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http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061122806
Cops: Husband killed, ate wife
By Matt Stout and John Zaremba
Saturday, April 7, 2012
With his mother dead in a blood-soaked bedroom and his father sitting on the floor next to her — apparently having feasted on his wife’s flesh — a man who’d moved his elderly parents from China to Shrewsbury mere months ago found himself helpless in the face of a horrific discovery that has shaken and shocked even veteran law enforcement officials.
“It’s a very disturbing scene,” Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said of the carnage that unfolded in a tidy condo complex where authorities say Jiemieng Liu, 79, murdered his wife, Yuee Zhou, 73, then ate part of her forearm and chanted a haunting mantra — “This is not your mother” — when their adult son arrived.
“I haven’t seen this in Worcester County,” Early said of the apparent cannibalism. “None of the police officers that were working the scene have seen this type of homicide before.”
Liu, clad in a white gown with a matching cap covering his head, appeared frail and dazed during his arraignment in Westboro District Court, where authorities charged him with murder, mayhem, and assault and battery in connection with the gruesome scene their son found Thursday afternoon. Liu’s attorney, Michael Hussey, had argued against even bringing him into the courtroom, saying there was no point because his client does not understand what is happening.
“I think there are serious questions regarding ... if he’ll ever be competent to stand trial,” Hussey told the Herald. “I think he’s confused about where he is, why he’s there and what happened yesterday. It clearly seems to me that he suffers from dementia. He is completely disoriented and mentally confused.”
Liu was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for psychiatric evaluation and is due back in court on May 14.
The son moved Liu and Zhou to the United States from Hunan province last fall; Hussey said the son wanted to care for the couple in their elder years, and that Zhou had been worried about her husband’s apparent dementia. Liu apparently did not recognize his own son when being picked up at the airport. “And he really hasn’t recognized him since,” Hussey said.
No one answered the door at an address listed for the son.
Authorities say paramedics found Zhou face-down in a pool of blood, with flesh stripped from her forearm and fingers detached from her left hand. She was pronounced dead about 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Authorities provided no details about how exactly she died, saying in court only that she had suffered trauma. Liu, who required a Mandarin interpreter during the investigation and his arraignment, told police he’d acted in self-defense, a prosecutor said during the arraignment.
Cops: Husband killed, ate wife
By Matt Stout and John Zaremba
Saturday, April 7, 2012
With his mother dead in a blood-soaked bedroom and his father sitting on the floor next to her — apparently having feasted on his wife’s flesh — a man who’d moved his elderly parents from China to Shrewsbury mere months ago found himself helpless in the face of a horrific discovery that has shaken and shocked even veteran law enforcement officials.
“It’s a very disturbing scene,” Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said of the carnage that unfolded in a tidy condo complex where authorities say Jiemieng Liu, 79, murdered his wife, Yuee Zhou, 73, then ate part of her forearm and chanted a haunting mantra — “This is not your mother” — when their adult son arrived.
“I haven’t seen this in Worcester County,” Early said of the apparent cannibalism. “None of the police officers that were working the scene have seen this type of homicide before.”
Liu, clad in a white gown with a matching cap covering his head, appeared frail and dazed during his arraignment in Westboro District Court, where authorities charged him with murder, mayhem, and assault and battery in connection with the gruesome scene their son found Thursday afternoon. Liu’s attorney, Michael Hussey, had argued against even bringing him into the courtroom, saying there was no point because his client does not understand what is happening.
“I think there are serious questions regarding ... if he’ll ever be competent to stand trial,” Hussey told the Herald. “I think he’s confused about where he is, why he’s there and what happened yesterday. It clearly seems to me that he suffers from dementia. He is completely disoriented and mentally confused.”
Liu was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for psychiatric evaluation and is due back in court on May 14.
The son moved Liu and Zhou to the United States from Hunan province last fall; Hussey said the son wanted to care for the couple in their elder years, and that Zhou had been worried about her husband’s apparent dementia. Liu apparently did not recognize his own son when being picked up at the airport. “And he really hasn’t recognized him since,” Hussey said.
No one answered the door at an address listed for the son.
Authorities say paramedics found Zhou face-down in a pool of blood, with flesh stripped from her forearm and fingers detached from her left hand. She was pronounced dead about 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Authorities provided no details about how exactly she died, saying in court only that she had suffered trauma. Liu, who required a Mandarin interpreter during the investigation and his arraignment, told police he’d acted in self-defense, a prosecutor said during the arraignment.
