53: The Monster of Cinkota, Béla Kiss | Hungary

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Béla Kiss ran a lonely-hearts con between 1905 – 1914. He took the life savings of many women before killing them and storing their bodies in metal drums filled with alcohol. He told their families that they had left him and ran away. When the Great War began, Kiss volunteered to serve in the Austria-Hungarian forces in Serbia. By the time police found the bodies of 24 people in his hometown of Cinkota, he was presumed dead. But various sightings over the years made investigators wonder if he had faked his own death in order to get away with multiple murders...

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1:00.5	Margaret Toth ones. 1906 to look for a job and the larger city of Budapest. It didn't take her too long to find employment.
1:17.2	She worked as a cook at the Bristol Hotel, a nice place with a view all the way down to the Danube back in those days.
1:24.4	It also wasn't long before Margaret found love.
1:27.4	She was eager to introduce her new bow to her family and wrote her mother inviting her
1:31.9	to visit. During the visit, Margaret's mother met Margaret's
1:35.6	handsome and well-spoken boyfriend. He was evidently quite serious about the relationship
1:40.8	and even hinted at marriage.
1:43.6	Margaret's mother was happy for her daughter as she had not been very lucky in love up until
1:47.6	this point.
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