The gambling debts led a woman to take out five life insurance policies on family

members. It wasn't until three of those people were dead before someone got suspicious.

I'm Charlie and days of crime lines. Today's episode is going to take us to Taiwan.

I feel like this series has been about the limits of researching international cases, but this one brings up something that I actually see in many cases.

There is way more information out there on the background of the perpetrator rather than the victims.

While that happens in the English language media that I usually use all the time,

I have a few more resources up my sleeve.

I can find little snippets buried in the newspaper archives, which are physical newspapers that have been scanned in.

Sometimes the snippet will just be about the victim scoring a goal in a high school sports game and that tells me they played sports and it also tells me where they went to school.

I can find obituaries which often give more details even if it's a grandfather's obituary.

In this case though, what I'm searching in English, it's really hard to find those details.

Googling people's names using the Chinese... it's really hard to find those details.

Googling people's names using the Chinese characters

did help me find some good articles,

but unfortunately, I still don't have much on the victims.

So our case is going to not start with a victim. It's going to start with the perpetrator who is Lynn U

Roo and her name has been transliterated to English as UJU sometimes and all of the sources with all the different spellings

are what I would consider equally as reliable. In reading up on it though I found an article by Andrea Wong who has

the same name as her middle name. She was just writing about names in general not

about this case but she did write that this name actually sounds

closer to Uru, and so that's what I'm going to go with.

That was a very long explanation, but it does give you a little insight into the extra research I have to do when I do cover cases like this.

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