Suspect charged in gruesome killings

Prosecutors in Gansu province have charged a suspected serial killer with multiple counts of murder, rape and mutilating corpses.

Gao Chengyong, 52, is accused of killing 11 people in the province and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region from May 1988 to February 2002, according to the Ministry of Public Security. His youngest alleged victim was an 8-year-old girl.

Gao has been in custody since he was arrested on Aug 26 at a grocery store in Baiyin, the city in Gansu where nine of the killings occurred.