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Hua RUIZHUO
Classification:
Serial killer
Characteristics: Killing
spree began after he was enraged to discover that his girlfriend
was a prostitute
Number of victims: 14
Date of murders:
July1998 -
June 2001
Date of birth: 1973
Victims profile: Women (prostitutes)
Method of murder: Strangulation -
Beating
Location: Beijing, China
Status: Executed by shot in the head on January 31,
2002
A cement-truck
driver named Hua Ruizhuo was executed in 2002 for
picking up prostitutes near the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing,
handcuffing them in his van, raping them and dumping their bodies in
rubbish heaps around the city. He killed 14 women.
Serial Killer Executed in China
Feb.
1, 2002
A 29-year-old man has been executed in China, after
being convicted of the murder of 14 women, who he would then bury at
building sites. Hua Ruizhuo was a construction worker.
Ruizhuo began his killing spree, preying on
prostitutes, after he found out the woman he had been seeing was also a
prostitute. He would take the women to the outskirts of Beijing, beat
them to death and then bury them.
He was one of five people executed yesterday, and
the second person in a month to be executed for crimes against women.
Chain Killer Executed in Beijing
Xinhua
News Agency
February 1,2002
Hua Ruizhuo, who killed 14
women in Beijing, was executed Thursday, according to an order issued by
Beijing Higher People's Court.
Hua, a
driver for a construction company, killed the 14 women between July 1998
and June 2001 in Chaoyang District.
Hua's
defender had applied for a lighter sentence for him, saying that all of
Hua's victims were prostitutes whom Hua killed out of hatred. But the
court maintained the death penalty because Hua's brutal killing posts a
serious danger to society.
In a
related development, several other murderers were also executed Thursday
in Beijing.
China executed serial killer
News.1chinastar.com
Feb. 1, 2002
BEIJING - China
executed former truck driver Hua Ruizhuo on Thursday for killing 14
Beijing prostitutes over three years, the official Xinhua news agency
said.
Hua, 28, confessed to the killing
spree which spanned from July 1998 to June 2001, saying he did it after
he found out his ex-girlfriend was a prostitute, state media have said.
Hua lured his victims to remote
locations in the suburbs before strangling or bludgeoning them to death,
and typically disposed of their bodies in wells or rubbish dumps.
Hua said all his victims were
prostitutes, though the newspaper Beijing Morning Post said most [of the]
bodies were too badly decomposed to be identified.
‘‘Prostitutes aren’t good people.
If I kill one, that’s one less,’’ the newspaper Beijing Youth Daily
quoted him as saying.
Man
sentenced to death for serial killings
December 08, 2001
A former construction worker who killed
14 women over the past three years in Beijing has been sentenced to
death, state media in China said today.
Hua Ruizhuo,
28, lured victims to the outskirts of Beijing, beat them to death and
buried their bodies at building sites and rubbish dumps, according to
newspapers and the Xinhua News Agency.
The reports
said Hua’s killing spree began in July 1998, after he was enraged to
discover that his girlfriend was a prostitute.
Hua said all
his victims were prostitutes, though the newspaper Beijing Morning Post
said most bodies were too badly decomposed to be identified.
‘‘Prostitutes
aren’t good people. If I kill one, that’s one less,’’ the newspaper
Beijing Youth Daily quoted him as saying.
Hua was
sentenced by the Second Intermediate People’s Court in Beijing, the
reports said.
Death
sentences in China are automatically appealed to a higher court.
Most are upheld.
