On
this date, 10 July 2008, an Indonesian Serial Killer, Ahmad Suradji was
executed by the firing squad. I will post the information about him from Wikipedia
and Murderpedia.
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| Ahmad Suradji |
INTERNET SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Suradji
Ahmad Suradji
(10 January 1949 – 10 July 2008) was a serial killer in Indonesia. Suradji, a
cattle-breeder born on 10 January 1949, was executed July 10, 2008. He was also
known as Nasib Kelewang, or by his alias Datuk. He admitted to killing 42 girls
and women over a period of 11 years. His victims ranged in age from 11 to 30,
and were strangled with a cable after being buried up to their waists in the
ground as part of a ritual. Suradji was arrested on May 2, 1997, after bodies
were discovered near his home on the outskirts of Medan,
the capital of North Sumatra.
He buried his victims in a sugarcane plantation near his home, with heads of
the victims facing his house, which he believed would give him extra power.
He
told police that he had a dream in 1988 in which his father's ghost told him to
kill 70 women and drink their saliva, so that he could become a mystic healer.
As a sorcerer or dukun, women came to him for spiritual
advice or on making themselves more beautiful or richer. His three wives—all
sisters—were also arrested for assisting in the murders and helping to hide the
bodies. One of his wives, Tumini, was tried as his accomplice. The trial began
on December 11, 1997, with a 363-page charge against him, and although Suradji
maintained his innocence, he was found guilty on April 27, 1998 by a
three-judge panel in Lubuk Pakam. He was sentenced to death by firing squad and
executed on July 10, 2008.
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Ahmad Suradji cartoon [PHOTO SOURCE: https://santanadee.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/indonesian-sorcerer-and-serial-killer-ahmad-suradji/] |
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Ahmad Suradji [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.slideshare.net/alanCurtie/serial-killers-51141728] |
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Ahmad Suradji (SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad-photos.htm)
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad.htm
A.K.A.: "Nasib
Kelewang" - "Datuk Maringgi"
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Classification: Serial
killer
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Characteristics: Traditional
sorcerer - The bodies were dug up around his house in an attempt to increase
his magical powers
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Number of
victims: 42
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Date of
murders: 1986 - 1997
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Date of arrest: May
2, 1997
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Date of
birth: January 10, 1949
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Victims
profile: Women ranging in ages from 11 to 30 years (women who came to
him to ask for supernatural help in making themselves richer or more
attractive)
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Method of murder: Ligature
strangulation
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Location: Medan,
Indonesia
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Status: Executed
by firing squad on July 10, 2008
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Indonesian sorcerer go on trial
December 22, 1997
In Indonesia, a
traditional sorcerer accused of killing forty-two women is due to go on trial
in the city of Medan today.
The man, Ahmad
Suradji, was arrested in April when the police began digging up the bodies of
victims near his house.
The police said many
had been prostitutes who sought his help to become more attractive to men.
Officials said the
sorcerer had admitted to the killings.
The BBC correspondent
in Jakarta says that, if found guilty, Ahmad Suradji will rank as one of the
worst serial killers this century.
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Ahmad Suradji (SOURCE: http://www.toptenthailand.com/3351-top.html)
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Indonesian sorcerer on trial
December 23, 1997
A traditional
sorcerer has gone on trial in the Indonesian city of Medan, accused of killing
42 women.
The man, Ahmad
Suradji, was arrested in April when the police began digging up the bodies of
victims near his house.
Officials say the
sorcerer had admitted killing the women in a black magic ritual to increase his
magical powers.
According to police,
the sorcerer had a dream nine years ago in which the ghost of his father told
him to kill 70 women and drink their saliva.
The victims were
women who came to him to ask for supernatural help in making themselves richer
or more attractive.
It is thought his
macabre activities escaped detection because the women were too embarrassed to
tell friends and family where they were going.
The courtroom in
Medan was packed with more than 100 people as the trial began.
If found guilty, the
man faces the death penalty.
The BBC correspondent
in Indonesia says mystical powers are widely trusted there, and sorcerers can
be found even in Jakarta's modern shopping centres.
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The sugar cane field near the sorcerer's home
in the village of Sei Semayang in north Sumatra, in which the 42 women's bodies
were discovered. (SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad-photos.htm)
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Indonesian sorcerer faces 42 murder charges
December 24, 1997
A traditional sorcerer accused of killing 42 women has gone on trial
near the Indonesian city of Medan. One of his three wives is also being tried
as an accomplice. The sorcerer, Ahmad Suradji, also known as Nasib Kelewang,
was arrested in April after the body of a woman was found near his house.
