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...Predatory transients" are what police call serial killers who strike across vast areas or move to places where they have a better chance of getting away with murder. They were rare in China a decade ago, when internal travel by citizens required official permission. Now, with the easing of residence permits and 120 million migrants already living in the cities, criminals and killers, too, have hit the road. In addition to detaining Ma, a native of Hunan province, police have in recent weeks held a man in Hebei province on suspicion of killing 65 people in four provinces, and another...
...combat serial crimes, law-enforcement officials have tried to improve their technology and methodology. They have created a national computer network that registers suspects from across the country. It helped police catch the suspected Hebei killer, who was detained outside a nightclub before a check was run on his name. Urban police forces can also tap into the registries of upscale hotels. Four forensics labs in major cities now run ballistics tests and check the DNA of suspects and victims, and one such lab reportedly identified the decomposed bodies of the Shenzhen women. Closer to street level, the Ministry...
...boys until the killer had been apprehended, and they have ordered newspapers in Shenzhen to stop covering the murders there. Police like announcing cracked cases but fear coverage of unsolved ones will make them look incompetent. The result, unfortunately, is an unenlightened public at increasing risk from China's serial killers...
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...NOTEBOOK Diplomacy: Sorry, Mr. Rumsfeld China: Serial killers Vietnam: Old guard speaks out Milestones Verbatim Letters...