12 Disturbing Things Hong Kong's Most Twisted Taxi Driver Did To His Victims

In 1982, Lam Kor-wan, a taxi driver in Hong Kong, murdered four young women over the course of just five months, making him the territory's first known serial killer. However, it was the disturbing and horrifying acts the 27-year-old committed after killing his victims that caused him to be known as "The Hong Kong Butcher," "The Jars Murderer," and "The Rainy Night Butcher." From hiding his victims beneath the couch in the apartment he shared with his family to removing their breasts and keeping them as souvenirs, Lam Kor-wan earned every one of his monikers. However, it's his mother's defense of her son in the courtroom that might just surprise you the most.

After Lam Kor-wan's parents and brother left the apartment the family shared in Hong Kong, the taxi driver would remove the dead bodies of his victims from the hiding place under the sofa and rape their lifeless corpses. While horrifying and disgusting, engaging in necrophilia was just one of the deeply disturbing steps in Kor-wan's vile and depraved post-murder ritual.

After they arrested Lam Kor-wan, the authorities searched the tiny apartment he shared with his family, and they quickly discovered a chest containing a huge amount of pornography, videotapes and pictures of his crimes, and plastic containers filled with dismembered body parts. Given the size of the small home and the quantity of evidence they found in the bedroom Kor-wan shared with his brother, the police were convinced the taxi driver hadn't acted alone. As a result, they arrested Kor-wan's father and younger brother, but both men were released when the 27-year-old taxi driver confessed to the murders and took full responsibility for the killings.

Lam Kor-wan murdered all four of his victims, Chan Fung-ian, Chan Wan-kit, Leung Sau-wan, and Leung Wai-sum, by strangling them to death with electrical wire after picking them up as fares. After killing the women in his cab, he brought their dead bodies back to his home to continue his depraved and disturbing ritual.

In addition to making videos and taking photographs to remember his crimes, Lam Kor-wan actually kept his victims' sex organs to help him relive his gruesome acts of murder and necrophilia. When he dismembered his victims' corpses, Kor-wan would cut off their breasts and other pieces of their bodies and store them in Tupperware containers, preserving these revolting souvenirs in formaldehyde. When police discovered these containers hidden in a chest in Kor-wan's bedroom, along with his extensive collection of pornography and videos and photos of his crimes, he was dubbed "The Jars Killer."

Incredibly, Lam Kor-wan actually tried to get film featuring pictures of his victims' dismembered bodies developed by a Kodak store in Hong Kong. Initially, the technician who processed the film thought it contained run-of-the-mill pornographic images of a woman, but when he realized one of the photos featured a severed breast, he told his supervisor who in turn contacted the police. When Kor-wan came back to the shop to collect his photographs, members of law enforcement were waiting to arrest him.

Lam Kor-wan lived in an apartment with his parents and his younger brother, so when he returned home with the dead bodies of his victims, he hid their corpses under the sofa in the living room until all of the members of his family left for the day. Consequently, Kor-wan's mother, father, and brother unknowingly shared their home with the bodies of four dead women, and they may have even sat on the couch while a corpse was hidden beneath it.

Not content to simply remember the gruesome acts of necrophilia and dismemberment he perpetrated on his victims in his own mind, Lam Kor-wan actually documented his crimes. Following his apprehension, police discovered videos and photographs Kor-wan had taken of himself as he raped the dead bodies of his victims and dismembered their corpses.

27-year-old Lam Kor-wan worked the graveyard shift as a taxi driver, which meant unsuspecting women willingly got into his cab all the time, not realizing they would never get out alive. In fact, all of the women he murdered were fares he picked up in his taxi, proving just how dangerous it can be to get into a stranger's vehicle alone at night, even if they are a cab driver. He also killed the majority of his victims late at night or in the early hours of morning when it was raining, so he was called "The Rainy Night Butcher." 

After strangling the women and raping their corpses, Lam Kor-wan covered his bedroom with plastic sheeting and dismembered the bodies of his victims. Amazingly, he actually shared a miniscule room with his younger brother, but because the two were rarely home at the same time for very long, Kor-wan was able to keep his disturbing acts a secret from his family, including his fraternal bunkmate.

After killing and dismembering his victims' corpses, Lam Kor-wan got rid of the body parts, save the ones he preserved in plastic containers, by depositing the women's remains in various places around Hong Kong while driving his cab. Incredibly, the authorities were able to locate the body parts of all of his victims, allowing them to return the remains of the murdered women to their families.