Lam Kor-wan
| Lam Kor-wan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
林過雲 May 22, 1955 Hong Kong |
| Other names | The Jars Murderer The Rainy Night Butcher The Rainy Night Killer The Hong Kong Butcher |
| Criminal penalty | Death by Hanging (Commuted to Life Imprisonment) |
| Killings | |
| Victims | 4 |
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Date apprehended
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17 August 1982 |
Lam Kor-wan (born June 22, 1955) is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. The other was Lam Kwok-wai.
Lam, who worked as a taxi driver, would pick up female passengers, strangle them with electrical wire, take them to his family home, and dismember them. His English moniker, "The Jars Murderer", was coined when the police revealed that he had hoarded sexual organs in tupperware containers. He was a keen photographer and frequently took pictures and video of his victims, filming himself performing an act of necrophilia with his fourth victim. The Chinese press nicknamed him "The Rainy Night butcher" (Traditional Chinese 雨夜屠夫) because several of his attacks occurred during inclement weather.
Lam shared his bedroom with his brother, who was unaware of his activities; Lam worked the nightshift, so was able to dismember victims at home during the daytime without his immediate family finding out. The bodies were disposed of via his taxi in the New Territories and on Hong Kong Island, and all were eventually located.
Lam was arrested by plain clothes officers on 17 August 1982. He had attempted to develop photographs of one of his dismembered victims at a Hong Kong Kodak shop. The shop manager in Mong Kok tipped off the police and they were waiting for him when he returned to pick up the photos. When confronted Lam claimed that the photographs belonged to a friend of his who worked on a ship who would meet him shortly; when the man did not appear the police accompanied Lam to his parents' first floor apartment on Kwei Chau Street and performed a search. The police located an old ammunition box in the bedroom he shared with his brother; the box contained pornography and more photographs of body parts, video tapes and several tupperware containers containing women's sexual organs.
On the 8th of April in 1983, at the end of a long three-week trial with a seven-men jury (as no women were able to stomach the gruesome background and evidence of the murders), Lam was found guilty of four counts of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. On the 29th of August in 1984, Lam's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, as was the tradition before the abolition of the death penalty in Hong Kong in 1993. He is currently (and still) serving his life sentence at the maximum-security prison facility at Shek Pik.
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