He fidgeted, starting a low Chinese chant. Now, a passenger across the aisle saw Li’s behavior change. Other passengers described Li as unremarkable-up to this point. Then Tim leaned back against the window with his headphones on and drifted off to sleep. Tim McLean sat on the passenger side by the window. Carefully, he looked at each passenger before reaching the second row from the rear. The Greyhound made a rest stop about a half hour earlier. Around 8:30 pm, Greyhound 1170 was an hour west of Winnipeg on the TransCanada Highway. The innocent and unsuspecting victim was Tim McLean, 22, a carnival worker heading home for a break. The Guy On The Greyhound Bus was Vince Weiguang Li, a 40-year-old Chinese immigrant to Canada who left Edmonton, Alberta eastbound for Winnipeg in the Province of Manitoba. This gruesome murder happened on a bus loaded with 38 passengers. It’s also about what’s wrong with a broken criminal justice (legal) system and the strange world of forensic psychiatry. It’s really about victim and family rights as opposed to the killer’s. It’s not to shock you with gory details, though there’s enough to go around. I’m going to tell you the nearly unspeakable story of The Guy on the Greyhound Bus. Now this deranged killer is scott-free because he was found not criminally responsible simply because he was a schizophrenic who wasn’t on pills. Have you heard about The Guy on the Greyhound Bus? The story where the psycho stabbed a sleeping bus passenger 100 times then cut off his head and paraded it like a carnival prize before gutting him and eating his eyes and his heart before the crowd? Well, it’s true. But what about guys? And what about true crime? Especially true crime with a horror twist starring a demon straight outa Stephen King’s head. I haven’t read them but respect the girls have done well in crime fiction. The Girl You Lost, Girl In The Dark, The Good Girl and, of course, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series come to mind. Then The Girl in the Ice by indie author Robert Bryndza took off. The girl-trend started with Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Paula Hawkins’ The Girl On The Train sold millions of copies. The RCMP said Li has no known criminal record.There’s intense interest around girl-train thrillers. Li's next court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday. The prosecutor asked for a psychiatric assessment, but the judge said he wanted to give Li a chance to meet with his lawyer. He did not reply when the judge asked him whether he was going to get a lawyer, and only nodded slightly when asked whether he was exercising his right not to speak. Li, who shuffled into a courtroom Friday in Portage la Prairie with his head bowed and feet shackled, appeared before the court without a lawyer. She told him that she hadn't heard from Li, who had told her he had to leave for a few days because of a family emergency. Ken Gigliotti / The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free PressĪugert said he called Li's cell phone on Thursday and his wife answered. Witnesses say a man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a seat mate, pausing during the attack to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror on Wednesday night. Police investigate the scene around a Greyhound bus Thursday Jnear Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. "That was unusual for him not to call back and then when he didn't show up for work on Tuesday we got worried," said Augert, who said it was sometimes difficult to understand Li because he spoke quickly and had a strong Chinese accent. He said Li called him back and left a message with the dates, but never followed up after that. "I had no odd suspicions about him at all," said Augert.Īugert said that Li called him two weeks ago to say he needed a day or two off to go to Winnipeg for a job interview at the end of July. We would've had no reason to let him go before all this happened."Īugert said Li had worked for him since last July and caused no problems. "He was very punctual and always cleanly dressed," he told The Associated Press. Vincent Augert, an independent contractor who distributes newspapers in Edmonton, said that Li was one of his most reliable carriers. Li's employer said in an interview Saturday that he was shocked to learn that his "model employee" had been accused of the grisly attack. He then severed the man's head, displayed it and began hacking at the body. Passengers said they had just reboarded the bus following a break when the suspect - for no apparent reason - stabbed the man sitting next to him dozens of times as passengers fled in horror.
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