Posted on 08/16/2018 12:08:41 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
It was Chinese New Year, a weeklong celebration of fireworks and family to scare up good fortune and dispel evil spirits, when the killer went on the prowl again.
He picked a young worker walking home, and followed a ways behind. He’d done it before, many times, enough to perfect his technique, but things did not go as planned that winter’s night. His crimes were already notorious and the target realized the danger; she fought back tooth and nail, locked the door, and frantically called her husband.
It was then, she said, that her would-be killer reappeared, grinning outside her window. When her husband reached her, the couple checked again: there he still was, still laughing. By the time police arrived, though, the smiling apparition had vanished into the New Year’s night, blending into the carefree popping of corks and firecrackers—and the 14-year pall of fear and suspicion one phantom had managed to cast over a remote city of 1.7 million in the world’s largest authoritarian country.
“Our parents used to talk about it sometimes,” Sun, a friend who grew up near the northeast city where at least one of the killings occurred, told me. “When we were growing up, kids weren’t allowed to go out after dark… and my mom never let me wear anything red.”
Between 1988 and 2002, multiple women were murdered in the cities of Baiyin, Gansu province, and Baotou in Inner Mongolia, some five hundred miles to the northeast. Media reports on the crimes would come under the strict control of China’s propaganda departments and, even today, outsiders reporting on the subject are met with a near-impenetrable wall of silence. Still, stories spread: the victims were young, female, pretty; their bodies had been horribly desecrated; the killer was said to favour long-haired girls, in high
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Maybe it was his description. Chinese, medium height and build, black hair...
Turns out it was Mao all along.
I was confused for a bit but then realized that Chairman Mao wasn’t elusive...
No more Orwellian than the recent arrest of a California murderer with 13 under his belt, who was caught because of a familial (second cousin, IIRC) similarity in the 23andMe.com database (or Ancestry) accessed by the US police.
I think that I’ve seen that guy.
The good thing is they screw around with punishment in China. They just shoot criminals like this in the back of the head and harvest their organs.
“DON’T screw around with punishment”
“Maybe it was his description. Chinese, medium height and build, black hair...”
Slanted eyes.
“He... Loook ... He looka like a man!”
“That’s to be compared to 3,376 known serial killers in the U.S., a population of over 325 million. “Estimating how many actual serial killers there have been in China is impossible,” Dr. Aamodt admits. “I would not be surprised if the actual rate is similar to the rate in the United States.” If it were, a population like China’s, over four times that of the U.S., could expect over ten thousand serial killers—not 62.”
It is just the internet, but yeeeeesh.
Freegards
The best part about this being Chinese is that this creep will definitely be killed as sentenced vs spending years in jail applying for appeal after appeal.
I’m not a professional profiler, but his pic looks a LOT like I expected it to...
“Maybe it was his description. Chinese, medium height and build, black hair...”
They say God was making everyone unique. That took a fair amount of time on each person. When he finally started working on China he say “Eh, screw it...”
Thank you for posting it.
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