The mad bomber (Yves Trudeau)

 Yves Trudeau (4 February 1946 – July 2008), also known as "Apache" and "The Mad Bomber", was a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster and contract killer. A former member of the Hells Angels North chapter in Laval, Quebec, Trudeau was the club's leading assassin and a major participant in multiple biker conflicts throughout Canadian history, including the Popeyes–Devils Disciples War, the Satan's Choice–Popeyes War and the First Biker War. Frustrated by cocaine addiction and his suspicion that his fellow gang members wanted him dead, he became a Crown witness after the Lennoxville massacre. In exchange, he received a lenient sentence – life in prison but eligible for parole after seven years – for the killing of 43 people from September 1973 to July 1985.

His Background

The years 1936 to 1960 is a period of history known to Québécois as the Grande Noirceur ("Great Darkness") when Quebec was mostly ruled by the ultra-conservative Catholic Union Nationale party.[5] Starting with the 1960 provincial election, which saw the Union Nationale defeated by the Quebec Liberals, Quebec society experienced sweeping changes known as the Quiet Revolution that saw Quebec go in the space of a decade from being one of the most conservative societies in North America to being one of the most liberal.[5] As part of the reaction against the "medieval" Catholic social mores of the Grande Noirceur, the Québécois embraced a culture of hedonism in the 1960s with Quebec having for example a significantly higher rate of illegitimate births and drug use than English Canada.[5] As part of the same backlash against the "suffocating" conformism of the Grande Noirceur, outlaw motorcycle clubs became very popular in Quebec in the 1960s with many French-Canadian young men seeing the outlaw biker culture as a symbol of freedom, rebellion and machismo, and by 1968 la belle province had 350 outlaw biker clubs.[5] One result of Quebec having so many outlaw motorcycle clubs was a degree of violence and viciousness between the different biker groups that had no parallel in the rest of Canada as there were too many clubs seeking their share of the organized crime rackets, giving Quebec the reputation as the "Red Zone" in the outlaw biker world.[5] The crime journalist James Dubro stated about the distinctive outlaw biker sub-culture of Quebec: "There's always has been more violence in Quebec. In the biker world it's known as the Red Zone. I remember an Outlaws hit man telling me he was scared going to Montreal."[6]

The Popeye Moto Club, led by Yves Buteau, were the Quebec club that would eventually become Canada's first Hells Angels chapter. They were considered to be the most violent outlaw biker club in Quebec, and were infamous for engaging in gratuitous and sadistic violence that attracted the attention of the Hells Angels.[7] The Popeyes were often employed by the Montreal Mafia to perform murders for them.[7]

Hells Angels

The new Hells Angels national president, Michel "Sky" Langlois, was largely focused on expanding the Hells Angels into the other provinces.[17] Viau had a more tolerant and relaxed attitude towards violence and drug use, which was encouraged by the absence of Buteau.[16] Under Viau's leadership, the Laval chapter, which had often chafed at Buteau's rules, got out of control.[16]

Standing five-foot-six, weighing 135 pounds and clean shaven with short hair, Trudeau did not resemble the prototypical biker, but he is considered to be the Hells Angels' most prolific killer.[14] Other Angels weighed between 300 and 400 pounds, had an average height of 6'0 feet, and had long hair and beards, leading the journalist Jerry Langton to write that "...nobody would have guessed he was the club's enforcer and primary weapon".[14] The Irish-Canadian West End Gang led by Frank "Dunie" Ryan, who controlled the Port of Montreal and thus the importation of drugs into Quebec, frequently made use of Trudeau's services to liquidate their rivals.[6]

