Ming Sen Shiue

Ming Sen Shiue (; born October 15, 1950) is a Taiwanese-American murderer, kidnapper, stalker, and rapist convicted of the murder of six-year-old Jason Wilkman, the kidnapping of Mary Stauffer and her daughter Elizabeth, and multiple counts of rape of Mary Stauffer.

Early life Ming Sen Shiue was born on October 15, 1950, in Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he moved to Minnesota with his mother and his two siblings: his father, who died three years later, was a professor at the University of Minnesota. Shiue was described as violent toward his younger siblings, often beating them during both adolescence and adulthood.

From 1965 to 1966, Shiue attended Alexander Ramsey High School in Roseville, where he came to have a "crush" on his ninth-grade algebra teacher Mary Stauffer.

He later confessed during proceedings that due to his "infatuation", Shiue began sexually fantasizing about the teacher. Shiue later wrote stories about his fantasies with fictional characters from movies and eventually about Stauffer, which included consensual sex, rape and gang rape. In later years, after he realized that he did not find complete satisfaction from his fantasies, Shiue decided to kidnap Stauffer.

Kidnapping and murder In 1975, Shiue located what he erroneously believed to be Stauffer's residence in Duluth. He broke into the house with a firearm intending to kidnap the victim, who did not live in the residence. He forced her in-laws, who owned the house, to the ground, tied them up, and threatened to kill them if they reported the crime. Because of this, the home invasion was not reported until the actual kidnapping of Stauffer took place five years later. As Shiue continued his search for Stauffer during the intervening period, Stauffer lived with family in the Philippines, where she and her husband worked as Christian missionaries. They returned to Minnesota in 1979. He was taken to Ramsey County Adult Detention Center. While in jail, he offered $50,000 to another inmate, Richard Green, to kill Stauffer and her daughter to prevent them from testifying against him in court, and to help him escape from jail. Green communicated the information to the FBI.

Shiue's second trial began in 1981. During the trial, Shiue smuggled a knife into the courtroom and, when Stauffer testified, he jumped over the table and attacked her, managing to cut her face. It took 62 stitches to close her facial wound. At the same time, Shiue promised to kill her and her daughter when he would be released from prison. When the second trial ended, Shiue was sentenced to 40 years for the murder charge, to be served concurrently with his previous thirty-year sentence. He avoided a first degree murder charge by agreeing to divulge the location of Wilkman's body.

Shiue became eligible for mandatory release on July 6, 2010, but was denied. On September 28, 2010, the Anoka County District Judge Jenny Walker Jasper ruled that Shiue could be detained indefinitely as a dangerous sexual predator even if he is granted parole. He was also found to have a sexual psychopathic personality. Shiue, who had never sought sex offender treatment in prison, apologized and begged for Mary's forgiveness during the hearing, saying she had every right to hate him. Elizabeth hoped that Shiue's apology was genuine, but thought he was too dangerous to ever be freed. Shiue appealed the ruling declaring him a dangerous sexual predator, but this was denied.

In popular culture The kidnapping of the Stauffers and the murder of Wilkman were described in Eileen Bridgeman Biernat's book, Stalking Mary. The kidnapping is also the focus of "High School Revenge," an episode of the series Your Worst Nightmare on the cable channel Investigation Discovery. The case was also covered by Casefile True Crime Podcast on May 6, 2017.

Lifetime produced a movie of the case, titled Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story. It stars Alyson Hannigan as Mary Stauffer, Daphne Hoskins as Elizabeth Stauffer, and Howie Lai as Ming Sen Shiue. It was first broadcast on October 5, 2019.