Süleyman Aktaş is a Turkish
serial killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more persons,A
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who murdered five people. He has been nicknamed "The Nailing Killer" due to his signature of nailing his victims' heads post-mortem.
Background and first murder
Süleyman Aktaş was born in Çambaşı. He was employed as a worker at the Turkish Electricity Company in
Denizli, Turkey.
He was severely injured by high voltage during works at a 31.5
kV electric power distribution line.
After this accident, he killed police superintendent Nuri Keskin in
Antalya
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in 1986.
He was arrested, and was placed in
Manisa
Manisa (), historically known as Magnesia, is a city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province.
Modern Manisa is a booming center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port ci ...
Psychiatric Hospital after the court ruled his mental disorder.
Aktaş stayed four and a half years in the hospital before his
release.
He returned to his hometown of Çambaşı village in
Bozkurt, Denizli
Bozkurt is a town and a rural district of Denizli Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey. The town is situated on a plain east of the city of Denizli. The altitude of the town is 866.8 m, and the district area is around . The population (2000 c ...
.
Later murders, institutionalization, escape, and incarceration
In 1994, Süleyman Aktaş strangled four elderly neighbors three years after he came back to his hometown.
He nailed the couples Ayşe (65) and İsmail Güneş (66), and Rukiye (77) and Ramazan Kocatepe (78) in the eyes and heads.
In his testimony after his arrest, he stated that "He can not stand nails. He wants to nail people in the head."
Aktaş was nicknamed "The Nailing Killer".
He was hospitalized as diagnosed with
paranoid schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social w ...
.
He escaped from the hospital, but was apprehended in the coach terminal.
In 2007, Aktaş was seen publicly for the first time after twelve years in a rehabilitation show program of the hospital.
At noon of May 28, 2008, he assaulted his roommate, the
child killer Ömer Yılmaz, and wounded him by hitting him in the head with a rock in the exercise yard of the hospital, where he had been kept in a special department for 13 years.
Yılmaz underwent a head surgery in a nearby state hospital, and survived the attack.
Aktaş also shared the same ward as
Ayhan Kartal
Ayhan Kartal (born Ayhan Korniş, 1966 – March 13, 2000) was a Turkish rapist and child killer. He was stabbed to death by his roommates in a mental hospital.
Crimes
On April 20, 1985, Ayhan Korniş killed the 13-year-old Armağan Kayadipli b ...
, the latter of whom feared him before his death in 2000.
See also
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List of serial killers by country
This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the killings occurred.
Convicted serial killers by country Afghanistan
*Abdullah Shah: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad while serving under ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aktas, Suleyman
Living people
Male serial killers
People from Bozkurt, Denizli
People with schizophrenia
Turkish escapees
Turkish serial killers
Year of birth missing (living people)