19 Wild Murder Cases From Around The World That’ll Freak You Out

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We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which non-American murder cases always freak them out. Here are the creepy results.

1. Leonarda Cianciulli, Italy

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Between 1939 and 1940, Cianciulli murdered and dismembered three of her female neighbors. She made soap and teacakes out of their remains and served the cakes to other neighbors. She died in prison in 1970.

—lajaaaam

2. Sada Abe, Japan

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In May 1936, Sada Abe strangled her lover and cut his genitals off, carrying them around in her purse for THREE DAYS before she was caught. Abe said she killed him because "as long as he lived, he could be embraced by other women. I knew that if I killed him no other woman could ever touch him again."

—angelinesaby

3. Katherine Knight, Australia

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The first Australian woman to be given life imprisonment without parole, Knight stabbed her husband to death in 2000, skinned him, cooked him, and placed his body parts on plates with name place cards next to them to feed to her kids.

—Rachele Brengman, Facebook

4. The Crawford family murders, Australia

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Elmer Crawford is believed to have killed his entire family before driving them off a cliff in Victoria in 1970 before disappearing. It's very likely that Crawford murdered his pregnant wife and three children using electrocution before stacking their bodies in the backseat of the car. He still has yet to be found.

—Jessica de Ryk, Facebook

5. Dagmar Overbye, Denmark

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Overbye killed up to 25 babies by strangulation, burning, or drowning between the years of 1913 and 1920 — and one of her victims was her own child. She died in prison at the age of 42.

—isabellaisapanda

6. Marc Dutroux and Michelle Martin, Belgium

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From 1995 to 1996, the then-married couple tortured and sexually abused six girls, and murdered four of them. Dutroux is currently serving a life sentence, and Martin was paroled after 13 years in prison.

—laurak112

7. Luka Magnotta, Canada

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He recorded himself murdering a man in 2012, and put the video online. In the recording, you can see him stabbing the victim with an ice pick, then chopping him up and eating his body parts. He later mailed some of the man's body parts around the country. He is currently serving a life sentence.

—mckenzies3

8. Varg Vikernes, Norway

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Vikernes was a huge part of the Norwegian black metal scene in the '90s. He's been associated with Satanism and started burning churches in 1992, and a year later he stabbed his former friend 23 times, killing him. He was in prison for the crime for 15 years, and was released in 2009.

—Lisa Sullivan, Facebook

9. Carmen, María de Jesús, Luisa, and Delfina González, Mexico

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Also known as Las Poquianchis, these were four sisters who, in the 1950s and '60s, murdered at least 91 women. They'd keep their victims as slaves, and forced many to be prostitutes. They also killed the enslaved women's babies if they happened to be pregnant.

—danielg42

10. The Yorkshire Ripper, England

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Peter Sutcliffe murdered at least 13 women and tried to kill at least seven more with a hammer in the late '70s. The original investigation was supposedly quite a mess, and as a result, Yorkshire police weren't able to connect many of the cases until after the crimes had been committed. He's in prison and will never be released.

—aliccolo

11. The murder of Kevin Hjalmarsson, Sweden

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In 1998, 4-year-old Hjalmarsson, known as the neighborhood kid who "always wanted to play," was found dead with wounds suggesting he'd had a stick pressed up to his throat, killing him. At the time, police accused two local boys, but this year, their theories have been disproven. No one knows who Kevin’s true killer is.

—princessvanessa

12. Luis Alfredo Garavito, Colombia

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Garavito was convicted of murdering 189 young boys in the '90s. He'd lure in his victims by wearing disguises, promising them he'd give them money if they just followed him. He was given an 835-year prison sentence.

—m49c7

13. The murder of Kelly Anne Bates, England

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Bates was 17 years old when the 49-year-old man she'd been living with sadistically murdered her. In 1996, six months after she'd moved in, he physically tortured her for four weeks until he drowned her in a bathtub.

—jhufflepuffle

14. Norman Afzal Simons, South Africa

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Also known as the "Station Strangler," killed 22 people, some strangled to death, between 1986 and 1994. Handwritten notes were also found next to some of the victims. He's currently serving a life sentence in prison.

—misswib

15. Raman Raghav, Mumbai

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Not only did Raghav rape and kill his own sister, but he also murdered around 40 people in the 1960s. After being questioned, he was declared "certifiably not sane" and died of renal failure in 1995.

—meghanakiran

16. Ronald Janssen, Belgium

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In 2010, Janssen, a Belgian drawing teacher, confessed to killing three people, including a couple he'd shot on New Year's Day of that year. He's also suspected of killing multiple other young women. He's in prison serving a life sentence.

—jintec

17. András Pándy, Belgium

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Also known as the "diabolical pastor," Pandy killed his first two wives and four of his own kids with pistols and hammers, and dissolved their lifeless bodies in acid. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2002.

—jintec

18. Claudia Mijangos, Mexico

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She stabbed her own three kids in 1989, claiming a demon had possessed her, and local legend also said the house where she committed the murders is haunted. She was given 30 years in prison, a sentence in which she is currently serving.

—anapaau88

19. And The Hello Kitty Murder, Hong Kong

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In 1999, a nightclub hostess named Fan Man-Yee was kidnapped by three men and tortured for an entire month until she died. It's unclear if her captors or the amount of drugs she was given killed her. She then was decapitated and her skull was shoved into a giant Hello Kitty doll.

—kagaminerin

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