Asghar-e Ghatel was convicted of raping and killing 33 young adults, eight in Tehran and the rest in Baghdad.
Asghar grew up in a family which had a history of various criminal activities, including theft, murder, and defamation.
[3] On the way to Mashhad, Mirza was killed by the Persian Cossack Brigade in Iran, and his wife and children continued to Baghdad.
The family soon travelled to Iraq under the pretext of making the Karbala pilgrimage, and subsequently decided to remain in Baghdad.
Due to his young age, he was not considered a serious risk, was treated leniently and released with the consent of his victims' parents.
Soon, Asghar was again arrested and sentenced to a nine-year prison term, after it was discovered he had abused five children in Baghdad.
At the age of 27, he was released and ordered to stay away from activities that could possibly land him in contact again with the police and the court.
After my release, I was still around children until I deceived a carpenter's student named Hassan one night, raping him with five others, and because of this, I was detained for 2 years and supervised by the police.
The discovery of the mutilated bodies of these adolescents in the furnaces and aqueducts near the Minudasht village became a source of fear in Tehran.
In January 1933, a teenager who was lost in the Qaleh Kharabeh village, south of Tehran, found the body of a boy.
The police drained several wells in an attempt to either find more bodies or prevent their use for possible dumping, as the officers continued their efforts to solve the killings in Qarat.
On Thursday, 10 March 1933, close to Aminabad's qanats, the police came by a middle-aged man in the desert, selling a stack of porterage.
Given a chance to speak, Asghar explained his reasoning behind the crimes: "These are people without parents; they are useless and beautiful.
[7]On Wednesday, 6 July 1934, in the early morning, Asghar was executed in Toopkhaneh in front of the country's national justice system.
[citation needed] In the story The Well of Babel by Reza Ghassemi, Asghar the Murderer says; "my purpose in life is to see my head over and above others.