In what is being called the largest bounty in Chinese history, authorities are now offering a total of 2.45 million RMB for the man wanted in connection with seven murders in Chongqing, Changsha and Nanjing. In the news they're calling him "Flat Top" (“平头男”). more ›

A 14-year-old boy has been sentenced to 12 years jail for killing his mother and sister in Guangdong's Liannanzhaigang Town more ›

A senior student in Dongguan University of Techonology has given himself up to the police for killing a sophomore after a failed attempt to rape her. The would-be rapist surnamed Ao followed Liang Rongcai (梁荣彩), the victim, to the washroom and attempted to rape her. Encountered with Liang's resistence, Ao killed her and subsequently escaped. more ›

Changchun police have arrested a murderer who has been wanted for 16 years straight in Yangquan, Shaanxi Province. The murderer, as it turns out, is a member of the local CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) named Hou Jun (侯军). more ›

In Guangzhou's Liwan district (荔湾区), a 16-year-old girl was suffocated to death by her mother, after the two had an argument regarding 5,900RMB. The girl, surnamed Xie (谢), had asked for the money from her mother to buy an Apple computer. The argument reportedly escalated into a fight, whereupon the mother tripped her daughter and then sat on her back while pushing her face towards a pillow on the ground. The mother said that she pushed her daughter's face into the pillow because her daughter was cursing at her, and that she called the authorities after her daughter stopped breathing. And so the specter of filicide, one of the most significant (and saddest) trends of 2011, can claim another victim. more ›

An incident like this occurring again is going to ensure that even when distances are laughably short, parents and grandparents will continue to walk their kids to school. At approximately 9am this morning, a 30-year-old farmer allegedly attacked parents and kindergarteners on their way to school in the Henan city of Gongyi (巩义市), killing three adults and one child. Another adult and child were also injured in the incident (though some sources claim the death toll has reached six), with reports stating that Wang used an axe to cut his victims in the head. Locals report that the man, Wang Hongbin (王宏斌), has a history of mental illness. And unlike other incidents that took place last year, this latest attack on schoolchildren happened outside of school grounds. Wang is currently in police custody. more ›

Police in the Jiangsu city of Yangzhou have confirmed that a man turned himself in and confessed to the crime of murdering seven family members of his former partner in crime on Sunday. The man, identified only as Zheng, is reportedly a 32-year-old former convicted felon who served jail-time in 2009 for theft. more ›

The body of an anti-corruption official in Hubei was found with 11 stab wounds at 6:40pm on August 27th, and was promptly declared to be a case of suicide by local authorities. Xie Yexin (谢业新), an official with the Commission for Disciplinary Inspection in Jingzhou City's Gong'an County (荆州市公安县), was found dead in his office chair on Saturday, having suffered a total of 11 knife wounds to the neck, chest, abdomen and wrists. more ›

And another one bites the lethal injection dust. Reports have confirmed that Li Lindong, the truck driver who ran over an ethnic Mongol herder on May 10th in Inner Mongolia's Xilinhot city, was executed on August 18th. The case has been an lightning rod for controversy, since Li's murder of the herder, named Mergen, occurred when a group of protesters blocked a road that ran through their village. The ethnic Mongolians were protesting noise and pollution caused by coal trucks traversing through grasslands when Mergen was hit by Li's truck. Mergen's body was dragged for 145 meters before he died, and subsequent large scale protests occurred in the wake of the incident. more ›

A young post-90's (90后) mother in the Fujian city of Zhangzhou (漳州) reportedly strangled her 10-month son to death during a live broadcast Saturday morning on QQ.com. The 19-year-old mother, surnamed Zou, announced to netizens that she would kill her child and broadcast the murder live on a QQ chat. She apparently murdered her son after having an argument with the baby's father. more ›

At approximately 4pm today, a 30-year-old woman died at Changzheng Hospital (长征医院) after being stabbed 10 times at the Culinary Art Leisure Restaurant (厨艺休闲餐厅) attached to the D-Mall underground shopping center (迪美时尚购物中心) in People's Square. The woman's murder reportedly came at the hands of a forty-something male suspected of having romantic relationship disputes with the victim. The suspect was apprehended by police, and was found to have sustained cuts on both hands. Stanchions, rather than crime scene tape, were used to rope off the restaurant after the incident, and graphic images of the woman's body taken from a restaurant window are currently trending on Sina Weibo. more ›

25-year-old Shanghai student Xiao Zhen pleaded guilty in a court yesterday for the murder of a taxi driver in Auckland, New Zealand. more ›

(Warning: Video shows images of the deceased) Beaten to death at the hands of the universally-despised chengguan (城管), news of a street vendor's unjust demise in Anshun (安顺), Guizhou has gone viral and sparked rioting throughout the city. more ›

