The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files
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S3-E17 – The Wrongful Execution of Chiang Kuo-ching (江國慶) and the Death Penalty in Taiwan

The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files

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Shou Dongze's Iron Drum

Serial killer Shou Dongze took his four investors to a remote mountain location where they're going to be digging. He then came back with a very large barrel, an iron drum. It could hold the treasure and also hide the men from the police if they turned up. So while on the mountain, right, doing this dig, Shou suddenly shouts, the police are coming. And the four investors hide inside the iron drum. Shou then fills the drum with gas, poisoning, and killing them. Yeah, it's for lack of a better word, amazing, well-planned, very cold-blooded, and yet needless unhinged.

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