Trudeau admitted to killing 43 people from September 1970 to July 1985. He was the first Canadian Hells Angel to earn the "Filthy Few" patch, allegedly awarded to members who have killed for the club. During a biker war between the Hells Angels and the Outlaws for control of Montreal's drug trade between 1978 and 1983, Trudeau killed 18 out of the 23 Outlaws slain during the conflict.[14] Langton called Trudeau a "psychopathic killer" and a "killing machine" par excellence, who was the Angels' most dangerous killer.[18] Dubro stated about Trudeau: "He had absolutely no conscience, no respect for human life at all."[6] To assist with his killings, Trudeau started to heavily use cocaine. Dubro commented: "Most of the hit men I've met have been cokeheads, and they usually coke up before doing the killings. Makes it a little easier. Not all of them, but alcoholism and drug use is very common among hit men."[6]

Lennoxville massacre

Trudeau testified in 1985 that West End Gang chieftain Frank "Dunie" Ryan's successor, Allan "The Weasel" Ross, had offered to pay him $200,000 to eliminate Ryan's killers[19] and he had been paid $25,000 dollars in advance.[20] When Trudeau tried to collect the rest of the $200,000 after killing April and Lelièvre, Ross told him he should go collect the money from the Halifax and Sorel chapters of the Hells Angels who owned the West End Gang drug debts, saying he would forgive those debts if those chapters paid the money to Trudeau instead.[20][19]

The president of the Hells Angels Halifax chapter, David "Wolf" Carroll, paid Trudeau $98,000.[19] Carroll later learned that the Laval chapter was actually entitled to one-quarter of the money, and that Trudeau had used the extra money to support his cocaine addiction.[19] As the Halifax chapter was much poorer than the Laval chapter, Trudeau's behavior was considered to be especially crass.[19] Trudeau's stealing from the Halifax chapter led directly to the Lennoxville massacre of March 1985.[20]

Trudeau's stealing from the Halifax chapter only added to the resentment many Hells Angels already felt towards members of the North Chapter. Other Hells Angels felt that the North Chapter bikers were too wild and uncontrollable. They often used drugs they were supposed to sell and were suspected of cheating other chapters out of drug profits. A decision was made by Lessard to liquidate the North Chapter, in what would be known in biker history as the Lennoxville massacre.

A meeting was set up at the Sherbrooke Chapter's clubhouse in Lennoxville on 24 March 1985. At that gathering, five members of the North Chapter were shot to death, wrapped in sleeping bags, and dumped in the St. Lawrence River. The others were allowed to live and were absorbed into the Montreal South chapter. Trudeau was supposed to be at that meeting, but had enrolled in a detoxification program the week before. He later said he wanted to clean himself up, because he knew what happened to members who were always high. News of the North Chapter slaughter soon reached Trudeau at the detox centre in Oka, and Trudeau received a visit from a Montreal Chapter representative. Trudeau was told that he was out of the club and would have to have his club tattoos removed.

Trudeau knew he was living on borrowed time, however. The Hells Angels had taken out a $50,000 contract on his head, and he decided to become a police informant and government witness.

In 1985, Trudeau pleaded guilty to 43 counts of manslaughter, meaning that as far as the Crown is concerned, Trudeau did not intentionally kill his 43 victims – 29 of whom died from firearms, 10 from bombs, three from being beaten to death, and one from strangulation. Police estimated 30 to 35 of his victims were other motorcycle gang members or sympathizers. Trudeau also testified on 40 other murders and 15 attempted murders. The Conservative senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu questioned the value of the plea bargain the Crown reached with Trudeau, saying: "Apache Trudeau didn't have to fight for his money, he didn't have to fight to be well treated. These are programs that cost us millions of dollars. The criminals take advantage of protection that isn't available to victims and a lot of the criminals who turned informant will wind up being recidivist."[6]

As part of his controversial contract with the government, Trudeau was sentenced to life in prison, with eligibility for parole in seven years. Under his deal, the government also gave him $40,000 over the next four years and about $35 a week for cigarettes.

