Unknown Gender History: Mahin Qadiri (Ghadiri) “The Agatha Christie Serial Killer” of Iran

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Mahin Qadiri (Ghadiri) “The Agatha Christie Serial Killer” of Iran - 2009

Name transliterated: Mahin Qadiri; Mahin Ghadiri.

مهین قدیری

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Mahin Qadiri has been called “Iran’s first female serial killer.” Such a claim is not justified. It is only recently that law enforcement records in the West, let alone the East, would reflect the category “serial killer.” In the past – anywhere in the world – such cases would often not be distinguished in conviction records since many serial killers are tried for only one murder, usually the most recent one. In the East, old records and newspapers that might mention cases that today we would classify as “serial killers,” have most certainly not been sifted through in search of reports of serial killers. The difficulty in locating such records of crimes (prosecuted as well as non-prosecuted) is compounded in countries where isolated ethnic groups in remote regions exist.

[By Robert St. Estephe, Sep. 22, 2011]

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Between February and May, 2009, Mahin Qadiri, 32-years-old, of Qazvin, north-west of Tehran, murdered five women and one man by rendering them unconscious and strangling them. In her confession the murderess revealed that she gotten ideas from novels by Agatha Christie to help her avoid detection.

"It is likely that the murderer took revenge on women who resembled her mother and were of the same age because of her intense hatred of her own mother," the police chief, Akbar Hedayati said. “Many of Christie's books describe killers using drugs. The novels, some of which depict unsolved murders, are popular among Iranians. The writer, who died in 1976, visited Iran several times and used it as the setting for one of her stories, The House At Shiraz.”

It was one woman who had been marked by Mahin for murder but who escaped that gave police the break that led to discovering the murderess. The victim had been given a ride by Mahin, became suspicious, and got out of the car. After checking cars matching the description the woman gave them, their attention was drawn to Mahin by records showing she had been fined after a recent road accident.

She was found guilty and on December 20, 2010 she was hanged.

[Robert St. Estephe, Sep. 22, 2011 -- based on sources: “Iran catches its 'first female serial killer' An Iranian woman has been arrested over the serial murders of five elderly women in the northern city of Qazvin, it has been reported.” The Telegraph (London, England), May 22, 2009; “Iran arrests 'Agatha Christie serial killer'; Woman accused of drugging, suffocating and robbing her victims was inspired by classic crime novels, police claim,” The Guardian (London, England), May 21, 2009]

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Mahin Qadiri (Ghadiri), 32 at time of arrest, of Qazvin. Mahin is the third child of a family of seven daughters and one son, and has two daughters.

CHRONOLOGY

1977 – Mahin Qadiri born.

1991 – Mahin (14) marries.

Feb. 2009 – first murder.

Feb. 16, 2009 – Qazvin Consciousness Police, which had begun investigating the murder of the killer or killers on 16 February last year with the discovery of a corpse in the Mino Der area on the special order of Prosecutor Elfat, launched further investigations into the serial killer’s arrest. Focused.

May 2009 – final, fifth, murder.

July 6, 2009 – Mahin Ghadiri, 32, married in Qazvin at the age of 14 and has two daughters and a third-grade education. She considers these crimes to be financial problems. What you are reading is an interview with a journalist from Irandokht weekly, July 6, 2009.

Dec. 20, 2010 – Main hanged.

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Mahin Qadiri (Ghadiri) – Sources

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[“Interview with female killer: At night, the victims went to sleep,” Asriran, Jul. 8, 2009]

Mahin Ghadiri, 32, married in Qazvin at the age of 14 and has two daughters and a third-grade education. She considers these crimes to be financial problems. What you are reading is an interview with a journalist from Irandokht weekly, July 6, 2009.

Q: What was your main motive for committing these six murders?

