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Jieming
LIU
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Parricide - Cannibalism
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder:
April 5, 2012
Date of arrest:
Same day
Date of birth: 1932
Victim profile:
His
wife, Yuee Zhou, 73
Method of murder:
????
Location: Shrewsbury,
Worcester County, Massachusetts,
USA
Status:
Died of natural causes in a secure section of Lemuel Shattuck
Hospital in Boston on May 4, 2012
Shrewsbury man accused of killing, eating wife
dies
An elderly Shrewsbury man charged with killing his
wife and eating part of her severed arm died Saturday at a public
hospital specializing in mental illness, a representative of the
Worcester County sheriff’s office said
By Michael Morton - Metrowestdailynews.com
May 5, 2012
An elderly Shrewsbury man charged with killing his
wife and eating part of her severed arm died Saturday at a public
hospital specializing in mental illness, a representative of the
Worcester County sheriff’s office said.
Jieming Liu, 79, died of natural causes in a secure
section of Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Boston, said
Jason Rives, a spokesman for Sheriff Lewis Evangelidis. While Shattuck
has its own security, the sheriff’s office had decided to post its own
guard there around the clock as an extra precaution.
Additional information about Liu’s health was not
immediately available, but the Chinese immigrant had been transferred
from Bridgewater State Hospital after staff there determined that
Liu’s medical needs were beyond their capacity, Rives said.
“When an inmate goes to Shattuck, there are
typically some serious medical problems,” Rives said. A supervisor at
Shattuck declined comment.
During Liu’s arraignment last month in Westborough
District Court, he appeared confused, and his son told investigators
he suspected the older man was suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s
disease.
Liu’s wife, 73-year-old Yuee Zhou, was found by the
couple’s son face-down at home in a pool of blood April 5. When
officers arrived, they found Liu covered in blood and Zhou’s left arm
served and partially gnawed. A murder weapon was not found.
After his arraignment, Liu was sent to Bridgewater
for a mental evaluation to determine his competency for trial. It’s
not clear if that occurred before he was transferred, Rives said, with
Shattuck unlikely to have followed up because of Liu’s medical state.
While an autopsy on Zhou was planned after Liu’s
arrest to determine her cause of death, it was not clear yesterday if
the exam has been completed or will proceed.
Man accused of killing wife, eating her flesh
acted in ‘self-defense’
Jieming Liu's wife's blood-soaked body was found on
a bedroom floor, with flesh missing from her left forearm
The Associated Press
Sunday, April 8, 2012
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — A 79-year-old man accused of
killing his wife ate some of her flesh and was found sitting in a
rocking chair in their Shrewsbury apartment, covered in blood, a
prosecutor said Friday.
Jieming Liu was charged at his arraignment Friday
with the murder of Yuee Zhou, 73.
Liu appeared disoriented and was wearing a white
jumpsuit with no shoes during the appearance in Westborough District
Court in Westborough, just east of Shrewsbury. He was ordered to
undergo a mental health evaluation to determine his competency to
stand trial.
His attorney, Michael Hussey, later described him
as "befuddled" and in "pathetic" mental and physical condition.
In court, Worcester County prosecutor Michael
McHugh said the couple's son called police to his parents' apartment
on Thursday night. Police found Liu in a rocking chair with blood on
his mouth, hands and face. His wife's blood-soaked body was found on a
bedroom floor, with flesh missing from her left forearm. Some of her
fingers were detached from her hand, McHugh said.
Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early
told reporters, "It was a very gruesome scene."
Liu told Shrewsbury police that he acted in
self-defense.
The couple's son told police his parents arrived
from China in November. He said his mother was recently worried about
the health of his father, who he thought may have Alzheimer's disease.
Husband, 79, arrested for 'killing his wife and
eating her' (but he claims it was self defence)
Jieming Liu, 79, found sitting in rocking chair
covered in wife's blood
Wife found in bedroom with much of left arm missing
Liu's attorney said client likely suffering from Alzheimer's or
dementia
By Beth Stebner
April 7, 2012
A frail 79-year-old man who recently emigrated from
China pleaded not guilty yesterday in the brutal slaying of his
elderly wife.
On Thursday, police in the quiet New England town
of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts found Jieming Liu in a rocking chair
‘covered in blood’ on his hands, mouth, and face in his modest
condominium.
According to police, his 73-year-old wife, Yuee
Zhou, was found in a rear bedroom with severe injuries to her arm,
lying in a pool of blood.
Liu’s son told police that his father – who is only
5ft2 and 75 pounds - had no idea of what he was doing at the time, and
kept repeating: ‘This is not your mother.’
At the arraignment yesterday in Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts, Assistant District Attorney Michael D. McHugh told the
court that police were notified around 4:30pm Thursday that a woman
was not breathing.
When officers arrived to the condo, he said,
officers found Liu drenched in blood and surrounded by pieces of his
wife’s flesh.
Court records state he kept telling his son, ‘This
is not your mother,’ in Mandarin Chinese.
He was charged with murder in conjunction with the
gruesome death.
Mr McHugh told the court: 'He may have been eating
her flesh.'
Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.
also said that Zhou was missing most of the flesh on her
badly-mutilated left arm. Police also found a few fingers scattered
around the condo.
Mr Early called it a ‘very gruesome scene. A very
tough scene’ it’s a very disturbing scene,' telegram.com reported.
According to the DA, Liu claimed that he was acting
in self-defence.
His attorney, public defender Michael Hussey, told
the court that he may be suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia.
He said: ‘Mr Liu doesn’t seem to have any
recognition for what is going on here. He’s completely befuddled, I
don’t even think that he has a good understanding that police brought
him here and for what reason.’
According to the Boston Herald, Liu was sent to
Bridgewater State Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
Mr Early told telegram.com that the couple had
moved to the suburban New England town last year from China’s Hunan
Province, and had been married for about 50 years.
Their son, 51, said he checked on them every day,
and said he brought them to the U.S. so that they could receive better
care, according to Mr Hussey. They also have a daughter in San
Francisco.
Liu is next due in court May 14th.
Shrewsbury is about 50 miles west of Boston.
The quiet New England town has a population of
35,000, according to the 2010 census.
Jieming Liu, 79, appears for arraignment in
Westborough, Mass., District Court Friday, April 6, 2012, where he
faced a murder charge in the death of his wife, Yuee Zhou, in their of
Shrewsbury home.
(Allan Jung/MetroWest Daily News/via AP)
