The first to die were policeman Zhang Fugui 张福贵, his wife, and two children, killed on June 6, 1987, by an unknown intruder who broke into their home after dark with a hatchet another daughter was injured but survived. Pan Tao 潘涛, a veteran of the local People’s Armed Police for over 30 years, recalls the murders well, and scoffs at some of the numbers cited (“54 victims”…“a massacre of 27”).Īccording to Pan and others, the legend of the “Hulan Hero” (呼兰大侠 hūlán dàxiá) is rooted in the still-unsolved murders of at least five policemen and their family members, between 19, in the city of Harbin and outlying county of Hulan, about an hour’s drive away. Shi Aidong 施爱东, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who specializes in folklore, says that while posts on the case number in the millions, “in the official files, there are almost no viable clues” that support any of the online speculation. The legend of the Cop Killer of Harbin - was he a populist “hero” or a demented serial killer? - is told to this day, with rumors bleeding into facts.ĭid a crusading killer launch a vendetta against Harbin police in the late 1980s, dispatching scores of corrupt cops before disappearing into obscurity? Many people in the grimy northeastern city still believe so, yet the facts of the case have been obscured by age, evidence, and popular culture. Between 19, five policemen were murdered in northeast China, their cases unsolved to this day.
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This is the final installment of China Unsolved, a SupChina series profiling China’s most notorious unsolved mysteries.
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