Skip to main content

20

October 20 claims a figure whose crimes earned him one of the more visceral epithets in modern Egyptian criminal history. Gaddafi Faraj, known as the Giza Butcher, combined predatory violence with fraud in a case that drew significant public attention in Egypt and underscored the particular horror that attaches to killers who operate beneath an ordinary surface. His record stands as a reminder that the most locally devastating perpetrators rarely achieve international notoriety — yet the scale of harm visited on their communities is no less real for it.

October 20, 1973 - Gaddafi Faraj

Operating under a nickname that reflects the local notoriety he achieved, this Egyptian serial killer used lethal violence not as an end in itself but as a tool to suppress evidence of financial crimes — a pattern that unfolded across two cities over roughly two years. The four killings attributed to him represent a calculated effort to protect fraudulent schemes at the cost of human lives, a motive that distinguishes his case from more impulsive criminal violence. He currently awaits the outcome of appeals against four death sentences handed down by Egyptian courts.

Read more …October 20, 1973 - Gaddafi Faraj

  • Last updated on .