Li Wenxian

Victims Li murdered 13 women, including a woman surnamed Wang (王某). Li also attacked a woman surnamed Xie (谢某).

The attacks abruptly stopped; given China's policy of downplaying such crimes, the matter was thought to have resolved itself, until another victim's corpse washed ashore in the then-British colony of Hong Kong. The South China Morning Post reported that the victim had to have buoyed from the mainland, as no corresponding missing persons reports had been filed. The victim had been slit nearly her entire body length, and then sewn together again, with fingers severed. The head of Guangzhou's provincial Criminal Investigation Department said: "In all my thirty years with the force, I have never come across anything like this. Perhaps he copied from the West."

The murders continued, sometimes with the use of a hammer, until in November 1996, when Li inadvertently left a victim alive. She identified Li, whom she knew to be a migrated ex-farmer who had joined a local construction crew. Li quickly confessed, stating his motivation as antipathy towards sex workers, as one had allegedly scammed him soon after his arrival in the city. The Intermediate People's Court found him guilty on all counts and sentenced him to death on 18 December 1996.