Today’s Chained Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Ming Sen Shiue
Ming Sen Shiue was born in Taiwan in 1950, moving to the US at the age of eight. His father, who died shortly afterwards, was a professor at the University of Minnesota. Shiue was incorrigible, a liar, and violent toward his younger siblings, and at 14 was ordered into psychotherapy after committing several arsons. He became infatuated with his high school math teacher, Mary Stauffer, and over the years wrote many stories describing his fantasies about her, some violent and some not.
In 1975, Shiue broke into a house he thought was Stauffer’s, though she was not actually living there. Her in-laws were, and they were bound and threatened with a gun. They were so afraid of Shiue that they did not report the incident till years later. Mary Stauffer and her family had been living in the Philippines for several years, working as missionaries, and they returned to Minnesota in 1979. Shiue learned of their return and began stalking them. On May 16, 1980, he followed Mary Stauffer as she left a beauty parlor, kidnapping her and her eight-year-old daughter Elizabeth and tying them up in the trunk of his car.
They made a lot of noise and he twice stopped the car to make them be quiet. The second time he stopped the car, six-year-old Jason Wilkman, playing near his home, approached the car to see what was going on, and was promptly snatched and dumped in the trunk with the Stauffers. Shiue drove to a wildlife refuge, took Wilkman from the trunk and killed him by beating him with a metal rod. He then drove the Stauffers to his own home, where he confined them in a closet. Over the next seven weeks, Mary Stauffer would be raped and tortured repeatedly, some of it captured on video. She and Elizabeth were often separated, Elizabeth usually being confined in a van while Shiue was at work. On July 7, Mary managed to remove the hinge pin from the closet door, and she and Elizabeth, chained together, called the police and were rescued.
Mary Stauffer bearing the scar received from Ming Sen Shiue’s court attack.
Shiue’s terrorizing of Mary and Elizabeth continued even after his arrest. He offered another inmate $50,000 to kill them and help him escape, but this inmate told police of the offer. At trial, Shiue smuggled a knife into the courtroom and when Mary Stauffer began testifying, he jumped over a railing and attacked her, cutting her face badly. He was sentenced to 30 years to life on the kidnapping charges and 40 to life on the murder charge, and in 2010 a judge ruled that he would never be released from prison.
Culled From: Murderpedia
Submitted by: Aimee
Jason Wilkman was definitely one of the unluckiest curious kids out there. Side note: Chinese names are generally arranged with the last name first followed by the two-part given name, but the source seems to imply that Shiue is his surname, so I’ve gone with them on that. – Aimee
I cannot fathom what that poor little boy went through, or his parents. I also cannot fathom why this monster wasn’t chained in court, as he had already lunged at his victim once. Ridiculous that he wasn’t put to death.
Amen 🙏🏻 God Bless Mary, Elizabeth and their family.