6 shocking murder and dismemberment cases
(Baonghean.vn) - Murders and dismemberment cases always haunt the public because of the brutality and inhumanity of the perpetrators. Here are some cases that shocked the public.
1. Killed his wife, chopped her body into pieces and disposed of it in a septic tank.
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Defendant Nguyen Trung Hoang at trial. |
Accordingly, Tran Van Ban (born in 1970, residing in Group 4, Luong Hoa, Vinh Luong, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa) and Ms. Tran Thi Hieu got married in 1992 and have 3 children together. The couple works as butchers and sells pork at Vinh Luong market (Nha Trang).
On the afternoon of October 29, 2009, the couple had an argument because Ms. Hieu suspected Ban of giving 10 million VND to a girl. During the argument, Ban used a wooden chair to hit Ms. Hieu, but was stopped by his brother-in-law, Tran Van Dai.
At around 2:00 a.m. on November 2, 2009, Ms. Hieu continued to curse her husband, mentioning the matter of giving money to girls, so Ban used a wooden stick to hit her hard on the head, causing Ms. Hieu to collapse. Ban continued to hit his wife 2-3 times on the head until Ms. Hieu died. After that, Ban chopped up Ms. Hieu's body and threw it into the basement with her clothes, sandals, the wooden stick, and the phone, then told her son that his mother had left home.
On the morning of July 24, 2012, the Supreme People's Court in Da Nang re-heard the second appeal and upheld the original death sentence for murder against Tran Van Ban because the defendant's actions were too barbaric.
2. A rebellious son addicted to games killed his father and dismembered his body to get rid of the evidence.
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Rebellious son Nghiem Viet Thanh could not escape the death penalty. |
The incident happened at around 11pm on May 6, 2009. Nghiem Viet Thanh, then a student at Thanh Dong High School (Hai Duong City), was coming home from school and was scolded by his father, Nghiem Viet Yen (born in 1958), for coming home late and playing games.
After that, Thanh used a stainless steel knife to slash Mr. Yen's head many times, causing him to die on the spot. Thanh opened the safe and took more than 8 million VND. To dispose of the body, Thanh found another knife, brought it to the bathroom and sharpened it to chop the body. After cutting his father's body into many pieces, Thanh transported the body parts to Hai Tan bridge (Hai Duong city) 3 times, about 3km from home, and threw them into the river to dispose of the body.
Thanh used the money to pay off his debts and repeatedly loaded it into online game accounts to continue playing. At 5:30 a.m. on May 9, 2009, Mr. Yen's body parts were discovered. When the police recovered the body, Thanh went out to see. At 9 p.m. the same day, the perpetrator fled to Nam Dinh City and was later arrested.
3. Killed ex-lover, brutally beheaded
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Nguyen Duc Nghia in the appeal hearing. |
Accordingly, Nguyen Duc Nghia (born 1984), in Kien An, Hai Phong and Nguyen Phuong Linh (born 1984), in Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi). Both are students of class K42, Faculty of Business Administration, Foreign Trade University, Hanoi and have been in love since 2005, and broke up at the end of 2006.
A few days after breaking up, Nghia had a new girlfriend, Hoang Thi Yen (born in 1986), from Quang Ninh, a student at Hanoi Genetics University; living in room 1101, 11th floor, building G4, Trung Hoa urban area, Trung Yen, Cau Giay (Hanoi). On April 30, 2010: Yen left her house with Nghia to look after while she returned to her hometown.
On May 3, Nghia called Linh to come to Yen's house to "talk" (although they had broken up before, Nghia still called Linh occasionally). Linh went to the meeting place by motorbike, carrying her phone and laptop.
At around 7pm on May 3rd, Linh's phone rang continuously but Linh did not answer. When Nghia asked who was calling, Linh replied that it was her lover in the South.
At around 11pm on May 3rd, while Linh was standing in front of the mirror, Nghia suddenly came up and pulled out a sharp knife and stabbed Linh straight in the back, killing her instantly. To dispose of Linh's body, Nghia used a knife to cut off her head and 10 fingertips, put them in a plastic bag and threw them in a section of the Cam River in Quang Ninh. Nghia took her body to the rooftop and hid it in the apartment building's garbage disposal room.
