The murderer in the case, a man from Xinfeng County nearly forty years old. He was a cripple after breaking his leg in a brawl. His wife ran off with another man, driving him to resentment. He worked as a tea-house servant before becoming a serial killer. He collected women's hair and robbed victims. He was captured in mid-July and executed at the end of September, but tried to recant three days before execution.
