Raya and Sakina

Rayya and Sakina, Egypt's most famous mass murderers, started their women-slaughter works in Alexandria in the early days of the 20th century. The police stood helplessly in front of the successive reports about missing people. The common things in those reports were that they were all females, wearing a sufficient amount of golden jewelry, some amount of money and most of them were last seen with a woman called Sekina. Sekina was brought to the police station several times because of those reports, but she could always manage to drive away any suspicions in her.

The morning of December 11 1920 witnessed a discovery of human-body remains on the side of the public road; the body was totally damaged and unrecognized, except for long hair attached to the skull and all body parts were separated from each other. There was also a piece of a black cloth and a striped black-and-white pair of socks associated with the body, which didn’t give any proper significant identification of who the dead body is for. The second incident, about the same time in December, was when a short-vision man reported for finding human remains beneath his floor, while digging in it to fixe a water pipe.

Those two incidents were the police’s evidence on the murdering acts performed at that area of town. After investigating, it was put to proof that Rayya and Sekina had been renting a home, where the dead bodies were buried, at the time when the women, girls and ladies were missing. There are a lot of stories being told about Raya and Sekina. Some stories talk about how smart and reliable the Egyptian police was, some talk about how greedy and wicked Rayya was, through setting up her sister, Sekina. It is not really known what really happened or what help they were receiving to seduce and murder those women, but the stories about the two most famous mass murderers in Alexandria will never end.