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Tehran John Doe was a man whose decapitated head was found in Tehran, Iran in early March 1934. His body was discovered several days later. He is a victim of Ali Asghar Borujerdi AKA Asghar the Murderer.
Case[]
The victim's head was discovered by security agents near Jalaliyah and Laleh Park. There were no traces of skin on the skull and no sign of his body. Several days later, his body was discovered in the Aminabad aqueduct under the Dolatabad Castle. It was determined his head was cut from under his throat, and his nude body was thrown into the well of the aqueduct.
Later that month, police arrested Ali Asghar Borujerdi, a porter and snack seller who was previously convicted for 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, 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