She's Iran's Worst Killer - The Kolsum Akbari Story
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What led Kulthum Akbari to become a serial killer?
So this woman got married 19 times and killed at least 13 of her husbands. No joke. Now the woman's name is Khulsum and Khulsum is only 18 when the story starts and she's living in Iran and she is living a terrible life. Like her family is in poverty. So in 1985, they sell her off to get married. And the guy she gets married to is much older and abusive. And by the time she's in her 20s, she's already on her second marriage. And this new husband is also much older than her and also abusive. So now in the year 2000, she's around 33 years old. And she's been through two terrible marriages. So it's safe to say that she pretty much hates men at this point. And she decides that she's done putting up with these awful husbands.
But she also decides that she wants money. But, you know, she doesn't have to work for this money. So she comes up with a plan. She's going to start marrying rich, lonely old men. And then when the time is right, she's going to kill them so that she doesn't have to be with them anymore. Great plan, what could possibly go wrong? So she gets to work. She starts going to local women's social and religious gatherings, and she starts letting all the women there know that she is single and ready to mingle, and that she's looking to marry a nice, lonely, older gentleman who lives alone and needs a companion. And I guess all these other women at these gatherings think that she's a nice enough person because they start introducing her to older men that they know.
A lot of times, these women introduce her to their own dads. And of course, when they do, Kolsum acts all charming and she starts like batting her eyelashes and whatnot. And then they start planning to arrange a marriage. But before she agrees to do any of that, Kulsoom goes and she does her research on their financial situation. And she makes sure that they have assets like property and savings and stuff. And only then will she agree to marry them. And only on the condition that this potential husband agrees to pay her a big dowry. A dowry is like a gift from the groom to the bride, usually right when they get married. And it's usually cash or property. And of course, this potential husband agrees to pay because, you know, they think they're going to get a nice wife who's going to take care of them in their old age.
And so they get married. And shortly after, Kulsum gets to work on trying to poison this guy. She gets a bunch of prescription medications like blood pressure medicines and diabetes drugs and sedatives, all kinds of stuff. And she'll put them into husband's tea or his meals that she's cooking for him. And husband will eat or drink it. You know, he doesn't know what's going on. And over time, he starts getting sick and his body grows weak. But here's the thing. Husband is already elderly and already on a lot of different medications as older people often are. So none of this raises suspicion in anyone. And as husband gets sicker and sicker, eventually he has to go to the hospital. So Kolsum will take him.
And there, she'll play the role of a concerned wife who just had to rush her husband to get medical attention, but in reality, she's trying to create a paper trail of her husband's declining health, so that when he does eventually die, it doesn't look sudden and therefore suspicious. So after the hospital trip, husband gets sent home and left in the care of Kulsoom. And Kulsoom will start the cycle all over again. She'll poison him by mixing high doses of his own medication into the food that she's cooking him. And eventually husband will get super sick and have to go back to the hospital. Now, inevitably, after a few rounds of this, husband gets so sick that he dies. And no one questions it because he was already elderly and he already had a recent history of getting sick and going to the hospital.
So Kulsoom's plan is nearly flawless. So after husband dies, Kulsoom takes the dowry and any inheritance she's supposed to get and and she transfers it all over into her daughter's name. That way, she doesn't suddenly look like a rich woman.
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