GUILTY China - Four people slain in Huzhou robbery, 29 Nov 1995 *Arrest*

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ret-chinese-writer-arrested-cold-case-murders

Liu Yongbiao had talked of plans for book about killer author who evades capture but police say he is now a suspect in multiple decades-old murders

In the introduction to his novel The Guilty Secret, Chinese writer Liu Yongbiao revealed he had already started work on a follow-up he hoped would prove a literary sensation: a suspense-filled, cold-case detective drama about a ravishing female author who evades capture despite committing a string of grisly murders.

He would call it The Beautiful Writer who Killed

Police believe Liu was one of two men who checked into a guesthouse in the eastern city of Huzhou in order to rob its guests. When one victim, named as Mr Yu, fought back against the thieves, he was beaten to death. In order to conceal their crime, the two men are alleged to have murdered the couple who ran the guesthouse and their 13-year-old grandson.

Xu Zhicheng, one of the officers involved in the original inquiry, told the Paper, a Shanghai-based news website, the manhunt had gone cold because investigators could find no link between the victims and their killers

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While police did not fully explain how they had tracked down the two men, the Paper reported that advances in DNA technology had played a role in their capture. The China Daily said that in their quest for justice, investigators had analysed about 60,000 fingerprint samples.

According to Chen Hongyue, one of the arresting officers, Liu told his wife he had spent more than two decades waiting for the police to come calling. “Now I can finally be free from the mental torment I’ve endured for so long,” he reportedly wrote.

Liu yongbaio’s novel. This week it emerged there could be more to Liu’s book project than mere fiction, after he was taken into custody for allegedly bludgeoning four people to death more than two decades ago.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/16/guilty-secret-chinese-writer-arrested-cold-case-murders

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000683/anhui-author-detained-for-1995-quadruple-murder

After the case had long gone cold, there was a breakthrough in August of this year, in part due to DNA testing. Police zeroed in on Liu’s village, and based on further investigation and questioning now believe that Liu and a fellow villager surnamed Wang, a 64-year-old entrepreneur, committed the 1995 murders.

A police officer from Huzhou told The Paper that the two suspects planned to rob the guesthouse because they were in need of money.

Liu’s literary breakthrough came in 2005, when his novel “A Film” was published by the Writers Publishing House — the country’s first major book publisher. Besides fame, the novel brought Liu a series of accolades, and a romance novel published in 2014 was later adapted to become a 50-episode TV show.

Since Liu’s arrest, one of his most well-known works has taken on a macabre significance. “The Guilty Secret,” published in 2010, describes life from the perspective of several poor farmers. In the book’s preface, Liu wrote: “I want to create a novel about a beautiful female writer who has killed many people, yet the cases remain unsolved.”

 

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Officers started looking into the two men but the case went cold. Officer Xu Zhicheng was in charge of the investigation and told reporters: 'The biggest difficulty is that the main suspects do not have any relationship with the victim.'
It was later reopened earlier this month thanks to advances in DNA.

The author lives in Nanling County, eastern China's Anhui province

Scene of the murders: The crime was committed at a guest house in eastern China

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August 2018: Sentenced to death.
He Wrote Crime Novels Inspired By His Real-Life Murders. Now He's Been Sentenced To Death.