Orhan Aksoy (serial killer)

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Orhan Aksoy
Born (1971-09-16) 16 September 1971 (age 53)
Samsun, Turkey
Other names"The Parcel Killer"
Conviction(s) Murder x5
Theft x10
Fraud x1
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment x5
Details
Victims5
Span of crimes
2000–2001
CountryTurkey
State(s) Marmara
Date apprehended
26 January 2001

Orhan Aksoy (born 16 September 1971), known as The Parcel Killer (Turkish: Kolici Katil), is a Turkish serial killer who strangled five people around Istanbul from 2000 to 2001, stuffing their corpses in boxes he dumped in open fields or near construction sites. [1] For his crimes, he was given five life terms and two years of solitary confinement. [1]

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Early life

Orhan Aksoy was born as one of nine children on 16 September 1971, in Samsun, a port town to which his family had moved to from Sürmene. [2] While he was still young, the entire family moved to Bursa. Both Aksoy and his siblings suffered terrible beatings from their father, Ahmet, who beat them for the smallest of mishaps. [3] In a later interview with two of his older sisters, Perihan and Ruveyde, the pair claimed that when Aksoy was young and their home was undergoing construction work, he was running around when he fell and hit his head. [3] Since that incident, he would occasionally wake up in the middle night, screaming and shouting that some invisible forces were going to get him. [3]

At the age of 20, Aksoy ran away from home and moved to Istanbul, where he lived off stealing before he was caught and sentenced to five years imprisonment for 10 thefts and one count of fraud. [2] After serving out his sentence, Aksoy, who was suffering from tuberculosis, moved to Bucharest, Romania for treatment. [3] While residing there, he met and married a kindergarten teacher, who later moved with him back to Turkey, taking on the name "Mine". During this period, Aksoy started working as a busboy at a restaurant and had two children, Esen and Esin. [2] Eventually, he gave up his job and started work as a peddler. [3]

Not long after, the entire country was struck by a series of earthquakes, prompting Aksoy's wife to ask him to return to Romania. [3] Orhan consented, allowing his wife and children to move to Bucharest, while he stayed behind in Istanbul, renting out a bachelor's room in the Çarşamba district. [2]

Murders

Aksoy's modus operandi consisted of killing people either for small offences, extortion or stealing their belongings. To do so, he plied them with alcohol and then strangled them with a nylon rope to prevent any blood from being spilt, as the sight of it frightened him. [4] In an effort to erase any and all traces of foul play, he kept the corpses underwater for an extended period of time, and would also cover them with either newspapers or silicone to mask the body odors emanating from the decomposing bodies. [2] He would later admit to "chatting" with the corpses while drowning them. [2]

From the span of October 2000 to January 2001, he killed five people. They were the following:

Arrest, trial and imprisonment

On 16 January 2001, the first box was discovered by police, and over the next few days, the remaining were also located. Due to the nature of the crimes (the victims being found naked and taped all over), it was initially suggested that they were victims of Hezbollah militants. [2] However, when Yeşilyayla was positively identified, police, who noticed that his phone was missing, kept tabs on the phone's tracking data, eventually getting a signal from Bursa. [5] As a result, Orhan Aksoy was swiftly arrested there on 26 January 2001. [2]

In subsequent interrogations with police, Aksoy admitted the killings and made several bizarre claims, stating that he became a vegetarian after the first murder. [6] Nonetheless, his most damning admission was his apparent liking for murder, lack of remorse and likeliness to reoffend if released. [2] Despite this, his family members refused to believe that he was guilty, stating that he was incapable of doing such vile acts. [3]

At his trial, Aksoy recanted his confessions, claiming that he was physically incapable of lifting the heavy boxes with the bodies inside them and that he confessed because he was "inspired" from watching many Turkish crime dramas and foreign films such as Once Upon a Time in America and Police Academy . [3] Questions regarding his sanity were raised following his peculiar conduct in court, which included an incident in which he threw his watch at the judge. Eventually, the prosecution, who initially sought the death penalty, resorted to seeking life imprisonment for each murder charge. [1] In June 2004, Aksoy was convicted and given five life terms, as well as two years in solitary confinement. [1]

Father's murder

On 26 October 2001, Aksoy's father Ahmet, who by then had divorced his wife and moved to a residence in Bursa, was dead. [7] A plastic bag had been placed over his head, and he had tied with duct tape in a remarkably similar fashion to his son's victims. [7] Upon closely inspecting the fingerprints, the gendarmerie linked them to the man's tenant, Hüsamettin Karaca, a convicted extortionist. It is thought that the killing was done as an act of revenge for Aksoy's own murders. [7]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ali Aksoyer and Taner Yener (4 February 2001). "Öldürmek bana zevk veriyor" [Killing gives me pleasure]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 16 November 2021.
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  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Ali Dağlar (26 February 2001). "Seri katile 5 idam" [Serial killer murders 5]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 16 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Seri katil yakalandı" [Serial killer caught]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). 26 January 2001. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Kolici katili kan tutuyormuş" [The Parcel Killer hates blood]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). 27 January 2001. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021.
  7. 1 2 3 "Kolili cinayette büyük tesadüf!" [A big coincidence with the Parcel Killer!]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). 24 November 2001. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021.
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