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.