Crown witness

After his release from the detox centre, Trudeau discovered that the Hells Angels had taken his motorcycle and $46,000 in cash that belonged to him from the North Chapter clubhouse. They said they would return the bike if he killed two people for the gang. Trudeau succeeded in killing one of the targets. Jean-Marc Deniger was killed in May 1985 and stuffed in his car. Satisfied, the Hells Angels gave Trudeau his motorcycle back.

Trudeau knew he was living on borrowed time, however. The Hells Angels had taken out a $50,000 contract on his head, and he decided to become a police informant and government witness.

In 1985, Trudeau pleaded guilty to 43 counts of manslaughter, meaning that as far as the Crown is concerned, Trudeau did not intentionally kill his 43 victims – 29 of whom died from firearms, 10 from bombs, three from being beaten to death, and one from strangulation. Police estimated 30 to 35 of his victims were other motorcycle gang members or sympathizers. Trudeau also testified on 40 other murders and 15 attempted murders. The Conservative senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu questioned the value of the plea bargain the Crown reached with Trudeau, saying: "Apache Trudeau didn't have to fight for his money, he didn't have to fight to be well treated. These are programs that cost us millions of dollars. The criminals take advantage of protection that isn't available to victims and a lot of the criminals who turned informant will wind up being recidivist."[6]

As part of his controversial contract with the government, Trudeau was sentenced to life in prison, with eligibility for parole in seven years. Under his deal, the government also gave him $40,000 over the next four years and about $35 a week for cigarettes.

Release from prison

Trudeau was granted parole in 1994 and given a new identity. He lived under the name Denis Côté, resettled in the Valleyfield area, lived with a woman who did not know his past, and worked as an orderly in a nursing home and driving a bus for the handicapped.[21] However, after being laid off in 2000, he slid back into cocaine addiction and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy after plying him with wine and beer, for which he pleaded guilty in 2004. He was sentenced to a four-year prison term.[22] Quebec Court Judge Michel Duceppe noted "In your lifetime, you have killed more people than the Canadian military did in the Gulf War." Trudeau returned to prison under the double stigma of being both an informant and a child molester, meaning that he had to be kept in isolation 23 hours a day.[21]

In 2006, Trudeau was diagnosed with bone-marrow cancer. In July 2008, the Canadian National Parole Board granted him parole and ordered him released to an outside medical-care facility.[23] As part of his release, Trudeau was not allowed to contact minors or the victims of his crimes.[1] The sister of one of Trudeau's victims, opposed to him being granted parole, told the Journal de Montréal: "Killing to him was like buying a bag of milk. A guy like that doesn't have a soul. That cancer is justice."[6]

List of the murders

🔵Jean-Marie Viel 1970 Trudeau's first known victim, Viel was shot to death in Trois-Rivières after he stole a motorcycle from the Popeyes.[25][26]

🔵Robert Côté 17 February 1978 Trudeau shot down Côté with a machine-gun as the latter stood outside of the Brasserie Joey, loudly cursing and swearing at the Hells Angels inside of the Brasserie Joey.[13]

🔵Gilles Cadorette 21 March 1978 Trudeau assassinated Cadorette, the president of the Montreal chapter of the Outlaws, with a bomb he planted in his car.[27]

🔵Brian Powers 10 November 1978 Trudeau assassinated Powers, an Outlaw leader, by knocking on his door and shooting him in the head nine times when he answered.[28]

🔵William Weichold 8 December 1978 On the evening of 8 December 1978, Trudeau saw a man walking down a street in Montreal who resembled an Outlaw leader, Roland "Roxy" Dutemple.[14] Trudeau walked up to him, asked "Êtes-vous Roxy?" ("Are you Roxy?") and when the man did not answer, pulled out his handgun and shot him in the head.[29] On the next day Trudeau learned from reading the newspapers that the man he killed was Weichold, who just happened to look like Dutemple and did not answer his question because he spoke no French. Weichold had no involvement with organized crime.[29] Trudeau later remembered laughing hysterically when he learned from reading Le Devoir that the man he killed was Weichold, not Dutemple.[30] Trudeau's only disappointment with killing Weichold was that the Angels chose not to pay him for that killing as he requested, as he argued that people who looked like Dutemple should be killed in case they were him.[29]

