A suspected serial killing in Kaohsiung is still under investigation. After 11 days of searching, divers have found eight more body parts in a sweep of a canal in the southern Taiwan city. Some previously recovered human remains were confirmed to match the DNA of two of the victims.
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00:00Searching for signs of three missing women believed to have been killed and dismembered
00:05in Taiwan's southern city of Kaohsiung, as a 73-year-old suspect is held in detention.
00:12Divers found eight body parts and a human bone in the water.
00:15And nearby, they found a suspicious bag.
00:26Some of the clothing had burn marks and reddish-brown stains.
00:29A total of 62 body parts have been found so far, 37 of which matched DNA from two of the
00:35victims.
00:37Police have been combing Kaohsiung's riverbeds with the help of dive teams, sonar equipment
00:41and underwater cameras in the grisly search for human remains.
01:03The search goes on.
01:05Police are still looking for the heads of the victims and signs of the third presumed
01:09victim, the suspect's sister-in-law, who has been missing.
01:12Luffy Lee and Tiffany Wong for Taiwan Plus.