January 10, 1949 - Ahmad Suradji
Operating under the guise of a traditional dukun, or shaman, Suradji used the promise of magical powers and protection to lure victims into a ritualized killing process that spanned more than a decade. The murders were embedded in a framework of occult belief — he claimed a vision from his father's spirit had instructed him to kill and consume victims' saliva to gain supernatural strength. Across eleven years, 42 girls and women fell within that pattern before his arrest in 1997.
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Ahmad Suradji (10 January 1949 – 10 July 2008), also known as Dukun AS, Nasib Klewang, and Datuk Maringgi, was an Indonesian serial killer who admitted to murdering 42 girls and women between 1986 and 1997. Suradji's victims, ranging in age between 11 and 30, were strangled after being buried in the ground up to their waists as part of a ritual. He buried his victims in a sugarcane plantation near his home with their heads facing his house, which he believed would give him extra power.
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