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Q: Have you ever heard tell of any serial killers over here?
There's a more important sub-question to follow but first a related tale from when I first started dating my wife. She was a student at a university in Guangxi at the time (I forget the name of the city), some nine years ago, and as I remember it, in the space of one afternoon two girls were sexually assaulted, one was a teacher and she had an arm cut off trying to make her escape and the other was found with her head missing, as in removed from both her shoulders and the school grounds. None of this was reported in the news, neither local or otherwise as I understand it, and there was much talk of a similar thing having happened only a couple of years before the incident at the same school. Now apart from welcoming some gruesome tales, my real question is, do you think the approach the Chinese government makes of keeping such incidents as this out of the papers might actually lessen such occurrences to some degree? It is widely believed that a craving for fame and notoriety often stimulate such criminal behaviour. In fact I read recently of an ancient society (maybe Roman, I forget) in which repeating the name of a serial killer was at one time a punishable offense. Shaky memory of that though, I'd be glad if someone is able to refresh it.
There was the infamous "Cold Water Killer".
He would tie his victims to a chair and force them to drink a glass of cold water. It was said that you could hear the screams from outside his house "No, no please. It is bad for my healthy" but all to no avail. Drinking cold water is more than the different Chinese bodies can take.
mArtiAn:
I remember the case, then of course there were also the terrible "Highway Driver" murders, a gruesome series of seemingly unmotivated killings that it was discovered were not the work of a murderer at all, just one really.....really bad driver.
coineineagh:
And there is the killer they call Rain. They still didn't catch him. Whenever he appears, people run away in terror. At schools, they now teach the kids to chant: Rain, Rain, go away, come again another day...
mArtiAn:
And let's not forget the 'Re Qi' murderer, a fiend so fiendishly fiendish he would force feed his victims popcorn, biscuits and various baked goods then cackle madly as they screamed "Tai re qi! Tai re qi!"
There was the infamous "Cold Water Killer".
He would tie his victims to a chair and force them to drink a glass of cold water. It was said that you could hear the screams from outside his house "No, no please. It is bad for my healthy" but all to no avail. Drinking cold water is more than the different Chinese bodies can take.
mArtiAn:
I remember the case, then of course there were also the terrible "Highway Driver" murders, a gruesome series of seemingly unmotivated killings that it was discovered were not the work of a murderer at all, just one really.....really bad driver.
coineineagh:
And there is the killer they call Rain. They still didn't catch him. Whenever he appears, people run away in terror. At schools, they now teach the kids to chant: Rain, Rain, go away, come again another day...
mArtiAn:
And let's not forget the 'Re Qi' murderer, a fiend so fiendishly fiendish he would force feed his victims popcorn, biscuits and various baked goods then cackle madly as they screamed "Tai re qi! Tai re qi!"
Yes I heard
for serial killers in China at Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_country
People's Republic of China
- Bai Baoshan: sentenced to 13 years in prison in 1983 for a murder he committed during a failed robbery; later killed 14 people from 1996 to 1997 and executed on 6 May 1998
- Li Wenxian: killed 13 female prostitutes; executed in 1996
- Liu Pengli: 2nd century BC Han prince; one of the earliest serial killers attested by historical sources
- Gong Runbo: found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006; executed 2007
- Huang Yong: between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003
- Shen Changyin and Shen Changping: found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes
- Wang Qiang: 45 murder victims and 10 rapes; executed on 17 November 2005
- Hua Ruizhou: killed 14 female prostitutes from 1998 to 2001
- Yang Xinhai: confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004
- Zhang Yongming: between March 2008 and April 2012 killed 11; executed in 2013
- Zhou Kehua: former soldier who targeted ATM users; killed 10 people and evaded the law for 8 years, before being killed in 2012 in a shootout with police after a year-long manhunt
Since I'm illiterate in Chinese, I can't have feeling how Chinese press is reporting serial murders occurrence. I'd say, Chinese don't report anything about it, because of public disturbance, as one of the reasons. And in West, every nanny and eggs farmer must be informed in detail about it, 'cause of the paper sales.....
Berkeley's study on ancient Greeks:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/volume3/vol3_article1.html
governments in general are truth serial killers and go un punished
Ddi you confuse cereal and serial again ?
... suffocation in progressmArtiAn:
I'm dyslexic, it happens. But back to topic, the Shredded Wheat murderer has struck again, I hear the crime scene was a mess of blood, shards of bone covered in ripped flesh, and golden wheat chunks sprinkled with caster sugar and dripping with still warm milk.
mArtiAn:
Yeh, warm milk, I like my milk warm, ok, you got a problem with that, do ya, huh, do ya?
coineineagh:
I do have a problem with that. It's supposed to bea breakfast food, but warm milk puts you to sleep! If you happen to eat your coco pops with blood, bone shards and chunks of flesh, i think we foundthekiller.
