Credit: English Wikipedia ; portrait originally published by Yangtse Evening PostEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenNanjing University (Gulou campus) and surrounding areas, Nanjing · 1996
In January 1996, the dismembered remains of 19-year-old Nanjing University student Diao Aiqing were discovered scattered across multiple sites in Nanjing, China. The case remains unsolved decades later.
Credit: 40fifw0Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenKunming Railway Station, Kunming, Yunnan, China · 2014
On 1 March 2014, five knife-wielding attackers killed 31 people and wounded 143 at Kunming Railway Station in China. Four attackers were shot dead by police and one was captured; investigators linked the attack to a Xinjiang separatist group, with thirteen people ultimately implicated.
Credit: DidaictorCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenZhuhai Sports Center, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China · 2024
On 11 November 2024, a 62-year-old man drove an SUV into a crowd of exercisers at the Zhuhai Sports Center in Guangdong, China, killing 38 people and injuring 48. He was sentenced to death in December 2024 and executed in January 2025.
COLDListenTiananmen Square, Beijing · 2001
On 23 January 2001, five people set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square; Chinese authorities said they were Falun Gong practitioners, but Falun Gong representatives and some journalists disputed this account, and the incident remains the subject of unresolved dispute.
SOLVEDListenFudan University dormitory, Shanghai, China · 2010
A Fudan University graduate student, Lin Senhao, was convicted of poisoning his roommate Huang Yang with N-nitrosodimethylamine in their dormitory's water dispenser in 2013, leading to Huang's death; Lin was executed in 2015 after exhausting appeals.
SOLVEDListenGuishan Road, Jin'an District, Fuzhou, Fujian, China · 2015
Xie Tianqin, a 47-year-old middle school teacher in Fuzhou, China, was killed by her son Wu Xieyu on 10 July 2015. He concealed the murder for months, defrauded relatives of 1.44 million yuan, and evaded capture for nearly three years before being arrested in 2019 and executed in 2024.
SOLVEDListenQiandao Lake, Chun'an County, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 1994
In March 1994, a tour boat on Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, China, was hijacked and set on fire, killing all 32 people aboard, including 24 Taiwanese tourists, six Chinese crew, and two Chinese tour guides. The case became a major diplomatic crisis between Taiwan and China after local authorities were accused of concealing information.
SOLVEDListenXi'an, Shaanxi Province, China · 2010
In October 2010, waitress Zhang Miao was struck by a car in Xi'an, China, and then fatally stabbed eight times by the driver, Yao Jiaxin, who feared she would seek compensation; Yao was convicted of murder and executed in June 2011.
SOLVEDListenGaoheshanggou village, Yangjiao Township, Lianshan District, Huludao, Liaoning, China · 2003
On 18 February 2003, Guo Zhongmin killed 13 people across three homes in Gaoheshanggou village, Huludao, China, in an attack stemming from a land dispute, before dying by suicide five days later as police closed in.
COLDListenChina · 2010
Between 2010 and 2012, Chinese intelligence authorities dismantled CIA espionage networks in China, resulting in the killing of numerous informants and the imprisonment of many others, in one of the CIA's worst intelligence breaches in decades.
The files run from 1957 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 11 files. The oldest is Xunhua Incident, from 1957.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (17), kidnapping and abduction cases (2) and mass shooting cases (2).
2 files of the 26 have coverage attached: 8 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 1 creator. The most covered is Death of Diao Aiqing, with 6 items to watch or hear.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Peng WMQ19 (28) — Credit: si.robiCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School, East Campus — Credit: WQLCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Kunming Railway Station.jpg — Credit: 40fifw0Public domainSource
Zhuhai Stadium west gate after 2024 Zhuhai car attack - Nov.12,2024 — Credit: DidaictorCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Diao Aiqing — Credit: English Wikipedia ; portrait originally published by Yangtse Evening PostEditorial useSource
正佳附件马路 - panoramio — Credit: 钟启明CC BY-SA 3.0Source
ShenzhenJapaneseSchool — Credit: WhisperToMeCC0Source
26. By status: 3 unsolved, 2 cold and 21 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Xunhua Incident, from 1957. Open the file
Death of Diao Aiqing, with 6 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
60 Minutes Australia (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 16, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