Jonathan Head sent this report from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta:
The Indonesian police
believe they have a clear-cut case against Ahmad Suradji. They say he has
admitted to killing all 42 of the women whose bodies were dug up around his
house in an attempt to increase his magical powers.
According to the
police, the sorcerer had a dream nine years ago in which the ghost of his
father told him to kill 70 women and drink their saliva. The victims were women
who came to him to ask for supernatural help in making themselves richer or
more attractive.
It's thought his
macabre activities escaped detection because the women were too embarrassed to
tell friends and family where they were going. The case received extensive
publicity when the bodies were first discovered in May but since then coverage
has been restricted to a few lurid articles in tabloid magazines about the
sorcerer's sex life.
If he's found guilty,
Ahmad Suradji will rank as one of the worst serial killers this century but
journalists here say that many Indonesians view his behaviour with a degree of
tolerance because he is a traditional sorcerer. Mystical powers are widely
believed in throughout Indonesia.
There are even
sorcerers offering their services in Jakarta's modern shopping centres. People
who consult them say they accept there is always a risk when dabbling with the
supernatural.
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Police found the bodies after a search in
April / May, 1997 (SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad-photos.htm)
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Indonesian sorcerer sentenced to death
BBC News
Monday, 27 April,
1998
A court on the Indonesian
island of Sumatra has sentenced a traditional sorcerer to death for the murder
of 42 women.
Achmad Suradji was
convicted at a court near the regional capital of Medan after several weeks of
testimony from witnesses who said their relatives had disappeared after
visiting him.
There were cheers
from a large crowd in the courtroom as the verdict was read out. More than 100
people had packed into the small courtroom while as many followed the
proceedings outside on a television screen.
Suradji remained
impassive throughout. His lawyers say he will appeal against the sentence.
The death penalty is
rarely applied in Indonesia and it is not clear when, if ever, the sentence
will be carried out.
Police had charged
Suradji of strangling the women as part of a black magic ritual intended to
increase his magical powers.
He was arrested on
April 28 last year after a woman's body was found buried in a sugar cane field.
She was last seen alive at his home.
Suradji allegedly
told police that since 1986 he had killed 42 women as part of a ritual to
improve his healing powers. Police have since unearthed all 42 bodies from the
field.
The sorcerer said he
began his killing spree after his late father contacted him in a dream and
ordered him to murder 70 women in a black magic ritual.
After strangling his
victims, Suradji claimed he drank their saliva, believing it would improve his
powers as a sorcerer.
Suradji, who uses the
alias Nasib Datuk Kelewang, was consulted by those seeking spiritual healing
and good fortune. Many were thought to be seeking his help to make their
husbands or boyfriends faithful.
One of his three
wives, Tumini, is charged with complicity in the crimes and is currently on
trial at a separate court there.
Now see the film
A graphic film about
the case has already been released throughout Indonesia. Suradji's lawyers have
protested that this has prevented their client from receiving a fair trial.
But according to the
BBC's correspondent, these gruesome killings appear to have made no impact on
the appetite for mystical guidance here. Sorcerers say that since Indonesia's
economic crisis began, they have never had so many customers.
Ahmad Suradji
Ahmad Suradji was a
well-respected 48 year-old witch doctor in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra,
many trusted the man for guidance on matters such as love and money and health.
However when the doctor was arrested by police for the murders of several local
women, people began to wonder about the medicine man's true powers.
Suradji claimed that
he would bury young women in the sands near his sugarcane plantation. Suradji
would then strangled the terrified women and drink the saliva that dribbled
from their mouths.
The ritual supposedly
increased the man's powers so he could help clients heal all manner of
problems, from poverty to illness to love. After the sacrifical ceremony was
completed Suradji would dig the dead bodies out of their murderous trench and
rebury them closer to his house. All of the victims were buried in a specific
pattern facing the witch-doctor's house.
Suradji may have
gotten away with the murders for many more years had it not been the vigilance
of one father, whose suspicions ended in the witch-doctor's arrest on May 2,
1997 and that of his three wives, who are sisters.
After the father of
one of the victims reported the disappearance of his daughter who went to see
Ahmad the police set eyes on him. The police found the body of one of the
victims in a field close to his house. The police began a thorough search of
the plantation and found 41 additional bodies.
