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SHEN Changyin & SHEN Changping
Classification:
Serial killers
Characteristics:
Robberies
- Dismemberment - Cannibalism (ate the livers)
Number of victims: 12
Date of murders: 1999
- 2004
Date
of arrest:August
2004
Date of birth: 1975 (Changyin) - 1983 (Changping)
Victims profile: 11
women (prostitutes) and one man
Method of murder: Strangulation
- Stabbing
with knife
Location: Henan/Gansu/Shanxi/Anhui/Inner
Mongolia/Hebei, China
Status: Sentenced to death on September 2, 2005. Executed
Shen Changyin
(born 1975) and Shen Changping (born 1983) are Chinese
serial killer, cannibal brothers who murdered and ate the livers
of 11 prostitutes between June 2003 and August 2004 with Li
Chunling and three other female accomplices.
Murders
In June 2003, the Shen brothers began murdering
prostitutes in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Their first victim was Yao
Fang, whom they lured to a house and tied up. After forcing her to
provide her bank account PIN, they strangled and dismembered her.
In late November 2003, the Shens robbed Li
Chunling in the same manner as Yao; however, they decided against
killing her when she offered to bring them more victims. When Li
brought them a prostitute several days later, the brothers robbed
her then forced Li to kill her. Then they removed her kidney,
burned her body with sulphuric acid, and flushed it down the
toilet.
After murdering three more women in this manner,
the Shens and Li moved to Taiyuan, Shanxi in April 2004. There
they lured Zhao Meiying and forced her to bring a prostitute to
their home. The Shens then forced Zhao to stab the woman and put
the body in a meat processor before flushing the chemical-dipped
pieces down the toilet.
After Zhao surrendered to police and Li was
caught, the Shens continued to murder women in Hefei, Anhui;
Baotou, Inner Mongolia; and Shijiazhuang, Hebei.
Arrest and
sentencing
In August 2004, the Shens and an accomplice, Du
Surong, were caught in a Shijiazhuang apartment while trying to
douse the dismembered body of a victim with acid.
The Shens confessed to robbing and killing 11
women. They had plotted the murders after they lost money when
their Lanzhou auto parts business failed. Shen Changyin also
confessed to murdering a man in their hometown of Nanwu, Henan in
1999, after which the brothers fled in 2000.
The Shens and Li were sentenced to death in
September 2005. Three other female accomplices were sentenced to
three to 20 years in prison.
Wikipedia.org
Killer duo gets death
Ji Mi/Shanghai
Daily news
September 3, 2005
A Gansu Province court on Thursday sentenced
two brothers to death for killing 11 sex workers and eating some
of the victims' kidneys during a two-year romp across the country.
Li Chunling, a 23-year-old sex worker, also got
the death sentence for killing at least one of the victims, and
three other females, aged 16-26, were jailed for three to 20 years
for their role in the killing spree, a paper based in the
provincial capital, Lanzhou, reported yesterday.
The Henan Province duo robbed the four sex
workers after luring them from hair salons and then forced them
into becoming accomplices, said the Lanzhou Morning Newspaper.
One of the brothers Shen Changyin, 30, also
stabbed a man to death at his hometown in Henan's Huojia County in
September 1999.
The report said Shen Changyin and his brother
Shen Changping, 22, plotted the murders after they lost money in
the auto parts business in Lanzhou.
The serial murders started in the city in June
2003.
They allegedly lured a prostitute, Yao Fang, to
a house, tied her up and took away her room key. They found her
bankbook in her room and forced out the pin number. After
confirming the number was right, they strangled her to death and
dismembered her body.
In late November 2003, they robbed Li Chunling
the same way. They planned to kill her but changed their mind when
Li promised to find them more sex workers. Days later, Li found a
prostitute. After robbing her, they forced Li to kill her. They
took out her kidney and burned the body with sulfuric acid before
flushing it down the toilet.
After killing three more young women this way,
the trio moved to Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi Province, in April
2004.
They lured Zhao Meiying, 26, to their rented
residence and forced her to join them.
Soon Zhao lured a woman to a residential area and tied her up. The
Shens forced Zhao to stab the woman to death and crush the body in
a meat processor before flushing the chemical-dipped pieces into
the toilet.
The brothers' crime spree continued in Hefei,
capital of Anhui Province; Baotou, Inner Mon-golia Autonomous
Region; and Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei Province, after Zhao
surrendered to police, who then caught Li.
The brothers were caught in August in
Shijiazhuang while trying to douse the dismembered body of a
victim with acid.
Brothers 'confess' to
butchering 11 women: report
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 3, 2004
Two brothers suspected of killing and
dismembering 11 women have been arrested in China.
Police in Hebei province in the north raided an
apartment rented by Shen Changyin, Shen Changping and their female
accomplice, Du Surong, on August 31 after a tip-off, the official
Xinhua News Agency said yesterday.
Officers found the dismembered corpse of a
woman, along with tools, more than a dozen stolen bank cards, cash
and jewellery, Xinhua said.
The agency said the brothers, aged 21 and 29,
and Du, 23, confessed to robbing and killing the 11 women, who
worked at nightclubs and bath houses in Shijiazhuang, the
provincial capital.
All the bodies had been "brutally dismembered,"
Xinhua said.
The trio also stole a total of 120,000 yuan
(A20,000) in cash, it said.
The report did not say why they killed the
women or provide any other details of the case.
Shen Changyin, the elder brother, also
confessed to killing a man in 1999 in the central province of
Henan, Xinhua said.
The brothers had been farmers in Henan before
moving to Hebei, it said. Du is from the south-western province of
Sichuan. It was not immediately clear how she met them.
Shen Changyin
(born 1975) and Shen Changping (born 1983).
