Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi

Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi (died June 13, 1906), called the "Marrakesh Arch-Killer", was a Moroccan serial killer who murdered and executed at least 36 women.

Mesfewi worked as a shoemaker and trader. Supported by a 70-year old woman named Rahali, he invited women to eat, drugged them, and killed them in their sleep.

26 corpses mutilated with a dagger were found buried under his shop, while the other ten could be discovered under another property he owned. He robbed many of his victims to enrich himself.

His execution on May 2, 1906, was supposed to be done by crucifixion, but since foreign diplomats considered this method too brutal, Mesfewi was walled on June 11, 1906, in Marrakesh, and died two days later.

• Peter Murakami, Julia Murakami: Lexikon der Serienmörder: 450 Fallstudien einer pathologischen Tötungsart. Ullstein Taschenbuch, 2000, ISBN 3-548-35935-3.