The Ministry of Public Security hosted Saturday a press meeting to publicize official police account of the appalling massacre of six people in the southern province of Binh Phuoc.

The meeting was also meant to release results of a four-day investigation into the shocking and horrible case, bringing light to many apparently misleading details since the homicide took place at first light on Tuesday.

Le Van My, who ran a big wood processing plant in Binh Phuoc, and his wife, son, daughter, and two other relatives, were found dead at their villa in Chon Thanh District.

Local police and investigators from the Ministry of Public Security launched immediate probe into the bloodbath, and announced on Friday they had detained two suspects.

They include Nguyen Hai Duong, hailing from the southern province of An Giang, and Vu Van Tien, a Binh Phuoc resident.

Both of the suspects are 24 years old and shared a rent house in the outlying district of Hoc Mon in Ho Chi Minh City, where they both worked as carpenters.

After being summoned and questioned by police, the two confessed to committing the crime.

Deliberate murder

Duong said he and Le Thi Anh Linh, the daughter of My who was among the six deceased victims, had loved each other but Linh’s family objected the relationship. Linh then broke up with Duong through her own initiative.

In April this year, Duong began thinking of exacting vengeance by killing Linh and My’s family and stealing their assets.

Duong then bought a ball gun, a stun gun, a 30cm knife, a 7cm switchblade, masks, gloves, strings, plastic tapes, and a new SIM card in preperation for his crime. He also borrowed a motorcycle from his aunt.

Nguyen Hai Duong

On July 6, Duong invited Tien to a café and enticed him to join a robbery against a rich family in Chon Thanh. Tien agreed.

When Duong and Linh were still in a relationship, Duong had slept over at the villa several times, so he and Du Minh Vy, a 14-year-old relative of My, knew each other.

Duong also knew that Vy was fond of playing online games and cockfighting, so he had enticed Vy to help him enter the villa, in exchange for money and a new rooster.

At 2:00am, Duong and Tien arrived at the villa on the borrowed motorcyle, and texted Vy to open the gate to let them in.

Vy did as earlier discussed with Duong, only to be killed as soon as the two stepped past the gate.

The murderers then went upstairs to the bedroom of Linh and Vy’s sister, Du Ngoc To Nhu, 18. The girls had their hands tied to the windows, and their mouths tapped.

Duong and Tien returned to the bedroom on the floor to tie My and Le Quoc Anh, his 15-year-old son. They then forced his wife, Nguyen Le Thi Anh Nga, 42, to show them where the family keeps money and other assets.

Nga opened a safe, but there was nothing inside. The murderers then searched the room and stole more than VND4 million (roughly US$200) and some dollars.

They then tied Nga and turned to put the same question to Anh. The boy said he did not know, and was killed.

Duong and Tien returned to My’s bedroom, killed him and his wife. They got back to Linh and Nhu with the same question, then murdered both after they too said they had no idea where money is kept.

The two also grabbed five mobile phones and one iPad from the victims.

Before fleeing, the murderers took My’s trousers to replace their blooded ones, and left.

At their rent house in Hoc Mon, Duong checked the stolen assets and put all of tools used in the homicide, such as guns and knives, into a backpack and asked Tien to keep it.

Investigators found all of these items when they arrested the two.

Tien and the case's alleged exhibits.

Police said with their confessions and such exhibits, there is now enough ground to conclude Duong and Tien had committed the murder and robbery.

Officers are completing procedures to indict the two in the nearest time, they told reporters.

Misleading information clarified

Deputy Minister of Public Security Le Quy Vuong, who chaired the briefing, also took some questions from the press to clarify many misleading information regarding the case.

While six members of the family was killed, the murderers spared the life of a 18-month-old girl, Le Gia Linh, who Vuong said is the youngest daughter of My.

It had been rumored that the baby was the daughter of Duong and Linh, which was why he spared her life.

The baby was sleeping when Duong and Tien broke into the villa, and began crying when they were on their way leaving the house, according to the deputy minister.

“Perhaps Duong felt compassion for the baby and spared her,” he said.

Vuong also said the public should not blame Vy and Nhu for colluding with the murderers, as they were only enticed by Duong.

While people are doubting whether only two men could kill as many as six people, Vuong asserted that they are the only two culprits.

“Duong killed five, and Tien stabbed Nga to death,” he said.

The murderers only rammed the victims’ throats, rather than cutting their throats as earlier reported, according to the officer.

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