Ming Sen Shiue

Ming Sen Shiue (born October 15, 1950) is a Taiwanese-American murderer, kidnapper, 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.

Ming Sen Shiue was born on October 15, 1950, in Taiwan.

When he was eight years old, he moved to Minnesota with his mother and two siblings.

His father, who died three years later, was a professor at the University of Minnesota.

Shiue was described as violent towards his younger siblings, often beating them during both adolescence and adulthood.

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.

For his role in the arsons, he was ordered to participate in psychotherapy at the age of 14.

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.

She described him as someone having no "feelings, like a dog".

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.

He later confessed during proceedings that due to his "infatuation", Shiue began sexually fantasizing about the teacher.

Shiue later wrote stories about his fantasies with fictional characters from movies and eventually about Stauffer, which included consensual sex, rape and gang rape.

In later years, after he realized that he did not find complete satisfaction from his fantasies, Shiue decided to kidnap Stauffer.

In 1975, Shiue located what he erroneously believed to be Stauffer's residence in Duluth.

He broke into the house with a firearm intending to kidnap the victim, who did not live in the residence.

He forced her in-laws, who owned the house, to the ground, tied them up, and threatened to kill them if they reported the crime.

Because of this, the home invasion was not reported until the actual kidnapping of Stauffer took place five years later.

As Shiue continued his search for Stauffer during the intervening period, Stauffer lived with family in the Philippines, where she and her husband worked as Christian missionaries.

They returned to Minnesota in 1979.

A year later, Shiue learned that Stauffer lived at the Bethel University campus and began stalking her.

On May 16, 1980, Shiue tracked Stauffer down to a beauty salon in Roseville.

When Stauffer left the salon, Shiue kidnapped her and her eight-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, at gunpoint.

He tied them up and threw them into the trunk of Stauffer's vehicle.

During the trip to his house, where he intended to keep his victims hostage, Shiue stopped twice because Mary and Elizabeth were making noises.

When he stopped for the second time, a six-year-old boy, Jason Wilkman, approached the vehicle to see what was happening.

Shiue grabbed the boy and forced him into the trunk.

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.

Shiue drove Stauffer and Elizabeth to his house and locked them in a narrow closet.

He then proceeded to take Stauffer out of the closet and tied her to the furniture.

Shiue talked to her for hours on the night of the kidnapping, disclosing who he was, before he repeatedly raped her.

He recorded the conversations and rapes on his video camera.

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 said, as a result, he was drafted into the Vietnam War and became a POW.

This was, as were many of his claims, not true.

While kept at his house, the victims were often separated by Shiue.

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.

Furthermore, Shiue told Stauffer he would kill her husband and son if they ever tried to escape.

On July 7, 1980, after Shiue left for work, Stauffer managed to remove the hinge pin from the locked closet door.

Despite being chained to each other, Mary and Elizabeth were able to reach the phone in the kitchen and call law enforcement.

After making the call, they hid behind a car parked along the street at Shiue's residence until a cop walked over with his gun drawn, expecting it to be Shiue hiding.