The Story of a ‘Vampire’ Serial Killer Who’s Way Through Turkey

Little is known about Kiss’s childhood. But it is known that at the age of 23 he rented a house in the town of Cinkota, Budapest and was a tinsmith. He is described as attractive by the townspeople, with his luxurious house, expensive dinner parties, blond hair and blue eyes, but by the people around him. that he is a complete gentleman, He is also said to have a keen interest in astrology.

In 1903, Kiss placed advertisements in newspapers using the pseudonym “Hoffman” stating that he wanted to find a wife and was a lone widow. With this method, without tiring yourself it allows women to reach it and even persuading wealthy women to give away their money and other assets.

He married a 15-year-old little girl named Marie in 1912 and soon began an affair with a young artist named Bikari.

The two lovers vanish into thin air before long, leaving the town alone, and Bikari becomes Kiss’s first victim. The second victim is a 15-year-old. his wife, Marie. Returning to his home in town, Kiss tells his surroundings that Marie and Bikari fled to America.

After this process, the notorious murderer continues to attract lonely women who are interested in him. He invites the women to his home after taking their money and valuables first. Kiss, every woman who comes to his house he kills by strangling either with his hands or with his rope. and, like any serial killer, he hides his victims.

Most of his victims were filled with methanol right next to his house. placed in steel drums. However, there is a blood-curdling detail that gives Kiss the title of Cinkota Vampire: Before hiding his dead victims, they are cut from their necks. drains and drinks their blood.

Kiss used the events during World War I to explain the increasing numbers of steel drums. excuses the fuel shortage. Although the people around him are suspicious of the barrels and Kiss’s behavior, they do not like him to behave unusually.

In 1914 Kiss joins the Austro-Hungarian Army and is about to fight in World War I. going to the front. He leaves his house with an elderly housekeeper he hired years ago. In the Carpathian Mountains during the war, after two years without Kiss. It is said that he died or was taken prisoner. Believing these rumors, the landlord decides to clean his house and find a new tenant.

The landlord wants to check the barrels as he continues to clean the house, unaware that Kiss has been sacrificing one innocent woman for two years. When he opened the first tightly sealed canister, it was shattered in front of him, dipped in ethanol sees a corpse and the surroundings are suffocating with an incredible smell. Of course, after the incident, he calls the cops and the teams open all 24 barrels at once.

In Europe, which was in complete chaos with the First World War; The police hunt down murderous Kiss, and the military issues an arrest warrant, just in case he survives. But the prevalence of a name like Béla Kiss makes finding the murderer rather difficult.

It is reported that he is being treated for injuries in a Serbian hospital in the following months, and just as the police are about to catch him, Kiss unbelievably eludes them: there is another person in the hospital. after ambushing and killing a soldier he lays on his bed, covers himself with a sheet and runs away from the hospital.

The fame of the murderer spreads all over the world when the European countries, which are already in a great war, learn of Kiss’s brutality. First Romania and then seen in Turkey The news is starting to get heard fast. After all, years later, a solid claim is made by a detective that he was seen in New York in 1932.

Hungarian Cinkota Vampire unfortunately never caught and not seen anywhere else. The story of the brutal killer, overshadowed by the wars, is forgotten over time.