Legal Daily reported that a total of 481 runners have been detained in Jiangsu Province, China as police security activities have been tightened since the COVID-19 outbreak.
A team of Nanjing police found important evidence on February 23, leading to the arrest of the suspect, named Ma, on the same morning.
The victim, a student at a medical university in Nanjing, was brutally murdered on March 24, 1992. A special investigation team was established at that time, but could not determine the murderer due to lack of evidence.
However, the investigation team did not give up. They took a number of measures to arrest the suspect after 28 years.
Suspect Ma, a driver's training paysage teacher born in 1966, admitted his guilt shortly after he was detained on February 24.
Legal Daily quoted a classmate of Lin as saying that her body was found in a sewer in a yard after she went missing. Lin was an excellent student, ranked second in the class.
Some netizens mistaken this case for a brutal murder case that occurred in 1996, also in Nanjing. In that case, a female student named Diao was killed on January 19, 1996 in Nanjing. Legal Daily noted that the perpetrator was still on the run.