Police Widen Search After Alleged Kaohsiung Serial Killing

Police are widening their net as they search for evidence that could help crack an alleged killing spree in the southern city of Kaohsiung.

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00:00Divers make a grisly discovery, several body parts belonging to two murder victims.

00:06It's the latest evidence in the case of an alleged triple killing that shocked the southern port city of Kaohsiung,

00:12and it raises questions of whether there's more evidence out there.

00:1673-year-old suspect Zhang Jiezhong says he is innocent of the killings,

00:20but police say what they found puts that in doubt.

00:31There's surveillance footage of him with two of the victims before their deaths.

00:35One appears to have given Zhang a ride on February 2nd.

00:39Investigators have found this woman's blood in Zhang's home,

00:43as well as footage showing him going in and out of his home with black plastic bags the following morning.

01:01But this is not an open and shut case,

01:05and there are still gruesome questions police need to solve.

01:09Based on a sheet of paper written with names in Zhang's home, police believe there were four targets.

01:15Two names match the remains found so far.

01:18One person on the list is alive and well, a target who got away.

01:22But what about the last name? It's Zhang's sister-in-law, missing since December.

01:27There's a suspected DNA evidence match here, too.

01:31But while police expect to find another dismembered body, they're not sure where to look.

01:36Some lawyers, though, think a link with the other cases may not be too hard to find.

01:41So investigators are spreading out, looking in Kaohsiung's harbor, at the local garbage incinerator,

01:48and possibly even the suspect's septic tank for clues,

01:52in the hope that they fill in the blanks and see justice served.

01:56Hank Hsu and John Van Triest for Taiwan News.

02:11Taiwan News.