Police yesterday arrested a man on suspicion of murder the day after officers found his brother’s dismembered body at a home in New Taipei City’s Yonghe District (永和).
Liang Na-ke (梁納克), 54, was reported missing by a friend who said that Liang had not responded to messages, a New Taipei City Police Department spokesperson said.
Officers entered Liang’s apartment, where they found him beheaded and missing every limb except his left leg, they said, adding that body’s state of decomposition suggested he had died about a week earlier.
Photo: Wu Jen-chieh, Taipei Times
The cause of death was a stab wound to the heart, they said.
Police said that surveillance footage showed Liang’s 75-year-old brother, Liang Chih-chao (梁志超), frequently entering and leaving the home with a suitcase following the presumed time of death.
Liang Chih-chao was arrested near Shuiyuan Market (水源市場) in Taipei, they said.
Although Liang Chih-chao confessed to the murder, police said the motive was still being investigated.
Liang Chih-chao told investigators he killed his brother on Thursday last week and began dismembering the body to get rid of the evidence, adding that he had put the body parts in plastic bags to dispose of them with the trash.
He abandoned that plan after learning that his brother’s friends had called the police, and was attempting to flee the city when he was arrested, police said, adding that some of the remains had likely been taken away by garbage collectors.
Liang Na-ke — who previously worked as a bailiff and was single — was the primary caretaker of the family’s aging mother, while his brother was the main source of financial support for them, sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The brothers supposedly had a strained relationship and Liang Na-ke had sued Liang Chih-chao multiple times over the past two years for alleged intimidation, unlawful imprisonment and property damage, the sources said.
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