![]() Then he strangled them with their head scarves, wrapped their bodies in head-to-toe black chadors and dumped them in the streets.Īfter the third killing, he told the court, he dumped the body on a street, waited for the police to come and then helped them load the corpse into an ambulance. He said he chose his victims while riding in his car or on his motorbike and took them to his home when his wife and three children were away. He said he blamed the large number of prostitutes in the city for the incident and believed killing the women was a religious obligation. Hanai said in court that he began killing the prostitutes after his wife was mistaken for one. ![]() The deputies summoned the security and intelligence chiefs and eventually a special squad was sent to Mashad from Tehran. Hanai's arrest came after Parliament took up the case with the highest provincial authorities. Hanai admitted to killing 16 women the bodies of 19 women have been found in Mashad in the two years since the first death. Residents had feared that an extremist religious group might be behind the slayings, particularly after hard-liners were blamed for the murders of dissidents in Tehran. Hanai killed the women, is a holy city and home to a major Shiite Muslim shrine. Many Iranians had speculated that the police, who are controlled by religious hard-liners, were intentionally lax in finding the killer since the victims were drug abusers and prostitutes. Hanai came more than two years after the first body of a strangled woman was found. ''Toward the end, I could not sleep at night if I had not killed one of them that day, as though I had become addicted to killing them,'' he was quoted as saying. Hanai was quoted as saying on Tuesday in the daily Norouz, a day before his execution. ''They were as worthless as cockroaches to me,'' Mr. Saeed Hanai, 39, a construction worker, was sentenced to death after he confessed that he had strangled 16 women, many of whom had criminal records for drug abuse and were said to have worked as prostitutes. Iran Executes Worker Who Strangled 16 Women Over 2 YearsĪ man who strangled 16 women with their head scarves in the northeastern city of Mashad was hanged early this morning in the prison compound, state radio reported. He was found guilty and hanged at dawn on Apin Mashhad Prison. Some people in Iran felt that the prostitutes got what they deserved, and Hanai even had a crowd of supporters outside his house on the day he was arrested. The Iranian press used the term "spider killings" to describe the ruthlessness and methodology of the killings. Hanai was suspected of murdering 19 women, but only confessed to 16. He strangled victims-aged 20 to 50-with their own headscarves. Hanai targeted prostitutes because he said they had corrupted his neighborhood and made his wife look like a streetwalker. Hanai, a construction worker, admitted in court to killing 16 women in the eastern city of Mashhad in 20. Said Hanai or Saeed Hanai, was one of the worst serial killers in the history of Iran. Status: Executed by hanging in Mashhad Prison on April 8, 2002 Method of murder: Strangulation with their own headscarves Victims profile: Women aged between 25 and 50 years (prostitutes) AKA "The Spider Killer" Classification: Serial killerĬharacteristics: Hanaie said that he "killed the women for the sake of God, and for the protection of my religion" - Catapulted to folk-hero status by religious extremists
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