GRUESOME TAIWAN KILLING
AN innocent comment from a 6-year-old helped police in Taiwan uncover a gruesome killing.
Mrs Dai Yue-er, 69, had been reported missing by one of her sons. When the police questioned her daughter-in-law, Li Yuying, the 30-year-old woman's son suddenly piped up.
The 6-year-old told one of the officers: 'I heard Mummy tell Daddy to take Granny to the mountain.'
This unexpected information helped the police find the body and solve the case, reported Apple Daily Taiwan.
The trouble began last year, when Li and her husband, Dai Guoqiang, 43, moved in with Mrs Dai.
Li asked her mother-in-law, 69, for money. When Mrs Dai refused, Li pushed the frail old woman on a bed then punched and kicked her.
On her neighbours' advice, MadamDai went to the hospital for a checkup, then applied for a protection order against her daughter-in-law.
The order took effect on 16 Jul.
Mrs Dai also demanded that Li and her family move out.
Being unemployed, Li and Dai could not afford to rent a room. Li felt that her mother-in-law was forcing them onto the streets.
On 20 Jul, the family was still living with Mrs Dai. While her husband and son were out eating, Li quarrelled with Mrs Dai. Li told the police that the other woman swore at her, and grabbed her so tightly that she had bruises.
In anger, Li grabbed a nearby cable, wrapped it around Madam Dai's neck and strangled her.
She then used the white-coloured cable to tie the body up before wrapping it in a blanket and putting it in a black plastic bag.
When her husband returned, he noticed his mother was missing.
Li told him what she had done. In shock, he told her to turn herself in.
But she managed to convince him to help her hide the body instead.
The couple took the body up to Tiger Head Mountain and threw it into a ravine.
They spent the next day sitting in a fast food restaurant. At night, they hid out at a 24-hour bubble tea shop.
The next day, Dai's older brother noticed that their mother was missing even though her purse and dentures were still at home.
He made a police report.
Dai, Li and their son were taken in for questioning. Both adults denied any knowledge of Mrs Dai's whereabouts, but the boy innocently said his parents had taken her to Tiger Head Mountain.
The next morning, the police found Madam Dai's body in a 30m-deep ravine.
Li has been charged with the murder and Dai, with the disposal of the body.
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