🔵Roland "Roxy" Dutemple 29 March 1979 Trudeau finally assassinated Dutemple with a car bomb.[29]

🔵Robert Labelle 3 April 1979 Trudeau assassinated Labelle, the leader of a gang in Laval called the Huns, who, rumor had it, was planning to have his gang "patch over" to join the Outlaws.[29] Trudeau knocked on his door, and when Labelle opened it, shot him in the head.[29]

🔵Donald McLean and Cameran Piche 9 May 1979 McLean was a member of the rival Outlaws gang and Piche was his girlfriend. Trudeau blew them both up when a bomb attached to McLean's Harley-Davidson motorcycle exploded.[29

🔵Jeanne Desjardins, André Desjardins, and Berthe Desjardins February 1980 A grandmother, killed in for trying to help her son, ex-Hells Angel André Desjardins. Trudeau beat her to death and then killed her son and his girlfriend. The bodies of the latter two were dumped in the St. Lawrence River.[31]

🔵Robert Morin 14 March 1981 Trudeau killed Morin with a bomb planted under his car.

🔵Donat Lemieux and Lucie Vallières 9 May 1981 Trudeau killed Donat Lemieux and his girlfriend, Lucie Vallières, on their porch in Rosemont

🔵Patrick "Hughie" McGurnaghan 27 October 1981 A reputed West End Gang member who was blown up in Westmount when a bomb planted in his Mercedes-Benz detonated, killing him and seriously injuring a male passenger.[6][32] Trudeau later said Frank "Dunie" Ryan had hired him to commit the murder

🔵Charlie Hachez January 1982 Even fellow Hells Angels were not safe. Trudeau killed Hachez, a member of the North Chapter, because he had a heavy drug problem, had conspired to kidnap Frank Ryan's children and owed Ryan $150,000 in drug money. When Ryan learned about the kidnapping plot, he informed the Hells Angels that they either liquidate those involved or be cut off from the cocaine that he sold them.[6] Hachez was lured to a meeting, killed, and his body dumped in the St. Lawrence River.

🔵Denis "Le Curé" Kennedy January 1982 A Popeye turned Hells Angel, and the leader of the plot to kidnap Frank Ryan's children, was gunned down by Trudeau after being invited to go out for some drinks at a local bar.[6] Kennedy was one of Trudeau's friends, and crime journalist James Dubro commented about his murder: "That's the thing about biker gangs like the Hells Angels. They talk about a brotherhood but when they find someone is no longer useful they just get rid of him."[6]

🔵André Forget 7 May 1983 A partner of Trudeau, he was shot at a gas station.

🔵Ronald Bernard 7 July 1983 Just one month later, Trudeau shot Bernard, another partner and a hold-up artist.

🔵Michel Desormiers July 1983 Brother-in-law of reputed mob boss Frank Cotroni, Desormiers was gunned down in July 1983. The killing was cleared with the Montreal Mafia first.[33]

🔵 Raymond Filion 10 October 1983 Trudeau shot Filion outside his sister's house in Laval.

🔵Phillipe Galipeau and Rachelle Francoeur 1984 Paul April hired Trudeau to kill drug dealer Galipeau. He shot both Galipeau and his girlfriend Rachelle Francoeur in their rue Cartier house.