Suradji confessed to
the murders of 16 women over a five-year period, hoping that once police had
found that many buried superficially around the property that they may stop
looking, however the found evidence of at least 25 women, including clothing
and jewelery and watches.
So with the mounting evidence Suradji changed his
story. He told police that over eleven years he had murdered 42 women, ranging
in ages from 11 years old to 30. Many of the victims had been prostitutes as
well and so their disappearance was not immediately noticed. However since 42
bodies have now been exhumed another 80 families have come forward with reports
of missing women, giving rise to fear that perhaps there is many more victims
to be found.
Most of the women who
had hired the doctor had required him to cast magic spells to ensure the
faithfulness of their husbands or boyfriends. Neighbors said that many women
sought the sorcerer's help believing they would make themselves richer,
healthier and more sexually attractive to men.
Suradji's method was
to charge each victim according to their needs the price was usually around
$300. Then he would take them to a sugarcane plantation near his home and bury
them in the ground up to their waist, he would tell the women it was a part of
his ritual. Once in the ground he strangled each woman with electrical cable.
Then he drank their saliva, undressed their corpse and reburied them with their
heads pointing to his home so to enhance his magical powers.
According to Suradji
he had a dream in which the ghost of his father told him to kill 70 women and
drink their saliva so he could become a "dukan", or mystic healer, he
said.
During their trials,
both Suradji and his senior wife Tumini denied the slayings. They claimed they
confessed under torture by the police. However their forced confession defence
fell on deaf ears and on April 27, 1998, the witch-doctor was found guilty by
the three-judge panel of Indonesia's worst killing spree. Suradji has been
sentenced to death by firing squad. Those in court cheered as the sentence was
read out.
Bibliography:
Yahoo World News / Daily Telegraph
Yahoo World News / Daily Telegraph
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A victim's sister examines a dress found with
one of the bodies. (SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad-photos.htm)
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SURADJI, Ahmad
An Indonesian cattle breeder and self-styled
sorcerer, Ahmad Suradji was 36 years old in 1986 when his late father appeared
to him in a dream, commanding him to increase his occult powers by killing 70
women in black magic rituals. According
to his later confessions, Suradji-aka Nasib Kelawang or Datuk Mariniggi wasted
no time in following the old mans orders.
lt was easy enough to find victims, since local
women often visited his home outside Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, to
purchase love charms and similar items.
Each sacrifice followed the same pattern: after charging his victim a
fee that ranged from $200 to $400, Suradji led the unsuspecting female to a
nearby sugar plantation, where he dug a hole and buried her up to the waist,
supposedly as part of a ritual designed to ensure her lover's fidelity.
Once the victim was effectively immobilized,
Suradji then strangled her with an electric cord, drank the victim's saliva,
stripped the corpse, and buried ¡t with the head pointed toward his home to
channel the spirit's mystical powers. lf all else failed and willing customers
tan short, Suradji would hire prostitutas and murder them instead.
Suradji was still short of his 70-victim goal on
April 28, 1997, when three bodies were found on the plantation and police
arrested him for questioning. In
custody, he initially confessed to killing 16 victims over the past five years,
but a search of his home turned up clothing and personal items linked to 25
missing women, and Suradji finally confessed to a total of 42 murders spanning
11 years. His three wives, all sisters,
were jailed as accomplices, but two were later released, with only the oldest-38-year-old
Tumini-charged after confessing her role in the crimes.
Police unearthed 40 corpses on the plantation, victims
ranging in age from 12 to 30 years, and while some 80 local families had
reported missing females during the span of Suradji's rampage, Ahmad and Tumini
were charged with only 42 counts of murder when their trial began on December
21, 1997. By that time, both defendants
had recanted their confessions,
claiming they were tortured by police, but no
denials could explain the corpses unearthed near Suradji's home.
On April 27, 1998, Suradji was convicted and sentenced
to death by firing squad. Tumini was
also convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Suradji's lawyers have announced that they will
appeal his conviction.
Michael
Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers - Hunting Humans
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A victims 8-year old son who also testified
before the court, said he accompanied his mother in what was to be her last
journey. But was sent home without her. (SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad-photos.htm)
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| Neighbours destroyed Suradji house in anger. (SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad-photos.htm) |
Ahmad Suradji
Such a doctor was Ahmad Suradji, also known as
Nasib Kelewang or Datuk Maringgi. Suradji was a well-respected witch doctor in
Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, many trusted the man for guidance on
matters such as love and money and health. However, when a girl who had visited
Suradji didn't return, the father reported the disappearance of his daughter.
