Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu

Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu (* 1967 in Adana ) is a Turkish serial killer and arsonist. The Turkish press referred to him as tornavidalı katil ("screwdriver killer ") or Avcılar sapığı ("pervert from Avcılar "). The number of his victims is not known. The police assume 18 murders. His family assumes a higher number.

Yapıcıoğlu had nine siblings and spent his youth in Adana. He grew up with his stepmother and attended elementary and middle school there. His youth was marked by family problems. Yapıcıoğlu married, but the marriage lasted only a year and a half. In the meantime he ran a leather shop in Zeytinburnu , but without success.

In 1992, Yapıcıoğlu raped and killed a woman who was five months pregnant in Avcılar. In 1993 he committed a similar act in Istanbul. In accordance with § 46 of the Turkish Penal Code Insanity was with him and found Yapıcıoğlu was psychiatrically accommodated , but he was released a year later.

After an argument, he stabbed three people in Istanbul in 1994. He also stabbed an office clerk. He fled to Adana and killed three other people there. He later impaled a person who refused to give him money. Yapıcıoğlu also killed an eyewitness to the crime. He also ransacked two relatives' homes and his brother's shop. Yapıcıoğlu tried to kill his father in Silivri , who shot him and escaped. Yapıcıoğlu fled to his maternal grandmother, who he killed with an ashtray when he did not agree with her statements. His mother died of a heart attack a few days after hearing this.

Yapıcıoğlu committed his last murders in 2002 in Çorlu. There he stabbed three people with a screwdriver and a knife for no reason. He injured several other people that same night. He was then caught on December 24, 2002. A new expert opinion by the Istanbul Forensic Medicine confirmed that he was fully responsible. Yapıcıoğlu was tried and sentenced to 44 years in prison for murder and attempted murder.

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Sabah of May 17, 2003
2. ↑ Posta of April 29, 2010