🔵Paul April, Robert Lelievre, Louis-Charles Paquette, and Gilles Paquette 25 November 1984 When Frank Ryan was himself murdered on 13 November 1984, Trudeau was hired by the new leader of the West End Gang, Allan "the Weasel" Ross, to exact revenge. A television set stuffed with explosives was delivered to the apartment where Paul April and the rest of Ryan's killers were holed up. Michel Blass, a friend of Trudeau, arrived at April's apartment with the gift of a TV, a VCR and the videotape Hells Angels Forever.[6] After Blass left the building, Trudeau used a remote control to detonate the bomb he had planted inside the TV.[6] The explosion killed April, Robert Lelievre (a small-time Montreal hood), Louis-Charles Paquette, and Gilles Paquette (two other associates), and injured eight others and knocked a huge hole in the apartment building in downtown Montreal.

🔵Jean-Marc "La Grande Maw" Deniger 1 May 1985 A drug dealer who was an associate of the Hells Angels North Chapter. Trudeau strangled Deniger. He stuffed his body in the trunk of his car and abandoned it on a city street.

And that was the long list of terrible murders of the mad bomber 

 Today's serial killer is a Spanish man named (Manuel Blanco Romasanta) aka "the werewolf"

Manuel Blanco Romasanta

Manuel Blanco Romasanta (né Manuela; 18 November 1809 – 14 December 1863) was Spain's first recorded serial killer. In 1853, he admitted to thirteen murders, but claimed he was not responsible because he was suffering from a curse that caused him to turn into a wolf.

Although this defense was rejected at trial, Queen Isabella II commuted his death sentence to allow doctors to investigate the claim as an example of clinical lycanthropy. Blanco has become part of Spanish folklore as the Werewolf of Allariz[1] and is also known as The Tallow Man, a nickname he earned for rendering his victims' fat to make high-quality soap.

His background

Manuel Blanco Romasanta was born on 18 November 1809 in Regueiro, Esgos, Ourense province, one of five children born to Miguel Blanco and María Romasanta.Originally thought to be female, he was named Manuela and raised as a girl until the age of six when a doctor reassigned his sex. At the age of eight, the family legally changed his name. Because he could read and write, a skill that was very rare at the time in Galicia, it is believed his family was relatively wealthy.

According to various accounts, he was of small stature, between 1.37m (4'6") and 1.49m (4'11") in height, blonde, and "tender looking". As an adult, he worked as a dressmaker and was married. He was widowed a year later but was not suspected of having had a hand in her death. Following the death of his wife in 1833, Blanco became a traveling salesman, initially in Esgos, then eventually throughout Galicia and Portugal. Blanco was also known to act as a guide for travelers crossing the mountains to Castile, Asturias, and Cantabria, which gave him further opportunities for trade.

In 1844, Blanco was charged with the murder of Vicente Fernández, the alguacil of León. Fernández was found dead after attempting to collect a debt of 600 real that Blanco owed to a supplier in Ponferrada for the purchase of merchandise. When he failed to appear, he was judged guilty by default and sentenced in absentia to 10 years imprisonment.

Other murders

Fleeing from the threat of imprisonment, Blanco lived in hiding for almost a year in an abandoned shelter in Ermida. He reappeared later in public with a false passport using the name Antonio Gómez, a native of Nogueira, Portugal; and lived in the small village of Rebordechao in the district of Vilar de Barrio for at least a year. Although he helped with the harvest, he also worked as a cook, a coir maker, and as a weaver making yarn on a spinning wheel. He became friendly with the women of the village, which led the men to consider him effeminate.[3]

Over the following years, several women and children who had hired Blanco as a guide began to disappear. Their disappearances were not noticed immediately as Blanco delivered letters to their families, advising that they had arrived well at their destinations and were settling in. However, people became suspicious when they noticed that he was selling his victim's clothing locally. Rumors began to spread that he was selling soap made from human fat.

