Most "famous" serial killers from your countries...

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

[Bell Beaker]

Desconhecia por completo....

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Desconhecia por completo....

Hahaha, seriously? I've heard this story since I was a child.

[Bell Beaker]

Hahaha, seriously? I've heard this story since I was a child.

Talvez porque fosses da Margem Norte? Nem sei..... Deves ter mais contacto com Lisboa do que eu....

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Between 1994 and 1998, Bilal Musa and his wife Susan Ibrahim allegedly murdered 12 people in Jordan. They posed as journalists and salesmen to trick unsuspecting victims into their house, where they robbed and killed them. Bilal and Susan both fled to Libya in 1998 after their scheme was discovered, but they were arrested and extradited back to Jordan.

Interestingly, my family lived in Jordan at that timespan, and we had a peculiar incident happen where a Woman, with her two kids, claiming to be iraqi refugees, came knocking on our door, asking if she could stay just for one night, until her husband who supposedly comes the next day, even offered us money for it, makes me seriously question if this was this same case !

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Talvez porque fosses da Margem Norte? Nem sei..... Deves ter mais contacto com Lisboa do que eu....

Not really, I believe this case is known nationwide but maybe I am wrong. I remember when we once visited the aqueduct that they even told us this story.

Must have been really frighting for the victims to be pushed out from the top of the aqueduct. This is what it used to look like during that time.

[magicalM]

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Daisy de Melker



Johannesburg’s black widow

The list of notorious South African serial killers includes names such as Elifasi “the Axe Killer” Msomi, Sipho “the Phoenix Strangler” Thwala, Johannes “Beast of Atteridgeville” Mashiane, Stewart “Boetie Boer” Wilken, Gert van Rooyen, Elias “Pangaman” Xitavhudzi, Jimmy “Jesus Killer” Maketta and Moses Sithole: the South African Strangler. Seemingly discordant is the name Daisy de Melker, but she deserves her place on the list: from 1923 to 1932 she killed her two husbands and her son.

In comparison with male serial killers, women who murder multiple victims are rare. Women do not typically commit the overtly aggressive and violent crimes that men do; they tend to prefer methods such as poisoning or suffocation, which are less detectable. Female serial killers also tend to kill people they know, such as family members, their husbands or people dependent on them. The motive is often financial gain, and killing sprees may span a significant period of time, such as eight years.

Daisy de Melker (née Hancorn-Smith) was born into a large family on June 1, 1886, near the Eastern Cape town of Grahamstown. In her early teens, she lived with her father in Bulawayo, in what was then Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), but returned to South Africa as a boarder at the Good Hope Seminary School in Cape Town. After another brief stint in Rhodesia in 1903, the young woman headed back to train at the Berea Nursing Home in Durban.

While in Rhodesia on holiday, De Melker met Bert Fuller. A romance developed between the two, but Fuller contracted black-water fever and died on the day the couple had planned to marry. He left De Melker a £100 bequest. She would be back keeping vigil at other bedsides …

In March 1909, De Melker married William Alfred Cowle, a plumber, in Johannesburg. The couple had five children, four of whom died. In January 1923, William Cowle succumbed to an excruciatingly painful death.

Exactly one year after the death of her first husband, De Melker married Robert Sproat, also a plumber. On November 6, 1927 Sproat died after suffering similar symptoms to Cowle. De Melker was the beneficiary in both men’s wills.

In January 1931, De Melker married her Sydney Clarence de Melker. Like the other two husbands, he was a plumber.

Just over a year later, in March 1932, Rhodes Cecil Cowle, De Melker’s son, died – supposedly from cerebral malaria. But it was his death that was the femme fatale’s undoing; William Sprout, a relative of her second husband, raised the alarm.

Exhumations of her husbands’ bodies revealed large amounts of strychnine; a second autopsy on her son found traces of arsenic, and the purchase of the poison was traced back to De Melker.

The motive for the killings of her husbands was financial gain and, if she hadn’t murdered her son, it seems the black widow would have pulled off the perfect crimes. The reason for murdering her son was never conclusively proved, but some have put forward the theory that Rhodes was, perhaps, after his own inheritance.

De Melker’s trial lasted 30 days and the courthouse was packed – some people even paid for seats in order to be part of the action. De Melker was convicted of killing her son, but there was insufficient evidence to directly link her to Cowle and Sproat’s murders. On Friday December 30, 1932 De Melker was hanged at Pretoria Central prison.

The second woman to be hanged in South African history, De Melker has become a South African icon and a figure of popular myth. Ghost tours around Johannesburg still point out her haunts. It’s rumoured that her spirit haunts Ward 7 of the former Transvaal Children’s Hospital (now the Florence Transition Home) in Braamfontein, where she worked as a nurse and first learnt about poisons!

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Moses Sithole



Considered one of South Africa's worst serial killers, Moses Sithole was found guilty of 38 murders and 40 rapes in 1997.

