Discussions in Egypt lately have been dominated by the case of the "Gathering Murderer" and the crime in "Shubra Al-Khaimah," both of which have taken over search engines and caught the attention of social media users, newspapers, and news websites. This includes fear, analysis of behaviors, and investigations into the motives behind these unusual crimes within Egyptian society.
This discussion and analysis have led to a revisit of significant crimes that have left Egyptians in shock throughout history. Among them are the crimes of the sisters "Raya and Sakina," the most infamous murderers in Egypt. They became notorious for forming a gang to lure women and kill them to steal their gold jewelry, alongside their husbands, Hab Allah and Abdul Aal, and others, causing a state of panic in the city of Alexandria between 1919 and 1920.
**First Death Sentence Against Women in Modern Egyptian History**
The sisters and their gang were convicted of the premeditated murder of 17 women, who were their neighbors and close friends. Raya and Sakina, along with their accomplices, were sentenced to death, marking the first death penalty for women in modern Egyptian history.
**Beni Mazar Crime... A Continuous Mystery Until Today!**
Another horrific and strange crime that Egyptians cannot forget is the Beni Mazar incident in the Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt in 2005. The residents of the quiet village of Shams El-Din woke up to find 10 people from three different families murdered. The perpetrator brutally slaughtered these individuals and mutilated their genitalia, a shocking act that had never occurred in Egypt before.
The mystery of this bizarre crime remains unsolved even today. The perpetrator began by killing the head of one family, his wife, and their children while they slept. He then moved to the second house, killing a young lawyer and his mother, and proceeded to the third house to murder a teacher and his family.
Questions abounded about how a single individual could commit all these murders in just two and a half hours. Rumors circulated that the perpetrator discovered a pharaonic tomb under the village that he failed to open, leading him to seek assistance from jinn to commit these bizarre acts as a sacrifice for access to the tomb. However, these remain mere rumors, and the perpetrator remains at large, unidentified.
The court acquitted the only suspect in the case, who suffers from mental illnesses. There were contradictions between his confession of committing the massacre due to his psychological disorder and the psychiatric committee's report that confirmed his mental stability, deeming it impossible for him to butcher ten people in such a short period.
**The "Giza" and "Alexandria Murderer"**
No one forgets the crimes of "Giza and Alexandria Murderer," Qadhafi Farag Abdel Aati, who killed four individuals and buried their bodies between 2015 and 2017 in an incident that shocked Egyptian society.
His series of crimes began with the murder of his lifelong friend, Reda Mohamed, after deciding to seize the wealth he had amassed working abroad over 20 years. He killed and buried him, then impersonated him to take possession of his property. He traveled to Alexandria, married there under the name of his deceased friend, and killed his wife by poisoning her dinner and hitting her on the head with a blunt object. He stored her body in a freezer until he prepared her grave alongside his friend's.
The murderer cleverly disguised himself and assumed the identities of his victims and other individuals for illegal profit, ultimately disposing of a girl named Nadine after an argument and killing another female employee in an electrical appliances store after breaking promises of marriage to her.
**Ismailia Murderer**
In another horrific incident, a young man killed his friend in the street in front of passersby in broad daylight in November 2021, brazenly decapitating him with a machete and parading the head through the street. Bystanders attempted to intervene, but he injured two of them with a sharp weapon.
The accused claimed that he had worked with the victim's brother in a furniture shop before entering rehab for addiction treatment, and after recovering, discovered that the victim had assaulted his mother and sister, prompting him to seek revenge for his honor in public, admitting to using multiple drugs that morning.
**The "Rehab" Murder**
One of the crimes that shook Egyptians involved a father who, in 2018, killed his daughter's fiancé, a university student, with the help of his daughter (the fiancé's fiancée) and others. A conflict arose between the man and the victim after he discovered the involvement of his father-in-law in forging an ID card to evade a prison sentence.
The father and the other defendants plotted to kill the young victim, renting a ground-floor apartment in "Rehab" City and luring the victim there through the second accused (his fiancée). They all participated in the murder, burying the body in a hole under the kitchen sink, which they had previously prepared for this purpose, covering it with cement to prevent any odors from escaping and to avoid detection.
