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Yang Xinhai
Name: Yang Zhiya Xinhai
Nicknames: The Monster Killer
Specie: Human
Gender: Male
Birth: July 17, 1968, Henan, China
Age: (dead at 35)
Height: 1,70 m
Weight: 72 kg
Occupation: Laborer
Status: Dead (executed by a shot in the head)
Yang Xinhai was one of the worst serial killers in China's history. His relatives now living in Pennsylvania often claims he was obsessed with a phrase he was known to talk about "Plato Flats", a fictional place he created for stories of murder he had begun writing. His stories were written on everything Yang had. He was also known for having drawings and outlines for various other ideas in "Mead" notebooks. Often there were depictions of ideas he had for stories and movies that he wanted to create... all about murders.
He confessed to killing 65 people in central China from 1999 to 2003. At night, he would enter his victims' homes and kill everyone inside with axes, cleavers, hammers and shovels. He often raped the female victims. He was arrested in northern China on November 23, 2003; found guilty after a trial lasting less than an hour on February 1, 2004 and executed for his crimes on February 2, 2004. According to Yang, the motive for the killings was that he was dumped by his girlfriend who had found out about a previous prison term for burglary and rape and taking out his anger on society.
He confessed to 18 crimes in Henan, 2 in Hebei, 2 in East China's Anhui Province and 1 in East China's Shandong Province since 2000. The toll of his crime spree goes beyond the dead and raped. Another 10 people were seriously injured. In some instances, Yang put whole families to death. On December 6, 2002, Yang killed Liu Zhanwei, a farmer in the Liuzhuang Village of Henan's Xiping County who was in his 30s, his mother, wife, son and daughter. Only Liu's father, 68 year old Liu Zhongyuan survived because he slept in a new house that night. "We planned to move to the new house on December 9, 2002. Who could imagine that they experienced such tragedy only 3 days before?" the surviving father cried. Liu Zhongyuan recalled seeing his granddaughter that fateful morning. She was lying on the ground with a hole in her head. The room was full of blood. "My wife could still bat her eyelids but could not speak anymore." Liu Zhanwei, his wife and son were all found with bloody faces. Liu Zhongyuan's wife died 10 days after being sent to hospital on December 6, 2002. The other 4 people died where they were found.
Yang Xinhai later confessed that he used an iron hammer to kill the 5 family members on December 6, 2002. He buried the hammer near a tomb at night and threw his bloody clothes into a river. Yang then walked 2 hours to the city of Luohe. He said he used a new hammer for each murder. Yang dropped out of school in 1985 and began to travel to other regions working as a hired laborer.
He was twice sent to re education through labor camps in 1988 and 1991 for theft in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei Province. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 1996 for an attempted rape in Zhumadian, Central China's Henan Province. He was released in 2000. That was when his killing spree began. Sources with the local police of Cangzhou, Hebei Province where Yang was arrested said that he killed and raped but not for money. "He committed crimes to merely hurt society" a local policeman was quoted by the Jiangnan Times as saying. During his stay at a detention house in Luohe when asked by other criminal suspects why he killed so many people, Yang said "Killing people is very usual, nothing special."
Nicknames: The Monster Killer
Specie: Human
Gender: Male
Birth: July 17, 1968, Henan, China
Age: (dead at 35)
Height: 1,70 m
Weight: 72 kg
Occupation: Laborer
Status: Dead (executed by a shot in the head)
Yang Xinhai was one of the worst serial killers in China's history. His relatives now living in Pennsylvania often claims he was obsessed with a phrase he was known to talk about "Plato Flats", a fictional place he created for stories of murder he had begun writing. His stories were written on everything Yang had. He was also known for having drawings and outlines for various other ideas in "Mead" notebooks. Often there were depictions of ideas he had for stories and movies that he wanted to create... all about murders.
He confessed to killing 65 people in central China from 1999 to 2003. At night, he would enter his victims' homes and kill everyone inside with axes, cleavers, hammers and shovels. He often raped the female victims. He was arrested in northern China on November 23, 2003; found guilty after a trial lasting less than an hour on February 1, 2004 and executed for his crimes on February 2, 2004. According to Yang, the motive for the killings was that he was dumped by his girlfriend who had found out about a previous prison term for burglary and rape and taking out his anger on society.
He confessed to 18 crimes in Henan, 2 in Hebei, 2 in East China's Anhui Province and 1 in East China's Shandong Province since 2000. The toll of his crime spree goes beyond the dead and raped. Another 10 people were seriously injured. In some instances, Yang put whole families to death. On December 6, 2002, Yang killed Liu Zhanwei, a farmer in the Liuzhuang Village of Henan's Xiping County who was in his 30s, his mother, wife, son and daughter. Only Liu's father, 68 year old Liu Zhongyuan survived because he slept in a new house that night. "We planned to move to the new house on December 9, 2002. Who could imagine that they experienced such tragedy only 3 days before?" the surviving father cried. Liu Zhongyuan recalled seeing his granddaughter that fateful morning. She was lying on the ground with a hole in her head. The room was full of blood. "My wife could still bat her eyelids but could not speak anymore." Liu Zhanwei, his wife and son were all found with bloody faces. Liu Zhongyuan's wife died 10 days after being sent to hospital on December 6, 2002. The other 4 people died where they were found.
Yang Xinhai later confessed that he used an iron hammer to kill the 5 family members on December 6, 2002. He buried the hammer near a tomb at night and threw his bloody clothes into a river. Yang then walked 2 hours to the city of Luohe. He said he used a new hammer for each murder. Yang dropped out of school in 1985 and began to travel to other regions working as a hired laborer.
He was twice sent to re education through labor camps in 1988 and 1991 for theft in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei Province. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 1996 for an attempted rape in Zhumadian, Central China's Henan Province. He was released in 2000. That was when his killing spree began. Sources with the local police of Cangzhou, Hebei Province where Yang was arrested said that he killed and raped but not for money. "He committed crimes to merely hurt society" a local policeman was quoted by the Jiangnan Times as saying. During his stay at a detention house in Luohe when asked by other criminal suspects why he killed so many people, Yang said "Killing people is very usual, nothing special."
1 | Oct 31st 2022 17:59