Problems and financial straits were my main motivation, even though I was working in a region, but I couldn’t solve my financial problems. A fake company that didn’t exist was throwing me into this predicament. He had taken several checks to get a personal loan, and he executed twenty-five million checks even though I didn’t get the loan.

Q: Where did you come up with the method of killing?

It was definitely not a special place, but the serials and movies I saw, and sometimes some magazines and newspapers, made me kill women in this way.

Q: It was hard for the public to believe that Mahin, as the mother of two daughters alone, had committed the killings. Is it common to have accomplices?

Man does different things in different situations. We may all think we will never commit this crime, but I am like all people. When you get stuck and pressured, you do things that are hard for people to believe. For example, a woman in prison is now on the verge of execution because she defended herself against the rape of a young man and killed her. Or ... I had no involvement and I was doing all the work myself. This is the mindset of some media.

Q: How would you choose the victims?

I would choose the older ladies who have seen their granddaughter again and whose eyes are no longer looking for the world! Ladies who are a goldsmith showcase and as a live mobile showcase hung with gold burn themselves into the hearts of those who do not.

Q: When did it first come to your mind that you committed murder for your livelihood and solving your problems?

First, it was not for a living, and I owed it to someone and I had a credit check. I couldn’t afford it from somewhere. So I committed the first murder and the other two. I would even pay the creditor the same amount, not allow the armor to go into my daily life.

Q: Who played the most role in creating these conditions?

I’m the main culprit myself. But if my mother gave me my father’s inheritance, financial problems would not have moved me here. My husband did not do his job properly as a man and partner. He was addicted and many other problems that he said were not true here!

Q: Tell about your daughters. Where are they now?

My little daughter has CB. She lives with her sister in the house with her sister.

Q: After the first confession you said you would sleep easier tonight. How was your situation before that night?

I was always sleeping at night, and I had a severe conscience. But that night when I confessed I fell asleep comfortably, I felt like a heavy burden had been lifted off my shoulder and no one would fall asleep.

Q: Your neighbors all insist that you are a victim of violence and they do not believe that Mahin Ghadiri committed the crime. Do you believe that you committed these murders?

People, especially the newspapers, made me a hornless giant and they think Mahin is a monster or a human coming from Mars, but the truth is, I still can’t believe I committed this crime. Everything is like a dream. Even my family and friends are still shocked. It’s hard for them to believe this.

Q: Did you have any fears during the murders?

By God, I would be twice as many people and alive. By the time the checks arrived, I had to get in. It was very difficult to make a decision, but I had to.

Q: How long were you going to continue these murders?

Until my checks were passed, I would continue the murders and wait for a crop to come out of this predicament.

Q: Why did Emamzadeh choose the four prophets to hunt for the victims?

I did not intend to embolden the Imamzadeh, but because of the crowded Imamzadeh and the kind of people I chose, it was a very good place.

Q: You were a mother, didn’t you think for a moment that they were mothers and had children and that their children were waiting for their mothers?

I thought about everything, but I also thought I was my mother. I have the right to have the minimum in this community that was lost. I’m a selfish person, of course.

Q: If you were a judge, what order would you make for yourself?

I would have executed myself six times.

Q: What are you talking about with your tail parents?

I apologize for all of them. I was lonely thinking about why I was not with my kids on Mother’s Day, and then I came to the conclusion that I denied many mothers the opportunity to see Mother’s Day and apologize to everyone and imagine that they are very faithful and noble families.

[“Interview with female killer: At night, the victims went to sleep,” Asriran, Jul. 8, 2009]

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[“Details of the arrest of the first female serial killer in Iranian criminal history, Asriran, May 6 & 17, 2009]

A search of the serial killer’s home found all the newspapers that followed the crimes, and articles and articles on the Paris serial killings were also found.

Homeland Today: The first female serial killer of Iranian judicial history was arrested after 109 days of Qazvin Awareness Police operation. The 31-year-old woman, named Mahin, hunted down five middle-aged women in Qazvin’s Imamzadeh and killed them with a red Renault car.

