Cause of death Stabbed by victim Country Yemen | Name Zu Shenatir Died Aden, Yemen | |
Victims Unknown number of young boys Span of killings 5th century–5th century | ||
Zu Shenatir (fl. 5th century Yemen) was a man in the Himyarite Kingdom (modern-day Yemen) known as one of the first recorded serial killers. He was reportedly a wealthy man, and lived in Aden.
He lured young boys into his home with the promise of food and money, stripped them naked and sodomized them. He then killed them by throwing them naked out of an upper story window of his home. He was only stopped when a would-be victim, named by one book as Zerash, stabbed him.
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