yesterday already on TV. bag found on the streets with half body. seems to be half cut body of Filipino wife from American nationality English teacher in Taipei. money story. guess some might now the sicko?
Eeew! 
I think you are talking about Anita, from Kaohsiung. She was a school agent. You know the folks who help recruiting teachers for schools. Very well known in Kaohsiung among the foreign community. I found out this morning through a co-teacher whose friend had to go identify the body yesterday. They found her cell phone and he was one of the last person to have had communications with her so the police asked him to ID the body.
Needless to say, said co-teacher looked pretty out of it and tired this morning. He was a friend of Anita.
What a horrible story… No one has been convicted for the crime yet, so I would hold off before making assumptions based on what is heard in the news.
RIP, Anita.
Taiwan is a very small town. The first thing I thought when I saw this headline, was…“One of my friends?..” Well, my relief that it happened in another town, people I don’t know. (I have quite a few friends with Filipina wives.) What a horrible tragedy.
A friend of mine said his wife heard on t.v. they are now questioning a Canadian teacher involved in drugs and possibly a Japanese teacher.
I don’t believe any of the crap on t.v. news here though and won’t even trust the papers to get the story more than 25% correct for at least a week.
Which nationality teacher it was who cut her in half does
not matter. Taiwan newspapers will make it anyway looking more bad than it is, blaming the long nose community again as drug dealers,butchers and rapists. I express my condolences to her family and friends. Horible…
FYI:
The China Times is reporting that the police have arrested US citizen David Fillion in connection with the murder of a 48 year old Taiwanese agent Chiu Meiyun. Chiu’s body was found in a bag at the entrance to Yancheng St. Lane 40 last Saturday night. Police connected Fillion to the case through security camera footage showing Fillion’s Filipina girlfriend Armia dumping the bagged body using a scooter borrowed from a Japanese friend. They are not sure that Armia knew what was in the bag.
The police have found and tested blood stains in Fillion’s apartment that they say confirm that the murder took place at Fillion’s apartment on a lane off Wumiao Rd. They believe that the motive for the crime was a dispute over debts and a plan to open a Buxiban in a partnership with Chiu that fell through. Neighbors heard an intense argument on the night of the 12th.
The paper says that AIT has demanded that police refrain from announcing that they have solved the case to protect Fillion’s human rights. That clearly didn’t stop them from releasing details of their investigation to the local media, which is of course standard practice here.
There are some pretty bog standard nasty follow-up pieces in which neighbors describe Fillion’s habit of regularly bringing home different women of different nationalities, his taste for Taiwan beer he “likes Taiwan”, his solitary drinking, and his slovenly appearance.
Reader comments on the story urge police to crackdown on foreign teachers because this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Update: Foreign press agencies have already translatedthe story from Apple Daily.
What? Like foreigners don’t kill people too?
It’s a horrific murder for sure, and most likely about money, which makes it a stupid horrific murder.
Where these people hail from, and what they look like means squat.
[quote=“jdsmith”]Where these people hail from, and what they look like means squat.[/quote]As does their occupation.
That’s a joke right? fack his human rights!!!
[quote=“Feiren”]
Chiu’s body was found in a bag at the entrance to Yancheng St. Lane 40 last Saturday night. Police connected Fillion to the case through security camera footage showing Fillion’s Filipina girlfriend Armia dumping the bagged body using a scooter borrowed from a Japanese friend. They are not sure that Armia knew what was in the bag.
The police have found and tested blood stains in Fillion’s apartment that they say confirm that the murder took place at Fillion’s apartment on a lane off Wumiao Rd. [/url].[/quote]
If I’m not mistaken; Wumiao rd is clear across town from where the body was dumped. Why would someone drive that far to dump something unless they knew what it was?
Well…The TT is chiming in with a quite different story on this…
[quote]Japanese teacher quizzed over corpse found in bag
SUSPECT: The police said that 48-year-old Chou Mei-yun had been tied up with nylon rope, had multiple stab wounds in her chest and thigh and marks on her neck
By Flora Wang and Rich Chang, STAFF REPORTERS
Tuesday, Sep 18, 2007, Page 2
The Kaohsiung Police Bureau said yesterday that a female Japanese teacher working in Taiwan has been questioned after a woman’s body was found in a garbage bag in Kaohsiung City early on Sunday morning.
A man found the body inside a large black garbage bag in front of a store in the city’s Yencheng District.
The man told police the bag had been abandoned on the street a few days ago and that stray dogs had been hanging around the bag ever since.
The man told police that he cut a hole in the bag and was surprised to see a human leg.
Police on Sunday said the deceased was 48-year-old Chou Mei-yun (邱美雲), who had been missing since last Tuesday.
Members of Chou’s family identified her by a surgical scar on her stomach, said Chang Shu-yi (張樹義), a Kaohsiung police officer in charge of the investigation.
Chang said Chou was a broker who helped Japanese citizens find work teaching Japanese in private schools.
Police said footage from a surveillance camera near the place where the body was found showed the Japanese teacher riding a scooter and towing a big black garbage bag.
But during questioning the suspect told the police that she had loaned her motorcycle to an American man.
Chang said the teacher had had frequent cellphone contact with Chou before she disappeared.
Police suspect the deceased might have argued with the Japanese woman about brokerage fees before the incident, Chang said.
Detectives were able to collect five fingerprints from the body and the bag that did not belong to Chou, he said.
The police did not reveal the identity of the suspect.
The victim had been tied up with nylon ropes and had multiple stab wounds in her chest and thigh, as well as marks on her neck that suggested possible strangulation, Chang said.
He said the murder was likely not committed by a single person, while police said they have identified four others suspected of involvement in the murder.
taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ … 2003379273[/quote]
Where did they get a big black garbage bag that could hold weight like that for two days without breaking open?
Inquiring minds and all.
[quote=“jdsmith”]Where did they get a big black garbage bag that could hold weight like that for two days without breaking open?
Inquiring minds and all.[/quote]
7 plastic bags according to Feiren’s link.http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1356869.php/US_teacher_Filipino_girlfriend_suspected_of_killing_Taiwan_woman
That’s a joke right? fack his human rights!!![/quote]You don’t believe in “Innocent until proven guilty” ? Or maybe he doesn’t need a trial ?
I’m confused. Is it a Taiwanese woman who has been killed or a Fillipina? Not that it matters particularly, its a horrific crime. I just want to be clear
[quote=“Funk500”]I’m confused. Is it a Taiwanese woman who has been killed or a Fillipina? Not that it matters particularly, its a horrific crime. I just want to be clear[/quote]And the TT says that a Japanese woman is the suspect, so why the quote from AIT ?
I confused about who to pigeon-hole as what. How can I stereotype people so I can fully contribute to this thread if I don’t know their nationality and occupation ?
So far, in this episode, the the stereotype of Taiwan “news media” as being a bunch of ass-hats is once again proven accurate.
I don’t know about that TC. The main China Times news report was reasonsbly professional and careful with the facts as known so far.
The TT story was echoing reports over the past few days that police were investigating Japanese nationals. The reason was that the scooter that being ridden when the body was dumped belonged to a Japanese woman. According to the China Times, she says she lent the scooter to Filion a few days ago.
The TT’s budget-influenced practice of running yesterday’s news (translated from the Liberty Times) in tomorrow’s paper is pretty obvious in this case.
Better than TV reports: on a TV news report they went on about how he was not exactly a snappy dresser, and how he would buy beer from a local convenience store on a regular basis. One interviewee said something like “I don’t know how he could be an English teacher and drink so much beer.” 