In 1852, a complaint was finally lodged in the city of Escalona, alleging that Blanco deceived women and children into traveling with him so that he could kill them and remove their fat, which he then sold. He was arrested in September 1852, in Nombela, in the province of Toledo, and brought to trial in Allariz, in the area of Ourense. In his defense, Blanco claimed that he was afflicted with lycanthropy.[2][3][5]

Trial in Allariz

anything, cool and collected and without goodness but [acts] with free will, freedom and knowledge."[2][7]

The court acquitted Blanco of four of the murders he had confessed to after forensic evidence indicated that these victims had died in real wolf attacks. He was found guilty of the other nine, the remains of which exhibited signs of butchering. On 6 April 1853, Blanco was sentenced to death by garrote with 1000 Real compensation to be paid for each victim.[2] The court case had lasted seven months and the transcript covered more than two thousand pages which were bound in five volumes titled "Licantropia".[2]

The case was sent for ratification to the Territorial Court in A Coruña which, after considering the case for seven months, reduced the sentence to life imprisonment. The prosecution appealed against the reduction and a new hearing was set for March 1854, which upheld the original verdict from the court in Allariz: death by garrote.[2][5]

Confirmed victims

Manuela García, age 47, and her daughter Petra, 15, killed in the Sierra de San Mamede while traveling to Santander.

Benita García Blanco, aged 34, and her son Francisco, 10, killed in Corgo de Boi while traveling to Rua cantabras.

Antonia land, 37 years old, and her daughter Peregrina, killed while traveling to Ourense.

Josefa García and her son José Pazos, 21

 years old.

María Dolores, 12 years old

The prosecutor

Luciano Bastida y Hernáez gained considerable fame and prestige for his prosecution of Blanco and was made a Knight of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III of Spain, the most distinguished civil award that can be granted, and was appointed to the Supreme Court. Bastida died in Ponferrada in 1872 at age 60 and is considered one of the provinces of La Rioja's "most illustrious sons" for his legal career. The bicentenary of his birth was celebrated in La Rioja on 8 January 2012.[6]

Commutation by Royal Decree

"Mr. Phillips", a French hypnotist living in London, had been following the "Werewolf of Allariz" case through the reporting in French newspapers. Phillips wrote to José de Castro y Orozco, the Spanish Minister of Justice, stating that Blanco was suffering from a monomania known as lycanthropy and was not responsible for his actions. He claimed that he had successfully treated the condition through hypnosis and asked that the execution be delayed so he could study the case. The Minister of Justice wrote to Queen Isabella II who personally commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment by Royal Order of 13 May 1854 and Blanco was transferred to a prison in Celanova.[2][3]

Although there is no documentary evidence for the identity of Mr. Phillips, it is believed that he was the French physician Joseph-Pierre Durand de Gros who had been exiled to Britain and who later returned to France using the pseudonym Dr. Phillips.[2] Durand de Gros was a significant part of the movement that led to the incorporation and assimilation of "Braidism" (viz., hypnotism à la James Braid; see [1]) in France and his works on the influence of the mind were later developed by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The "Wolfman" trial occurred at the beginning of the golden age of hypnotism.

Death

The Celanova prison and its records no longer exist but it was widely believed that Blanco died within months of arriving. Locals say it was from illness, but there is also a rumor that he died after being shot by a guard who wanted to see him transform.[2] However, a TVG documentary aired on 30 May 2009 investigated the possibility that he had died elsewhere, suggesting he had died in San Antón Castle in A Coruña. In October 2011, a "Xornadas Manuel Blanco Romasanta" (a symposium and exhibition of Blanco memorabilia) was held in Allariz where Galician researchers Félix and Cástor Castro Vicente presented evidence that Blanco had died in the prison of Ceuta on 14 December 1863. The evidence consisted of two newspaper articles, La Iberia a Liberal journal of 23 December 1863 that included a short sentence reporting that Blanco had died and La Esperanza newspaper dated 21 December 1863 which reported on its front page:[8]

"In Ceuta prison, the unfortunately famous Manuel Blanco Romasanta, known in all Spain as the werewolf as a consequence of his atrocities and misdeeds and who was sentenced to prison by the Court in La Coruña, died in that place on 14 of this month being the victim of stomach cancer."

