Bai Baoshan
Born6 November 1958
DiedApril 1998 (aged 39)
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
Conviction(s)Murder, robbery, assault
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims15
Span of crimes
1983–1997
CountryChina
Location(s)Beijing, Xinjiang, Hebei
Date apprehended
5 September 1997

Bai Baoshan (Chinese: 白宝山; November 6, 1958 – April 1998) was a Chinese serial killer who killed 15 people.[1]

Life

Bai Baoshan committed his first crime in 1983, serving 13 years of a 15-year sentence in prison for robbery and assault. After being released on 7 March 1996, he sought revenge on authorities, and on 31 March 1996, he attacked the guard at a power station in Beijing. Using a semi-automatic firearm previously stolen from a police officer, Bai injured two civilians and four others badly. The police suspected him of robbing and murdering a cigarette dealer. In Hebei Province, he raided a military base, killing a soldier and taking his automatic rifle with him. Bai later robbed and killed a cigarette dealer and injured three others near Deshengmen in Beijing in December 1996. In Ürümqi, together with another accomplice Wu Ziming, he killed a total of ten more people, including 2 policemen, and stole 1.4 million renminbi. When there was a dispute over the spoils, he shot Wu at Tianchi on 26 August 1997.

On 5 September 1997, Bai was arrested at his home in Beijing. Since he had committed most of his actions in the Xinjiang region, he was transferred there on 3 December 1997 and charged with, among other things, 14 charges of murder. After being convicted on all counts and sentenced to death, he was executed in April 1998 in Xinjiang by shooting.

See also

References

Literature

  • Murakami, Peter and Julia: Encyclopedia of serial killers: 450 case studies of a pathological killing type. 7th edition, Ullstein paperback, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-35935-3. (Source, unless stated otherwise.)

Notes

  1. "Top 10 Chinese criminals since 1949 - China.org.cn". www.china.org.cn. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
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