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TIL Lam Kor-wan 林過雲 is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. He worked as a taxi driver and killed 4 women. He would pick up female passengers, strangle them, then take them to his family home, and dismember them. He was caught by trying to develop photographs of his victims in a Kodak shop.

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