Hua Ruizhuo

Hua Ruizhuo (1973 – January 31, 2002) was a Chinese serial killer responsible for the murders of 14 prostitutes in Beijing's Chaoyang District between 1998 and June 2001. He would subsequently be executed for these crimes in 2002.

On January 31, 2002, Hua Ruizhuo, together with several other violent offenders, was executed in Beijing. His lawyer had attempted to unsuccessfully appeal his client's sentence on the grounds that Hua had killed them in blind rage, but this request was rejected.

Over the next few years, while trying to get over his former girlfriend, Hua slowly began to develop a hatred towards prostitutes and a desire to take revenge on any woman who partook in this trade. In 1999, he married a woman from Sichuan, with whom he would have a son.

In total, between 1998 and June 2001, Hua is known to have killed fourteen women, only twelve were conclusively identified:

In 1994, Hua fell in love with a girl named Qiu Yan, with whom he began a romantic relationship. After the couple dated for seven or eight months, during which they separated and got back together on multiple occasions, Hua was dispatched to deliver something from work near a big hotel. When he left the truck, he saw that his girlfriend was making out with an older male in front of the hotel. Much to his shock, he learned that Qiu secretly worked as a prostitute. After he had finished work, he unsuccessfully tried to convince the woman to leave prostitution behind and marry him, but Qiu refused on the grounds that she wanted to choose her own lifestyle, breaking up with him on the spot.

Hua Ruizhuo was born in 1973 in Shuangcheng, Heilongjiang, growing up in the province's countryside. In 1993, he moved to Beijing and overtook his retired father's job as the driver of a concrete mixing transport truck. He was described as a diligent and friendly worker by colleagues, who dutifully carried out his work using his white Samsung truck imported from South Korea.