When the police went to Suradji's house, they found the body of one of the
victims in a field close to his house.
A search of Ahmad's property revealed clothes and
watches belonging to 25 missing women. After the police arrested Suradji on May
2, 1997, he initially confessed the killing of 16 women over a five-year
period. But under further questioning, he confessed to have killed 42 woman,
ranging in ages from 11 to 30 years, over a period of 11 years. Ahmad's three
wives, all sisters, were also arrested for helping him commit the murders and
hide the corpses. The oldest wife, Tumini, was tried as his accomplice in his
11-year rampage.
Police believe the victims may have been too
embarrassed to tell their families of their seeking the sorcerer's help so
their disappearances were not linked to him. A large amount of them were also
prostitutes.
Suradji's methode of killing was to charge each
victim according to their needs. The price was usually between $200 and $400.
After that, he would take them to a sugarcane plantation near his home and bury
them in the ground up to their waist as part of a ritual. Once in the ground he
strangled each woman with electrical cable. Then he drank their saliva,
undressed their corpses and reburied them with their heads pointing to his home
so to enhance his magical powers. Suradji told police that nine years ago he
had a dream in which the ghost of his father told him to kill 70 women and
drink their saliva .
After the unearthing of the 40 corpses, the police
asked local residents to report missing female familie members. About 80
families in the area have reported relatives missing, so it is posible that
Ahmad Suradji may have killed even more woman.
During their trials both Suradji and Tumini denied
the slayings, saying they confessed because they could no longer bear torture
by interrogators. On April 27, 1998, an Indonesian court in North Sumatra found
the sorcerer guilty of Indonesia's worst killing spree. As the last of the 42
bodies was being unearthed, Suradji was sentenced to death by firing squad.
His wife Tumini is also sentenced to death for her
part in the killings. The court found that she had deliberately helped him in
the killings.
The other two wifes has left the village.
The reaction in the rest of Indonesia is relatively
muted. The beginning of the trial went unreported in Indonesia's national
press. People say it is because they are used to going for help to
"paranormals", and familiar with things going wrong.
Consulting mystics is a way of life in Indonesia,
and they are reputed to have huge sexual appetites. There have been other cases
of mystics molesting and even raping their clients.
"The case of Achmad Suradji is an
aberration," says a traditional healer, who is visited by many for his
supposedly magic powers.
"If you don't have the right background, the
right education, or the right teacher, then things could go badly wrong."
Some mystics say they can arrange to have people
killed by magic powers.
But people in Mr Suradji's village say that the
allegations about him have put them off from seeing mystics, and that they will
now stay clear of traditional sorcery.
As one of Mr Suradji's neighbours says, they feel
betrayed by a man who was once a respected member of the community.
Speaking to reporters in Medan, Suradji seemed less
perturbed by the prospect of being executed than by his incomplete agenda.
"The target was 70" he admitted.
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Ahmad Suradji (SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad-photos.htm)
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Datuk
Name: Ahmad Suradji
a.k.a: Nasib Kelewang or Datuk Maringgi
Date of birth: 1949
Date of death: April 27, 1998
Cause of death: Executed by a firing squad
Killings: 42
Location: Indonesia
Killing spree: 1986 – 1997
a.k.a: Nasib Kelewang or Datuk Maringgi
Date of birth: 1949
Date of death: April 27, 1998
Cause of death: Executed by a firing squad
Killings: 42
Location: Indonesia
Killing spree: 1986 – 1997
In Indonesia, consulting mystic doctors is a way of
living. A lot of people visit the doctors because they think the doctors have
paranormal powers, and ask them for medical and spiritual advise. A lot of
woman sought the doctor's help believing they would make themselves richer,
healthier and more sexually attractive to their husbands or boyfriends.
Such a doctor was Ahmad Suradji, also known as
Nasib Kelewang or Datuk Maringgi. Suradji was a well-respected witch doctor in
Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, many trusted the man for guidance on
matters such as love and money and health. However, when a girl who had visited
Suradji didn't return, the father reported the disappearance of his daughter.
When the police went to Suradji's house, they found the body of one of the
victims in a field close to his house.
