"Murder for a quick paycheck"

Slate magazine reports a particularly disturbing story of an unscrupulous health worker defrauding the elderly in China.  He Tiandai, a 45-year-old female care worker came up with the following scheme.  She negotiated a deal with an elderly person's family to care for her or him that included the provision that she would receive a full month's pay for any month within which the client died.   She then proceeded to kill the client with a few days and collect the full monthly rate, thus boosting her monthly income considerably.

Let us hope that such instances are rare.

To read the full story in Slate, please click on the picture below: