Man kills 17 People To Cover Up Earlier Murder of Two

Remember what they say about telling a lie, and needing a thousand lies to cover it up? Well, a twenty-eight-year-old man did something similar to that after killing two people.

Yang Qingpei has admitted he killed 19 people, including his parents and three children, when he
went on trial in southwest China on Wednesday.

After returning to his home village in Yunnan province on September 28 last year, Yang Qingpei murdered his parents when they refused to give him money, the Qujing City Intermediate People’s Court said on its official microblog account.

Fearing he would be discovered, Yang then killed 17 of his neighbours and fled to Yunnan’s provincial capital Kunming, it said, adding that the murder weapon was a pickaxe.

Yang pleaded guilty to all charges and apologised to the relatives of the dead.

The court however adjourned Wednesday afternoon for sentencing.