Female student confessed to planning to poison her father and hide his body

The suspect is a student at a school in Ho Chi Minh City, and has admitted all his actions. Regarding the motivecommit crimeLinh confessed that because her father often scolded her and he also treated her mother badly, she had the intention of killing Mr. Diep.

Recently, the mother went to Saigon to take care of relatives. Linh lived with Mr. Diep in a level 4 house on Nguyen Huu Tho street, which was when she carried out her plan.

Tong Thi Tung Linh at Ba Ria - Vung Tau Police. Photo: Quang Binh

At noon on January 18, Linh took a bus to Kim Bien market, Ho Chi Minh City, bought one kilogram of cyanide for 500,000 VND from a woman of unknown origin, and returned to Vung Tau that same day. At around 8pm, she mixed poison into three bottles of soft drinks that Mr. Diep often drank and put them in the refrigerator. Later, Mr. Diep drank one bottle, vomited shortly after, and ran to the bathroom.

Linh waited for about an hour, and when she heard no more movement from her father, she went to bed. The next morning, she bought a hacksaw, broke open the bathroom door, dragged the victim’s body out and placed it against the back wall of the house. Linh dug a small hole, buried her father, then built bricks around it, mixed cement and sealed the hole.

Late at night on January 19, Linh poured gasoline on the house and burned it down, ran to his grandfather's house nearby and shouted for help "someone was trying to harm him", then helped everyone put out the fire and called the police.

The area where the police discovered the victim's body. Photo: Quang Binh

Working with the police, Linh said that while she was sleeping on the floor, a strange young man broke in, grabbed her hair and said "I killed your father, I have paid my debt, now I will burn down your house". This man pulled her head and slammed it hard on the floor, causing her to faint. When she woke up, the house was on fire and there was no one around.

However, upon examining the scene, the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Provincial Police discovered many unusual traces. On the afternoon of January 20, the police found Mr. Diep’s body, three bottles of water containing poison and white crystals suspected to be cyanide in the trash. Linh was taken to the headquarters to clarify the incident.