"The difference between man and beast is that man knows how to control, while the beast only knows how to vent"
Since the 1990s, there have been frequent rapes and murders of women in the Tuen Mun area of Hong Kong, causing women to panic and dare not go out at night.
Previously, we shared with you the "butcher of rainy nights" that scared Hong Kong women in the 80s.
Today, I will tell about another woman in Hong Kong who is terrified: "Tuen Mun Color Demon Lam Kwok-wai".
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Three crimes were committed in one or four months, causing women to panic for a long time
At four o'clock in the morning of April 24, 1992, the Tuen Mun District Police in Hong Kong received an alarm from a 19-year-old woman, her voice trembling and crying on the phone, it turned out that just now, when she was waiting for the elevator at home, she was suddenly hijacked from behind by a man, dragged out of the elevator, raped by him in the stairwell, and the man also snatched the gold and silver jewelry in the bag, and then fled.
This can scare the police enough, such a serious robbery and rape case occurred in their jurisdiction, the criminal still escaped, hiding in the shadows, the probability of re-crime is extremely high, the police immediately paid attention to it and began to investigate.
In June of the same year, a 32-year-old nightclub waitress was raped while returning to a rental house in a car after work at 4 a.m.
In August, a 39-year-old woman was strangled by a man in San Wo Li, Tuen Mun, in the early hours of the morning, dragged into the grass and raped.
The above three women all reported the crime in time, and the police obtained semen samples of the criminals, which were the same person. However, the victim could not see the appearance of the criminal clearly in the panic, and only remembered some vague things, such as figure, hairstyle, accent, etc., which left the police at a loss.
In just a few months, the criminals committed three cases in succession, and for a while the entire Hong Kong women were panicked, and the murderers were also branded as "Tuen Mun Color Devils".
Second, the means have been escalated, from aggression to rape and killing
From the descriptions of the three victims, although they did not see the criminal's face clearly, they vaguely remember that he was about 160 to 170 tall, although not tall, but very strong and strong, able to subdue an adult woman in seconds. The person in charge of the case is the late Chief Inspector of the Hong Kong Police Force Wong Wing-kee, after the police discovered that the murderer had committed the crime, he could go to the bank ATMs in different areas in a short period of time, and said that the victim's bank card card withdrew money, and the murderer must be a car owner, using the car to follow the victim, and then drive away after the violence.
Combined with the common points of the previous three crimes, the murderer obviously likes to follow those long-haired women who are left alone in the early morning, and each time there is an interval of about 2 months, so it is judged that his next crime is most likely at the end of October. However, unexpectedly, after October, the murderer did not come out again to commit the crime, and it seemed that the world had evaporated. But just when the police and Hong Kong residents thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, two more women reported that they had been assaulted in December, apparently making the murderers emboldened and committing two crimes in a month.
In order to arrest the murderer, the police have thought of many ways, and even began to let female policemen similar to the victimized women dress up as passers-by, walk at night with tricks, and the police secretly protect them, trying to lure the snake out of the hole. But this did not seduce the cunning murderer to appear. The situation in which the police have always been helpless against themselves has made the murderer's self-confidence unprecedentedly inflated, and the crime has been upgraded.
In February 1993, the assailants committed another crime and strangled the victim directly with a rope. What is even more surprising is that this time the murderer was not the same young woman as before, but a 50-year-old middle-aged woman.
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It can be seen that for the murderer who has lost his heart, simple aggression against women can no longer satisfy his animal desires, and even elderly women may become targets.
At this time, the whole of Hong Kong women, old and young, were panicked, so residents organized larger self-defense patrols to try to catch the murderers.
Not to mention, the patrols of the Self-Defense Forces have really been effective. Late one night, soon after, a woman's shouting for help immediately drew a patrol to capture a man.
The news of the "Tuen Mun Color Demon Case Solved" soon spread through the media, and the dark cloud hanging over the hearts of Tuen Mun women seemed to be finally dispelled.
However, in April of the following year, a 22-year-old female DJ was assaulted and killed again while returning home from work late at night, causing another uproar.
What's going on here? It turned out that the police did not capture the real "Tuen Mun Color Devil", but another ordinary criminal, and in order to let the real murderer relax his vigilance, the police deliberately let the media release the wind, claiming that the real murderer had been captured.
Third, shifting positions will make all of Hong Kong a crime?
