Lee Shih-ke
Lee Shih-ke (; March 5, 1927 – May 26, 1982) was a Taiwanese murderer and armed robber who perpetrated Taiwan's first gunpoint bank heist. An army veteran and taxi driver, he murdered a police officer in January 1980 with the intention of using the officer's gun to rob a bank. He carried out the robbery on April 14, 1982 and was captured and executed within six weeks. However, before his capture, the police had wrongly arrested another man and produced a false confession using torture; the suspect committed suicide whilst in police custody. Lee gained a reputation as "Taiwan’s Robin Hood" due to his anger at the “nouveau riche” class and a golden statue was erected in his honor in New Taipei City, whilst legal reforms were introduced to prevent false confessions and police torture.
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Taiwan
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Robin Hood
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New Taipei City
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Lee Shih-ke
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1927-03-05T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
March 5, 1927
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1982-05-26T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
May 26, 1982
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1980-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
January 1980
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1982-04-14T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
April 14, 1982
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