Ali Kaya (serial killer)

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Ali Kaya
Born1980 (age 42–43)
Gaziantep, Turkey
Other namesThe Babyface Killer
Criminal penalty Psychiatric imprisonment
5 years in prison
Details
Victims10
Span of crimes
1997–
CountryTurkey

Ali Kaya (born 1980) is a Turkish serial killer. Nicknamed "The Babyface Killer", Kaya is responsible for ten murders.

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Killings

Ali Kaya committed crimes such as theft, assault and snatch theft, and was imprisoned at the age of 17. [1] He was released from prison in 1997 when he was 19 years old. [1] The same year, he began his murders. [1] [2]

He stabbed his uncle Celal Kaya to death while working at his real estate office in Alanya in 1997. [1] [2] [3] [4] Kaya was sentenced to five-year aggravated imprisonment in Silifke Prison for this crime. [1] [2] [3] In 1999, he was released on parole. [1] [2]

He then killed Zeynel Abidin Gümüş, who he believed had sexually assaulted his mother. [1] [2] [3] During his incarceration at Elazığ Prison, he was diagnosed with a "mental disorder". [1] [2] [3] Kaya was transferred to a psychiatric hospital, from where he was released due to a report attesting him as having claustrophobia. [1] [3]

With his freedom, he stabbed three people in Alanya, a music hall owner called "Dedo", a procurer called "Mehmet of Ağrı" and Fırat S., of whom two died later. [1] [2] Since he had a psychiatric report, he was not detained during his trial. [1]

Kaya killed two wardens of Alanya prison, Kemal Aksakal and Hasan Askeroğlu, by stabbing them in the street. [1] [2] He was placed in Manisa Psychiatric Hospital with the diagnosis of a personality disorder. [1] [2] [3]

In the night of 13 March 2000, he murdered his roommate, the rapist and child killer Ayhan Kartal, nicknamed "The Beast of Izmir" (Turkish : İzmir canavarı), he and Tayfun Şahin stabbed Kartal in the throat and the stomach. [1] [2] [3] [5] [6] [7]

Following this crime, Kaya was nicknamed "The Babyface Killer" (Turkish : Bebek yüzlü katil). [1] In 2001, he was arrested and placed in Şanlıurfa Prison. [2] [3]

Briefly after his release, he killed Mehmet Poyraz, who lived in his parental home in Gaziantep. [4] [8] Kaya was again captured in November 2013 by the Turkish Gendarmerie forces after a fierce shootout. [4]

2003 escape

Ali Kaya escaped from the semi-open prison in Şanlıurfa in 2003. [1] He was apprehended in 2004 when a suspicious vehicle was stopped in the village of Mahmutlar, Alanya. [1] [3] He possessed a fake ID card under the name Erdal Yılmaz. [1] A long "death list" was found on him, which included the names of notable businessmen and people he claims abused him during his childhood. [1] Kaya stated in his interrogation that "he would confront his enemies and the sinners. He was not successful so far. However, he would cleanse the society of bad people". [1]

2014 escape

On 5 January 2014, Ali Kaya managed to escape for a second time. [1] [2] [8] [9] During visitation hours at 10:30 local time on Sunday, he apparently walked out of Gaziantep Prison with the crowd of visitors. [1] [2] [8] [9] His absence was noticed only during the physical check of inmates in the evening. [1] [8]

Kaya is considered by the authorities to be extremely dangerous, and both police and gendarmerie forces launched an extensive manhunt for his capture. [4] It was discovered that he went to Adana and Mersin, and had plans to cross the Syrian border. [9] He was captured by security forces in downtown Gaziantep on 3 March 2014 as he fled from the house of a friend of his. [4] [9] He was found in possession of a handgun and a death list of ten persons when he was apprehended. [9] Kaya was returned to the prison he had escaped from. [9]

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