Ma Jiajue
Ma Jiajue () (4 May 1981 – 17 June 2004) was a Chinese biochemistry major at Yunnan University in Kunming, who murdered his four university roommates in February 2004. Their bodies were found in a dormitory closet at the university. He was convicted of the quadruple murder and was executed. Early life Ma, who came from a remote farming village in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China, was the son of father Ma Jianfu and mother Li Fengying; he had an older brother and two sisters. He attended Binzhou Middle School for junior high school, where he was a top student, and Binyang Middle School for high school, where his academic effort diminished. In November 1999 he ran away from home out of fear that he would not be able to pass the gaokao college entrance exam. He was discovered by police in Guigang in eastern Guangxi after his school reported his disappearance, and received a disciplinary punishment upon his return. After passing his gaokao, Ma, the pride of his family, was given his family's meager savings; he enrolled in Yunnan University in September 2000, as a biochemistry student. Murders and aftermath According to his confession, Ma, in his