A Chinese crime writer has been arrested for allegedly murdering four people in a cold case that stumped police for 22 years.
“I’ve been waiting for you all this time,” Liu Yongbiao, 53, told cops when they arrested him at his home in China’s Anhui province Friday, China Daily reported.
Police say Liu and another man — identified by his surname Wang — killed four people during a robbery at a family-owned hostel on Nov. 29, 1995.
According to cops, Liu and Wang were staying at the hostel when they tried to rob a man named Mr. Yu, and beat him to death when he fought back. They also were accused of killing the couple who ran the guesthouse and their 13-year-old grandson to cover up the crime.
Police were stymied in their probe because of a lack of a surveillance system.
“We reopened the investigation several times over the years, there was no progress until we used new DNA technology when we reopened the case in June,” police official Shen Lianjiang said, adding that cops had tested about 60,000 fingerprint files before finding Liu and his associate, who was also arrested.
Liu began writing for magazines in 1985 after he couldn’t get into university. He published his first novel, “A Film,” in 2005. A romance novel he wrote in 2014 was later turned into a 50-episode TV show, according to Chinese news website Sixth Tone.
In the introduction to his novel “The Guilty Secret,” Liu revealed that he had already started a follow-up book about a female author who evades capture despite committing grisly murders and that he planned to call it “The Beautiful Writer who Killed.”
Liu hasn’t published the allegedly life-imitating book but composed a one-page letter to his wife apparently confessing his crimes.
According to Chen Hongyue, one of the arresting officers, Liu wrote that he’d waited for the police to nab him since he committed the crimes.
“Now I can finally be free from the mental torment I’ve endured for so long,” he reportedly wrote to his wife.
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