On the evening of 18 November 1997, South African military attache McGill Alexander and his family were taken hostage by wanted fugitive Chen Chin-hsing in their home in Taipei, Taiwan.

Chen Chin-hsing had been involved in the brutal and murder of Pai Hsiao-yen, the daughter of famed Taiwanese actress Pai Bing-bing. He was also responsible for a string of killings and abductions during the same year - the abduction of a Taipei County councillor in June, the kidnapping of a businessman in August and the murder of a plastic surgeon, his wife and a nurse at the surgeon's clinic in October.

For Taiwan and its rapacious media, this hostage crisis became one of Taiwan's biggest news stories ever.

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