World's Worst Crimes: An A-Z of Evil Deeds by Greig Charlotte

Author:Greig, Charlotte [Greig, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Published: 2012-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Dennis ‘Des’ Nilsen in the army in 1961.

The Kiss of Death

Very little is known about the early life of Bela Kiss, one of the most horrifying serial killers of all time. His story only comes fully into focus when he began his career of murder, as a young man apparently searching for a wife.

A handsome man with blue eyes and fair hair, Kiss was very attractive to women, not only because of his good looks, but also because he was educated, intelligent and well mannered. However, when his crimes came to light, it emerged that Kiss was a lady killer in a more literal sense. He murdered over twenty women and pickled their bodies in alcohol, inside large metal drums that he hid in his home and around the countryside nearby. Perhaps most horrifying of all, he actually managed to get away with it.

Barrels

In 1912, Bela Kiss was living in the village of Czinkota, just outside Budapest in Hungary. He shared a house with his housekeeper, an elderly woman named Mrs Jakubec. Although well liked in the village, Kiss was not on intimate terms with any of his neighbours. A single man, he had a series of relationships with several attractive young women who often came to the house, but who were never introduced to the housekeeper or to any of his neighbours. Kiss also collected metal drums, telling the local police that they were for storing gasoline, which was likely to be in short supply in the future because of the impending war.

In 1914, Kiss was called up into the army. While he was away, soldiers went to his house to look for the extra supplies of gasoline he was known to have kept there. They found the drums and opened them. Instead of gasoline, inside each drum they found the dead body of a woman who had been strangled and whose body had then been preserved in alcohol. A further search through Kiss’ papers revealed dozens of letters from the women, who had visited the house after replying to his newspaper advertisements for a wife.

Kiss lured well-to-do, attractive women by correspondence, promising to marry them and often divesting them of their savings in the process. He then invited them to his home. Once there, he would strangle them, pickle their bodies in alcohol and seal them in the metal drums. The bodies also had puncture marks on their necks and their bodies were drained of blood. Bela Kiss was not just a murderer, but a vampire too.

Why he chose to preserve the bodies in this way nobody knows. It was obviously a risky thing to do. Firstly, the drums were big and hard to hide; secondly, the bodies inside were so perfectly preserved that in some cases even the labels on their clothing could be read. Surely Kiss must have known that if ever the drums were opened, his crimes could easily be traced.

Changing Identity

Several local women who had gone missing were discovered in the drums, along with many others whose absence had not been missed.

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