Popular culture

El bosque del lobo (The wolf's forest) is a 1968 Spanish drama film produced and directed by Pedro Olea and starring José Luis López Vázquez. The film is based on the novel El bosque de Ancines (Ancines Forest) by Carlos Martínez-Barbeito, which was in turn based on the Werewolf of Allariz court case.[citation needed]

Romasanta (also titled "Werewolf Hunter – The Legend of Romasanta") is a 2004 Anglo-Spanish horror film produced by Fantastic Factory, directed by Paco Plaza and starring Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky, and John Sharian. The film is based on a script by Alfredo Conde, who is a descendant of one of the doctors involved in the original Werewolf of Allariz court case. Conde went on to write the fictional novel The Uncertain Memoirs of a Galician Wolfman: Romasanta.[9]

In the 2014 documentary "10 Most Evil Serial Killers" from BayView Entertainment, Manuel Blanco Romasanta is portrayed by British horror actor Nathan Head.[10]

He also influenced the novel Perfume.

Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour

Today's story is about an Egyptian Serial killer

His Background

Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour  , also known as al-Tourbini, was an Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer who raped and murdered at least 32 children and youth in the course of seven years, throughout several locations in Egypt including Cairo, Alexandria, Qalyoubeya and Beni Sueif.[2][3][4] All of his victims were 10 to 14 years old, most of them boys.[4] Mansour was arrested in 2006 along with his six accomplices, and subsequently executed.[5]

Crime

Mansour left his home in Tanta, a town north of Cairo, and joined a street gang at an early age. Gang leaders taught him skills of survival, allegedly cutting him with razors whenever he made a mistake.[4] According to his confession, Mansour soon learned how to get back at those who crossed him: raping them, and murdering anyone who threatened to go to the police afterwards.[4] One of the victims, 12-year-old boy Ahmed Nagui, had been a member of Mansour's gang. When Mansour tried to sexually assault him, Nagui reported him to the police, and Mansour was arrested but was released for lack of evidence. Soon after Mansour raped and murdered Nagui in retaliation, according to the prosecutors.[4]

Mansour frequently traveled between Cairo and Alexandria by train. He felt safer in Alexandria because it had fewer police officers.[4] The Vice Department of Borg El-Arab police station in Alexandria started keeping a profile on him during this time.[4] Mansour and his gang members lured street children onto the carriage roof of the trains, where they then stripped, raped and tortured them, and tossed them naked onto the trackside, dead or barely alive.[2][4] Some of the children were dumped into the Nile, or buried alive.[4] Mansour and his gang's crimes came to light in 2006 when two of his gang members were arrested, and Mansour acquired the nickname al-Tourbini, meaning "express train", from his favorite location for the crimes.[2] After the arrest, Mansour reportedly told prosecutors that he was possessed by a female jinn who commanded him to commit the crimes.[4] Mansour, along with his accomplice Farag Samir Mahmoud, also known as "Hanata", were convicted and sentenced to death by the criminal court in Tanta in 2007.[5] Mansour and Mahmoud were both executed by hanging at Burj Al Arab Prison on Thursday, December 16, 2010.[6][7]

Five other accomplices were also convicted in the case, but spared execution. They instead received prison sentences ranging between three and forty years.[8]

Commercialization of the name

Soon after the arrest, al-Ahram, a widely circulated Egyptian newspaper, reported that some products in Egypt were being named after Mansour's nickname, "al-Tourbini".[1][2] Several restaurants in Mansour's hometown, Tanta, started selling a so-called "al-Tourbini sandwich", allegedly in demand by young locals.[1][2] Sheep merchants gave the name "al-Tourbini" to the large-size lamb priced at more than LE 2,000.[1] Some tuk-tuk drivers named their vehicles "al-Tourbini" to attract customers.[1] According to al-Ahram, the "strangest such marketing ploy" was that of owners of supermarkets and communications centers in Tanta were renaming their businesses "al-Tourbini: The Butcher of Gharbia". Author and journalist John R. Bradley commented in his book Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution that "this reaction borders on the incomprehensible, but what it clearly indicates is that something has gone terribly wrong" with contemporary Egyptian society.[9]

