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.
Wasn’t a nail gun used in “American Psycho” and in one of the Mel Gibson movies?
Reminds me of a Kurt Vonegut notion that humans were just little gas bags that died when they had holes poked in them. Forget the novel. Paddy, with your encyclopedic recall (being serious!) ==do you remember the novel?
He died of an iron deficiency.
There! Nailed it !!!
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The Aussies have enacted some of the most draconian gun laws since they had a mass murder about 10 years ago.I guess they will have to ban nail guns also.
#2 Mr Fusion, you’ve brightened up my day!
And hit the nail on the head so to speak
Dead as a doornail……ok i’ll stop
Well he died from the OPPOSITE of a deficiency didn’t he?
I think medical experts agree (Nimby?) that no body needs more than one nail in the head.
OH, My GOD!
Does anybody know where Joe the Carpenter is! LOL!
Joe who? Never heard of him. Saw a skit with a guy named Joe though. He was hilarious trying to be a reporter and all.
Seems to me like Australia needs an “Assault Nail” ban.
He was shot 34 times in the back of the head with a nail gun.
Obviously it was suicide. (in the morning…)
That looks photoshopped, I see pixels. It doesn’t look like a chinese guy either.
The suspect is said to be a carpenter.
Ayup, had this been done to a black person many here in this blog would be outraged but since it happened to a Chinese and we all know that asians are the last bastion of get away with it mockery in America.
The photo looks fake to me … head on nails from a nail gun? Even a couple of screws …
#13. I think you’ve exposed a chink in our armor… although I’m not sure I agree with the slant you attach to the reporting.
I dont’ care what color/nationality/believer he was, I’d still be here saying things like:
“I guess he got the point.”
and
“The guy thought he was a stud.”
and
“He propositioned her for a screw but something was lost in translation.”
I’m an equal-opportunity asshole.
#14, actually, you can see the flat spot on the head of the nails, which indicate that they are *specifically* nails from a nail gun.
It could have been accidental.
#17 – I agree with Dallas, the guy could be Polish.
I agree with Mr. Wong, but damn… Dallas made me laugh. I am very conflicted.
Well if that isn’t a race motivated crime, I don’t know what is.
#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.