Three American criminal experts began work yesterday with police investigating the attempted assassination of (陳水扁) and Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮).
Dr. Cyril Wecht, trajectory analyst Michael Haag and crime-scene-identification analyst Timothy Palmbach arrived at the National Police Administration's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) at 9:30am yesterday to examine the evidence from the shooting. They then went to look at the crime scene in Tainan City in the afternoon.
According to the bureau, the trio were in Taiwan for just the day and will take all the evidence they collected back to the US with them to analyze it.
They will then discuss their results with world-renowned forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee (
"We will collect the evidence, bring it back to the US and analyze them before we talk to Dr. Lee. While we talk, we will only provide our professional analysis toward the evidence we collected instead of coming up with any conclusion," Wecht said.
The bureau said that following a request from State Public Prosecutor-General Lu Jen-fa (盧仁發), it invited Lee and former director of the bureau's Forensic Medicine Department, Shih Tai-ping (石台平), to establish the task force and lead the investigation.
Lu said that Shih has promised during a phone conversation last Friday to accept the invitation and return to Taiwan soon. The bureau said that Lee is currently on a business trip in New Zealand and will arrive in Taiwan during the second week of April.
The director of Central Police University's department of forensic science, Lin Mao-hsiung (
In related news, Tainan Chief Prosecutor Kuo Chen-ni (
"We have received 96 anonymous tips from the public. However, 89 of them are not relevant," Kuo said.
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