A passing trucker gave men in the group tools as weapons in case the psycho got out. He tried to fight back. The driver braked the Greyhound to an emergency halt. On March 5, 2009, McLean's killer, a 40-year-old Chinese-Canadian named Vince Li, was found not criminally responsible (NCR) for the murder, and was remanded to a high-security mental health facility in Selkirk, Manitoba, where he was detained until his release on May 8, 2015. I believe he needs to be in an institution that addresses those needs. Time does not erase or sanitize those facts. In 1992, Li graduated from University of Wuhan Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computers. In his mind, he and his trusty buck knife had just slain a demon. Around 8:30 pm, Greyhound 1170 was an hour west of Winnipeg on the TransCanada Highway. On July 30, 2008, Vince Li, a 41-year-old man suffering from untreated schizophrenia, stabbed, decapitated, dismembered and cannibalized his seatmate aboard a Greyhound bus, 18 kilometres west of . They lost their loving son, brother, cousin and nephew. Vince Weiguang Li, was born in Dandong, China, on April 30, 1968. WHATS YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (E-IQ) SCORE? He now moves amongst us. Li now looked for an opportunity to use them. Imagine you're standing in a crowded public place a playground, a movie theatre, a grocery store when all of a sudden, you feel someone press something into your ribs. The police. Hed also been injured in his attackstandard police procedure even for as bizarre a crime as this. 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It's so terrifying to me, that he was just sleeping against the window, something literally anyone in that spot would do. "I would do anything for (McLean's) family. McLean had his eyes closed and was listening to music on his headphones when Li, a stranger who was sitting beside him, suddenly stood up and started stabbing him. Li had one brush with police for peculiar behavior. The Vince LiTim McLean case is no exception. 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The very next morning, Li sold his laptop to a boy. Vince Weiguang Li stabbed Tim McLean 50 or 60 times before cutting off his head A man who beheaded a fellow bus passenger in Canada in 2008 has spoken out for the first time, saying he believed he . Its not to shock you with gory details, though theres enough to go around. 7 god damn years for beheading and eating a man. McLean was Vince Li's victim. The public is supposed to believe that forensic psychiatrists can walk on water, and are infallible in their diagnoses, even though the human brain is stuffed with the complexities of a 100-billion neurons, each with upwards of 100,000 synaptic connections that must line up precisely in order to avoid the prospect of short-circuiting. If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is, Never miss a beat in Canadian Curling with the new On The Rocks newsletter, Stay Posted on Canadian Curling with the On The Rocks newsletter, Call Vince Li ('Will Baker') what he is: A cannibal killer who beheaded Tim McLean, WARMINGTON: The Kayla Lemieux show cancelled; no longer at Oakville school, Chris Rock will finally hit back at Will Smith over Oscars slap, Maple Leafs lose to Edmonton Oilers as Connor McDavid scores two Sheldon Keefe must find right fit for new defence, NO JACKET REQUIRED: Blue Jays pack away home run jacket as part of gritty new attitude, Vince Li is pictured at a court appearance in a Portage La Prairie, Man. He quit his job in 2006 and became a forklift operator. First published on May 18, 2012 / 11:48 AM. Then Li, expressionless behind sunglasses, came for the doorpresenting Tims decapitated head. Untold time and money were spent in rehabilitating Vince Li. None of them ever got justice. Real Criminals Referenced in Season Thirteen. A judge was was told at Li's trial four years ago that Li was an untreated schizophrenic. This week, a criminal review board in Manitoba decided to lock up Vince Li, the knife-wielding man in their nightmares, in a high-security psychiatric ward for a year. "Kill them, or I'll kill you.". Vincent Weiguang "Vince" Li is a Chinese-Canadian man who, on July 30, 2008, brutally killed and cannibalized a 22-year old Canadian man Timothy Richard "Tim" McLean, Jr.. After being apprehended following a 1-day stand-off, Li was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent six years in a mental hospital before being released in 2015. "He was on the lookout for aliens as such, and the voice of God told him that Tim McLean was an alien and he needed to destroy him lest Tim destroy other people," Summerville said. This column is part of CBC'sOpinion section. