She collected stories of the misdeeds and arrests of Liao Tien-ting from the crime beat pages of the Taiwan Daily News (a Japanese language newspaper from the occupation era). She also travelled to Chingshui Rural Township in Taichung County to dig up the family's household records, and she also found documents about Liao Tien-ting kept by the Japanese Governor-General's office, which are now stored by the Taiwan Provincial Government.
她找到了日據時代的報紙﹘ ﹘台灣日日新報，匯集當時社會新聞對廖添丁犯案及逮捕過程的報導；她還走訪台中縣清水鎮，在鎮公所找到日據時代廖添丁的戶口除戶簿（戶口已全部遷出，不在現戶；或戶長死亡檔案另存的戶籍資料），以及省文獻會所藏台灣總督府有關廖添丁的檔案。