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...struck from behind, smashing her head with a brick. Wang stumbled, screamed and struggled desperately to get inside the apartment building. She didn't make it. Her assailant spun her around and plunged a watermelon knife into her chest seven times. Then, as neighbors peered out from above, the killer fled...
...other women in Wuhan were attacked by a man with a knife, four of them fatally. The city's newspapers didn't cover the cases?they almost never write about unsolved crimes. But word spread rapidly through the local grapevine, and a rumor arose that the killer targeted his victims because they were dressed in red. "Everybody was so terrified of the Red Dress Killer," recalls a woman selling tomatoes in Wang's neighborhood, "that we started wearing a lot of blue...
...earlier, headed home at 3 a.m. from a night market where she had a job washing dishes. At dawn, a neighbor discovered her corpse on the building's stairs. "She had just started climbing when he stabbed her," says the neighbor. She had 38 stab wounds. The Red Dress Killer had struck again...
...formed a special investigation team, which eventually grew to more than a thousand cops. The cases were such a high priority that the team members were made to work overtime and cancel their vacations. Young female officers walked the empty streets at night as bait. But the Red Dress Killer continued to strike, thanks in part to police slip-ups and lost opportunities. Despite the rising body count, Wuhan's police didn't check with neighboring cities, including Yueyang, for similar cases. The summer murders took place in a district crammed with migrants, but Inspector Zhang Dehua admits that...
...after Duan's capture, the news blackout was lifted and the front page of Wuhan's main newspaper hailed the nabbing of the "Psycho Killer" accused of murdering 13 women. It showed Hubei's top cop, Chen Xunqiu, handing $20,000 in reward money to Inspector Zhang and a handful of colleagues involved in the investigation. "This is a typical example," Chen said, "of successfully breaking a case using high-tech methods and strategies." It was deft p.r., but the reality is more chilling: monsters are on the prowl in today's China?and someone's got to learn...