Man arrested for stealing 868 pairs of women’s shoes that fit his foot fetish in Keelung, Taiwan
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/11/12
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Chen’s room filled with shoes. (Photo from Keelung Police Department)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A man has been arrested for stealing 868 pairs of women’s shoes from over 33 victims over the course of five years in the northern Taiwan city of Keelung, reported China Times.
A 42-year-old man surnamed Chen (陳) living in Keelung City has developed a strange predilection for women’s shoes. When Chen would see women’s shoes in the shoe rack outside of his neighbors’ apartments that captured his fancy, he would steal them and add them to his bizarre menagerie of feminine footwear.
After receiving repeated reports of shoe thefts from female households in a residential community on Maijing Road in Keelung City’s Anle District, police began an investigation and zeroed in on Chen as the main suspect. On the evening of April 24 this year, police obtained a search warrant and entered Chen’s apartment, where they found the floor, wardrobe cabinet, desk, and even his bed covered with a total of 1,736 women’s shoes.
Chen initially claimed that he had collected all of the shoes after they had been tossed out for recycling, but police did not buy his explanation. Later, Chen admitted that starting in 2013, he began stealing women’s shoes that fit his foot fetish and took them home “purely for viewing purposes.” [FULL STORY]
