10 Twisted Details Surrounding Javed Iqbal, The Pakistani Serial Killer Who Wanted “100 Mothers To Cry”

6 /10 His Modus Operandi

His killing process took advantage of the Pakistani police’s ineptitude to trace the constant disappearances taking place around him and a chemical method to dispose of his victims’ bodies.

He would often drop money and pay attention to any boy that picked it up in his store, to then accuse him of stealing and take him to a little room in the shop.

There he would rape them for the first time, only to take them to his villa and rape them again before strangling them with an iron chain, cutting their bodies into little pieces, and dissolving them in barrels of acid.

Whatever was left was dumped into the Ravi river, which crosses Lahore.

5 /10 His Goals Fulfilled

He carried on his murders until December of 1999 when he killed his hundredth victim.

The police hadn’t picked up anything suspicious, so he had to alert them of his crimes through a letter that he sent to the police and a local newspaper, and which read: “I had sexually assaulted 100 children before killing them. All the details of the murders are contained in the diary and the 32-page notebook that have been placed in the room and had also been sent to the authorities. This is my confessional statement.”

4 /10 Inside Iqbal's House

A search quickly began, which had no results until he turned himself into a newspaper in early 2000.

He was taken to his house, which he had turned into a veritable museum of horrors: plaques written by him detailed the elements laying around, including a pile of hundreds of clothing items that had belonged to his victims.

Two tanks that contained half-dissolved human remains bore this inscription: “The bodies in the house have deliberately not been disposed of so that authorities will find them.”

3 /10 The Sentence

Finally, in the hands of justice, Iqbal received a sentence appropriate to the penal system that exists in Pakistan: he was sentenced to die a hundred times by strangulation with the same iron chain he had used, then his body would be cut in a hundred pieces and dissolved in acid, like the bodies of his victims.

This would all occur before his victim’s parents, some of which had just days before found their sons’ clothes after having to look through Iqbal’s house.

2 /10 I Didn't Do It

Without further explanation, however, suddenly, Iqbal claimed that he hadn’t been the true murderer and that all had been a plot to “expose injustice in society and the situation of the boys in the street.”

This last attempt to save his hide was fruitless for Iqbal, however, as he had photographically documented all his victims (and numbered them), in addition to purposefully leaving evidence to be found in his house.

By this point, it seems Iqbal just wanted a little bit more attention, and he got his final wish.

1 /10 Foul Play Or Suicide?

He also got his final, though not in the way that the court had decided. He and one of his accomplices who had also been sentenced to death (one of the boys he kept as his aides) were found strangled in their cells on October 8, 2001.

Some claimed that this was an evident foul play and motivated because he had been one of the most disgusting creatures ever to walk on earth and because of something alarming: for humiliating the Pakistani police forces.

Be as it may, he was quickly dissolved in acid and his remains thrown into the river. The exact circumstances of his death were never fully investigated.