The owner of a pig farm sus-pected of murdering and chopping up two old men that police believe may have attempted to steal some of his pigs was detained yesterday.
"The suspect Huang Shi-hung (黃旭弘) denies any involvement in the murders, although evidence points to him being involved," said Ilan District Prosecutors' Office spokesman Lu Hsing-ling (呂幸玲) yesterday.
Huang fled Ilan County and traveled to Taoyuan County after the two victims' bodies were discovered on Tuesday. He was arrested late on Thursday night in Pingchen (平鎮) Township, Taoyuan County, after his friend dropped him off on the street.
The Ilan District Court yesterday morning ordered Huang to be detained.
Ilan residents Lin Pao-tong (林寶童), 67, and Kao Chin-sheng (高金生), 65, were reported missing last Friday after the two went off to trap wild boars in the county's mountainous regions.
On Tuesday afternoon, the bodies of the two were discovered packed into four plastic bags in a mountainous area just 300m from a boar farm.
The bodies of the deceased had been chopped up into eight pieces each.
Ilan police said both men were killed by blows to the head with a blunt instrument.
The Ilan police said they found strands of hair and bloodstains belonging to the two deceased at the farm and suspect that farm owner Huang, 44, murdered the two trappers at his farm.
"The suspect was obviously experienced at dismembering bodies. He [the suspect] may have experience of slaughtering pigs," Ilan prosecutors had added.
Huang's neighbors told police that he had been angry that someone had attempted to release his pigs from the farm and that he had to go looking for them again in the mountainous area.
Two Police suspect that Huang may have killed the two men because he believed they were attempting to steal his animals.
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