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Woman 'serial killer' goes on trial for seven murders in China after 20 years on the run
AsiaOne ^ | DECEMBER 21, 2020 | ZHUANG PINGHUI

Posted on 12/21/2020 8:59:55 PM PST by nickcarraway

A woman accused of killing seven people, including a three-year-old girl, went on trial in eastern China on Monday after 20 years on the run.

Lao Rongzhi, 46, apologised to the victims’ families but denied that her involvement was “intentional”, saying she had been in an abusive relationship and had been forced to take part in the crimes, according to local media reports.

A tearful Lao told Nanchang Intermediate People’s Court in Jiangxi province that she did not want to kill anyone and tried to break up with her boyfriend Fa Ziying many times, but he refused to let her leave. Fa was caught in July 1999 when collecting a ransom at the home of a victim in Anhui province and was executed five months later for murder, kidnapping and robbery.

“Fa Ziying often beat me, choked me and tortured me. He threatened my family if we broke up … I didn’t want to kill anyone. I just wanted to live,” Lao told the court, according to People’s Daily .

She told the court she had four abortions and her body was often covered in bruises, Red Star News reported.

Lao, who is charged with murder, kidnapping and robbery, apologised to the families of the victims and said she were willing to pay compensation, but she only had 30,000 yuan (US$4,600) in her bank account.

She also apologised to her boyfriend in Xiamen, a city in the southeastern province of Fujian, where she was living when caught in November last year, and said he did not know about her past.

Lao was captured in a shopping mall in Xiamen where she sold watches in November last year after a police database helped uncover her true identity. She had been living under a false name and working odd jobs in nightclubs for the last 20 years.

She had escaped after Fa helped cover her tracks by giving police misleading information after he was arrested.

Lao was a primary school teacher in Jiujiang when she met Fa at a wedding in 1993. Fa was 10 years older and married with a daughter at the time. Lao resigned from her job and started her life on the run with Fa in 1995 when he escaped charges of assault and robbery.

She is accused of luring a businessman named Xiong Qiyi whom she met in a nightclub in Nanchang to a rented flat where he was murdered in 1996. Lao and Fa are then said to have robbed Xiong’s home and murdered his wife and three-year-old daughter when they found them there.

A year later Liang Xiaochun and Liu Suqing, two women who were working in nightclubs in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, were robbed and murdered.

The final two victims were killed in July 1996, when Lao is accused of luring another businessman, named Yin Jianhua, in a nightclub to a flat in Hefei, Anhui province. Yin was locked in a cage and his family contacted for a ransom. A carpenter named Lu Zhongmin was also lured to the flat with the promise of work and murdered in an effort to intimidate Yin.

Fa was caught when he went to Yin’s flat with a pistol to force his wife to pay a ransom. But when she went to get the money, she contacted the police, who arrested Fa after a shoot-out in which he was wounded.

Fa repeatedly changed his story about whether Yin was alive or not, and his body was only found after a neighbour complained about the smell in the flat where he had died. It is not known whether he had been killed or starved to death.

Zhu Dahong, the wife of the murdered carpenter Lu, came to Wuchang on Sunday for the trial after finishing her night shift as a cleaner.

Zhu, then 29, told The Beijing News she had been left to raise three children on her own after her husband’s death and had thought about taking her own life because she could not afford to send them to school. She told the newspaper she had been waiting for 20 years to see Lao stand trial.

“Lu’s mother cried so much that she went blind. The murders changed the destiny of the family. The three children were all very bright but none could finish their school,” Liu Jingjie, a lawyer who represents Zhu, told The Beijing News.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; communism; serialkiller
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There was a time communist countries said serial killer's were the consequence of an evil capitalist society. It turns out, they just couldn't identify and catch serial killers.

1 posted on 12/21/2020 8:59:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 12/21/2020 9:05:21 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: nickcarraway

China’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ caught: Notorious murderer on the run is spotted by facial-recognition cameras before being arrested - 20 years after her partner and lover was executed by a firing squad

Fa Ziying and Lao Rongzhi have been billed as the Chinese ‘Bonnie and Clyde’
They were accused of robbing and killing seven people between 1996 and 1999
Mr Fa was arrested during an intense raid in 1999 and then executed by shooting
Ms Lao, who remained at large, was caught after police used AI technology

By Tracy You For Mailonline

Published: 3 December 2019

A notorious suspected murderer who was on the run for 20 years has been arrested by Chinese police after officers used artificial intelligence to hunt her down.

Lao Rongzhi, 45, and her late boyfriend have been billed as the Chinese ‘Bonnie and Clyde’. The couple were accused of robbing and killing seven people in various cities in the 1990s.

Her ex-partner, Fa Ziying, was caught by police during a dramatic raid in 1999 and then executed by a firing squad; while Ms Lao remained in hiding until she was caught last week owing to facial-recognition monitors. ...”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7750273/Chinese-police-hunt-murderer-run-spotted-AI-cameras-20-years-later.html


3 posted on 12/21/2020 9:17:43 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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4 posted on 12/21/2020 9:24:06 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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"Lao Rongzhi, 45, and her late boyfriend have been billed as the Chinese ‘Bonnie and Clyde’. The couple were accused of robbing and killing seven people in various cities in the 1990s.

