The judge believed that the murderer Yang Hongru had anti-social personality, weak morality, and low possibility of correction, etc., and sentenced him to death for the third time.

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[Reporter Zhang Ruizhen/Taichung Report] In 2015, the two "barrel corpse cases" (double barrel corpse cases) on the Zhongheng Highway that shocked Taiwanese society were suspected of stuffing men Chen Zhangke and Lai Guangxiong into iron barrels and dumping their bodies. The murderer Yang Hongru in the valley next to the Zhongheng Highway, the Taichung District Court and the Taichung High Branch all regarded him as having anti-social personality, weak morality, low possibility of correction, and brutal methods. The two death sentences were upheld for reasons such as crimes committed. In April last year, the Supreme Court remanded for a review. The Taichung Higher Court made a judgment today. The two sentences were still sentenced to death and can be appealed.

The verdict pointed out that Yang Hongru (68 years old, ex-convict of robber) and the deceased surnamed Chen were friends. When Chen Nan and the woman surnamed Yang lived together, he often boasted that Yang Nv had rich financial resources, so Yang Hongru had the idea to kill Chen Nan and take Yang Nv as his own. Xinxin, invited Chen Nan for a trip on June 27, 2015, waited for the opportunity to administer sleeping pills to Chen Nan, then stuffed Chen Nan into a green iron bucket, sealed it with a cover, and loaded it to the Zhongheng Highway in Hualien County to dump his body.

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Yang Hongru also got acquainted with a man surnamed Lai because of gambling, but Lai Nan suspected that Yang Hongru set up a fraudulent gambling scheme. He revealed to his friends many times that he wanted to report to the police. In addition, he also blocked gamblers from entering the casino. Yang Hongru Growing resentment towards Lai Nan and murderous intent.

After Yang Hongru killed Chen Nan and abandoned his body, no one found it for many days. He believed that he could use this method of killing to hide the truth. On July 12, 2015, he invited Lai Nan to travel in Taitung, gave Lai Nan a sleeping potion, and stuffed it into an iron bucket. Inside, it was dumped about 200 meters away from the first iron barrel, but unexpectedly the iron barrel stuffed into Lai Nan was found. When the family called for the soul, they accidentally found the iron barrel containing Chen Nan's body, all in the posture of "falling upside down" , Yang Nan always denied the murder.

The first instance of the Changhua District Court and the second instance of the Taichung Higher Branch Court held that Yang Hongru had committed the "most serious crime". The Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital's appraisal showed that Yang Hongru had an "antisocial personality" and could not abide by social norms. He was aggressive and aggressive. Weak sense of morality, and "narcissistic personality", overconfident and exaggerated self-abilities, consider themselves special, lack of empathy for others, difficult to admit their own shortcomings, although the past has been corrected for a long time, it has not changed, but worsened, The possibility of resocialization and correction is low, and there is a need for permanent isolation from society. The sentencing of the two death sentences in the original trial was maintained. For the civil part, the Taichung District Court ruled last year that the family members of the two deceased should be compensated a total of 3.13 million yuan.

The case was appealed to the Supreme Court and sent back to the Taichung Higher Branch Court for retrial last year. The main reason was that the Supreme Court believed that the victim surnamed Chen (deceased) had not died when he was stuffed into a small iron bucket. Back to Taichung Higher Branch Court for retrial, Taichung Higher Branch Court made a judgment in the first instance today, and still maintains the two death sentences, and can appeal again.

The double-barrel corpse case on Zhongheng Highway caused a sensation in Taiwan at that time.

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