Gao Chengyong mutilated the bodies of many of his victims.
A Chinese serial killer dubbed the country’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ has been executed for the murder of 11 girls and women.
Gao Chengyong was found guilty of multiple counts of murder, rape, robbery and the mutilation of corpses between 1988 and 2002. Many of his victims had their hands, ears and genitals cut off.
He struck in northwest China’s Baiyin city in Gansu Province and Baotou city in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, and the married father-of-two’s youngest victim was just eight years old.
