Australian police have released an X-ray image showing the skull of a murdered Chinese immigrant shot repeatedly with a nail gun.
Police are appealing for help to solve the murder of Chen Liu, 27, whose body was found by two children last year in marshland in south Sydney. Detectives said the weapon was a gas nail gun used in construction, firing nails up to 85mm (3.3in) long.
A post-mortem examination revealed that Mr Liu was shot 34 times in the head and neck with a high-powered nail gun, police said.
The weapon has not yet been recovered. Police have appealed for information from anyone who may have been in the area at the time of Mr Chen’s death.
“In 36 years, I’ve never seen a murder of this nature,” Homicide Squad Superintendent Geoff Beresford told reporters. “It’s a particularly brutal and vicious murder and hence the reason we are seeking information from the public,” he said.
Mr Chen’s badly decomposed body was found on 1 November 2008, wrapped in plastic, wire and an electrical cord.
Obvious from this article and others that the killer(s) tried their best to keep the body from being discovered. Earlier coverage noted Chen Liu’s car was first discovered in the area after he went missing.
#20 – I disagree. Now if there had been TWO people with this many nails in their head you could have said they were racing to see who could shoot the most nails in X number of seconds.
Something else weird about this x-ray is the R on the left side. That obviously is not the right side of his head. I believe the x-ray technician may have fucked up.
Bobbo – I prefer a double tap.
You know what would have been fun? To do an MRI on this guy!
Angel: I don’t like to be racist but, it seems to me, with Chinese people it just takes more effort to get the point across.
Jesus……………………………………
……..was a carpenter
#24 – Yeah but it was just the cheap veneer shit.
And, thus, was born the new science of nail gun forensics and up went a cry for nail gun registration and a ban on high capacity nail gun magazines.