Her ex-partner, Fa Ziying, was caught by police during a dramatic raid in 1999 and then executed by a firing squad; while Ms Lao remained in hiding until she was caught last week owing to facial-recognition monitors. ...”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7750273/Chinese-police-hunt-murderer-run-spotted-AI-cameras-20-years-later.html

5 posted on 12/21/2020 9:26:30 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

no sympathy for murderers

she’ll be executed as it should be


6 posted on 12/21/2020 9:39:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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7 posted on 12/21/2020 9:41:09 PM PST by libh8er
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Oh her puzzy hurts, OK baby, you can go free...


8 posted on 12/21/2020 9:43:14 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Fa was caught in July 1999 when collecting a ransom at the home of a victim in Anhui province and was executed five months later for murder, kidnapping and robbery.

I don’t have much respect for the Chinese government but I have to respect that.

They don’t waste a lot of time in getting around to executing murders.

It shouldn’t take 16 years to execute a murder.

9 posted on 12/21/2020 10:11:54 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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I don’t have much respect for the Chinese government but I have to respect that. They don’t waste a lot of time in getting around to executing murders.

Profile: Mao Zedong (aka Mao tse-Tung)

“Mao Zedong was the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 until his death in 1976.

Mao is arguably the greatest mass murderer in history, eclipsing even the murderous Joesph Stalin in this regard.

Some 70 million Chinese, along with countless Tibetans, Mongolians, Manchus, Koreans, Hmong, Uyghurs, and other nationalities, perished at his hands during his long and brutal reign.”

DiscoverTheNetworks com

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BLM co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, says in interview she and co-founder, Alicia Garza, are inspired by Mao Zedong

Meanwhile, Mao Zedong, via his so-called “Great Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution”, is reported to have killed close to 70 million people!

Below, from Time Magazine, February 26, 2018

“[Patrisse] Cullors [CO-FOUNDER “BLACK LIVES MATTER”] weaves her intellectual influences into this narrative, from black feminist writers like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, to Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.

Reading those social philosophers “provided a new understanding around what our economies could look like,” she says.

Aric Jenkins | Time Magazine | February 26, 2018
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“I went through a year-long organising programme at the National School for Strategic Organising (NSSO), and it was led by the Labour Community Strategy Centre.

We spent the year reading, anything from Marx, to Lenin, to Mao...”

-—Patrisse Cullors, co-founder Black Lives Matter

10 posted on 12/21/2020 10:19:52 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Communist mass murders are never brought to justice.

I think we all know that.

Only the little fish are ever fried.


11 posted on 12/21/2020 10:34:22 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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Communist mass murders are never brought to justice.

Yet Mao and others of the sort are an inspiration to the "woke" community. The same criticizing OUR founding fathers and OUR way of of life. This is how they need to be confronted!

12 posted on 12/21/2020 10:45:40 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Many feminists in universities carried Mao’s Little Red Book and spoke admiration for him a couple of generations ago. Mao didn’t manage to destroy monogamy in China, as he’d planned to do. Far from it, Chinese women generally remained very loyal to their husbands and helped to enforce monogamy there.

But western feminists, along with people in judicial and global corporate interests, destroyed monogamy to great extents in the U.S.A. We, who have visible working class neighbors, see some of the results around us now.

The world is nearly subjected to a newer kind of hybrid between communism and fascism controlled by global plutocrats and their lawyers.


13 posted on 12/21/2020 11:10:03 PM PST by familyop
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To: ETL

The woke ones in the lower end of the economy are mostly adult illegitimate offspring (bastards), and most of them do drugs. Many of them have parents with criminal histories. They often try to recruit young people from more moral families by way of small group indoctrination campaigns against parents.

Many of the young women are recruited with rave drugs, sometimes surreptitiously at first (spiked drinks), and/or with benzodiazepines. “Here. This will calm you down.” Young women are more likely to ingest pills than to smoke, vape or inject drugs. Pills look more harmless and “cute” to many of them, especially when introduced after a little alcohol or introductions to young bad boys putting on their best acts.

Some of the more popular drugs now tend to destroy inhibitions and heighten sexual arousal.


14 posted on 12/21/2020 11:39:33 PM PST by familyop
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The main body of the “woke” crowd are brainwashed young people, many being college students. Mao’s movement was student based.

In fact, Maoism is front and center to what is going on in the country today. Supporters of Mao are everywhere throughout the Dem party. Nearly all of the communist organizations are Maoist, now, back in the 60-70s, and everywhere in between.


15 posted on 12/22/2020 12:45:45 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: familyop

“(bastards)”

I like it. Only recently are we starting to call a communist a communist, whereas just a few years ago it would have been unthinkable under PC rules.

Now when we can call a bastard a bastard, then we have made more progress.

I knew a person that had about 13 people living in her small home which consisted of three generations of bastards, and she was proud of it as she was a feminist.


16 posted on 12/22/2020 5:01:16 AM PST by redfreedom (Member of Agent Orange Health Club Since 1969)
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To: ETL

The Highwaymen is a far better movie.

L


17 posted on 12/22/2020 5:04:13 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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Not familiar with it, but I doubt it could be ‘way better’ than Bonnie & Clyde with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.

In any case, I’ll check it out, if I can find it.

Thanks.


18 posted on 12/22/2020 10:09:24 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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It is by far. It’s available to stream. Costner and Harrelson are amazing. And the gun store scene is a gem.

L


19 posted on 12/22/2020 10:19:32 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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Another good film along the lines of Bonnie & Clyde was "Badlands" with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

Badlands (1973) | I Draw on My Wall

Here it is in full on YouTube!

Badlands (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jt8MLbfMNI

20 posted on 12/22/2020 11:00:39 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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