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. The killer was released from the high-security mental health facility in 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Trevor Hagan ORG XMIT: WPGT112, Will Baker, formerly known as Vince Li, leaves the Law Courts building in Winnipeg, after his annual criminal code review board hearing, on Monday, February 6, 2017. But Li came prepared for this slaughter. Its really about victim and family rights as opposed to the killers. Now, Im an international best-selling crime writer, deadly blogger & film content producer. Li was ultimately deemed not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to the Selkirk Mental Health Centre. he is open to voluntarily having his medication monitored, lower than your chance of being struck by lightning. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. Press J to jump to the feed. I am glad to take it. The victim's eyes and a part of his heart were never recovered and are presumed to have been eaten by Li. He blocked the door but police were miles away. Mounties look into the bus in which Vince Li was holed up along with the decapitated body of Tim McLean. 2012 The Associated Press. This case opened a Pandoras Box containing the issue of long-term criminal responsibility by the mentally ill. I asked him about Vincent Li earlier this week: . Then theres respect and support of victims. WHAT MAKES CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORISTS TICK? Carol de Delley is Tim McLeans mother. It was July 30, 2008. By 2015, Li was in a half-way house and only monitored for medication. They got him to function in an apparently normal state and began testing his response to freedom by slowly integrating him back into society. I'm looking forward to putting more of my content into audio and developing new, original podcasts on mental health topics. Vince Li is a member of Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Li was institutionalized sometime before gaining his citizenship after being found by officers "following the sun", something he claimed God told him to do. DEFUND (ELEMENTS) OF THE POLICE BUT LET COPS BE COPS, BESIDE THE ROAD NEW BASED-ON-TRUE-CRIME SERIES BOOK #4, THE TRUE STORY ABOUT WHO REALLY STOLE JFKS BRAIN, WHY IT TAKES SO LONG TO MAKE A CORONAVIRUS VACCINE, WHY CASEY ANTHONY GOT AWAY WITH MURDERING HER DAUGHTER, FROM THE SHADOWS NEW CRIME BOOK RELEASE FROM GARRY RODGERS. There is no actual man in a mask, of course (if there was, there might be grounds for a duress defence a separate issue); rather "the man in a mask" is a euphemism for a mental illness that has you convinced you must hurt others, usually to stay alive. I think she deleted her Facebook because of the publicity and questions. Friends lost a guy whod give them the shirt off his back never mind a laugh from their innards. 5 KILLER TIPS FOR WRITING DEADLY CRIME FICTION, ELEVEN THINGS YOU CANT DO WHEN YOURE DEAD, NO WITNESSES TO NOTHING AMAZON BESTSELLER, STEMI 5 KNOWN REALITIES OF THE UNIVERSE, WRITING DEATH SCENES / PODCAST WITH THE CREATIVE PENN. No one argued that. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Trevor Hagan ORG XMIT: WPGT104, Will Baker, formerly known as Vince Li, leaves the Law Courts building in Winnipeg, after his annual criminal code review board hearing, on Monday, February 6, 2017. Part Norman Bates. Helunged it to sleeping Tims neck. Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the bus. Petrified passengers stood outside as traffic whizzed by. The innocent and unsuspecting victim was Tim McLean, 22, a carnival worker heading home for a break. There has to be some permanent restraint put on potentially dangerous people who prove theyre capable of violent acts. They told investigators and profilers exactly what they wanted to hear. Vince Li jumped from the bus window likely thinking he would be greeted as a hero. He was quickly locked up in a secure hospital facility where monitoring and treatment commenced for an indefinite period. WHAT REALLY BECAME OF CAPTAIN KIDDS BURIED TREASURE? On the other hand, convicting someone for an act that they had no conscious knowledge or control over would be barbaric, and in Canada, we dont punish people for doing something they have no control over. There were plenty. Thats plain wrong. He proceeded to dismember, decapitate, and cannibalize McLean's body while everyone else fled the bus and police arrived. How in the world he came up with that figure is beyond me. Call him Vince Li, or call him by his new alias Will Baker, but also call him what he is a cannibal killer who beheaded his victim in the back of a Greyhound bus, cut out his heart and ate a piece of it. 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