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The true story of Bela Kiss a Hungarian serial killer. He murdered at least 23 young women and one man, and attempted to pickle their bodies in giant metal drums that he kept on his property. In July 1916, Budapest police received a call from Kiss' landlord who had found seven large metal drums. Upon attempting to open the drums, a suspicious odour was noted. Detective Chief Karoly Nagy headed an investigation and opened one of the drums. There they discovered the body of a strangled woman. The other drums yielded similarly gruesome content. A search of Kiss' house resulted in a total of 24 bodies. Nagy informed the military that they should arrest Kiss immediately, if he was still alive - there was also a possibility that he was a prisoner of war. He had placed ads in the marriage columns of several newspapers and had selected mainly women who had no relatives living nearby and knew no one who would quickly notice their disappearance. Each woman that came to the house was strangled. Kiss pickled their corpses in alcohol and sealed them in the airtight metal drums. Police found that the bodies had puncture marks on their necks and that their bodies were drained of blood. This led them to believe that Kiss was some kind of vampire. Nagy received a letter that stated that Kiss was recuperating in a Serbian hospital. Nagy arrived at the hospital too late; Kiss had fled and substituted the dead body of another soldier in his bed. Kiss' eventual fate and exact number of victims remain unknown. FultonClassics.com

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