Man executed for fatally poisoning billionaire who helped bring ‘3 Body Problem’ to Netflix
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Key Points:
- Xu Yao, a Chinese lawyer, was executed for fatally poisoning billionaire gaming tycoon Lin Qi in 2020 by giving him pills laced with toxins bought from the dark web and mixed in his own lab.
- Lin Qi, who helped secure rights to adapt Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy "The Three-Body Problem" and was an executive producer of the Netflix series, died ten days after falling ill from the poisoning.
- Xu's motive stemmed from disputes over company management, and he had previously poisoned beverages of other executives, causing illness but not death.
- Xu conducted experiments with over a hundred toxins, inspired by the TV show "Breaking Bad," and used a trading company in Japan to obtain hazardous chemicals.
- The case was widely reported in China, with the company Three Body Universe expressing gratitude for the legal justice following Xu's death sentence and execution.