November 10, 1964 - Gao Chengyong
Over roughly a decade beginning in the late 1980s, Gao Chengyong killed at least eleven women and girls across Gansu and Inner Mongolia, preying predominantly on those wearing red — a detail that would later help investigators build his profile. His case remained unsolved for nearly thirty years, a cold case that closed only when advances in DNA genealogy matching led investigators to his family and then to him, operating all that time as an ordinary market vendor in Baiyin. The gap between his public life and the scale of what investigators uncovered made his eventual arrest one of the most discussed criminal cases in modern Chinese history.
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Gao Chengyong (Chinese: 高承勇; 10 November 1964 – 3 January 2019) was a Chinese serial killer and rapist. He mutilated the corpses of his victims, leading to his nickname of the "Chinese Jack the Ripper" in Chinese media. He is thought to have killed eleven women between 1988 and 2002.
Sentenced to death and stripped of all his assets, he was executed in January 2019.
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