4case filesUpdated Jul 16, 2026
Casepin holds 4 case files in Taipei. By legal status, 4 marked solved.
SOLVEDListenPurple Garden Hotel, Datong District, Taipei, Taiwan · 2018
Amber Poon Hiu-wing, a pregnant 20-year-old from Hong Kong, was killed by her boyfriend Chan Tong-kai in a Taipei hotel room in February 2018. Jurisdictional gaps meant Chan could only be prosecuted in Hong Kong for money laundering, and the case became the stated rationale for a 2019 extradition bill that triggered months of mass protests in Hong Kong.
SOLVEDListenTaiwan (island-wide, originating in Taipei) · 1945
In 1947, Taiwan's Kuomintang-led Nationalist government, under governor Chen Yi and President Chiang Kai-shek, violently suppressed an island-wide anti-government uprising sparked by a cigarette-smuggling enforcement incident in Taipei, killing thousands of civilians and initiating decades of political repression known as the White Terror.
SOLVEDListenNational Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan · 2016
Jacques Picoux, a French-born lecturer and LGBT community member in Taiwan, died by suicide in October 2016 after describing that he had no legal rights over his terminally ill partner's care or their shared home, galvanizing public support for same-sex marriage legislation in Taiwan.
SOLVEDListenTaipei, Taiwan · 1997
On 18 November 1997, fugitive Chen Chin-hsing took the family of South African military attaché McGill Alexander hostage in their Taipei home for roughly 21 hours, shooting two family members before all hostages were released and Chen was captured.
The files run from 1945 to 2018. The 2010s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is February 28 Incident, from 1945.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (2), robbery and burglary cases (1) and kidnapping and abduction cases (1).
1 file of the 4 has coverage attached: 3 videos, podcasts and documentaries. The most covered is Murder of Poon Hiu-wing, with 3 items to watch or hear.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
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February 28 Incident, from 1945. Open the file
Murder of Poon Hiu-wing, with 3 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 16, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
