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Serial Killer Captures Local Headlines In Indonesia
July 29, 2008 9:06 AM
By Margaret Conley, ABC News, Indonesia
A gruesome serial killer captures local headlines in Indonesia.
Yesterday, police exhumed at least five bodies from the backyard of the alleged serial killer’s home, bringing the total number of his suspected victims to over nine.
Verry Henyanksyah, who goes by the alias Ryan, was arrested last week after confessing to murdering his lover and disposing of his mutilated corpse in a suitcase in Jakarta, police spokesman Abu Bakar Nataprawira said, according to the Associated Press.
Henyanksyah also reportedly admitted that five other people reported missing by their families were among his victims.
"He confessed to the murders when he was shown pictures of the five people," Muhammad Khosim, chief of the Jombang district police, told Antara News.
Last week four bodies were found buried at Henyanksyah’s parent’s house.
The corpses found yesterday at Henyanksyah’s home, five of them identified as victims all under 30 at time of death, include a 28-year-old woman and her 3-year-old daughter.
Local television footage, according to the Associated Press, showed hundreds of villagers gathered around the area as police dug up the decomposed bodies.
Police are urging anyone who has been in contact with Henyanksyah to contact them, out of fear that there may be more victims.
At this time motive remains unclear.
Experts claim the alleged serial murders are not sexually motivated. "I believe that he murdered the victims to take their money," criminologist Erlangga Masdiana of the University of Indonesia told the Jakarta Post.
"We have not yet named any other suspects besides Ryan. We cannot make predictions before we have strong evidence," Rusli Nasution, chief investigator of the East Java police, told Antara News.
In an unrelated “suitcase murder” case, local police yesterday arrested three suspects for the murder of Bambang Sapto Nugroho, 50, who was allegedly buried alive and unconscious, and was found dead in a suitcase on Lake Sunter, North Jakarta, according to the Jakarta Post. Two other suspects, including a US citizen, remain at large.
Over the past month, Indonesia has executed four people convicted for murder. Two were serial killers, according to the Associated Press.
July 29, 2008 in Margaret Conley | Permalink | User Comments (2)
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English is not German.
Therefore it is not "a suitcase on Lake Sunter", but rather "a suitcase by or in Lake Sunter".
And not "convicted for murder", but rather "convicted of murder".
But not too bad for a bilingual, is it.
Seems that the editor is sleeping.
Posted by: charles | Jul 29, 2008 11:13:29 AM
His name is Verry Idam Henyansyah also known as Ryan. And the total body count is 11 victims..
The first one was the mutilated corpse that was found near Ragunan Zoo, in South Jakarta. And the next four victims was found buried in the backyard of his mom's house in a village somewhere in East Java.. While on the other hand he lives in a rented room in Jakarta.
The last six vistims was also found in the backyard, but not on the same spot.. It's a little bit further from the house.
Now the police are investigating the family for an accomplice.. It's quite awkward when you think of it. Burried bodies of 11 person in the backyard, but none of the family member knows anything about these killing..
Maybe the family is just trying to cover it up.. Who knows..
But i'm still tuning in for the next news to come up..
Posted by: josephine | Aug 7, 2008 6:09:20 AM
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