Monday Man

Chow Yat‑nam (born unknown – died 26 May 2004) was the former vice chairman of the board of Phoenix Satellite Television.

Life

On 26 May 2004, after finishing work at his company in Shenzhen, Chow Yat‑nam could not be reached by colleagues. On the evening of the 29th, company employees, feeling suspicious, went to his home in Block 9E, Shantou Garden, Futian District, and discovered a multiple homicide, immediately notifying the police. Investigators found that five people had been killed: Chow Yat‑nam, his wife Heung Wing‑chun, their five‑year‑old daughter, their sixty‑year‑old accountant Tang Chun‑kiang, and their sixteen‑year‑old maid Lam Ching. The victims’ cash and credit cards had been stolen. The case was widely referred to in the media as the “Chow Yat‑nam familicide of the former Phoenix Satellite Television vice chairman.” It attracted widespread public attention and was upgraded by the Ministry of Public Security to a major supervised case. The police solved the case in under thirty hours, arresting the perpetrators: Chow’s next‑door neighbors, Luo Jun, Zhang Tao, Zheng On, and Hu Gang, all fellow natives of Wufeng County, Hubei Province.