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Breast implant helps identify murdered, dismembered model

By Li Qian | October 21, 2013, Monday | Online Edition

A YOUNG model was identified as a murder victim by her breast implants’ serial number after some of her nude body parts were found floating in a suitcase near an uninhabited island in south China’s Guangdong Province, police said.

Authorities also said they have a suspect in custody after they located additional body parts – the head and right leg -- of the model, a 22-year-old surnamed Que. Those parts were found packed in cement in a cardboard box at a rental room in Shenzhen.

The suspect is the 29-year-old tenant of the room, surnamed Huang, the driver of an illegal taxi who admitted having raped, robbed and killed Que, officials said. Police haven’t confirmed whether arrest documents have been approved for Huang, local Daily Sunshine newspaper reported today.

Parts of Que’s dismembered body were found stuffed inside a suitcase floating on the sea near Luyu Island of Shantou City by two fishermen on June 30, the newspaper reported.

Her hands, tied by electrical wire, were entangled with her left leg, and her highly decomposed body was wrapped inside plastic bags, which police said indicating a killing done with careful preparation and likely committed indoors.

The body couldn’t be bent into the suitcase if it were put there longer than one hour after death because it would stiffen, police said.

An autopsy found an unnaturally pale part at her breast, which made officials think she was pressed and suffocated to death. Also, examiners detected serial numbers of the implant in her breast, police said.

Police located the implant seller and 15 women who could have been the victim. Their doctors, as requested by police, called their patients, and Que couldn’t be reached. She also matched the description of the victim.

Que, a native in neighboring Guangxi Province, lived in Zhuhai in Guangdong. She was last seen alive on June 8, when she left her friend’s home in Shenzhen to report for a print media photography session, the newspaper reported.

Her father had reported her missing on June 12. After a DNA test, police confirmed Que was the victim.

By checking her bank accounts, police found someone had taken 50,000 yuan (US$8,205) after her death. Video footage captured by surveillance cameras placed on the ATM showed a man, who dressed up to cover his identity, had withdrawn money using her bank cards three times.

Police classified it as a murder for money and looked for Que’s robbed belongings.

On July 6, police found her mobile phone and the owner said his cousin, Huang, sent it to him as a gift. Huang was caught at his rental room the next morning.

He said he decided to rob and kill passengers to pay back huge gambling debts. Que hailed his cab on June 8. He drove her to the place in rural Shenzhen that he had rented in preparation for the murder. He raped her, forced her to reveal bank card passwords and killed her, he said.

He cut off her head and right leg because the suitcase wouldn’t hold her entire body. He threw the suitcase into the sea in his hometown in Shantou and encased the rest of the parts in the cement-filled cardboard box.

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