Police investigating the deaths believed Gary Chu killed Yee-min Huang after the pair met on Tinder.
Detectives reportedly also suspected the 27-year-old woman had been cheating on him with other men.
Chilling CCTV footage captured Yee-min's final movements as she followed the suspect Chu, 28, up the stairwell to his flat. Chu, an amateur MMA fighter and boxing trainer living in New Taipei City's Banqiao District in North Taiwan, was found hanged a few days later.
Police also discovered a suicide note with the words: "She wronged me."
The first indication of a problem was on May 26 when the victim's brother, Francis Huang, appealed to members of the public for help searching for his missing sister, who he said had been out of contact since May 19.
He suspected she was being held against her will by her Tinder boyfriend Chu.
Later the same day, Chu claimed in a Facebook post that he had "never once hurt her or restricted her freedom", suggesting it was Yee-min who kept coming back to him when he tried to break up with her.
In the post, Chu also revealed possible motives for the killing, writing: "After we met on Tinder, she lied to me saying she was a virgin.
"I felt deceived and betrayed when I found out she had been lying and also cheating on me with other men."
Yee-min's brother contacted the police, who searched Chu's home in Banqiao District and found it empty.
His relatives also claimed they had not been in contact with him for several days.
The authorities then inspected surveillance cameras in the residential complex, which revealed the last images of Yee-min on May 20.
They also showed Chu carrying seven bin bags from his flat at 1am on May 22, tossing the individual packs into the flower garden of his complex.
On May 27 the authorities announced they had unearthed the victim's scattered remains from the flower bed, while Chu's body was found hanged at 5am the next day near the Ministry of Health and Welfare Hospital in Xinzhuang District.
Since news of the shocking case made headlines in Taiwan, a woman claiming to be Chu's ex-wife has also made public pictures of her injuries, claiming her former husband had been abusive and also locked her up.
Further investigations are under way.
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