Heinous – An Asian True Crime Podcast · Mediacorp

The Baiyin Butcher | Gao Chengyong |1988 - 2002 | 2/2

·24 min·2 clips
A quiet grocer's morning routine is shattered when police knock, revealing he is China's most wanted serial killer.
This episode recounts the case of Gao Chengyong, a serial killer in Baiyin, China, who murdered 11 women between 1988 and 2002. It explores his double life as a quiet grocer, the investigation's DNA breakthrough, his arrest in 2016, and his eventual trial and execution in 2019.

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A serious, methodical true-crime account that traces an ordinary life against an extraordinary case.

The piece is strongest when it sets an ordinary grocery-store morning against the violence that shadowed Bayin and Bao Tu for almost three decades.

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You follow a serial-killer case that starts with an ordinary grocery-store morning and ends with an execution that finally closes the file.

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