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Najafabad John Does were two teenage boys whose remains were found near the village of Najafabad, Iran, in December 1933. They are victims of Ali Asghar Borujerdi, AKA Asghar the Murderer.
Case[]
On 30 December 1933, at 10 a.m., a severed and mutilated head was discovered in the eastern part of the ruins of the Camel Khana near Najafabad. When officers arrived at the scene, they also found his nude body two meters away. During the search of the victim's clothes, the bodies of two more teenage boys were discovered. The first victim was identified as Rahim, a well-known teenage vagabond from the area. The other two boys were never identified but were also believed to be homeless. All three were decapitated by a single blow.
In March 1934, police arrested Ali Asghar Borujerdi, a porter and snack seller who was previously convicted of assaulting children as a teenager in Baghdad, Iraq, after he was found with a bloody knife and the bloody clothes of his last victim. During interrogation, Asghar confessed to assaulting, raping, and killing 33 male children and teenagers in and around Baghdad and Tehran; he had killed 25 in Baghdad, escaped when discovered, and then killed an additional eight in Tehran. He was subsequently convicted and executed at the ToopKhāneh Square in front of a crowd on 26 June 1934.
Sources[]
- Entekhab.ir (Persian)
- Serial Murder in Tehran (archived)
- Ali Asghar Borujerdi on Wikipedia
Footnotes[]
- ↑ Some sources may give the month as January.