On November 3, 2003 35 year old Yang Xinhai was arrested by police in the province of Hebei in Canzhou, China for the murders of at least 67 people in a two year time period.

He was also the chief suspect for a rash of cases in three other cities, Anhui, Shandong and Henan in China.

The motive for the killings, according to Yang, was that he had been dumped by his girlfriend and wanted to take his anger out on society.

Yang’s girlfriend had left him after finding out about a prison term the man had served for rape and burglary.

Yang’s method was to go to farmhouses and slaughter everyone he found. He would bash them to death. The killer used tools such as a meat cleaver and iron hammer to murder the farming families.

Yang would always wear new clothes and shoes two sizes too big to put police off his track. He travelled between the Chinese provinces on a bicycle.

He was found guilty on February 1, 2004 after a trial that lasted less than an hour for the murders of 67 of his victims and the rapes of 25 women. He was sentenced to death for his crimes.

Justice was metered out quickly for the serial killer. On February 14, 2004 the killer was executed in Hehan.

The details or identities of the killer’s victims were not revealed.

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