Synopsis

Born in South Africa on November 17, 1964, Moses Sithole is considered one of South Africa's worst serial killers. In 1997, Sithole was found guilty of 38 murders and 40 rapes. A significant number of Sithole's victims were never identified.

Early Life

Moses Sithole, one of five children, was born in Vosloorus, near Boksburg in the Transvaal Province of apartheid (now Gauteng), South Africa, on November 17, 1964, to Simon and Sophie Sithole. His childhood of poverty was exacerbated after his father died and his mother, unable to support the children, abandoned them at a local police station. They were placed in an orphanage in Kwazulu Natal, but systematic abuse provoked the teenage Sithole to run away after three years, seeking refuge first with his older brother Patrick before going to work in the Johannesburg gold mines.

Sithole was sexually precocious from an early age, but his relationships were short-lived. Some have surmised that his mother’s abandonment of her children might have played a role in his aggressive attitudes toward women. He also reportedly told some of his rape victims about his own bad experiences at the hands of a previous girlfriend.

Sithole has been described as a handsome and charming man, and most of his victims were enticed to their assaults, and often deaths, in broad daylight, with promises of employment opportunities that would never materialize. His social ease and intelligent demeanor made the string of brutal assaults even more chilling, and he was eventually charged with 38 murders and 40 rapes. A significant number of Sithole’s victims were never identified.

The Crimes

It is not known when Sithole raped his first victim, but his first recorded incidence of rape occurred in September 1987, involving 29-year-old Patrica Khumalo, who testified at his 1996 trial. Three other known rape victims came forward, including Buyiswa Doris Swakamisa, who was attacked in February 1989. She made a police report at the time that resulted in Sithole’s arrest and trial. In 1989, he was jailed in Boksburg Prison for six years for the rape of Swakamisa. Sithole maintained his innocence throughout the trial and was released early, in 1993, for good behavior.

Perhaps Sithole learned a lesson from his time in jail: that rape victims left alive can produce consequences. It is not known how soon after his release that he began his rape and killing spree, but between January and April 1995 in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, four bodies of young black women who had been strangled and probably raped were discovered. This began a chain of events that unearthed an appalling litany of brutality and death.

When newspapers became aware of the similarities in the killings of each victim, police were forced to admit that a serial killer might be operating in the area. The discovery of the body of one victim’s 2-year old son incited further media coverage, but in a society inured to violence, media interest was relatively brief.

However, over the next few months in the vicinity of Pretoria, the recovery of several bodies all sharing the same gruesome pattern of having been raped, tied up and strangled with their own underwear gave the public pause. On July 17, 1995, a witness saw Sithole acting suspiciously while in the company of a young woman; the witness then discovered her body when he went to investigate. Unfortunately, the witness had been too far away to identify the killer.

A special investigating team was established within the Pretoria Murder and Robbery Unit to determine whether the murders conformed to a pattern, but the method of attack varied to such an extent that it was impossible to be certain that one killer was responsible. As more victims were identified and as the chronology of deaths, rather than the discovery of their bodies, became apparent, clear evidence showed that the killer was evolving his murder technique to extract the greatest pain from his victims, assumedly increasing his own pleasure. His means of approach was also clarified: In a significant number of cases, the victim had been meeting someone who had promised them employment.

On September 16, 1995, a body was discovered at the Van Dyk Mine near Boksburg. Further investigation revealed mass graves. Forensic experts recovered 10 bodies in varying degrees of decomposition over the next 48 hours. Investigators were certain that the Boksburg bodies were linked with the victims at Atteridgeville. Media attention was intense throughout the recovery operation, and even President Nelson Mandela visited the scene of the grisly discoveries.

Public concern increased with the media coverage, and local authorities sought external help from retired FBI profiler Robert Ressler, who arrived on September 23, 1995. He assisted in developing a profile of the serial killer. The profile indicated that an intelligent, organized individual with a high sex drive was responsible and was operating with a growing sense of confidence, perhaps with the assistance of a second killer.

The Arrest

While the profiling was underway, investigations at the gravesite revealed that one of the victims found, Amelia Rapodile, had last been seen before an appointment to see a man named Moses Sithole on September 7. Investigators found a job application stating she had been offered a position. When a second victim showed a similar connection to Sithole, police were confident they had unearthed a likely suspect. They were unable, however, to locate Sithole, who continued with his killing spree, unfazed by the manhunt and media attention. The body of Agnes Mbuli was discovered near Benoni on October 3, 1995.

That same day, the Star newspaper received a call from a man claiming to be the serial killer. Because he had information not known to the general public, police were inclined to believe it was Sithole. An attempt to set up a meeting with him failed, however, and three more bodies were discovered over the next 10 days, forcing police to release Sithole’s details to the media.

