Gaddafi Faraj Abdel-Ati (Arabic: قذافي فراج عبد العاطي; born 1973), known as The Butcher of Giza (Arabic: سفاح الجيزة), is an Egyptian serial killer and fraudster who murdered four people from 2015 to 2017 in Giza and Alexandria out of an attempt to cover up his fraudulent activities. Convicted for the killings and related charges, he was given four death sentences for each, which he is currently appealing. Early life Little is known about Faraj's early life. Born in 1973 in the Boulaq district of Cairo, he graduated university with a degree in law, but never practiced as a lawyer. Instead, he opened up his own chain of bookstores and a factory for manufacturing children's toys. Faraj was well-regarded by friends and acquaintances, most of whom said that he was a man devoted to his religion and high morals. Despite this, he frequently married and then abandoned wives, never informing the next one of his previous marriages and affairs. Murders Beginning in 2012, Faraj befriended 48-year-old Reda Muhammad Abdel-Latif, an engineer who worked abroad in Saudi Arabia. Believing that he was trustworthy due to his personality and degree in law, Reda invested large sums of money in Faraj's business, unaware that his friend was using it for his own gain. In April 2015, Reda returned from Saudi Arabia and demanded that his money be returned. Fearing that he could expose his criminal activities, Faraj invited him to his house in Boulaq, where he drugged him with poisoned pasta and then crushed his skull with an iron bar. He then put the body in a cement bag and threw it into a two-meter deep hole he had dug out beforehand in a room in his house. In order to cover it up, he hired some workers to pour ceramics over the place, claiming that it was to repair some sewage pipes. Afterwards, Faraj sent a message from his phone to the man's wife, claiming that the police had arrested him during a demonstration, but did not provide any details. From then on, Faraj assumed Reda's identity. In June, Faraj planned to marry another woman, but her sister, Nadine Al-Sayed Al-Jihadi, threatened to expose his fraudulent activities to his family if he did not cease courting her sister. In response, he lured her to the house and strangled her, then buried her body next to that of Reda. In order to cover