Nail stuck in wife's head not an accident

• Source: Global Times
• [08:30 November 20 2009]
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Wang confessed that he did it for the money. He said he drugged his wife with two sleeping pills on June 14 and drove the nail into her head. The first try failed, the second try did the job. The husband called for an ambulance after his wife stopped struggling.

In 2007, police said Wang persuaded Zhang Long, his wife's younger brother, to buy accidental injury insurance with the family as beneficiaries. Subsequently, Wang rigged the young man's electric cooker with exposed wires. The man was electrocuted while cooking.

The insurance company paid the family 550, 000 yuan ($80, 542) in damages. Wang secured 200, 000 yuan ($29,284) of the insurance award for what he called his "efforts to bargain with the insurance company."

Liu Honglin, an officer at Xuzhou Public Security Bureau, told the Global Times that the case has been transferred to the local procuratorate.