Husband heartlessly kills pregnant wife and then sets up fake crime scene
The man, after strangling his wife, poured Strychnos nux vomica into her mouth to fake a suicide.
On May 22, Lam Dong Provincial Police announced that they had initiated a criminal case, prosecuted and temporarily detained Dau Duc Quyen (36 years old), residing in Thanh My town, Don Duong district (Lam Dong) for murder. The victim was Quyen's wife, Cao Thi Truc (33 years old).
According to the suspect's initial statement, because Ms. Truc played a lottery game and incurred a debt of 1 billion VND, along with suspecting Quyen of having an affair, the two often had conflicts. On the evening of May 9, Ms. Truc "asked" to die, Quyen also "asked" to die, so the suspect mixed poison into the wine for both of them to drink.
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On May 10, the authorities came to conduct an autopsy on Ms. Truc's body, but her family refused to perform an autopsy, only asking for an external examination and did not file a complaint.
On May 11, Dau Duc Quyen was brought to Don Duong District Police by his relatives to confess to the act of injecting Strychnos nux vomica into his wife's mouth, causing her death.
On May 12, when Ms. Truc’s body was just loaded into the hearse for burial, the authorities requested a temporary halt for an autopsy. The forensic examination results determined that Dau Duc Quyen had strangled Ms. Truc to death first, then poured Strychnos nux vomica into her mouth to create a fake scene.
It is known that Ms. Truc and Quyen had a 10-year-old son. When the murder occurred, Ms. Truc was several months pregnant with her second child.