On July 14, 2010, Hanoi People's Court opened the first instance trial of Nguyen Duc Nghia and sentenced him to death for the crimes of "Murder" and "Robbery".
4. Couple dismembered homeowner's body and dumped it in the river
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The couple Vu and Bach received the death penalty. Photo: Internet |
Just because of a conflict over paying rent, Le Hoang Vu (born in 1965, residing in Can Tho City) brutally murdered the homeowner and then dismembered the victim's body into many pieces with the help of his wife, Nguyen Thi Thanh Bach (born in 1967, also residing in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City). The victim was Phan Van Thanh (born in 1973, residing in Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City).
Accordingly, on the afternoon of March 28, 2011, Mr. Thanh went to the rented room that Vu and his wife rented to collect the monthly rent. Because he did not have money to pay, an argument broke out between Vu and Mr. Thanh. After being punched in the face, Vu grabbed a wooden stick and hit Mr. Thanh on the head. In pain, Mr. Thanh held his head and ran into the bedroom, shouting for help. Seeing this, Vu continued to run after him and hit him repeatedly on the head, causing the landlord to become immobile.
The wife who witnessed the whole incident did not intervene but turned on the music player loudly to drown out Thanh's cries for help. After killing the homeowner, Vu bought a large plastic bag and cut the victim's body into many pieces, brought it to Binh Trieu bridge, and dumped it in the Saigon River.
5.. Killed and dismembered gay lover, stuffed body in sack and disposed of
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Ngo Van Tam and Tran Tu Dien at the trial. |
Accordingly, Ngo Van Tam (21 years old, living in Tra Vinh), Tran Tu Dien (25 years old, living in Bac Lieu) and Bui Van Liem (born in 1986, from Ben Tre) all worked as porters at Con Co Bran Company (in Bien Hoa Industrial Park, Dong Nai province).
During this time, Liem had homosexual relations with Tam many times and promised to give his “lover” 500 million VND. Around July 2012, Liem invited Dien to live together and also with the trick of promising a lot of money, Liem had homosexual relations with Dien many times. Because Liem promised many times but did not give money, Tam immediately asked Dien to murder his homosexual “lover”.
On December 24, 2012, the two men went to buy 4 knives. Tam and Dien each hid a 35cm long knife under the mattress in the rented room. At around 11pm that day, when they saw that he was fast asleep, the two murderers took the knife hidden under the mattress and stabbed Liem once through the chest. Seeing that the victim was still struggling, Tam sat on his stomach, used his hand to cover his mouth, and with his other hand held the knife and cut deep into his neck and stabbed him again in the chest, killing him on the spot.
After that, the two killers dragged the body into the toilet, saw 200,000 VND in Liem's pocket, Dien immediately took it and together with Tam used a knife to cut off the victim's stomach, legs, and arms to remove the two knee joints and the right elbow joint of the victim. After cutting the body into many pieces, they gathered them and put them in a snake body bag, then went out to the street to steal a motorbike to take the body to dispose of the evidence.
6. Murdered and dismembered because of being forced to have homosexual "relations"
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Murderer Tran Nhat Duy at the police station. Photo: Internet |
On May 25, 2014, Ho Chi Minh City Police Department urgently arrested Tran Nhat Duy (born 1994) - the murderer who dismembered a person in a rented room in Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City - to investigate the act of murder and robbery.
According to initial testimony, Duy and Van Anh Tuan (born in 1984, victim) had a homosexual relationship since Duy was an 11th grader in Tien Giang. In 2013, Duy passed the university entrance exam, so Tuan moved to Ho Chi Minh City to rent a house. Later, due to jealousy of Duy having feelings for someone else, Tuan often said bad things. Therefore, Duy had the idea of killing Tuan to end this love affair.
On May 15 and 16, 2014, Duy mixed poison for Mr. Tuan to drink, but the victim did not die, but only vomited and became weaker. On May 19, Duy continued to put poison in 2 capsules to poison the victim.
After Tuan died, Duy used a knife and saw to dismember the victim's body. Duy told the landlord that he was going on a long trip, but in reality he put the body parts in a backpack and brought them to My Loi ferry (Tien Giang) and Lam Dong to dispose of them.
After the murder, Duy called his girlfriend to come to the motel with him to clean up the crime scene, spray perfume to remove the smell... then together with Duy took the victim's motorbike, phone and cash to Tien Giang to hide.
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