Suspected killer picked on dating show

BEIJING - On the surface, Liu Hao seemed like an ideal candidate to become someone's romantic partner when he appeared on one of the many popular dating shows in China.

The 39-year-old music teacher wooed the show's audience, which sat entranced before a performance featuring his songbird voice, and won fans as he duked it out against a competing bachelor by energetically performing the running-man dance to techno music. Liu's wide grin reflected his confidence.

One woman was so enthralled that she picked him out of the eight eligible bachelors then appearing on the Happy League, a dating show in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. Police now believe she picked a killer.