Nantou prosecutors yesterday indicted a woman and requested the court to sentence her to three death penalties for allegedly murdering her mother, mother-in-law and husband.
Prosecutors charged defendant Lin Yu-ju (林于如), 28, with killing the trio in order to claim huge insurance payments.
Prosecutors said Lin displayed indifference throughout the investigation, showing little remorse.
“Rational justice and social order can not be maintained without executing Lin,” the prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Lin had run up huge gambling debts since 2004. In November 2008, Lin allegedly pushed her mother as she was walking downstairs at home. Lin’s mother died at the scene and Lin subsequently claimed NT$5.06 million (US$160,000) in insurance.
In May, Lin accompanied her mother-in-law to see doctors at a hospital. She arranged for her mother-in-law to stay in a single room, where she allegedly added powdered sleeping pills and anti-depressant pills to her mother-in-law’s intravenous drip. Lin asked for help after finding her mother-in-law dead in bed.
She later claimed NT$7.43 million in insurance.
Last June, Lin allegedly used similar means to attempt to murder her husband, surnamed Liu (劉). She allegedly injected powered sleeping pills and methanol into his intravenous drip while he was being treated in a hospital. Liu’s life was saved after nurses found him in time and gave him emergency treatment.
But in July, Lin allegedly poisoned her husband at home and then put poison into his intravenous drip as he stayed in a single room in a hospital. Liu died and Lin later claimed NT$4.75 million.
The case came to light after insurance companies discovered irregularities and reported them to police.
Lin admitted to the three murders during the investigation.
Liu’s family yesterday told reporters they want to see Lin executed as soon as possible.
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