Li Pingping

A Beijing court sentenced a taxi driver to death Tuesday for killing seven people, three of which he dismembered, and sentenced his wife to 15 years in prison for serving as his accomplice and harboring loot.
Li Pingping, 44, was accused by the Beijing Municipal No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court of having lured four young women to his home before killing them from November 2002 to April 2003 when he served as a taxi driver at a Beijing taxi company.
Li was once put under one-year surveillance for sexual harassment in May 1980 and was jailed for six months in December 1985 for theft.
Li said all his crimes were motivated by his discontent against society.
He was captured by Beijing police in June 2003 and police found the dismembered bodies of the victims in a garbage dump near Li’s home with the clues he provided.
Li is also accused of killing his ex-employer Song Shutian, Song’s wife and daughter after he was sacked from Song’s food company in May 1995 and of setting a wealthy person’s house on fire the same year.
Dong Meirong, Li’s wife, was accused of helping her husband commit the murders and harboring stolen money.

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Notorious killer Li Pingping, who claimed to have murdered prostitutes because they earned much more than him, was Tuesday sentenced to death by the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People’s Court.
The 44-year-old’s victims were four suspected flesh-trade workers and a family of three in Beijing.
Li’s wife, Dong Meirong, received a jail term of 15 years for aiding Li and concealing evidence.
When Li was a taxi driver with Beijing-based Wanquansi Taxi Company, he lured four young women — believed to be prostitutes — to his home from November 2002 to April 2003 and killed them.
He dismembered bodies of three women and buried the parts, according to court documents, which do not say how he disposed of the fourth.
In 1995, after he was dismissed by Beijing Gaotelan Food Company as a boiler worker, Li killed the company’s manager, Song Shutian, who was in his 40’s, his wife and their 12-year-old daughter one night in May.
In an attempt to cover up his crime, Li set fire to Song’s home which gutted seven rooms and valuables. He also stole two rings and a TV recorder worth 2,560 yuan (US$310) from Song’s home.
The court documents add that he also set fire to the house of another man, Wan Baoming, in April 1995, causing a loss of more than 57,000 yuan (US$6,880).
Li was under detention for one year in 1980 for indecent assault; and served six months in 1985 for theft.