Police late on Tuesday night arrested a man wanted in connection with the rape and murder of a middle-aged woman.
The suspect, 45-year-old Lin Chi-shan (林吉杉), was arrested in Ilan County’s Jiaosi Township (礁溪), where he had been staying since last Thursday.
Police said Lin told them he wanted a death sentence after his arrest because he had ruined his family’s life and his business by committing the crime, and a death sentence would free him from the pain.
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Police traced Lin’s whereabouts by monitoring the location of his cellphone, discovering that he had been staying in hotels in the Jiaosi region.
More than 30 police officers on Tuesday swooped down on Jiaosi to look for Lin.
They arrested him in Jiaosi’s downtown area as he was leaving a convenience store.
Lin, a married man and the boss of a factory in China, had been dating the 46-year-old victim, surnamed Yeh, police said.
Yeh’s naked body was found last Thursday lying in bed at her home in Sinjhuang (新莊), Taipei County.
The victim was found with 20 slash wounds to her neck and one stab wound to her throat.
Yeh’s hands and legs had been tied with tape, police said.
She had been raped before she was killed.
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Police identified the suspect using footage from a surveillance camera in the elevator of Yeh’s apartment.
Police said Yeh’s daughters had told them Lin had become angry with their mother because she wanted to break up with Lin and had been avoiding him since February.
Yeh’s daughters told officers that Lin often sent text messages to her mother’s cellphone, threatening to harm their family.
They said Lin had threatened to rape them in one of the messages.
Investigations revealed that Lin and Yeh had met about 25 years ago in Kinmen while Lin was completing his compulsory military service.
The two met again in Taipei three years ago.
When Lin discovered Yeh was a widow, he started to pursue Yeh again, even though he had a family of his own.
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