Are there serial killers in asia

In many cases, the murders are inextricably linked by certain patterns in his or her choice of victims, and in the murder methods as well. To be clear, serial killers are by definition distinguished from mass murderers, who take the lives of several people in one single incident for example, during a bomb attack or shoot out. A little closer to home, Asia is also no stranger to serial killers; we have seen our fair share of spine-chilling murderers across the region.

Photo: Murderpedia. The year is In Itsukaichi, a small town in Tokyo, a mother goes through premature labour, and gives birth to a child with deformed, gnarled hands as a result. This child was Tsutomu Miyazaki. As a result of his deformity, Miyazaki was made fun of and ostracised for most of his childhood, and became very much a loner for most of his life.

He developed depression and a severe inferiority complex. Decades later, Miyazaki would become embroiled in a series of schoolgirl murders that would grip the nation - between August and June , Miyazaki kidnapped and mutilated four young schoolgirls, who were aged from four to seven years old. It was also discovered that Miyazaki had engaged in necrophilia - sexually violating each of the dead girls, but only after they were killed. He even dismembered a hand from one of his poor victims, eating parts of flesh and drinking blood from it.

Photo: OnlineIndo. In , Ahmad Suradji, a cattle breeder in North Sumatra, Indonesia, claimed to have had a vivid dream in which he saw his deceased father. In doing so, he would gain supernatural abilities and become a powerful mystic healer. Thus began a long sequence of ghastly murders, as Suradji heeded the advice from his dream. Over the course of 11 years, Suradji killed 42 girls and women, who ranged in age from 11 to They were all killed in ritualistic fashion, strangled with a cable, and then buried up to their waists in a sugarcane plantation near his home.

Suradji was promptly arrested and tried for murder. Despite Suradji maintaining his innocence, the court found him guilty and had him executed via firing squad in Photo: Hindustan Times.

The Hippie Trail was seen an alternative, cheaper route for adventure travel, and provided western tourists with passage from Europe to Southeast Asia. It was on this trail that Frenchman Charles Sobhraj carried out a series of murders in cold blood, specifically within the trail in the areas across Thailand, Nepal, Turkey, Iran, and India. Sobhraj, who was of Vietnamese and Indian origin, preyed on western travellers along the trail; he first befriended them, and then used a variety of poisonous concoctions to weaken his unsuspecting victims before killing them.

Some were stabbed, some were strangled, and some were even burned to death. He allegedly committed at least a dozen murders during the s. Despite multiple arrests over the past few decades, he managed to evade incarceration at every turn, until when a court in Nepal upheld the life sentence he received for murdering a US citizen.

Maznah, her husband and two accomplices were hanged at the Kajang Prison on 21 November In , Fan Man-yee, a year-old nightclub hostess, was kidnapped. She was held captive by three men in a flat in Tsim Sha Tsui, which was eerily decorated with Hello Kitty toys.

When Fan died, they threw her body in the bin and sewed her skull into the head of a giant Hello Kitty doll. The killers were sentenced to life imprisonment in November They stood expressionless as the sentence was announced.

Yoo Young-chul began his killing spree in Seoul aged 33 by breaking into homes and bludgeoning wealthy senior citizens with a self-made hammer. After being rejected by an escort girl, he then began preying on prostitutes and female masseuses. Altogether, he murdered 21 people throughout and It was later discovered that he had a hatred for the wealthy — and for women.

He also admitted to dismembering and mutilating the bodies, and even eating the organs of his victims. He is currently in jail awaiting execution. The film The Chaser reflected his story and was a box office hit in Lin was in financial trouble after racking up gambling debts, and Huang Zhiheng wanted money that was owed to him.

Huang visited the restaurant and the scene quickly became violent with him smashing glass bottles and using the jagged pieces as weapons. He then took the largest butcher knives from the kitchen and spent eight hours dismembering the ten bodies. A year later, the police started to recover limbs of the victims in the sea and in bins. Huang committed suicide while in prison in Si Quey was executed by a firing squad in , aged His crime?

The abduction and murder of seven young children in Thailand. Unlike the previous cases where the victims were killed outdoors, the year-old student was found in her bed, sexually assaulted and strangled with her own clothes. The case, which sent shockwaves through the country, was the eighth in two years. Under pressure to make headway in investigations, the police had nothing conclusive to link Yoon to the crime. Yet, after a three-day interrogation where he was deprived of sleep and assaulted, Yoon confessed.

When he was sentenced to life imprisonment, no one believed he was innocent, he recalled. A shadow continued to hang over him even after he was released on parole in It was only a full decade later, in , that an incredible breakthrough led to him walking out of court a truly free man, innocent in the eyes of the world. The first to die was a year-old woman. She had gone out one morning in September to pick some cabbage and disappeared. Her body was found a few days later.

At the time, not much attention was paid to the crime. There were very few personnel left, and the three detectives, he added, could not actively track the suspect. But as the months went by, more women disappeared. The next few victims were younger women who disappeared while walking home late at night. Their bodies would be found days later, strangled with their clothes.

The residents began to fear for their safety. At the time, Hwaseong was a rural, mountainous area full of rice paddies, fields and forests. Not many people lived there. But no more. The rumours spread fast and furious. One, according to another resident Shin, was that the killer only murdered those wearing red.

The locals even erected a scarecrow as a talisman to ward off the killer. By the time the fifth body was found in January — a teenage girl who had got off a bus and was walking home late at night — the police realised they were dealing with a serial killer. All five cases had occurred within a two-kilometre radius. Finally, they opened a large-scale investigation, said Yeom. Many policemen were sent from Seoul and the rest of Gyeonggi province to work on the case. In all, more than 1.

The police determined the suspect to have blood type B, and that was what they looked out for. In the end, more than 20, men were investigated — almost all the men in the region.

This was ridiculous, said Yeom. They collected samples from everyone — body hair, saliva and blood samples. But they lacked the equipment or technology to analyse the samples properly. Even fingerprints, he recalled, were compared manually by the human eye. There were some clues, however. In November , one woman narrowly escaped after the killer tied her up and went in search of her purse. She was able to provide enough evidence for the police to do up a facial composite. They were looking for a man in his mids, slender and with short hair and sharp eyes.

But the killings continued. Pressure was mounting on the investigators. Then, in September , teenage student Park became the eighth victim. There was even the pressure to resign if they failed to catch the criminal.

According to him, the police began looking for an easy target in the area — anyone who could have plausibly committed the crime. That person was Yoon. Then in his early 20s, he lived in the area and had a job working with farm equipment. Disabled as a young child due to polio, he had to stop going to school after his mother died in a car accident. There were also heavy metals found in the hairs, said forensic pathologist Yoo.

Yoon, a welder, fit the bill. Traces of titanium, a material often used in welding, were found in his hair. Through profiling, the police believed he had a hatred of women because of his disability.