Police Say Banker Killed Two Women In Crime Scene Out of American Psycho
Police say a 29-year-old Merrill Lynch equity trader brutally murdered two women and stashed their bodies at his expensive apartment complex in Hong Kong, where he's currently facing murder charges.
Rurik Jutting, a Cambridge-educated British banker, was arrested this weekend after he called police and confessed to the murders. Earlier that night, he reportedly updated his Facebook status with the message, "Money DOES buy happiness."
Inside Jutting's 31st-floor apartment, police found two dead women—one lying in the living room and another stuffed inside a suitcase stashed on the balcony—sex toys, and cocaine.
Investigators told reporters the woman in the living room had been killed that night but the woman in the suitcase had been dead "for quite some time." Neighbors had reportedly complained of a strange odor coming from Jutting's apartment.
Both women are believed to be Indonesian prostitutes, the BBC reports.
According to the Daily Mail, the American Psycho comparisons aren't far off:
He dined with a string of beautiful women in exclusive restaurants across the globe, according to those who know him.
He enjoyed skiing holidays in Courchevel, the Alpine playground for the elite, and when in London he relaxed at a private members' club in Shoreditch.
The son of an engineer father and a nursery teacher mother, Jutting was described by one colleague in Hong Kong as someone who 'talked very loud and made loads of money'.
Co-workers say he abruptly quit his job earlier this month.
The Wall Street Journal points out that this isn't the first Hong Kong banker murder mystery linked to Merrill Lynch:
The city was previously riveted by the 2003 murder of a Merrill Lynch banker by his wife, Nancy Kissel , in a case that came to be known as the "milkshake murder." The case stretched over a decade as Ms. Kissel unsuccessfully sought to overturn her conviction.