NANCHANG — 1996 · Serial Murder
The Fa Ziying and Lao Rongzhi Killings
Between 1996 and 1999 Fa Ziying and his girlfriend Lao Rongzhi caused the deaths of seven people in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui during robberies and extortion attacks. Lao was found to have usually lured the victims. Fa was caught in Hefei in 1999 and executed on 28 December that year. Lao lived as a fugitive for twenty years under false identities; on 28 November 2019 she was caught at a shopping mall in Xiamen after being identified by police. The Nanchang Intermediate People's Court sentenced her to death in September 2021, her appeal was rejected in 2022 and she was executed on 18 December 2023.
- Date
- 1996
- Place
- Jiangxi, China, Nanchang, CN
- Category
- Serial Murder
- Case Status
- Solved
- Coordinates
- 28.6800, 115.8600 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 1996–1999Seven people were killed in four provinces.
- 28 December 1999Fa Ziying was executed.
- 28 November 2019Lao Rongzhi was arrested in Xiamen.
- 9 September 2021The Nanchang court sentenced her to death.
- 18 December 2023Lao was executed.
Sources
- CNN — Chinese woman accused of 7 murders goes on trial after 20 years on the run edition.cnn.com ↗
- Wikipedia — Fa Ziying and Lao Rongzhi en.wikipedia.org ↗
- CNN
- Wikipedia
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