Asghar the Murderer

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Ali Asghar Borujerdi (Persian: علی‌اصغر بروجردی; 1893 – 6 July 1934), better known as Asghar the Murderer (اصغر قاتل, Asghar-e Ghatel) was the first Iranian serial killer and rapist reported in the 20th century. Asghar was born in Iran and moved to Ottoman Iraq as a child with his family. He began assaulting, raping, and later murdering, adolescent boys in Baghdad when he was fourteen years old. Escaping back to Iran in 1933, he continued his murders for a year until he was arrested and executed. Asghar was convicted of raping and killing 33 young adults, eight in Iran and the rest in Baghdad.

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