July 30, 1956 - Alfredo Stranieri
His method was mundane by design: classified advertisements offering to buy property or used cars, transactions ordinary enough to lower any seller's guard. The victims Stranieri selected were killed and their assets absorbed into a pattern of fraud that extended his reach beyond the killings themselves. The combination of premeditation, financial motive, and the exploitation of routine commerce across multiple victims placed him squarely within the category this site documents.
From Wikipedia
Alfredo Stranieri (30 July 1956 – 10 March 2025), known as the "Classified Ads Killer", was an Italian-born French criminal and serial killer, who met his victims through classified ads in which he presented himself as a potential buyer of properties or used cars.
Stranieri would kill his victims and appropriate their property. He was sentenced to life imprisonment together with a minimum sentence of 22 years on 28 February 2003 for four murders and one unsuccessful attempted murder. Stranieri had appropriated the property of the two couples he had murdered to use it in fraudulent activities, also trying to kill a man who wanted to sell him a car.
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