Fa Ziying and Lao Rongzhi

Fa Ziying (Chinese: 法子英; pinyin: Fǎ Ziyīng; 1 October 1964 – 28 December 1999) and Lao Rongzhi (Chinese: 劳荣枝; pinyin: Láo Róngzhī; 12 December 1974 – 18 December 2023) were a pair of Chinese serial killers, con artists, and robbers born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi. Between 1996 and 1999, after becoming a romantic couple, Fa and Lao committed a series of crimes, including kidnapping, robbery, and murder in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui. A total of seven people were killed and a total of over 100,000 yuan were stolen by the couple (roughly ¥30,000 through property theft and ¥70,000 through kidnapping ransom). Fa was arrested on 23 July 1999 when a ransom handoff was interrupted by police and subsequently sentenced to death, deprived of political rights for life, and fined 100,000 yuan, the same amount stolen in total from the pair's victims, by the Hefei Intermediate People's Court. On 28 December 1999, Fa was executed by being shot.

Lao, who had been on the run since 1999, was captured and arrested on 28 November 2019 in Xiamen, Fujian. Lao appealed in court, and the trial opened at the Jiangxi Provincial Higher People's Court on 28 August 2019, and announced in November 2019 of the same year that the death sentence was upheld. Although Lao admitted to being an accomplice to Fa, she claimed to have only done so in fear of her own life, as Fa had physically and sexually abused her throughout their relationship. On 9 September 2021, she was sentenced to death by the Nanchang Intermediate People's Court for her deliberate crimes that she had committed. On 18 December 2023, upon the endorsement from the Supreme People's Court, Lao was executed.