The woman, who in the first confession had declared her motive for stealing gold and jewelry from her victims, told the interrogating officers that she was doing all the planning inside her car.

According to the confession, the woman was identified as lurking in the Imamzadeh (AS), choosing her victims between the ages of 51 and 66 and announcing “how much you look like my mother” or “how kind you are”. A plan of friendship was poured on his car to reach his destination.

Mahin was unconscious in the middle of the road after giving the sleeping juice and then choked the victims with his hand or scarf and stole the money and gold of his prey. The serial killer has confessed in his confession that he committed all these crimes alone and that his husband knows nothing.

~ Arrested serial killer ~

Qazvin Consciousness Police, which had begun investigating the murder of the killer or killers on 16 February last year with the discovery of a corpse in the Mino Der area on the special order of Prosecutor Elfat, launched further investigations into the serial killer’s arrest. Focused.

A closer look at the witnesses’ crimes and testimonies from the second murder revealed that a Renault 5 car had been found dead, but the witness had revealed its color due to darkness and the police, 3 colors of worms, He had put yellow and white on the agenda for investigation.

The Qazvin Police Department’s Identity Theory announced that the third murder of a Renault tire was found on the body of a Qazvin police officer, reinforcing the hypothesis that the killer was involved in a Renault car accident.

Alongside this hypothesis, the Qazvin Intelligence Agency detectives began searching for cases related to the abduction of a car, coercion, and so on.

The investigations involved the case of a woman who had been abducted in a Renault car a year earlier in the area of discovery of a corpse by a female driver who, after complaining of juice, was also trying to anesthetize her as she had conspired to be a female driver. And after screaming, he was able to escape the driver. The woman had gone to the police after that, but was unable to provide the Renault license plate number.

Detectives called on the woman to report her number to police if she saw the Renault, and a few days ago the woman, who had accidentally seen the car in an area of Qazvin, wrote down her number and informed the police. With this clue, the police were able to put an end to all the rumors in Qazvin after 109 days.

~ Case of Mahin for the last 3 years ~

On Thursday, May 24, police officers arrived in the Minazdar district of Minodar after arresting a Qazvin prosecutor to arrest Qazvin serial killer and arrested Mahin and his wife after intelligence measures.

A search of the serial killer’s home found all the newspapers that followed the crimes, and articles and articles on the Paris serial killings were also found.

Following the transfer of the defendants to the Intelligence Bureau, the Qazvin prosecutor and 2 Qazvin criminal investigators began their interrogation by the interrogation and aloft officers. During interrogations, Mahin has repeatedly spoken of her daughter’s illness and theft for continuing her treatment.

The investigation continued round the clock until dawn yesterday, with other judicial and police operations underway. With Mahin’s confessions and police investigations, another case of the murderer acquitted of killing an old man three years ago was also investigated.

Following Mahin’s confession, an informed official told the Homeland News reporter: “Given the financial situation of the accused, the murder is inadequate, he is likely to have been financially motivated and since it is easier for women to Murdered and possessed with gold and jewelry, the accused selected women for murder and robbery.

The prosecutor said about the manner in which the defendant was murdered, saying: “The defendant watched the four prophets and women who had come for pilgrimage and prayers, then transferred them by car and after the murder, They have stolen their property.

~ Interview with Mahin’s sister ~

The sister of the first female serial killer, while still unaware of her sister’s arrest, said of her family’s sharp disagreement with Mahin. The girl who last saw her sister, Mahin, two months ago, pointing out that she is the hottest member of the family, said: “Since my sister decided to marry Ahmed because my father opposed the marriage, the family rejected her. A few years later, some relatives started traveling with him, but after my father’s death for nearly six years, the relationship was cut off.

She continued: Mahin never complained about his life and although he had a second child with severe fever and a disability at the age of one, we never heard from him. Mahin is the third child of a family of seven daughters and one son, and has two daughters. Mahin falls in love with her children and worships her little daughter Fatima. She said at the end: “My sister was mostly at my place of work.

