Chinese police have arrested a man who has been on the run since allegedly hacking a family of six to death 25 years ago, state media reported Sunday. The suspect, identified as Guo, murdered the family with an axe after a dispute "over trivial matters" in March 1991 and has reportedly confessed to the crime, Xinhua news agency quoted local police as saying.
Guo said the killings were an act of revenge after his own wife was sexually harassed by a man from the family, according to the official Life Daily. He was quoted by the newspaper as saying he "entered the courtyard in the early morning, saw a woman in the bathroom and killed her with an axe before attacking five other people".