Huang Yong

"I've always wanted to be an assassin since I was a kid, but I never had the chance," - Huang

+Former soldier, then a migrant worker. Lured boys from internet cafes and newspaper job offers. Sometimes he claimed to be developing a new video game, God Riding on a Wooden Horse. The game apparently involved being tied to a noodle rolling machine followed by strangulation. September, 2001 Huang started to lure young people, from video halls, Internet cafes and video game rooms to his house by offering to recommend them for well-paid jobs or to fund their schooling or sightseeing tours.

+A 16-year-old boy named Zhang Liang went to police in November of 2003. He claimed that a man by the name of Huang Young, 29, had invited Liang to the man's apartment by offering the boy a job. Once there, however, Yong had bound Liang and strangled him into unconsciousness three times, splashing the youth's face with water to revive him for another session. Yong told the terrified Liange, "I've already killed 25. You are number 26."

+After choking Liang three times and three times reviving him, the boy somehow convinces Huang to let him free. He even received fare from his attacker to get home. The next day he went to police and detectives searched his Dahuangzhuang house for evidence. The were not disappointed. Buried beneath and around the ramshackle home were the dismembered remains of eighteen boys.

+Yong make a full confession to 25 slayings, all boys he had lured away from internet cafes and video game arcades. After tying them up to his noodle-rolling machine he would delight in strangling a boy into unconsciousness with a length of rope over and over again. Huang killed the boys and buried them, but kept their belts as souvenirs.

+When finally tired of his death game Yong would finish his prey, cut up the body, and bury it in the personal graveyard that was his property. Huang told the court he did not pick female victims because it would make him less of a "hero." And elderly men were too vigilant, he added.

+Yong was convicted of slaying seventeen boys and sentenced to death on December 9, 2003. Police held back the members of the victims' families as a grinning Huang arrived escorted by two officers. He wore handcuffs and a prison vest with the number 99. After a three-hour trial, he was executed by a gunshot to the head on December 26. Not long afterwards reporters and a forensic scientist unearthed two more bodies at Yong's former residence.