WARNING: This article contains crime scene photos that show the blood of the victims. In the early morning of May 5, 2018, security guards at an upscale residential compound in the east Cairo neighborhood were called to attend to a villa with a dog that had been barking incessantly, tied up outside in the courtyard. […]
The bizarre execution of the Marrakesh Murderer
The execution of the Marrakesh Murderer on Wednesday, 13 June 1906 was as strange as any of the 36 murders that he committed.
Iraq’s hatchet man: International smuggler, serial killer and secret police?
Hatem Kazem Al-Hadum, who would later be known as Abu Tubar or the hatchet man, returned to Baghdad after years of criminal escapades across Europe in the early 1970s. His murderous rampage in Iraq soon spread like wildfire.
A tale of many maybes: The bewildered butcher of Yemen
As the relentless heat seared the grounds of Sana’a University in Yemen, the morgue below was frigid. Hidden in the basement, it was empty save for the dead, locked away in their cold steel cabinets. As the world welcomed the new millennium, the morgue was left behind; it was dilapidated, falling apart from inadequate funding […]
Death on the move: Egypt’s express train killer
People can so easily become that which they hate the most. For Ramadan Abdelrahim Mansour, that meant becoming a rapist, a murderer and a mutilator of young boys.
Acid, a letter and the murder of 100 children
Arguably the worst pedophile and serial killer in Pakistan’s history, Javed Iqbal raped and murdered 100 children aged between 6 and 16 over a five-month period in 1999 in Lahore. We know this, not because of a police investigation into the missing children, for the police didn’t notice nor care that street children were going […]