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Hadj Mohammed MESFEWI

Classification: Serial killer

Characteristics:

Robberies - Mutilation

Number of victims: 36 +

Date of murders: ???? - 1906

Date

of arrest: April 1906

Date of birth:

1800s

Victims profile: Women

Method of murder: St

abbing with knife

Location: Marrakesh, Morocco

Status: He was originally sentenced to be crucified on May 2, 1906 but resident foreign officials opposed the crucifixion. He instead suffered daily whippings and was publicly immured on June 11, 1906. Mesfewi died on June 13, 1906

Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi (died June 13, 1906) was a Moroccan serial killer who was found to have killed at least 36 women. He was a cobbler and public letter writer.

The bodies of 26 women were found under his shop and an additional ten were found buried on property owned by Mesfewi. He was aided by a 70-year-old female accomplice named Rahali, also reported as Annah, during the course of the murders.

They would lure young women to dinner, administer a narcotic, and then murder them in their sleep. The victims were then robbed of any valuables they possessed and subsequently buried. They were also mutilated with a dagger.

He was originally sentenced to be crucified on May 2, 1906 but resident foreign officials opposed the crucifixion. He instead suffered daily whippings and was publicly immured on June 11, 1906. Mesfewi died on June 13, 1906.

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