Murder suspect on the run for 17 years after confessing to killing boyfriend caught by China's facial recognition system
More than 40 fugitives have been apprehended at the checkpoint in Huchang Expressway, where the suspect was caught, in the past seven months
A facial recognition system installed at a motorway checkpoint in east China was able to catch a murderer who has been on the run for 17 years, per multiple reports. The woman, who murdered her boyfriend in the south-western Yunnan province, was spotted more than 1,615 miles away in Shanghai.
However, when the suspect stopped at a highway checkpoint to ask for directions while traveling with a colleague, the facial recognition technology in place identified her from an online database of fugitives, ultimately leading to her arrest, the Daily Mail reported.