Active for 1 year
(1970) in Romania

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Romulus Veres a Romanian serial killer known as The Hammer Man or The Man with the Hammer. He would kill his victims with a hammer or by stabbing them with a knife. One victim was pregnant and found in a pool of blood, the neighbors thought she had given birth. Discovering that the woman had been hit in the head, she was rushed to the hospital and later survived. Veres set fire to the bodies of two of his later victims and was known to have raped at least one victim. Veres blamed the Devil for his actions, he suffered from schizophrenia which was used as the grounds of insanity. In 1976, Romulus Veres was institutionalized in the Stei Psychiatric Hospital in Romania where he died from liver disease in 1993.

Profile Completeness: 76%

Books that Mention Romulus Veres

Kevin Smith

Serial Killer Rapists

Isabel Fonseca

Bury Me Standing

Timothy Peter Wisema...

Remus

Andrew Marvell

Selected Poetry and Prose

Charles Perrault

Blue beard

6 Books that mention Serial Killer
Romulus Veres

ISBN10	Book Title	Author	Killers Mentioned	Killers
1733630619	Serial Killer Rapists	Kevin Smith	266 Total Including Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour	266
0307761045	Bury Me Standing	Isabel Fonseca	Romulus Veres	1
0521483662	Remus	Timothy Peter Wisema...	Romulus Veres	1
6139130808	Romulus Veres	Benton Zacharie Larr...	Romulus Veres	1
0416402305	Selected Poetry and Prose	Andrew Marvell	Romulus Veres	1
5392066259	Blue beard	Charles Perrault	Romulus Veres	2

Romulus Vereş (Cluj, January 23, 1929 – Ştei, December 13, 1993) was a notorious Romanian serial killer, better known as "The Man with the Hammer".During the 1970s, he was charged with five murders and several attempted murders, but never imprisoned on grounds of insanity; he suffered from schizophrenia, blaming the Devil for his actions.

External References

1. Q16007964 on www.wikidata.org, Retrieved on Feb 2, 2019.
2. Romulus Vereș on en.wikipedia.org, Retrieved on Feb 2, 2019.
3. Romulus Vereș on ro.wikipedia.org, Retrieved on Feb 2, 2019.
4. celui mai temut criminal al Clujului: Omul cu ciocanul on clujeanul.gandul.info, Retrieved on Feb 2, 2019.

Internal References

Romulus Veres is included in the following pages on Killer.Cloud the Serial Killer Database

1. #2 of 3[ Page 1 ] of Serial Killers active in Romania
2. #26 of 42[ Page 2 ] of Aquarius Serial Killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
3. #32 of 53[ Page 3 ] of Serial Killer Stalkers sorted by Confirmed Victims
4. #34 of 56[ Page 3 ] of Serial Killers with birthdays in January
5. #190 of 307[ Page 13 ] of Serial Killer Rapist sorted by Confirmed Victims
6. #262 of 651[ Page 18 ] of serial killers sorted by Profile Completeness
7. #374 of 651[ Page 25 ] of serial killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
8. #607 of 651[ Page 41 ] of the A-Z List of Serial Killers
9. #612 of 651[ Page 41 ] of serial killers sorted by Years Active

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Serial Killers Statistics, charts Romulus Veres is included in: Active Serial Killers by Country, Serial Killers By Gender, Age of Serial Killer by Date, Killers By Astrological Sign, Killers By Birth Month, Active Serial Killers by Year and Statistical Boolean Questions.

Years Active:

• 1970