A Coast Guard Administration officer is alleged to have murdered a young woman by pushing her off a bridge after she told him that she would not date him because she was in love with his subordinate.
"Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard First Lieutenant Hsu Lung-ting (徐龍庭) admitted to murdering the woman, Yen Yu-hsuan (葉雨宣), because she refused to date him," the Taoyuan County Police Department said in a statement yesterday.
Hsu had only met Yen for the first time on that day, the statement said.
Police on Monday morning found the woman's body under a bridge along the West Coast Expressway in Tayuan (
Evidence at the scene suggested that she did not throw herself off the bridge, police said. They said scratches were found on her body that were inconsistent with the body hitting the ground.
Police said that they examined Yen's phone records and then concluded that she had met her boyfriend's supervisor, Hsu, before she was murdered.
Hsu was arrested yesterday morning.
Yen apparently came to know her boyfriend through studying at the same university in China.
Because the boyfriend had to perform compulsory military service, both dropped out of the courses they were studying and returned to Taiwan earlier this year. The boyfriend then commenced his term of military service at a coast guard unit in Taoyuan County.
Police said that when Yen made a phone call last week to her boyfriend's cellphone, he was too busy to answer and asked Hsu to answer the phone for him.
Yen and Hsu are alleged to have talked briefly on the phone before Hsu gave Yen his e-mail address.
Because Yen later wanted to meet her boyfriend at the unit, she contacted Hsu and asked him to take her there. Hsu agreed to do so on Sunday, and they agreed to meet at Taoyuan Train Station in the morning, police said.
However, Hsu did not take Yen to the unit, instead driving her around the area in the car.
Police allege that at 5pm, Hsu stopped the car on the West Coast Expressway bridge and invited Yen to watch the sunset. When Yen rejected his advances, police said, Hsu pushed her off the bridge before driving around to the place where she fell to check if she had died.
Hsu then took Yen's wallet and cellphone before fleeing the scene, police said.
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