Man killing 24-year-old Chinese female student claims himself to have DID and not know victim

He said another personality of his should be responsible for the case.

A 38-year-old man from Texas, the US, was suspected of tracking a Chinese female student, killing her, and stabbing her roommate in the other's home last month.

After the man was arrested, he claimed to have a dissociative identity disorder (DID), commonly known as "multiple personality disorder". He said another personality of his should be responsible for the case, but he also told the police that he hoped to be sentenced to death.

According to local reports, the case took place on the 21st last month. The man Jeremy Todd Meeks suspected of killing a 24-year-old Chinese student Lin Wang and stabbing her roommate in Dallas County.

Police documents show Meeks followed Wang who had just finished walking the dog and broke into her home in Churchill on the Parks Apartments to kill her.

Lin Wang (Video screencap)

Lin Wang (Video screencap)

Meeks was arrested last week and detained in Dallas County Jail. He faces charges of first-degree murder and burglary, with bail of US$505,000. However, when being interviewed by media, Meeks said he has DID and doesn't know the two. He claimed "another" evil him, Dan Hester, committed the crime but not himself Meeks. 

"The one that was in me at the time was Dan Hester and I didn’t know it was him," said Meeks

However, according to police records, Meeks has been guilty of crimes. Before 2001, he was sentenced to jail for theft, assault, criminal mischief, escape arrest and burglary; in 2008, he was arrested again in Collin County for theft and minor injuries; in June 2016, he was sentenced to eight months in prison for theft in Dallas County.

Lin Wang (Video screencap)

Lin Wang (Video screencap)

Meeks told American TV reporters that he regretted Wang Lin’s death.

"I’m sorry to her family to her family," said Meeks. "To her family I know you don’t wanna hear this but I am so sorry I’m sorry that I had to be connected or associated with the loss of your loved person here. In all honesty the sooner they can put me to death I think it’s the best for everyone."

He also revealed that he was once treated in a mental hospital before the incident, and he was deeply troubled by multiple personalities. 

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When he was asked why he killed the student, he answered, "No reason whatsoever.

"But when the door was open all I know of is that they were screaming.” explained Meeks.

Reporter J.D. Miles, "You wanted to kill somebody?"

Meeks, “Hell no. I have never killed anyone in my whole life.”

J.D. Miles, "So why did you do it?"

Meeks, "The one that was in me at the time was Dan Hester and I didn’t know it was him."

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.

The Seoul Central District Court said independent counsel Cho Eun-suk’s team made the request at a hearing Tuesday. Yoon was expected to make remarks there.

Removed from office last April, Yoon faces criminal trials over his martial law debacle and other scandals related to his time in office. Charges that he directed a rebellion are the most significant ones.

The court is expected to deliver a verdict on Yoon in February.

Yoon has maintained that his decree was a desperate yet peaceful attempt to raise public awareness about what he considered the danger of the liberal opposition Democratic Party, which used its legislative majority to obstruct his agenda and complicate state affairs.

Yoon called the opposition-controlled parliament “a den of criminals” and “anti-state forces.” But lawmakers rushed to object to the imposition of martial law in dramatic overnight scenes, and enough of them, including even those within Yoon’s ruling party, managed to enter an assembly hall to vote down the decree.

Yoon’s decree, the first of its kind in more than 40 years in South Korea, brought armed troops into Seoul streets to encircle the assembly and enter election offices. That evoked traumatic memories of dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s, when military-backed rulers used martial law and other emergency decrees to station soldiers, tanks and armored vehicles in public places to suppress pro-democracy protests.

Yoon’s decree and ensuing power vacuum plunged South Korea into political turmoil, halted the country’s high-level diplomacy and rattled its financial markets.

Yoon’s earlier vows to fight attempts to impeach and arrest him deepened the country’s political divide. In January last year, he became the country’s first sitting president to be detained.

Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs outside of Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

FILE - Then South Korea's ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol who is facing charges of orchestrating a rebellion when he declared martial law on Dec. 3, arrives to attend his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool, File)