The only good we can conceive of coming from this story is greater expediency for the construction of China's social welfare system: "A woman who attempted suicide after killing her 13-year-old twin sons with cerebral palsy in a south China city was sentenced to five years in prison for murder yesterday. Han Qunfeng, 37, was given a lenient sentence because she had "an extremely complicated family background and motive," Dongguan City No. 1 People's Court in Guangdong Province said, according to news portal Timedg.com. The former bank clerk made her sons drink water laced with sleeping pills before drowning them in the bathtub at her home in November 2010. She then dressed her sons in new pajamas and consumed a mixture of pesticide and rat poison to kill herself. But she threw up some of the poison in a semi-conscious state, was rushed to hospital by her husband the next morning and saved, the court heard. Han pleaded guilty and regretted killing her twin sons at the hearing on June 2. Han said she had lost all hope after looking after her disabled children for 13 years. Han's husband said the family was nearly bankrupt after spending all the money on the twins' treatment." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"A 31-year-old man in central Hunan Province was sentenced to death for killing his wife and mother-in-law with a car because they had a dispute over divorce, Hunan Morning Post reported today. Ding Daili became estranged from his wife Xiao Ying, who on July 17 last year went to Ding's home with her mother Li Meirong and her elder brother Xiao Jian to reach a divorce agreement, according to the police in Changsha, the provincial capital. After that, Ding was about to drive away from his home and he was stopped again by Xiao and her family as they demanded Ding to return Xiao's ID card and salary card. Ding was enraged by their abusing language and mowed them down with his car. Xiao and her mother were killed instantly and two other men at the scene were slightly injured, Changsha police said." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

A dispute between two drunken men yesterday resulted in the killing of a baby boy in Shanghai's Xuhui district. more ›

The highly publicized trial of Yao Jiaxin, the 21 year old piano student who stabbed a woman to death after knocking her over with his car, finally has come to an end. Yao lost his supreme court appeal and was executed today says The Guardian. Yao was studying at the Xian Conservatory of Music when he collided with 26-year-old Zhang Miao described by Yao in his court testimony as a "peasant woman". She only suffered minor injuries but Yao became enraged when he saw her jotting down his license plate number, pulled out a knife and stabbed her eight times until she died. Yao's middle class background sparked significant resentment and hatred online and was often portrayed to be a class controversy similar to "My Dad is Li Gang"-gate. more ›

"A MAN who laced food with rat poison, killing two children and leaving 19 others ill in south Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2009 has been executed, authorities announced yesterday. Li Shengguang, 68, owned the land where the Muge Township Wenda Kindergarten was built. He added poison to a meal intended for Lu Zhikun, a cook at the school with whom Li had a long-term dispute. But Lu never ate the poisoned food, and instead 21 children, aged two to five, ate meals that contained the rodenticide "dushuqiang," that is widely used in rural areas. Two children died before reaching hospital. Li was sentenced to death on August 25, 2010 by Guigang City Intermediate people's court. The decision was recently approved by the Supreme People's Court." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"A MAN went on trial yesterday at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court for allegedly murdering his ex-girlfriend after intercourse. On December 7 last year, the 23-year-old man surnamed Yan asked his ex-girlfriend surnamed Chen, 21, to meet in a room at the Pretty House Hotel on Guangxi Road S., the court was told. The two fell in love in 2006 and broke up in 2009. After having sex with Chen at the hotel, Yan demanded that they resume their affair but was rejected. He then strangled Chen to death. After the killing, Yan drank a bottle of pesticide and set a bedsheet alight in a suicide bid. He was saved by firefighters later." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"A man turned himself in this morning after stabbing his girlfriend in emotional outbreak. The woman, not identified, was rushed to the hospital and has been in stable condition after emergency treatment. The suspect surnamed Zhang surrendered himself to the Gumei Police Station in Minhang District, the local STV news channel reported. The young pair in their early 20s came from Chongqing and shared a rented apartment at 980 Wanyuan Road in Minhang. The cause of their conflict is not immediately known." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"A MAN in a southwest China city beheaded his wife in the hospital where she had recently given birth. Long Jiulie refused to surrender to police after the incident on Monday afternoon and was shot dead, China News Service reported. Two visitors were also injured in the attack. According to nurses at Qiandongnanzhou Hospital of Kaili City, Guizhou Province, Long suddenly entered his wife's ward about 4pm. Patients rushed out and raised the alarm. When nurses went to investigate, they found Long's wife, surnamed Yang, had been beheaded by her husband, using a kitchen knife. Nurses told the newspaper that 42-year-old Yang had given birth to a baby boy days earlier, and that there had been no signs of trouble between the couple. According to police, an elderly man, also surnamed Yang, and his wife, who were distant relatives of Long, were visiting the mother at the time. Long's wife was having chicken soup when her husband entered the room and attacked her. The elderly couple tried to stop him, but were injured by Long. The elderly man underwent emergency surgery and was still in a life-threatening condition last night. His wife was slightly injured. Police from Kaili City arrived and surrounded Long in the room. Negotiators tried to persuade him to surrender, but Long refused to drop the weapon. Just after 6pm, fearful for public safety, officers shot Long dead." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"POLICE have arrested a 23-year-old man who is believed to have killed a young woman and had sex with her corpse last month, prosecutors said yesterday. Zhang Fenglang, from Shandong Province, said he killed the woman because she looked like his ex-girlfriend, who had left him, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said Zhang would be charged with murdering and robbing the woman on March 9 in suburban Minhang District. Zhang allegedly fled Shanghai and was arrested by police in his hometown in Shandong on March 30. He was sent back to Shanghai to face criminal proceedings. The suspect allegedly told police he had no intention of ending the woman's life until he saw her face, which sparked his anger after he recalled being dumped by his ex-girlfriend." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

