Shen Changping was the younger of the two brothers, seven years behind Shen Changyin. He is carried here as an individual because he was convicted and sentenced as one; his brother has his own entry, and the two files describe the same case.
The brothers came from Huojia county in rural Henan and left it around 2000. He was about twenty when the killings began.
The killings ran from June 2003 to August 2004 and moved with the brothers across China: Lanzhou in Gansu, then Taiyuan in Shanxi, then Hefei in Anhui, Baotou in Inner Mongolia, and Shijiazhuang in Hebei. The victims were eleven women working as prostitutes, taken from beauty salons and spas. The pattern was robbery first: the women were bound and made to give up their bank card numbers before they were killed, and the bodies were dismembered, burned with sulphuric acid or otherwise destroyed.
Accounts differ on what was eaten. English-language sources say the brothers ate the livers of their victims; others report that kidneys were removed and eaten. The organ is not agreed and the entry does not pick one.
They did not work alone, and the way they recruited is the disturbing part of the case. In late November 2003 they robbed a woman named Li Chunling in the same manner as the others and decided not to kill her when she offered to bring them more victims instead. She brought them women over the following months and in some accounts killed some of them herself. Later, in Taiyuan, they took a woman named Zhao Meiying and forced her to procure others, making her stab one of the women she had delivered. Zhao went to the police in mid-2004 and Li was picked up soon after.
In August 2004 police raided an apartment in Shijiazhuang and found the brothers with a newer accomplice, a dismembered body, tools and a quantity of stolen bank cards. They confessed to murdering and dismembering eleven women. Both were sentenced to death on September 2, 2005, as was Li Chunling. Three other women, aged between sixteen and twenty-six at the time, received sentences of between three and twenty years for procuring victims.
His birth year is given as 1983 in most sources and 1984 in one; the roster follows 1983. He was twenty-three when he was executed on April 27, 2006, on the same day as his brother.
The eleven is the case total, shared with his brother. It is one series counted once, not twenty-two deaths.