Black Magic Killer

Ahmad Suradji (12 December 1952 – 10 July 2008), also known as Nasib Kelewang and Datuk Maringgi, changed into an Indonesian serial killer who admitted to murdering 42 girls and women between 1986 and 1997. Suradji's victims, ranging in age between eleven and 30, have been strangled after being buried inside the ground as much as their waists as part of a ritual. He buried his victims in a sugarcane plantation close to his domestic, with their heads going through his residence, which he believed would supply him more energy.

Instead, he lured them into a area and satisfied them to allow him bury them as much as the waist, which they believed became part of his magic remedy. Rather, he strangled the helpless ladies. Once they had been useless, he drank their saliva, believing that it would beautify his powers. Ultimately, he buried them absolutely, with their heads pointing toward his home.

In 1998, after police discovered a number of the our bodies, Suradji turned into arrested and subsequently convicted of his crimes. In 2008, he become achieved by way of firing squad. 

Ahmad Suradji claimed to be a type of religious healer known as a "dutak." Technically, the Indonesian authorities handiest recognizes six distinctive religions (including Islam and Christianity), but a few people who stay there additionally accept as true with in magic and various recuperation practices. Suradji turned into a shaman who, human beings believed, may want to make women more beautiful and help them get rich or discover a trustworthy boyfriend, thanks to his "magical powers."

He informed police that he had a dream in 1986 wherein his father's ghost directed him to drink the saliva of 70 dead younger girls so that he could come to be a mystic healer. Suradji notion that it might take him too long to come across 70 lifeless girls singly and so he took up the initiative to kill. As a sorcerer, or dukun, girls got here to him for spiritual recommendation for such such things as making themselves more beautiful or richer or so Suradji may want to cast a spell on their spouses so they will never have an affair. He would take them into a sugarcane discipline and bury them up to their waist, claiming it changed into part of the ritual. He could then strangle them until they were useless and proceed to drink their saliva. After, he could strip the clothes from their our bodies to accelerate decomposition and bury them returned into the ground with their heads pointing towards his residence. Suradji said following to the police:

"My father did no longer specifically advise me to kill human beings. So i used to be thinking, it'd take a while if I should wait to get seventy girls. I used to be trying to get to it as fast as feasible, I took my very own initiative to kill".