Zhao Zuohai was convicted and sentenced to death by a court in Henan province on charges of killing his neighbour Zhao Zhenxiang in a 1999 dispute over a woman they both were seeing, the Beijing News said.
His sentence was commuted to life in prison and later reduced to 20 years.
Zhao Zuohai confessed to the killing after a headless body was found in a local well in Zhecheng county, where he lived.
via Confusion in China as murder ‘victim’ reappears after 11 years – Telegraph.