Zhou Wen

Victims
6
Years active
June-July 2003
Location
Anshan. Liaoning Province, China
Method
Strangulation
Status
Unknown, probably executed. The whole source base is the arrest announcement of November 28, 2003; no trial, sentence or execution is recorded in any accessible source.

On November 28, 2003 police in Anshan, in Liaoning province, announced the arrest of Zhou Wen, thirty-eight, a taxi driver. Six young women who had taken his cab alone late at night in June and July 2003 had been strangled. Chinese reporting called him the Taxi Demon.

He was reported to have said that he hated women, and that this had begun when his wife had an abortion without telling him. That is the motive given in the announcement, and it is the kind of statement that reaches the outside world only through a police press conference.

No trial, sentence or execution is recorded in any accessible source. This roster's status field says "unknown, probably executed," and that inference is reasonable for a Chinese capital case of this period but it is an inference, not a record.

The whole source base is the arrest announcement. The victims are not named anywhere available, and nothing about the evidence is known.