On the morning of 9 March, the body of an unidentified female was discovered in a lecture theater on the second floor of Tsing Hua University's Institute of Radiation Biology. The corpse had been attacked by acid from the knees up, and the face was completely unrecognizable. Later, after identification by her relatives, the deceased was named as Hsu Chia-chen, a 25-year-old postgraduate student.
三月九日上午，清大輻生所二樓演講廳裡，一具從膝蓋以上被酸液腐蝕、面容完全無法辨認的無名女屍被人發現，後經家屬指認，死者是現年二十五歲的研究生許嘉真。