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...Zhang is out there to oblige women like Zhu. He's dressed for success in a sleek, pin-striped suit and a passable faux Rolex. Girls say they like his strong jaw and jutting cheekbones. Married women prefer his listening skills and languorous back rubs. For an all-night chat session with these lonely wives, Zhang expects only a good dinner and a little farewell gift, like a leather cell-phone holder or monogrammed gold lighter. But if they want something more, he expects at least $120 in cash. "We never talk about price beforehand," he says. "That's tacky...
...computer and studying the records of his Internet provider. She discovered that on the night of his death, Feb. 3, Lin had been on line for 57 minutes starting around 6:00 p.m. The provider also revealed that Lin had visited a gay website and had entered a chat room dedicated to sado-masochism. It was one of many sites catering to Taiwanese gays, offering chat rooms and risqué personals bearing such headlines as: BOTTOM WHOLLY FOR YOU and the fetishistic ANY AMPUTEE FRIEND...
...meet at a bank across from the Taipei Railway Station. Police had already found Lin's discarded backpack in a trashbin near the station. Inside was a bus ticket confirming that the student traveled to the station at 7:32 that evening. Breakthrough: the victim was linked to the chat room...
...Internet incriminated Liao; it also may absolve him. The chat transcripts have convinced detectives the death was an accident. It's a measure of how cool Taiwan has become that the case has triggered none of the opprobrium that would have been knee-jerk just 10 years ago. Liao is out on bail, and will probably be charged with involuntary manslaughter and destruction of a body, which together carry a maximum prison sentence of seven years. The lesson: think twice if someone asks you to come out to play...
TIME.com ON AOL Chat with John Cloud about school violence on AOL at 7 p.m. E.T. on March 14. Keyword: Live...