The Cairo Prison Court docket sentenced Karim Salim, 37, to dying on Thursday, 12 September, for the murders of three girls in what has develop into identified in Egyptian media because the “Tagamoa Serial Killer” case.
Salim was charged with homicide, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and recording movies of sexual acts along with his victims each earlier than and after their deaths, in keeping with a assertion from the Public Prosecution Workplace.
The case first got here to mild in Could, when an unidentified girl’s physique was discovered alongside Highway 30 June in Port Stated. Police investigations traced the crime again to Salim, who had reportedly lured the girl to his house in New Cairo, the place the 2 used medicine. Authorities allege that he sedated and killed her, later dumping her physique the place it was discovered.
Salim confessed to usually inviting girls to his residence, providing medicine, and fascinating in sexual acts whereas they had been incapacitated. In his confession, he admitted to killing the ladies and recording the acts utilizing his telephone, which prosecutors stated contained incriminating footage.
Additional investigation linked Salim to a different physique found in April alongside the identical freeway, the place he once more admitted to an analogous sample of occasions.
He additionally led investigators to his house, revealing medical provides, medicine, and private belongings from one of many victims. A 3rd physique was later discovered, bearing comparable traces of the identical medicine discovered within the earlier two victims. Investigations verified that Salim was additionally the offender within the third homicide.
Prosecutors used forensic proof, telephone information, and surveillance footage to tie the defendant to the murders and the disposal of our bodies.
Earlier than his arrest and eventual sentencing, Salim, a graduate of the American College in Cairo, was a well-known influencer with over 600,000 followers on his TikTok account. His content material included instructional skits instructing North American slang to non-native English audio system. His TikTok account and YouTube channel have since been deleted.
