Residents of Greater Kaohsiung’s Cianjhen District (前鎮) on Friday last week called the police after they smelled a strange odor coming from a residence. Police who responded to the call found the corpse of a 50-year-old man, with his 79-year-old mother beside him, weak from hunger.
According to police reports, the borough warden asked his family members to visit an old woman at an apartment in a side alley off Linsen Fourth Road.
However, the borough warden’s family members received no response from the apartment when they arrived.
The smelled something foul and also saw blood seeping out from under the door, prompting them to peer through the apartment windows, the police report said.
They called the police after they saw the old woman, surnamed Chao (趙), lying by the side of the door, while her son appeared to be sprawled over a coffee table in the living room, the police said, adding that the police’s preliminary analysis later showed the son, also surnamed Chao, had been dead for several days.
The police found no signs of external injuries on the man nor any signs of a scuffle at the apartment.
The police said the son had lived with his mother after he divorced.
They discovered the mother suffered from severe dementia and could not speak after having suffered a stroke, adding that they suspected she was weak from hunger from not having eaten anything presumably since the day her son died.
The police took the mother to hospital and said she was recovering.
The police added that they are still looking into the cause of death of the son, but that they do not suspect foul play.
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