In the beginning of 1977, Luo snuck into the Municipal Household Appliances Research Institute, ostensibly to steal some items, where he was caught in the act by a woman named Feng Liyun.

[3] According to his own confessions later on, during this time, he often watched videotapes depicting either pornography or graphic violence, one of which was about Hong Kong serial killer Lam Kor-wan, who was known for mutilating and chopping off the breasts and genitalia of his victims.

Beginning in 1989, Luo started to scavenge for broken, full-body plastic statues discarded from local fashion stores, which he would assemble as his own female "models" and put on stolen clothing to admire.

He would then transport the corpse with his truck and carry it to the attic, where he cut off the victim's vulva, shoved panties and socks into the vaginal area and even left his semen inside to see if the police would be able to detect it.

[2] Once he was finished, he would put the corpses in burlap sacks, oil drums or wooden boxes, then drop them off in isolated sections of Xinjiao Town.

[3] After each murder, he would write down the victim's physical features, clothing, sexual experiences, his own feelings and the process of disposing the body in a notebook, which he would later re-read for his own gratification.

The Haizhu District Bureau created a dedicated task force on three separate occasions, increasing the number of police officers each time.

[4] In early March 1992, the Criminal Investigation Department printed more than 36,000 flyers with color illustrations, complete with a facial composite of the suspect and a range of possible scenarios of how he might approach and engage potential victims, which were spread throughout the area.

[3] At the same time, policemen were additionally tasked with investigating more than 3,800 grain departments and hemp spinning factories in Guangdong and the surrounding provinces, in an attempt to pin down the exact origin of the burlap sacks used in the killings.

[3] In July 1992, the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau identified Zhang Qide, a soldier serving with the 6807 garrison, as a potential suspect in one of the cases.

The 1995 Hong Kong slasher film Diary of a Serial Killer [zh] (Chinese: 廣州殺人王之人皮日記), directed by Otto Chan, was based on Luo's murders.