A man who has been dubbed China’s “Jack the Ripper” for the way he mutilated the bodies of some of the 11 women he killed was reported to have been captured by police nearly 30 years after the terrifying murders began.
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Russell Edwards, who in 2014 presented evidence that Jack the Ripper was Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski, told DW he thinks the museum doesn’t do justice to the victims of the serial killer – and especially their descendants. The police had been searching for the serial killer for 28 years.
As with the original Jack the Ripper, a serial killer active in London in the late Victorian era who is believed to have murdered five women, some of Gao’s alleged victims had their reproductive organs removed. One of his alleged victims was only eight-years-old.
“Police eventually linked Gao with the murders and managed to collect his DNA, which was a match for the killer”, state-run China Daily reported.
Cops first started looking for Gao in 1988 when his first victim, a 23-year-old woman, was found murdered in her home having been stabbed 26 times.
The man has also been described as “reclusive and unsociable, but patient”.
Women in Baiyin would not walk alone in the streets without being accompanied by male relatives or friends after the spate of attacks.
“Twenty-two knife wounds were found on her body, clothes was stripped off on her lower part”. Police said the DNA suggested that the killer was a relation, and after Gao’s DNA was taken it allegedly matched that collected at the crime scenes.
The string of murders remained in cold case files until China’s Criminal Investigation Bureau used new technology to re-examine DNA in re-opening the case earlier this year. The killings have never been solved. Those who knew him said he was a quiet man and emotionally detached from his family and those around him.
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Gao’s younger son said his father had experienced “bitter suffering” in his youth.
