Suspect in 2008 murder case finally caught
The house where a double murder took place in 2008.
The suspect is taken to the house to testify to his alleged crime.
A police officer checks wounds on the suspect's hand while he is questioned.
A suspect in a 12-year-old murder case in Shanghai has finally been caught, police said on Tuesday.
The case involved a 52-year-old woman and her 27-year-old daughter, who were killed on the early morning of June 12, 2008, in a village in Jiangzhen, the Pudong New Area.
Through their investigation, police concluded that the suspect, who acted alone, killed the women while burglarizing their house. The two were said to have died of bludgeoning and stabbing wounds after a fight with the suspect.
Police were unable to apprehend the suspect around the time of the murders, but recovered a napkin with the suspect's blood stains in the house and kept it.
Starting in 2011, law enforcement started a nationwide hunt for the suspect in this case, as well as other uncaught murder suspects. A break finally came in November last year, when biological data of a drug-trafficking convict who was serving a term in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region matched that of the blood stains on the napkin.
The suspect, a man surnamed Lin who is now 42 years old, was recently taken back to Shanghai from Guangxi.
Lin, who is from Pudong himself and was living there at the time of the murder, has allegedly confessed to the crime and said he fled the city the day after killing the two women.
