Li Pingping

Li Pingping (; 1960 – 15 June 2004) was a Chinese serial killer who murdered four women between November 2002 and April 2003. He was aided in the disposal of the bodies by his wife Dong Meirong. After his arrest, Li also confessed to the murder of a family of three and an arson attack in 1995.

Li was sentenced to death and executed in 2004 while Dong received a 15-year prison sentence.

Early life Li was born in 1960 in Anhui. At age three, he and his parents moved to Hongmen village in Haidian, Beijing, to live with relatives in a house with a dilapitated courtyard, surrounded by barren land and a trash-polluted canal. At school, Li was ostracised and mocked by classmates for his family's poverty and the stench of his clothes. In one incident, Li punched one of his bullies and after school, several of his schoolmates kidnapped him, covering his face with a bag and dragging him to the canal, where the other boys beat Li before throwing his clothes in the river.

Li was described as an introverted and withdrawn man who rarely communicated with others, seemingly had no friends or hobbies, and immediately went home to sleep after finishing his shift.

Crimes In May 1980, Li was convicted of hooliganism and sexual harassment, for which he was sentenced to one year of probation. In December 1985, he was convicted of theft, serving a six-month prison term.

1995 In 1995, Li was employed as a boiler worker for Beijing's Gaotian Health Food Company, but fired for violations of the work discipline code and slacking. In April 1995, he went to Xiangshan Subdistrict, breaking into a house,