But if people don't know what they do, no matter how clever a crime is, it is impossible to leave no clues. Soon, a taxi driver approached the police, saying that he had been followed by a private car when he was carrying a woman late at night, and the owner deliberately turned on the headlights to shine on his car, trying to see the appearance of the woman in the car. And the owner of the private car is likely to be the "Tuen Mun Color Devil".
Because the driver really couldn't remember the details of the night, the police deliberately found a hypnotist to hypnotize him, but the driver really recalled, not only remembering that the murderer was driving a white Japanese car, but even vaguely remembered a few numbers on the license plate.
After obtaining the clues, the police began to investigate the white private cars in Tuen Mun, and in order not to startle the snakes, they investigated the owners one by one on the grounds of investigating traffic accidents. However, just when the police laid a net in the entire Tuen Mun District, they did not expect that the murderers at this time had already moved their battle positions.
On May 24, also at 4 a.m., a 23-year-old karaoke female publicist was found killed after being assaulted. This time, the place of the crime was not Tuen Mun, but ran to To Kwa Wan in Kowloon District. According to the comparison of body fluids on the victim, it was found that the murderer was the previous "Tuen Mun Color Devil".
If this murderer really circulates throughout Hong Kong, it will be even more difficult for the police to catch him. Is the murderer really going to go unpunished?
However, just as the police also sighed to the sky, the murderer made a fatal mistake and paid the price for his arrogance and arrogance.
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Fourth, the dramatic arrest
On 5 August 1993, the police again received a report from a 21-year-old girl claiming that she had been assaulted. But strangely, this time, after the murderer committed the crime, not only did he not harm her, but asked her for a phone call, saying that he wanted to "be friends" with her.
In order to save her life, the girl could only bend to the murderer and inform him of his contact information. After returning home, the girl was afraid to call the police at first because she was afraid, but she was finally noticed by her brother and bravely called the police with the encouragement of her brother.
Sure enough, after reporting the crime, the murderer really called the girl the next day and asked her to go to the Whampoa Theater at night to watch a movie together.
On the same night, the murderer really arrived as scheduled, but he obviously did not expect that the police had already laid a net in the theater, let the police pretend to be the theater staff and audience, and let the girl take the initiative to lure the murderer to appear, and when the murderer appeared to talk to the girl and relax his vigilance, the two police officers who had already been in ambush immediately stepped forward to try to subdue the murderer. But unexpectedly, as described by several victims before, the murderer was short but powerful, and the two police officers were difficult to subdue together, and at this time, the girl's brother also rushed forward to finally control the murderer.
What surprised the police was that the "Tuen Mun Color Devil", who assaulted at least 10 women and killed 3 in just over a year, turned out to be a young man in his early twenties.
5. The path of the devil's growth
Judging from the situation that the murderer was arrested because he wanted to "make friends" with the girl, the inspector in charge of trying him also knew that the murderer was soft and not hard, so he took the initiative to get close to him, and used a way similar to making friends to "talk" to set out all the murderer's mental journey of committing a crime.
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The murderer, Lam Kwok-wai, was 22 years old at the time, a native of Tuen Mun, and similar to other perverted serial criminals, Lam Kwok-wai also had an unfortunate childhood.
Lin Guowei's father is a lazy person who indulges in drinking and gambling every day, and punches and kicks his wife and children when he is slightly unsatisfactory. Lin Guowei's mother fled the family when he was very young, and Lin Guowei, who has been introverted and withdrawn since childhood, has no friends, is often bullied and bullied by classmates, and growing up in this environment has also been inspired to develop a serious antisocial personality, and even abuses small animals for fun.
The successful crime of the first temporary intention further fueled Lin Guowei's inner evil desire, and made him start driving every once in a while to find the target.
Lin Guowei said that when he killed the karaoke female publicist, he did not want to kill the killer, and also proposed to "make friends" with the victim girl after the violation, but he did not expect to be rejected, and killed the other party when he was angry. As for why he ran to Kowloon that time to commit the crime, Lam Kwok-wai claimed that it was because the wind was too tight, so he temporarily evaded from Tuen Mun to his sister's house in Kowloon.
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After confessing all the crimes, Lin Guowei also ushered in the trial of the law. Because the death penalty had been abolished in Hong Kong at that time, Lam was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment for several crimes.