car as she pulled up in a hypermarket parking lot and demanded money in an attempted robbery in Changhua County this morning, January 3. At around 10:00am, Ms Ye (葉), 51, had just switched off the ignition and was preparing to get out of her car in the parking lot of an RT-Mart in Puhsing Township when two men wearing motorcycle helmets and wielding watermelon knives got into her car.

A KTV where a man was shot dead in Kaohsiung City

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December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 Phillip Charlier 1 Comment Kaohsiung City, KTV, murder, shooting

A 22-year-old man bled to death after being shot twice in the abdomen by a man who felt slighted in a dispute over taxi called to a KTV in Kaohsiung City in the early hours of the morning, December 29. At around 2:00am, two groups were singing at a KTV on Zhonghua Road in Qishan District when a university student named Chen called a taxi for his friends. At around the same time, a 37-year-old man named Shih, who manages

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December 27, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment assault, Danshui, stun gun

A suspect was arrested today after a woman was grabbed by a man who applied an electric shock stick to her neck in the early hours of the morning in Danshui District, New Taipei City, December 27. At around 3:00am, the 21-year-old woman named Lee, who lives in a lane off Xinmin Street, left the door of her building open as she went out to buy snacks at a nearby convenience store. When Lee returned and entered the stairwell a

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Police search for father after two kids found dead in New Taipei City

Suspect arrested for home-invasion murder of elderly woman in Kaohsiung City

After woman fights off rapist in building lobby, landlady evicts her because “beauty leads to trouble”

Suspect arrested after woman almost killed in random knife attack in Tainan City

Suspect arrested after taxi driver shot in Kaohsiung City

Woman murdered and dismembered in Tainan City

Woman jumps from moving car on freeway after husband stabs her

Armed robbers arrested after fleeing at the sight of blood

Passersby rescue woman from knife-wielding robbers

Uni Student Shot Dead after KTV Taxi Dispute in Kaohsiung City

Woman Attacked with Stun Gun in Danshui District