Chinese Police had arrested 52-year-old Gao Chengyong who had mutilated 11 females since 1988.
Gao has been called China’s Jack the Ripper for cutting the throat of his young female victims and mutilating their bodies. In some victims, Gao removed their reproductive organs.
China Daily reported that Chinese police detained Gao first at the grocery stores in Baiyin, Gansu Province, where he admitted 11 murders in the province and nearby region of Inner Mongolia between 1988 and 2002, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
In 2004, police said Gao was a sexual prevent who hated women. He allegedly targeted young women who wear red, followed them home and killed them. At that time, the police offered a reward of 200,000 yuan for information which would lead to Gao’s arrest.
The 28-year-old hunt for the killer of the 11 women ended when Gao’s DNA matched the murderer of the 11 women. He was tracked after Gao’s uncle was arrested for a minor crime. The uncle gave a DNA sample which Chinese police linked to crimes and later determined the crimes were done by a relative, BBC reported.
Since Gao killed his first victim, a 23-year-old woman whose corpse was found in Baiyin with 26 stab wounds, women in the city feared walking alone on city streets unless they are accompanied by male friends or relatives.