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National police authority lists top unresolved cases

The murder of a women's rights activist seven years ago is top of a list of major unresolved cases, the National Police Administration (NPA) said yesterday.

NPA said that the Nov. 30, 1996 rape and murder in Kaohsiung of Peng Wan-jou (彭婉如), then-director of the department of women's affairs of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, is still stymied through a lack of clues.

The NPA continues to offer a NT$22 million reward for any information leading to the cracking of the case. In addition, it also maintains a Web site related to evidence collected at the crime scene to try to identify the killer or killers.

Peng went to Kaohsiung to attend a party congress and went missing after boarding a taxi from one hotel to another hotel. She was murdered later that night.

Although police have information on more than 27,700 taxi drivers in five cities and counties in southern Taiwan, the chaotic nature of taxi and driver registration has rendered the information almost useless in cracking the case.

The other two high-profile criminal cases are the murder of Yin Ching-feng (尹清楓), a navy captain in charge of arms purchases, whose body was found floating on the sea off Ilan in 1993 and who is widely believed to have been killed to stop him blowing the whistle on an arms purchase scandal. The NPA is handling the murder case, while the military is focusing on the arms deal.

The other case involves then-Taoyuan County Magistrate Liu Pang-you (劉邦友), who was shot dead in broad daylight at his residence on Nov. 12, 1996.
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