Ali Asghar Borujerdi

Ali Asghar Borujerdi (also Asghar Qatel , Asghar the murderer , Persian اصغر قاتل, DMG Aṣġar-i Qātil orعلی‌اصغر بروجردی/ ʿAlī Aṣġar Burūǧirdī ; * 1893 ; † June 26, 1934 ) was an Iranian serial killer . Asgar raped and murdered 33 male youths and was sentenced to death and executed for this.

biography

After moving to Iraq with his family as a child , he began stalking and raping younger boys at the age of 14. Feeling pressured by the police, he quickly began to murder the unpopular victims in order to get rid of them. He later stated that he murdered 25 boys using this pattern and then fled to Iran because he was seen in the last of these sex murders.

In Iran, he continued to murder in Tehran, where he found eight more victims. The first decapitated bodies of his victims were found on December 31, 1933. Qatel was arrested, but initially released for lack of evidence, before being taken back into custody in early March 1934. He then confessed to his crimes and was charged, sentenced to death and, after unsuccessful appeal proceedings, hanged on June 26, 1934 in Tehran .

literature

• Cyrus Schayegh: Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong - Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society . Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities, 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-25447-3 .
• Serial Murder in Tehran: Crime, Science, and the Formation of Modern State and Society in Interwar Iran . 2005.