Guo Longhai

Guo Longhai (; 1960s – January 13, 2002) was a Chinese serial killer and rapist who raped and killed 14 young girls and women in Guizhou and Guangxi from 1995 to 2001 as revenge for being imprisoned for rape in 1983. Arrested after his final would-be victim survived, he was tried, convicted, and subsequently executed for the crimes in 2002.

Early life and rape conviction Born sometime during the 1960s in Shandong, China, Guo was brought to Duyun by his father in 1968. After graduating from middle school, he found a job at a local factory, got married, and worked his way up to being a respected senior employee. He eventually took notice of a younger female co-worker, Xiao Jiao (a pseudonym used by the media), who was in an on-and-off relationship with another senior employee. One night after watching a movie at their workplace, Guo went to the women's dormitory and forced Xiao into having sex under the pretense of telling the higher-ups about her affair. Afraid of being fired, Xiao submitted to him and promised not to tell anyone. In the end, he was found guilty of rape and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, which was later commuted to 7 years due to good behavior.

After killing three more victims in different parts of Guizhou and Guangxi, Guo settled on finding easily-accessible victims in Duyun. Among the first of them was a 13-year-old mentally ill student who was lured from the train station and towards the mountains, where she was strangled after having sex with Guo. After chatting for a bit, he invited her over to his house to play, to which the woman agreed. Along the way, Guo claimed that he had divorced his wife and had rented an apartment, but in order to prevent the landlord from finding out that he had visitors, he had to bring her in from a back door. When they arrived in the mountainous area, he suddenly changed his demeanor and ordered her to undress. After having sex with her, Guo attempted to strangle her, but the woman managed to fight back and free herself from his grasp. To his surprise, she did not run away and even offered him a cigarette, telling him that killing her would do him no good and that it would not help with his life struggles. Impressed by her bravery, he took the cigarette, but while Guo was lighting it up, the woman managed to run away and tell what had happened to her friends the following day. This information was relayed to the authorities, who started investigating every man matching the description provided by the surviving victim.

On May 8, 2001, Guo was arrested by police officers while walking on the street. Shortly after his arrest, investigators obtained several blood samples and sent them for testing, with almost all of them returning positive matches with forensic evidence found at the crime scenes. In the meantime, Guo openly confessed all of his crimes to the investigators, claiming that he had killed 14 women in Duyun, Liuzhou, Guiding County, Hechi, and other places. He also bragged that his case overshadowed notorious killers like Zhang Jun and Zhang Ziqiang, and that Jame Gumb from The Silence of the Lambs could not compare with him. Later on, however, he would claim in a much more apologetic manner that he knew that technology would catch up to him and that he could not stop himself from killing.

In October 2001, Guo was convicted on all counts by the Qiannan Intermediate People's Court and sentenced to death. He refused to appeal his sentence and was executed on January 13, 2002, at the execution ground in Duyun. His alleged last words were, "I want to see my wife again. She has always been good to me, and I am sorry for her and my son."