A man who shocked the country last year with a gruesome triple murder yesterday became the first inmate at the Taichung detention center to receive baptism and become a Christian.
Wu Ying-hung (
Wu was arrested last October for killing and dismembering his lover and her two daughters in Taichung City in August.
Yesterday, Wu said he had often thought of committing suicide while in the detention center, and he said that he hoped his and the victims' families could forgive him.
Sun Jui-ting (
Wu had lived with his lover Pan A-ai (
According to Wu, he had given all his earnings to Pan to keep safe for him. When the time came to buy a house, Pan said that she had decided she was going to put it in only her and her daughters' names, and that Wu would be left with nothing.
Enraged over the possibility of losing his life savings, Wu killed the woman and her children.
Around 20 dismembered pieces of Pan's body were found in September in Hsinshe (
In early October, parts of the bodies of Pan's two daughters -- Wang Yi-fang (
Police arrested Wu on Oct. 14, after luring him out of hiding with the help of another of his girlfriends. Wu admitted he suffocated Pan with a plastic bag after knocking her out with a dose of sleeping pills.
Wu said he had killed Pan's two daughters in a similar fashion when they visited his home looking for their mother in September.
"I hope [the court] convicts me. I deserve the death sentence ... of course," Wu said to reporters after his arrest.
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