Ali Asghar Borujerdi is the first Iranian serial killer and rapist reported in the 20th century. Moving to Iraq as a child with his family, he started assaulting, raping and latermurdering adolescent boys in Baghdad since he was fourteen years old. Escaped back to Iran in 1933, he continued his murders in Tehran where he was eventually arrested and executed. Asghar Qatel was convicted for raping and killing 33 young adults eight in Tehran and the rest in Baghdad.
Ali Asghar Borujerdi was born in 1893 in Borujerd, Western Iran. His father, Ali Mirza, was a famous road thief attackingcaravans around Borujerd, Malayer and Persian Iraq - central parts of modern Iran including Qom, Saveh and Arak. His family, including Ali Aghar, his mother, and his siblings left Borujerd to the holy city of Karbala in Iraq when Asghar was eight years old. Six years later, when Ali Asghar was fourteen, he moved on to Baghdad, where he started to sexually abuse adolescent boys. He learned to kill them in order to get rid of police who were observing him for assaulting and raping young adults. According to his testimony, he killed 25 people in Iraq before escaping back to Iran. In 1933, Ali Asghar was about to be reported to police after he was watched by another boy while he was raping and killing the last Iraqi teenager. Soon he found out that it was unsafe to stay in Baghdad, and as a result he immediately escaped back to Iran. Asghar did not go back to his hometown of Borujerd. Instead he started his new life in the capital city of Tehran, where soon he found it easy to trace and hunt new victims.