15 Places That Still Practice Ritual Killings

Kathleen Corrigan | December 23, 2016

Indonesia

Indonesian serial killer and self-proclaimed “sorcerer” Achmad Saradji claims that the ghost of his father appeared to him in 1986 and ordered him to murder 70 women in black magic rituals. Over the course of 11 years, he attempted to fulfill his ghostly father’s wishes by burying an estimated 42 women up to their waists in earth before strangling them with a cable. He then proceeded to drink their saliva thinking it would strengthen his magical powers.

Saradji was apprehended in 1997 after several people claimed their family members went missing after visiting his farm. Although the death sentence is rarely doled out in Indonesia, Saradji was executed by a firing squad in 2008 for the sacrificial murders.

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