Tags: Criminal.
Ali Asghar Borujerdi (Persian:علی اصغر بروجردی) known in Iran as اصغر قاتل (Asghar-e Ghatel or Asghar Qatel: Asghar the Murderer) (1893 – June 26 1934) is the first Iranian serial killer and rapist reported in 20th century. Moving to Iraq as a child with his family he started assaulting raping and later murdering adolescent boys in Baghdad since he was fourteen years old. Escaped back to Iran in 1933 he continued his murders in Tehran where he was eventually arrested and executed.