Wu Guoqing

Wu Guoqing (; 5 December 1936 – 24 June 2019) was a Chinese police detective and forensic scientist. He solved or helped solve many high-profile crimes, and was acclaimed as "China's Sherlock Holmes". He taught forensic science at the People's Public Security University of China, the Criminal Investigation Police University of China, and other police academies, and co-authored a number of textbooks in the field.

Biography Wu was born on 5 December 1936 in Balengguan Ranch (八楞罐牧场), Ningcheng County, Rehe Province (now in Inner Mongolia). He was a Mongol and grew up riding horses on grassland. and the 2002 Huizhou bus arson that killed more than 30 people.

Over a career spanning more than 50 years, Wu solved about 1,000 cases. He served as chief detective of the Ministry of Public Security and was voted China's "Most Popular Police Officer" in 2011. Since the 1980s, he had been acclaimed as "China's Sherlock Holmes".

According to Wu himself, the most difficult case he solved was the Chen Ping (陈平) murder case. In September 2003, the half-naked body of Chen's wife was found in her bed at her home in Xianyang, Shaanxi. She was bound and gagged, in what appeared to be a rape-and-murder scene. After collecting and analyzing the evidence, including traces of sleeping pills in her stomach, Wu determined that it was Chen, a district prosecutor, who had killed his wife and attempted to disguise it as a rape-murder case. In January 2015, Chen was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

Wu taught as an adjunct professor at the People's Public Security University of China, the National Police University of China, and the provincial police academies of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Yunnan, and Henan. He also co-authored a number of textbooks in forensic science.

Wu died on 24 June 2019 at Fuxing Hospital in Beijing, aged 82.