Raya and Sakina

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Raya and Sakina, Egypt's most famous serial killers, began killing women in the Labban neighborhood of Alexandria in the early days of the 20th century. The police stood helplessly in front of the successive reports about missing people. The common things in those reports were that the victims were all females, wearing a sufficient amount of gold jewelry, some amount of money and most of them were last seen with a woman called Sakina. Sakina was brought to the police station several times because of those reports, but she could always manage to drive away any suspicions about her.

The morning of December 11, 1920 witnessed a discovery of human remains on the side of the road; the body was damaged beyond recognition, except for its long hair, and all body parts were separated from each other. There was also a piece of black cloth and a striped black-and-white pair of socks associated with the body, which did not help identify the body. The second incident, at about the same time in December, occurred when a short-sighted man reported finding human remains beneath his floor while digging in it to fix a water pipe.

Those two incidents were the police’s only evidence about the murders committed in that area of town. After investigating, it was found that Raya and Sakina had been renting a home, where the bodies were buried, at the time when the women and girls disappeared.

There are a lot of stories being told about Raya and Sakina. Some stories talk about how smart and reliable the Egyptian police were, some talk about how greedy and wicked Raya was to set up her sister, Sakina. It is not known what really happened or what help they received to lure and murder the women, but the stories about the two most famous serial killers in Alexandria will never end.