Ming Sen Shiue (Chinese: 薛明升; pinyin: Xuē Míngshēng; born October 15, 1950) is a Taiwanese-American murderer, kidnapper, stalker, and rapist convicted of the murder of six-year-old Jason Wilkman, the kidnapping of Mary Stauffer and her daughter Elizabeth, and multiple counts of rape of Mary Stauffer.
[3] In his teen years, Shiue was reportedly engaged in criminal activity as a juvenile such as starting fires in apartments of three strangers and throwing rocks at vehicles.
According to his mother's testimony, Shiue often lied but was persistent about being right, was uncontrollable as a child, and took no responsibility for his physical behavior, and thus caused her to be fearful.
[3] From 1965 to 1966, Shiue attended Alexander Ramsey High School in Roseville, where he came to have a "crush" on his ninth-grade algebra teacher Mary Stauffer.
[3] A year later, Shiue learned that Stauffer lived at the Bethel University campus and began stalking her.
During the trip to his house, where he intended to keep his victims hostage, Shiue stopped twice because Mary and Elizabeth were making noises.
He then drove to the isolated Carlos Avery Wildlife Refuge in Anoka County, removed the boy from the trunk and beat him to death with a metal rod.
When Shiue told Stauffer he was her student fifteen years prior, he indicated she had given him a B− grade in Algebra which prevented him from going to college.
He placed Elizabeth in a box in his van for eight hours when he was at work, while her mother was left locked in a closet at his residence.
[3] On July 7, 1980, after Shiue left for work, Stauffer managed to remove the hinge pin from the locked closet door.
It was Beth's idea to ignore the dispatcher's instructions to remain inside the house, because they were too scared of Shiue to stay.
During the trial, Shiue smuggled a knife into the courtroom and, when Stauffer testified, he jumped over the table and attacked her, managing to cut her face.
[8] On September 28, 2010, the Anoka County District Judge Jenny Walker Jasper ruled that Shiue could be detained indefinitely as a dangerous sexual predator even if he is granted parole.
Shiue, who had never sought sex offender treatment in prison, apologized and begged for Mary's forgiveness during the hearing, saying she had every right to hate him.
[12] The kidnapping is also the focus of "High School Revenge," an episode of the series Your Worst Nightmare on the cable channel Investigation Discovery.