Richard Ramirez aka (the night stalker)

 Richard's background

Ramirez grew up in El Paso, Texas, the youngest of five children born to Mexican immigrants. According to reports, when he was 12 years old, a cousin who was a Vietnam War veteran showed him pictures of Vietnamese women he had allegedly raped, tortured, and killed. The following year Ramirez was a witness to his cousin’s fatal shooting of his wife. Around this time, Ramirez began breaking into homes. After dropping out of high school, he moved to Los Angeles. He continued to commit crimes and was briefly imprisoned for stealing a car.

His start in murdering

The criminal killed at least 13 people and carried out a string of home invasions and an array of violent crimes in the mid-1980s in California.

The killer attacked people of all ages, including men, women and children.

Richard Ramirez was convicted of the murders of 13 people, who were killed between June 1984 and August 1985.

He was also convicted of the attempted murders of five more people as well as of several counts of sexual assault and of burglary.

Who were his victims?

The following are the people Richard Ramirez killed, according United Press International (UPI) Archives.

🔹Jennie Vincow – The 79-year-old was killed by Ramirez on 27 June, 1984, when he also burgled her home in Glassell Park LA.

🔹Dale Okazasi – On 17 March, 1985, Ramirez shot and killed 34-year-old Okazasi at her home in Rosemead, California, after also attacking her housemate Maria Hernandez, 20, who survived.

🔹Tsai-Lian “Veronica” Yu – On the same day (March 17, 1985) as the murder in Rosemead, Yu, 30, was dragged from her car and killed

🔹Vincent Zazzara – On 27 March, 1985, Ramirez broke into the home of Vincent Zazzara, 64 and killed him while he slept.

🔹Maxine Zazzara – The 44-year-old was killed as part of the same attack as her husband Vincent Zazzara on 27 March, 1985

🔹William Doi – Ramirez broke into the home of Doi, 65, in Monterey Park on 14 May 1985 where he fatally shot him.

🔹Mable “Ma” Bell – The 84-year-old died after Ramirez attacked her at her home in Monrovia, California, on 29 June, 1985

🔹Mary Louise Cannon – The 77-year-old widow was killed at her home in Arcadia, California, on 2 July 1985.

🔹Joyce Lucille Nelson -The 61-year-old was beaten to death on 7 July, 1985, by Ramirez, who also burgled her home in Monterey Park.

🔹Max Kneiding – The 68-year-old was attacked with a machete, shot and killed by Ramirez on 20 July, 1985.

🔹Lela Kneiding – The 66-year-old wife of Max Kneiding was also killed on the same day (20 July, 1985) after Ramirez broke into the couple’s home in Glendale, California, which he also robbed.

🔹Chainarong Khovananth – The 32-year-old was shot and killed while asleep in his home in Sun Valley in 20 July, 1985.

🔹Elyas Abowath – Ramirez shot and killed the 31-year-old on 8 August, 1985 in Diamond Bar, California, during a burglary of the family home.

Ramirez also committed an array of further crimes against many more people.

In some cases, other members of the same households as the victims listed above were also attacked, but they survived.

How was he caught and what happened to him?

One person who survived an attack by Ramirez, Inez Erickson, gave a description of him to the police in the summer of 1985 and they were eventually able to identify him thanks to fingerprint evidence from a stolen car.

He was eventually captured in August 1985 after his picture was widely published by the press.

Following a trial that began in 1988, he was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five counts of attempted murder, 11 counts of sexual assault and 14 counts of burglary.

In 1989, he was handed 19 death sentences.

After more than 23 years on death row awaiting execution, he died from complications of B-Cell lymphoma in 2013.

There's also a documentary on Netflix about him 

*Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer*