Murder-dismemberment defendant changes tune
By Wang Xiang |
June 2, 2010, Wednesday
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THE young woman accused of murdering and dismembering her adoptive parents has withdrawn her confession, now painting herself as a compassionate individual rather than a cold-blooded killer.
She said her parents took an overdose of sleeping pills in an attempt at suicide but had an allergic reaction to the medication and went into painful convulsions.
The woman said she killed them by placing plastic bags over their heads to "save their agony."
Qi Pingping, 19, from a migrant workers' family in Zhongshan City of south China's Guangdong Province, was found in a rented apartment last September after she spent four days with 42 plastic bags containing her parents' chopped-up body parts.
She told police at first that she killed them to stop their quarreling.
But Qi said now her parents were not quarreling on September 11 when she killed them but had taken the overdose, Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.
Qi said her father was suicidal for two years after he became ill in 2008. Her, mother, Qi said, suffered from depression and told her she wanted to die if her husband did.
Qi said she could not bear her parents' convulsions and groaning after they took the pills and decided to kill them to relieve their pain.
Her lawyer said Qi's confession explained why the teenager could kill two adults without any neighbor hearing fighting or screaming.
Prosecutors said Qi's confession in court was not believable because an autopsy found no sleeping pills in her parents' stomachs.
The Intermediate People's Court of Zhongshan is yet to reach a verdict and Qi has appeared calm during the hearing apart from some brief tears when seeing relatives.
Police found pictures of self-mutilation in her digital camera.
Her favorite Internet personality was a drug-addicted woman famous for putting self-mutilation pictures online. This woman committed suicide by cutting her wrists.
When asked why she lied to police during investigations, Qi said she didn't want to live after her parents died and made up the murder story, seeking a quick death sentence.
After almost a year in custody, she said she changed her mind.
Qi confessed that after her parents died, she searched the Internet about how to dispose of corpses. She bought hammers and cleavers to chop up their bodies, stuffed them into garbage begs and even tried to boil some parts to get rid of the smell.
Qi was adopted when she was three days old. She said she only found she was adopted during court proceedings on Monday.
Qi's relatives from central China's Henan Province have sat through the hearing.
An uncle has sent a letter to the court, pleading with judges to spare his niece - a chubby-faced woman who looks much younger than 19 - from the death penalty.
She said her parents took an overdose of sleeping pills in an attempt at suicide but had an allergic reaction to the medication and went into painful convulsions.
The woman said she killed them by placing plastic bags over their heads to "save their agony."
Qi Pingping, 19, from a migrant workers' family in Zhongshan City of south China's Guangdong Province, was found in a rented apartment last September after she spent four days with 42 plastic bags containing her parents' chopped-up body parts.
She told police at first that she killed them to stop their quarreling.
But Qi said now her parents were not quarreling on September 11 when she killed them but had taken the overdose, Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.
Qi said her father was suicidal for two years after he became ill in 2008. Her, mother, Qi said, suffered from depression and told her she wanted to die if her husband did.
Qi said she could not bear her parents' convulsions and groaning after they took the pills and decided to kill them to relieve their pain.
Her lawyer said Qi's confession explained why the teenager could kill two adults without any neighbor hearing fighting or screaming.
Prosecutors said Qi's confession in court was not believable because an autopsy found no sleeping pills in her parents' stomachs.
The Intermediate People's Court of Zhongshan is yet to reach a verdict and Qi has appeared calm during the hearing apart from some brief tears when seeing relatives.
Police found pictures of self-mutilation in her digital camera.
Her favorite Internet personality was a drug-addicted woman famous for putting self-mutilation pictures online. This woman committed suicide by cutting her wrists.
When asked why she lied to police during investigations, Qi said she didn't want to live after her parents died and made up the murder story, seeking a quick death sentence.
After almost a year in custody, she said she changed her mind.
Qi confessed that after her parents died, she searched the Internet about how to dispose of corpses. She bought hammers and cleavers to chop up their bodies, stuffed them into garbage begs and even tried to boil some parts to get rid of the smell.
Qi was adopted when she was three days old. She said she only found she was adopted during court proceedings on Monday.
Qi's relatives from central China's Henan Province have sat through the hearing.
An uncle has sent a letter to the court, pleading with judges to spare his niece - a chubby-faced woman who looks much younger than 19 - from the death penalty.
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