Suspects in 10 murders captured
By Li Qian |
December 14, 2011, Wednesday
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FOUR fugitives have been apprehended in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for allegedly robbing 10 call girls of more than 2 million yuan (US$315,400), killing them and dismembering their bodies.
They lured the victims to their rented houses for sex, then held them for ransom and murdered them after getting the ransoms, authorities said. The gang, including a prostitute and three unemployed men, then allegedly buried the body parts in a field or flushed them down the toilet.
After committing the gruesome crimes between 1998 and 2004, the four killers changed their identities and settled down in the remote Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the news portal www.dbw.cn reported yesterday.
Their crimes started coming to light in September 2002 when body parts of two women showed up, but the gang escaped before police arrived, the report said. The crimes didn't end. The gang went to eastern China's Zhejiang Province and the southern Guangdong Province, luring more prostitutes from nightclubs, and robbing and killing them, authorities said.
The only woman among the four suspects, Ji Hongjie, a native of Jilin City, bought fake identities for the group in northern China's Shanxi Province before they settled down in Inner Mongolia. They even gathered their family members there, running several shops in the region's Baotou City, the report said.
Police found clues to their whereabouts three months ago and arrested them on November 2.
They are jailed in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province in northeast China, where the three men came from, as the investigation continues.
They lured the victims to their rented houses for sex, then held them for ransom and murdered them after getting the ransoms, authorities said. The gang, including a prostitute and three unemployed men, then allegedly buried the body parts in a field or flushed them down the toilet.
After committing the gruesome crimes between 1998 and 2004, the four killers changed their identities and settled down in the remote Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the news portal www.dbw.cn reported yesterday.
Their crimes started coming to light in September 2002 when body parts of two women showed up, but the gang escaped before police arrived, the report said. The crimes didn't end. The gang went to eastern China's Zhejiang Province and the southern Guangdong Province, luring more prostitutes from nightclubs, and robbing and killing them, authorities said.
The only woman among the four suspects, Ji Hongjie, a native of Jilin City, bought fake identities for the group in northern China's Shanxi Province before they settled down in Inner Mongolia. They even gathered their family members there, running several shops in the region's Baotou City, the report said.
Police found clues to their whereabouts three months ago and arrested them on November 2.
They are jailed in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province in northeast China, where the three men came from, as the investigation continues.
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