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Shih then tracked down the Internet account used by Sadistic Dog. This led her to a Taipei resident named Chen, who disclosed that his former lover occasionally used his account. A month to the day after the suitcase appeared, detectives arrested Liao Chien-kai, an unemployed 25-year-old. After 20 hours of questioning, Liao admitted he had met Lin in the chatroom and arranged to get together for rough sex, though Lin had stated on line that he had "no experience" of such activities. They met at the bank and from there returned to Liao's apartment...
That's where fun turned to tragedy. Liao bound Lin's wrists, tied him to the bed and covered his mouth and nose with adhesive tape. After some sex-play, involving digital penetration but not intercourse, Liao passed out. When he awoke, he found an asphyxiated Lin beside him. He panicked, and disposed of the body by motorbike. "During our interrogation, Liao was overcome with regret," says Wang Rong-jung, who headed up the investigation. "He said he wanted to die." Liao checked himself into the psychiatric ward of Chen Hsing hospital where police arrested him on March...
...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...
...CHERYL CHAN and JENNIFER LIAO...
...conference included talks by notable Taiwanese-Americans, including keynote speaker Dr. Shutsang Liao, a political dissident and now a cancer researcher at the University of Chicago...