Crime Night

Soliman Abdel Rahman Soliman, infamously nicknamed the “Matareya Butcher,” was one of Egypt’s most feared serial killers of the 1980s. Over the course of his crimes, he murdered 29 people—mostly poor and vulnerable men—by strangling them after luring them in while posing as an informant. His killings baffled investigators, as they found no clear motive and noted his unsettling habit of removing hi...

Mahmoud Ashraf was a successful and kind man living in Alexandria in 2025. He had built a happy life with his wife, overcome cancer, and recently become a father. But behind the scenes, his brother-in-law, Mohammed—known as Hamo—was consumed with jealousy. Hamo resented Mahmoud’s success, his loving marriage, and the admiration he received from others. Although Mahmoud often tried to help him, Ham...

Mahmoud Amin Suleiman, infamously known as “The Butcher of the Intellectuals,” was an Egyptian criminal whose life later inspired Naguib Mahfouz’s novel The Thief and the Dogs. Born into a well-off family, his criminal instincts surfaced at an early age, beginning with petty thefts in childhood before evolving into elaborate burglaries targeting Egypt’s wealthy and famous. His method relied on inf...

The case unfolds in Tunisia, beginning with the discovery of a young man’s body, later identified as Qays Yahya, a barber linked to undocumented immigration. At first, investigators struggle with a lack of leads, but the incident—soon dubbed “Qays Yahya, victim of undocumented immigration”—draws public attention. A breakthrough comes when an elderly woman recognizes details of Qays’s case as conne...