Li Hao (murderer)

Li Hao was a Chinese murderer and rapist who kept six women as sex slaves and locked them in a dungeon in Henan.

He murdered two of the women.

Li tricked the six women into entering his basement and locked them there for two to 21 months.

In August 2009, Li bought a residential compound and dug a dungeon in his basement.

He dug a tunnel in Xigong district (西工区) of Luoyang city.

He spent more than a year digging the cellar.

The dungeon has also been described as a 'fortified underground cellar' and 'subterranean prison'.

Li's cellar was located under a residential building.

It had a space of less than 20 square meters.

There was a tunnel connecting into the cellar with a diameter opening of 60 cm and can only be crawled through by a person.

The tunnel led to two bedrooms, 4 meters underneath the cellar.

Li Hao placed seven metal doors to prevent his captives from escaping.

The dungeon was 215 square meters.

Li's intention was to make money from online pornography and making his captives strip for 'customers'.

Li forcibly kept his captives starved so that they would have little energy to escape.

He would only feed them once every two days.

He later gave them computers so that they could watch movies and play games, but they had no Internet access.

The only time they were allowed to leave was when Li needed money.

Li would then force his captives to sleep with other men for cash.

The women ate and defecated in the rooms, and the cellars were described as 'dank' and 'smelly'.

Apparently some of the women were competing for Li's attention.

From 2009 to 2011, Li kidnapped six karaoke bar workers and locked them in his dungeon.

According to China Central Television, Li offered to pay them for sex if they went home with him, but then proceeded to kidnap and imprison them.

In October and December 2009, Li first lured two women, Zhang Xuanxuan (张宣宣 an alias) and Duan Moumou (段某某 aged 18 at the time), into his basement, detaining Zhang and Duan by violence, blackmail, and coercion.

In December 2010, Li used the same method to detain nineteen-year-old Jiang Moumou in his dungeon.

In July and August 2010, Zhang Xuanxuan attacked Li from behind, taking advantage of his unprepared digging of the tunnel.

Li handcuffed Zhang to the bed in anger.

He raped them repeatedly and forced them to appear on online pornography in 2011.

In March, May, and July 2011, Li successively brought three other women: twenty-year-old Zhang Moumou, Cai Moumou (aged 16 years old at time of death), and twenty-three-year-old Ma Moumou.

He raped the women repeatedly, causing Zhang Moumou to become pregnant.

He repeatedly abused and raped the six women, forcing them into prostitution.

He filmed them and posted the pornography online for profit.

He later forced three of the captives to kill two of the other women.

In 2012, the Luoyang court charged Li with rape, murder, prostitution, illegal pornography, and illegal detention of sex slaves, and he was sentenced to death.

The Supreme People's Court approved the death penalty, and Li was executed in 2014.

Of the six women that Li had raped, two were surnamed Zhang (张), one was surnamed Duan (段), one was surnamed Jiang (姜), one was surnamed Cai (蔡), and one was surnamed Ma (马).

Li murdered Cai and strangled one of the women surnamed Zhang to death.

He forced Cai to eat feces and drink urine before her death.

The victims were 16 to 23 years old at the time.

Li's sister Li Yuan (李媛) was also charged for harboring a criminal and sentenced to probation.