TV Series Based on The Fifth Settlement Murderer in Works with Hassan El Raddad Attached

Egyptian scriptwriter Mohamed Salah Al-Azab, the scribe of the crime TV series"Saffah Al Giza", is developing a new TV series based on "The Fifth Settlement Murderer" ("Saffah Al-Tagamoa").

The 8-episode series is produced by Ahmed El Sobky and has actor Hassan El Raddad lined up to take the lead role.

Principal photography is set to begin in September and is set to be screened on a VOD platform.

Dubbed "the Fifth Settlement Murderer", in connection to a luxurious gated community on the outskirts of Cairo where he lived and killed his victims, a 36-year-old man, named Karim holder of a US passport, admitted during interrogation that he killed an unidentified number of women other than the three whose bodies were discovered earlier this month.

In recent weeks, the bodies of the women were discovered separately, each unclothed in deserted areas in provinces outside Cairo, as their clothes were extracted in other far areas afterward.   

The autopsy reports suggest that the three women were killed by the same person, as all showed similar signs of torture, including strangulation and flogging wounds.

The evidence against the perpetrator also included a fingerprint on one of the women’s clothes. Laboratory tests of the components of their stomach and blood further indicated narcotics in their system.

Following investigations and the examination of CCTV feed in the areas leading to the location of the bodies, security forces managed to identify and apprehend the suspect.

The authorities confiscated two mobile phones and a laptop belonging to him on which he videotaped the incidents committed inside a sound-proof room at his flat allocated for his practices.

The videos in question showed him performing intercourse with his victims after they died.

During interrogation, the suspect confessed that he knew his victims online, some of whom he claimed were courtesan.  The suspect asked them to come over to his home where he performed unusual sexual activities with them before he forced the women to consume drugs and killed them.

The suspect acquired a college degree from the most prestigious university in Egypt, the American University in Cairo, and had worked as a teacher at an international school before he quit his job. He created a TikTok channel where he taught American English.