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On 1 March 1990, Colonel Gică Popa, who had presided over the trial and been promoted to general, was found dead in his office. His death was ruled a suicide. [39] The Ceaușescus were the last people to be executed in Romania before the abolition of capital punishment on 7 January 1990. [40]
The Jilava massacre [1] took place during the night of November 26, 1940, at Jilava Prison, near Bucharest, Romania.Sixty-four political detainees were killed by the Iron Guard (Legion), with further high-profile assassinations in the immediate aftermath.
Vera Renczi (dubbed the Black Widow, Mrs. Poison or Chatelaine of Berkerekul), [1] [2] was a claimed Romanian serial killer who was charged with poisoning 35 individuals including her two husbands, multiple lovers, and her son with arsenic during the 1920s.
The death of Ion Pistol, shot for aggravated homicide in May 1987, marked the country's last regular execution. [18] Romania's last executions were those of Ceaușescu himself and his wife Elena, following the overthrow of the regime in the Romanian Revolution of 1989; they were subjected to a show trial and then shot by a firing squad. [16]
Bucharest, Romania: 5: A 51-year old man killed 2 people and injured another 8 people in a salon in Bucharest. Gheorghe Dinca killings: 25 July 2019: Caracal, Romania: 2: A 65-year old man is suspected to kill 2 minor girls. Săpoca Hospital massacre: 18 August 2019: Săpoca, Buzău County, Romania: 7: A 38-year-old man hospitalised at The ...
Ion Rîmaru ([iˈon rɨˈmaru]; modern spelling Râmaru; 12 October 1946 – 23 October 1971) was a Romanian serial killer dubbed the Vampire of Bucharest (Vampirul din București) or the Blondes' Killer (criminalul blondelor). [1] Rîmaru terrorized Bucharest between 1970 and 1971, killing four women and attacking more than ten others ...
Adrian Stroe (born 24 October 1959), known as The Taxi Driver of Death, is a Romanian serial killer responsible for the murders of three women in the vicinity of Bucharest, committed between January and September 1992. [1] Sentenced to life imprisonment for these murders in 1996, he was paroled in 2018. [2]
Oliviu Beldeanu , lead participant in the 1955 seizure of the Romanian embassy in Bern, February 18, 1960; Ioanid Gang, group of five bank robbers, 1960; Gheorghe Arsenescu, anti-communist resistance fighter, May 29, 1962; Ion Rîmaru, serial killer, October 23, 1971; Gheorghe Ștefănescu, businessman convicted of economic crimes, December 14 ...