What a horrific story: two friends, one in China and the other in Canada, were chatting on webcam when suddenly a man knocked on her door and asked to use her phone. From CNN: "Toronto Police on Monday identified the student as Qian (Necole) Liu of Beijing. She was talking early Friday morning to a male friend from home when a man allegedly knocked on her door, asking to use her phone, police said in a news release. The online witness said he saw Liu and the unknown man struggle for a time before the attacker turned off her laptop, the news release said. The friend in China then started a desperate bid to find out what happened, CNN-affiliate CTV reported. Ten hours later, police arrived at the basement apartment to find Liu's body, naked from the waist down. Her laptop was missing." more ›

“A scantly-clad young woman was found dead this morning outside a hotel in downtown Shanghai. She was holding a knife in one hand and her body had several knife wounds. Police are investigating the cause of her death and believed the woman was born around 1987. Witnesses said they saw the woman, wearing a backless dress and low-waist jeans, stumbling out of the Holiday Inn Vista hotel on Changshou Road at about 8am. She collapsed in front of a convenience store nearby and died. The scene shocked passers-by who described the victim as in a weird behavior because she wore so little that part of her bottom was exposed. So far, no one knows what she experienced inside the hotel.” [Shanghai Daily] more ›

Sounds frighteningly mafia-ish, doesn't it? From Shanghai Daily: "Police from Putuo and Jiading districts said DNA tests will be carried out to see if the body parts belong to the same person. At this point, officers said they believe the parts belonged to the same woman. Part of a human torso was found in Xinchapu Creek in Jiading on Saturday and a left leg was found in the same creek in Putuo the next day. Police are searching for the other body parts. The cause of death was unclear. "We found cuts on the torso that look like they could be from a boat's propeller, but we still don't know whether it was a murder or an accident," said a Jiading officer surnamed Chen." more ›

The mother from the Pudong Airport stabbing says she is currently trying to find the foreigner who stopped to help her after her son, whom she claims suffers from mental problems, stabbed her several times. A video taken from scene is now circulating widely on the Chinese internet, showing what appears to be a youngish, dark haired Caucasian man wearing an orange long-sleeved shirt and brown or grey pants. more ›

It's heeeeereeee - Shanghai Disneyland is breaking ground and beginning construction this Friday. more ›

24-year-old Chen Hao, a Shanghainese girl studying abroad in Sweden, was stabbed to death by a fellow international student from Shanghai. According to news reports, "unrequited love" may be the motive for the murder. more ›

Last April, we told you about a grisly gay sex murder case in Hunan, which involved a gay singer and the death of six men in elaborate sex games involving sado-masochism, erotic asphyxiation and hanging. more ›

"A man who was sentenced to death for 116 rapes, 91 thefts and 23 robberies filed an appeal recently in eastern Anhui Province while many of his victims chose silence as they considered their cases shameful. Most of the women Liu Qingpeng, 46, raped in Linquan County in Anhui were wives left in the village when their husbands went to work in cities, Xing'an Evening Post reported today. Liu usually intruded their homes wearing a mask and threatening with a knife. After robbing them, he would rape the victims, the Fuyang City Intermediate People's Court said. The victims also included teenagers, old women and pregnant women. Liu even raped two girls in front of their mother, the court said. However, many women refused to appear in court to give testimony as they thought it's too humiliating to let other people know the rape, a police officer surnamed Yang told the newspaper." [Shanghai Daily] more ›