[1][2] Peng married Horng Wann-sheng (洪萬生; Hóng Wànshēng, a mathematics professor at NTNU)[3] and they had a son together.

[5] In 2015, police received tips from the ex-girlfriend of a taxi driver surnamed Yang, who said that he had told her he had killed Peng.

Demonstrators marched on 4 May 1997[8] and 18 May 1997,[9] demanding Premier Lien Chan's resignation[10][11] over the perceived rise in violent crime as evidenced by the then-unsolved murders of Pai Hsiao-yen, Peng Wan-ru,[12] and Liu Pang-yu.

[citation needed] On 24 June 1998, Taiwan passed Asia's first laws regarding domestic violence, due in part to Peng's death and the case of Teng Ju-wen [zh], who murdered her husband in October 1993, following years of abuse.

[1] It trains women for participation in their child-care programs; once they have passed the courses, the Foundation matches them with households or elementary schools in need of child care.