Saeed Hanaei
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Saeed Hanaei or Said Hanai was an Iranian serial killer (? - 2002) who targeted female prostitutes, in the eastern city of Mashhad, who were often drug addicts because he felt that he was helping rid the city of moral corruption.
The killings were referred to as the "spider killings" by the Iranian press due to the fact that Hanaei lured the women to his home before strangling them and dumping their bodies. Hanaei killed 16 women before he was apprehended by the police. Following a high-profile case in Iran where he was praised by many fundamentalists. He was found guilty and hanged at dawn on April 17, 2002 in Mashhad Prison.
The incident was the subject of the 2002 documentary And Along Came a Spider.
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