~ What did Mahin’s mother say? ~

Mahin’s mother is complaining about police actions. Doesn’t he know why they have been in custody since Thursday night? “We sent Ahmad’s two daughters to his uncle’s house,” he says, “and I go to the intelligence office that day, but nothing is told.”

He added: “That night, when they came to my wedding, my other son was also there to rebel. Their house was sealed and I do not know why they were not arrested.

The bride said at the end: “My daughter-in-law was a housewife recently and she was constantly taking care of her little girl, Fatima, and taking her to school. The bride was very kind and unfortunately had a dispute with her family about her father’s inheritance. Now I don’t know how to answer my big daughter and even little girl Fatima. They are constantly crying and reaching out to their mother.

~ Interview with Imamzadeh Adams ~

Police investigations have shown that two of the women killed by Mahin met him at Imamzadeh, the four prophets. “We noticed some time ago that a number of families of women coming to Imamzadeh were worried about not returning to their homes,” said Imamzadeh, a four-prophet.

I remember the family of a retired teacher giving me their mother’s details so that I could give them information if I saw her. I heard from this family that their mother had come to Imamzadeh for a pilgrimage, and there was no news of her. The man added: Another family had come before, and it seemed strange to me how these pilgrims had not returned to their homes. Until last Thursday, the officers came here and asked me questions, and now that I heard that the two women had been murdered and their killer was a woman, I found out that the killer had killed them by turning between the pilgrims.

~ What did Mahin’s colleague say? ~

Police discovered during a search of a female criminal a year ago a driving school instructor in one of Qazvin’s Balashahr neighborhoods. A man who was a partner of “Mahin” said that Mahin was very bold and had manly manners. He cut a 2-liter container full of tea once to reduce it and was happy with the win.

He said: Last time I saw Mahin last winter, he came to the school alley with one of his kids riding on his creamy Reno while his glasses were lighted and went shopping with me from a short shop.

~ Interview with the victim’s son ~

Kimia, a 52-year-old housewife, did not return home when she went to Imamzadeh and was murdered by a criminal woman.

The boy’s son said: It was about 3.5pm when my mother went to Imamzadeh. There, our acquaintances had seen him say that after the pilgrimage he wanted to return home, but no longer came.

The boy added: “When it was sunset, my father and other family members were worried, we were everywhere, none of our acquaintances. When his body was found, we heard many rumors and counted every second that the killers would be arrested and punished. If this woman is the main killer, we demand the death penalty and death.

~ With a criminal female neighbor ~

“This woman has two daughters, and her little daughter, Fatima, is disabled,” said a young woman living in the neighborhood of Mahin House in Minoodar. He would leave his home every day at 6:30 am to take his daughter for treatment and not return at night. When I asked her why aren’t you at home? She said, I also work where my daughter is treated.

“Mahin didn’t have much commuting with neighbors, somehow he was always a runaway,” he said. Whenever I saw her in the stairs she was leaving us on the pretext that she was in a hurry, and I always felt she was a secluded woman and did not want others to know about her work.

Neighboring woman continued: Mahin’s wife was very calm and when the police came to arrest her we could not believe that she was able to kill 5 women but when I remembered her behavior I saw that she was not likely to be a murderer.

“I don’t know why he killed because of the robbery, even if it was because of his daughter’s disability, because many have heavier expenses, but they don’t. Mahin was a mysterious woman. While living in our building, she had never had a single night party. I have never met her mother, nor do we know about her family or her husband.

The neighbor said at the end: “Her husband had a motorcycle ride with her, and Renault herself had five worms under her feet and we felt that she and her husband had no good emotional relationship with each other.

[“Details of the arrest of the first female serial killer in Iranian criminal history, Asriran, May 6 & 17, 2009]

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