“I have murdered in vain,” said India’s most prolific serial killer as he went to the gallows in Jaipur on this date in 1979. “Nobody should become like me.”
Becoming like Kampatiyar Shankariya would entail committing upwards of 70 hammer-bludgeon murders.
On this day..
- 1956: Sylvester Murau, via filial impiety
- 1968: Karol Kot, the Vampire of Krakow
- 1946: Bruno Tesch and Karl Weinbacher, Zyklon-B manufacturers
- 1849: Quddus
- 1746: Three Catholic servants
- 1857: 52 European prisoners at Delhi
- 1963: Oleg Penkovsky, Cuban Missile Crisis spy
- 1920: Maria Bochkareva, Russian Joan of Arc
- 1691: Jacob Leisler, "a Walloon who has sett at the head of the Rable"
- 1879: Three botches in three states
- 1975: Michael X
- 1569: Dirk Willems, for loving his enemy