Guo Moruo, courtesy name Dingtang, was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official.
Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard Jr., known as The Kansas City Strangler, is an American serial killer. A former trash-company supervisor, Gilyard is believed to have raped and murdered at least 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993. He was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder on March 16, 2007.
Futoshi Matsunaga is a Japanese serial killer who both defrauded and tortured his victims in what is collectively known as the Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident. Matsunaga was convicted of six counts of murder and one count of manslaughter between 1996 and 1998 and sentenced to death. He murdered his victims with an accomplice, Junko Ogata, who received a life sentence.
Long Meiyi is a woman from Guizhou province in China who alleged she was raped by mining magnate Zhou Shili. Long's allegations made domestic and international headlines after she and her parents began appealing to Beijing for justice and complaining of corruption in the courts. A significant factor in the case's popularity is that Long's mother and stepfather are government officials in China, who have generally found themselves on the other side of the politicised legal system that she now claims is obstructing the justice she seeks.
The Guizhou–Guangxi railway or Qian'gui railway, also written as the Kweichow–Kwangsi railway is a single-track electrified railroad in Southwest China between Guiyang in Guizhou Province and Liuzhou in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The shorthand name for the line, Qiangui, is derived from the shorthand names of Guizhou and Guangxi.
Gao Chengyong 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.
Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre is a 2019 Chinese wuxia television series adapted from the novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Jin Yong. Originally published in newspapers from 1961 to 1963, the story has been revised twice; once in 1979 and the second in 2005. This remake is primarily based on the third edition of the novel and also being promoted as a rework to the 1994 adaptation. The series is the first adaptation to be released as a web series and was first broadcast on Tencent in China on February 27, 2019.
Hua Ruizhuo was a Chinese serial killer responsible for the murders of 14 prostitutes in Beijing's Chaoyang District between 1998 and June 2001. He would subsequently be executed for these crimes in 2002.
Guo Huai, courtesy name Yuhuang (玉璜) or Yuanshao, was a niece of the general Guo Huai, the second wife of Jia Chong, the mother of Jia Nanfeng, and the mother-in-law of Emperor Hui of Jin. During her life, she also went by Lady of Guangcheng (廣城君) and Lady of Yicheng (宜城君). After her death, she received the posthumous name Xuan (宣).
The murder of Chen Shijun, officially called "June 14 Foreign-Related Criminal Case" is an intentional homicide case in Ningbo, China.
Fa Ziying and Lao Rongzhi were a pair of Chinese serial killers, con artists, and robbers born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi. Fa and Lao met first during a wedding of their friend in 1993. Between 1996 and 1999, after becoming a romantic couple, Fa and Lao committed a series of crimes, including kidnapping, robbery, and murder in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui. A total of seven people were killed and a total of over 100,000 yuan were stolen by the couple. Fa was arrested on 23 July 1999 when a ransom handoff was interrupted by police and subsequently sentenced to death, deprived of political rights for life, and fined 20,000 yuan, by the Hefei Intermediate People's Court. On 28 December 1999, Fa was executed by being shot. Lao, who had been on the run since 1999, was captured and arrested on 28 November 2019 in Xiamen, Fujian. On September 9, 2021, Lao was sentenced to death by the Nanchang Intermediate People's Court for intentional homicide, kidnapping, and robbery. She was also stripped of her political rights for life and had all of her personal property confiscated. Lao appealed her conviction in court, and the second trial was held on August 18, 2022 at Jiangxi Provincial Higher People's Court. Although Lao admitted to being an accomplice to Fa, she claimed to have only done so in fear of losing her own life, as Fa had physically and sexually abused her throughout their relationship. On November 30 of the same year, the court upheld the death sentence. On December 18, 2023, the Nanchang Intermediate People's Court carried out the execution of Lao Rongzhi, with the approval of the Supreme People's Court.
Xu Guangcai was a Chinese serial killer who raped and murdered six young women in three different districts of Beijing from 1987 to 1990. He was captured while attempting to commit a new murder, and was later convicted, sentenced to death and executed in 1991.
Yang Shuming was a Chinese serial killer who, between 1992 and 2006, murdered nine women and girls aged 16–42 and injured three other people in Majiaping, Kuangqu, Yangquan, China. His modus operandi typically consisted of stabbing his victims from behind at night, or on rainy and snowy days. Many of his victims wore red clothing while they were assaulted, leading to some media outlets referring to him as The Red-Clothed Killer. He was arrested on 28 April 2006, two months after his final attack, and executed by shooting on 21 November 2006.
On 16 October 1990, four days after her disappearance, 30-year-old Tan Hui Ngin was found dead at a disused egg hatchery nearby her home at Punggol, and when her decomposed body was discovered, Tan was half-naked and had fractures to her skull, and showed signs of possible sexual assault before her death. Five months later, with the assistance from the Malaysian police, a suspect was finally arrested and brought back to Singapore to be charged with the brutal rape-murder of Tan. The killer, Tan's 30-year-old childhood friend Lim Lye Hock, was eventually found guilty of murdering Tan and sentenced to death on 1 December 1993.
Ride On is a 2023 Chinese action comedy drama film written and directed by Larry Yang. The film stars Jackie Chan, Liu Haocun, Guo Qilin, and Wu Jing. The film tells a story of an old-school stunt performer and his stunt horse. The film was released in China on April 7, 2023.
On 9 January 2003, at a flat in Chai Chee, Singapore, 26-year-old Thabun Pranee, a Thai citizen, was raped and murdered by an acquaintance of her Singaporean husband. Thabun's killer, 29-year-old Tan Chee Wee, who was a Malaysian and an assistant store supervisor, was arrested the next day after he committed the brutal crime. Nine months after his arrest, Tan was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death on 29 September 2003, after the trial court did not accept either the defence's theory of someone else being the killer or the claims that Tan killed Thabun in self-defence or during a fight. After losing his appeal against the death sentence, Tan was hanged on 11 June 2004.
On 14 January 2006, at Sungai Petani in Kedah, Malaysia, 24-year-old Chee Gaik Yap, a Chinese Malaysian who was last seen jogging with her sister, went missing and she was found dead nine hours later with multiple stab wounds all over her body. Evidence showed that Chee had been abducted, raped, sodomized and in the end, murdered by her attacker, who was not caught until six years later, when the suspect was arrested at Kuala Lumpur International Airport after arriving from Perth.
Between 2009 and 2012, Rabidin Satir, nicknamed "Rambo Bentong", is suspected of committing several murders in Bentong, Pahang, Malaysia, although only two victims were confirmed. On 8 March 2009, Rabidin intruded the home of a 17-year-old schoolgirl Annie Kok Yin Cheng, raping her before he slit her throat, killing her on the spot. Three years later, on 3 November 2012, Rabidin battered a 31-year-old forestry department employee Khairul Hazri Jamaludin to death with his homemade rifle.
On 7 October 2000, 34-year-old Hanafi Mat Hassan, a bus driver previously charged for property offences and rape, attacked a female passenger on his bus, raping and murdering her at a secluded area near Bukit Tinggi, Klang in Selangor, Malaysia. The corpse of the victim, 24-year-old computer engineer Noor Suzaily Mukhtar, was later found at a construction site, and autopsy reports confirmed that she was raped and sodomized before her death via strangulation. Hanafi was arrested and charged with murder weeks after the crime. Hanafi was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in April 2002 and additionally given a 20-year jail term with 12 strokes of the cane for rape. Hanafi's appeals were dismissed and he was hanged on 19 December 2008.
