Smail Tulja (born Smajo Džurlić; 1940 or 1941 – 12 February 2012) was a Montenegrin who was convicted in a Montenegro court, in July 2010, for the 1990 murder of Mary Beal in New York City.
He had fled to the Belgian city, still with his third wife, sometime after the murder of Mary Beal.
The female victims in Belgium share the similarity of being found dismembered and in garbage bags scattered across the city.
Albanian police asked the American Embassy Regional Security Office for assistance, who coordinated with the FBI resulting in a chain of events that did not solve the Albanian deaths, but did link NYPD to the FBI investigation and Tulja/Džurlić's 2007 arrest in Montenegro by local authorities.
The Montenegrin court system tried him for Beal's murder in New York City, convicting him in June 2010 and sending him to jail for 12 years a few weeks later.