Handyman confesses to murdering elderly lady to get stash of cash in her safe to pay NT$300,000 credit card debt
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/11/16
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A handyman has confessed to the premeditated murder of his
(By Central News Agency)
elderly female customer to gain access to money stored in her apartment’s safe in Taipei’s Songshan District, in an attempt to pay off his considerable credit card debt, reported Apple Daily.
The handyman, identified as 33-year-old Huang Yuan-hung (黃元鴻), initially calmly and coolly denied accusations that he had murdered his 73-year-old customer surnamed Chuang (莊).
On Nov. 14, Chuang was originally scheduled to go on a trip with her daughter to China, but when her daughter entered the house, she found her mother lying dead in the kitchen. When police viewed CCTV footage of the apartment lobby, they saw that the handyman was the only person to enter and leave the apartment on Nov. 12, the last day Chuang was seen alive. [FULL STORY]
