Online
\nBeijing, January
\nA Chinese serial killer convicted of murdering 11 girls and women between 1988 and 2002 has been executed.
\nGao Chengyong, dubbed \u201cJack the Ripper\u201d by Chinese media, followed his victims home before robbing, raping and murdering them. He cut their throats and mutilated their bodies.
\nGao, a married father of two, was arrested in 2016 at the grocery store he ran in Baiyin, Gansu province.
\nPolice managed to trace the 53-year-old through a series of DNA tests.
\nGao\u2019s first murder was in May 1988, the year his son was born.
\nA 23-year-old woman was found in Baiyin with 26 stab wounds to her body.
\nSubsequent murders followed a similar pattern, with the killer often targeting young women who lived alone.
\nGao also cut off parts of his victim\u2019s reproductive organs, according to the Beijing Youth Daily. His youngest victim was eight years old.
\nWomen in Baiyin would not walk alone in the streets without being accompanied by male relatives or friends after the spate of attacks.
\nThe killings stopped in 2002 but it was only years later that a breakthrough came, when Gao\u2019s uncle was arrested for a minor crime.
\nHe gave a DNA sample which police then linked to the crimes, determining they must have been committed by a relative – which was later confirmed to be Gao.
\nHe was sentenced to death last year. The court in Baiyin called his actions \u201cdespicable\u201d.
\nHis execution on Thursday was announced on the court\u2019s Weibo account.
\nIt is not clear how the execution was carried out, though death sentences in China are mostly carried out by lethal injection or a firing squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Online Beijing, January A Chinese serial killer convicted of murdering 11 girls and women between 1988 and 2002 has been executed. Gao Chengyong, dubbed \u201cJack the Ripper\u201d by Chinese media, followed his victims home before robbing, raping and murdering them. He cut their throats and mutilated their bodies. Gao, a married father of two, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n