With the manhunt now in the public domain, Sithole tried to seek assistance from family members, but undercover police intercepted him on October 18, 1995. He was unwilling to go quietly, and a police officer shot him in the leg and stomach. Sithole was hospitalized, underwent surgery and was then transferred to the secure Military Hospital in Pretoria, where he admitted to numerous killings in interviews with detectives.

Sithole denied having had an accomplice and believed that copycat murders had been executed using his modus operandi. A police claim that he had waived his right to an attorney while making his confession was later denied in court.

Five days later, on October 23, 1995, Moses Sithole was charged with 29 murders in the magistrates’ court in Brakpan.

On November 3, 1995, Sithole was transported to Boksburg Prison, where he had served his rape sentence two years previously, to await his trial. During this time, press reports stated that he was HIV positive.

The Trial

By the time Sithole’s trial began on October 21, 1996, mounting evidence saw the total charges against him increase to 38 counts of murder, 40 counts of rape and six counts of robbery. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Building a chronological picture of his crimes, the prosecution introduced harrowing testimony from his earliest rape victims detailing their ordeals at the hands of Sithole before his first conviction for rape.

A detailed examination followed of his connection with each of the murdered victims, with testimony about the alleged job offers and the specific techniques used to lure his victims to their deaths. Sithole appeared cool and collected throughout.

On December 3, 1996, the prosecution introduced a video that had been shot during Sithole’s initial incarceration, in which Sithole candidly admitted to 29 murders. He describes his technique in some detail, although he claims that he began killing only in July 1995, selecting his victims for their resemblance to rape victim Buyiswa Doris Swakamisa, whom he regarded as responsible for his first jail sentence. The legality of the admissibility of this tape, recorded illegally in a jail cell, caused the trial to be delayed until January 29, 1997, and the technical issues relating to it, as well as Sithole’s original confession, caused the trial to drag on until July 29, 1997, when the judge finally ruled that the evidence was admissible.

The prosecution rested its case on August 15, 1997. The defense case depended largely on Sithole’s denial of any involvement in the killings when he took the witness box, but his testimony was often rambling and incoherent.

On December 4, 1997, more than a year after the case had commenced, Moses Sithole was found guilty on all charges. It took three hours to read the verdict, with the consequence that sentencing had to be postponed until the next day.

The next morning, the judge made a statement that in view of the abhorrent nature of the crimes, he would have had no hesitation in pronouncing a death sentence on Sithole. However, since the death penalty in South Africa had been declared unconstitutional in 1995, Sithole was sentenced to 2,410 years in prison, with no possibility of parole for at least 930 years. Clearly, the sentence meant to keep Sithole behind bars for the rest of his life.

The Aftermath

Sithole was incarcerated in the maximum-security section of Pretoria Central Prison, the highest-security cellblock in South Africa, known as C-Max. Ironically, the medical treatment for his HIV condition in prison far exceeds any treatment available to the average South African citizen and may well secure him a far longer life, albeit in prison.

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Stewart Wilken



Stewart was charged with 10 counts of murder, five counts of sodomy and possible acts of cannibalism and necrophilia on the 3rd of February 1997.

He was a hefty fisherman and the prime suspect in a series of sexually motivated killings of at least six prostitutes and four young boys in Port Elizabeth between 1990 and 1997. The killings ended when Stewart was arrested in January, 1997 in connection with the death of his daughter and a 12-year-old, Henry Baker.

He admitted to strangling a 26-year-old black woman while sodomising her. He then cut off her nipples and swallowed them. He then apparently murdered a street child, strangling him with a belt, after the child said he would report to the police that Stewart had sodomised him. He also liked to return to the scene of the crimes to have sex with the corpses of his victims. He inserted rolled-up newspaper into the anuses of the boys to prevent maggots from crawling up.

“Boetie Boer” said he killed his daughter “because she had been raped by her stepfather.” Like many other sexual predators, “Boetie” revealed a life of torment in which he was sexually abused and sodomised as a young boy. He began smoking dagga (marijuana) at the age of 8, and was forced to eat his food out of dog bowls. Stewart asked the court to give him a long prison sentence at a prison with psychiatric facilities “so that I can receive treatment and one day, if ever I am allowed free, I can also live life as a normal person”.

Race, age and sex appeared to make no difference to him. He said he hated women who swapped sex for money because they reminded him of his first wife. His youngest victim was an 8-year-old boy and his final victim an elderly woman, who he raped before smothering. Stewart said he “had gone looking for whores” when he drank alcohol and smoked dagga (marijuana) mixed with Mandrax. He told the court he had looked for sex on the streets because his wives refused to have sexual relations with him. (Can’t really blame them for that.)

He was convicted of 7 counts of murder and 2 counts of sodomy on February 20, 1998. Stewart received 7 life sentences and was further advised by Mr Justice Chris Jansen that he would have received the Death Penalty had it still been available to him.