10 Serial Killers Who Turned Themselves In

3. Javed Iqbal

Javed Iqbal was a Pakistani businessman-turned-serial killer, who in December 1999 sent letters to the police and local newspaper confessing to murdering 100 children, mostly young vagrants, who he sexually assaulted, strangled, dismembered and dissolved in hydrochloric acid.

When the police searched his home, they found that Iqbal had made no attempt to hide evidence, with blood-stained walls and vats containing human remains easily visible, as well as photos of some of the victims.

In Iqbal's letter, he professed a desire to drown himself in a nearby river, though dragging said river produced no results, leading to the largest manhunt in Pakistani history (at the time).

On December 30, 1999, Iqbal turned himself in to a local newspaper, the Daily Jang, fearing that surrendering to the police would lead to his own murder (one of his teenage accomplices having died under mysterious circumstances in custody).

Under Sharia law, Iqbal was sentenced to be hanged, cut into 100 pieces and dissolved in acid, reflecting the nature of his own crimes, but on October 9, 2001, he was found hanged in his jail cell.

Whether this was truly suicide or simply a murder staged as such, however, is still firmly debated.