July 17, 1968 - Yang Xinhai
Over a three-year period in rural China, he moved through villages at night, targeting sleeping households — a pattern that made him exceptionally difficult to locate and allowed the toll to reach a scale rarely seen in documented serial homicide. The crimes were marked by their deliberate nature and the vulnerability of those targeted, qualities that place this case among the most severe in modern Chinese criminal history.
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Yang Xinhai (Chinese: 杨新海; pinyin: Yáng Xīnhǎi; 17 July 1968 – 14 February 2004) was a Chinese serial killer and mass murderer who confessed to committing 67 murders and 23 rapes between 2000 and 2003. He was sentenced to death and executed. He is the most prolific known serial killer in China since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The South China Morning Post dubbed Yang the "Monster Killer".
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