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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 killer" (Traditional Chinese 雨夜屠夫) because several of his attacks occurred during inclement weather. 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.
On 8 April 1983 at the end of a 21-day trial with a seven-member all male jury, Lam was found guilty of four counts of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. On 29 August 1984 Lam"s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, as was the tradition before the abolition of the death penalty in 1993. He is currently serving his life sentence at the maximum security facility at Shek Pik.
Chan Fung-lan, female, age 21, body found in seven separate pieces in the Shing Mun River, New Territories.
Chan Wan-kit, age 31, body found in a rice bag near Tai Hang Road, Hong Kong Island. Leung Sau-wan, female, age 29, body found in a rice bag near Tai Hang Road, Hong Kong Island.
Leung Wai-sum, female, age 17, body found in a rice bag near Tai Hang Road, Hong Kong Island. Moreover, according to the interview of a former journalist, aka "OCTB sir Wong" in the episode 2014-2017-21 of online radio program "Mystery Hong Kong" (無奇不有), police at that moment found that 15 female bodies were taken into Lam"s photos.
However, they could identify only 4, which were the 4 victims known in this case.
Lam Kor-wan is portrayed by Hong Kong actor Simon Yam in the movie Doctor Lamb (1992). The 1999 film Trust me U Die is sometimes known by the alternate title The New Doctor Lamb, but has no connection to Lam Kor-Wan or the previous film except that both star Simon Yam.