A search of Ahmad's property revealed clothes and
watches belonging to 25 missing women. After the police arrested Suradji on May
2, 1997, he initially confessed the killing of 16 women over a five-year
period. But under further questioning, he confessed to have killed 42 woman,
ranging in ages from 11 to 30 years, over a period of 11 years. Ahmad's three
wives, all sisters, were also arrested for helping him commit the murders and
hide the corpses. The oldest wife, Tumini, was tried as his accomplice in his
11-year rampage.
Police believe the victims may have been too
embarrassed to tell their families of their seeking the sorcerer's help so
their disappearances were not linked to him. A large amount of them were also
prostitutes.
Suradji's methode of killing was to charge each
victim according to their needs. The price was usually between $200 and $400.
After that, he would take them to a sugarcane plantation near his home and bury
them in the ground up to their waist as part of a ritual. Once in the ground he
strangled each woman with electrical cable. Then he drank their saliva,
undressed their corpses and reburied them with their heads pointing to his home
so to enhance his magical powers. Suradji told police that nine years ago he
had a dream in which the ghost of his father told him to kill 70 women and
drink their saliva .
After the unearthing of the 40 corpses, the police
asked local residents to report missing female familie members. About 80 families
in the area have reported relatives missing, so it is posible that Ahmad
Suradji may have killed even more woman.
During their trials both Suradji and Tumini denied
the slayings, saying they confessed because they could no longer bear torture
by interrogators. On April 27, 1998, an Indonesian court in North Sumatra found
the sorcerer guilty of Indonesia's worst killing spree. As the last of the 42
bodies was being unearthed, Suradji was sentenced to death by firing squad.
His wife Tumini is also sentenced to death for her
part in the killings. The court found that she had deliberately helped him in
the killings.
The other two wifes has left the village.
The reaction in the rest of Indonesia is relatively
muted. The beginning of the trial went unreported in Indonesia's national
press. People say it is because they are used to going for help to
"paranormals", and familiar with things going wrong.
Consulting mystics is a way of life in Indonesia,
and they are reputed to have huge sexual appetites. There have been other cases
of mystics molesting and even raping their clients.
"The case of Achmad Suradji is an
aberration," says a traditional healer, who is visited by many for his
supposedly magic powers.
"If you don't have the right background, the right
education, or the right teacher, then things could go badly wrong."
Some mystics say they can arrange to have people
killed by magic powers.
But people in Mr Suradji's village say that the
allegations about him have put them off from seeing mystics, and that they will
now stay clear of traditional sorcery.
As one of Mr Suradji's neighbours says, they feel
betrayed by a man who was once a respected member of the community.
Speaking to reporters in Medan, Suradji seemed less
perturbed by the prospect of being executed than by his incomplete agenda. "The target was 70" he
admitted.
Serialkillers.nl
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Ahmad Suradji hoped ritual killings would
give him magical powers (SOURCE: http://news.sky.com/story/618391/indonesian-sorcerer-executed)
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Indonesian Sorcerer Executed
NewsSky.com
July 11, 2008
An Indonesian man convicted of killing 42 women and girls in
ritual slayings that he hoped would bring him magical powers has been executed.
Ahmad Suradji, 57, was killed by firing squad despite a last
minute appeal from human-rights group Amnesty International.
Bonaventura Nainggolan, spokesman for the Attorney General's
Office, said: "He appeared resigned to his fate.
"His final wish was to see his wife. We fulfilled this."
He added: "He pretended to be a shaman who could heal any
kind of disease. If someone asked to be healed, both their possessions and
their lives were taken."
Suradji lured his female victims to a sugarcane field near his
home in western Indonesia.
He then buried them up to the waist and strangled them before
reburying their bodies with the heads pointing toward his house.
Suradji also drank their saliva, believing it would enhance his
powers.
The serial killer was arrested in May 1997 following the discovery
of a body in the field in Lubukpakan, a village in North Sumatra province.
Dozens of other corpses were later found nearby.
A district court found the sorcerer guilty a year later of killing
42 women and girls, between the ages 11 and 30, over an 11-year period.
Many Indonesians believe in witchcraft and Suradji claimed he had
the power to influence people's futures.
The victims were believed to have been seeking his help in making
their husbands or boyfriends faithful.
Suradji's wife, Tumini, was also sentenced to death for assisting
with the murders, but her sentence was later reduced to life in prison.
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Ahmad Suradji (SOURCE: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/suradji-ahmad-photos.htm)
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