the woman discovered that their shared apartment was actually rented in the name of someone named Reda Muhammad Abdel-Latif, not her current husband's supposed name of "Muhammed Mustafa". Arrest, trial, and sentences Wanting to sell his newly acquired jewellery, Faraj decided to sell it to a jeweler who was a friend of his latest wife. While the man initially had no problem with it, he became suspicious when Faraj kept bringing large amounts of gold jewellery with him, knowing that his wife had recently been robbed. After he left, the jeweler called Faraj's wife and told her about this, whereupon she informed him that she believed her husband was a fraudster. When Faraj returned to pick up the money on the following day, he was arrested by authorities on charges of robbery and fraud. While he was awaiting robbery charges, Reda's family kept searching for him, and thinking that Faraj was their son, they sent a lawyer to talk with him. After realizing that he was an impersonator, they filed a missing persons report and an official investigation was launched into the matter. When confronted with this, Faraj confessed to all of his crimes. After the four victims' bodies were exhumed and examined, Faraj was charged with four counts of murder, as well as numerous counts of fraud and related offences. He was then detained at a local hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, which determined that he was not mentally ill and thus able to stand trial. At the subsequent trials in Giza and Alexandria, Faraj was found guilty on all counts - he was given four death sentences corresponding to each murder, as well as a life sentence on the fraud and forgery charges. He filed appeals against all of them, but thus far all of them have been rejected. He is now awaiting the outcome of a final appeal regarding his death sentence for the murder of Reda, which, if rejected, would mean that his appeals will be exhausted and he will likely be executed. See also List of serial killers by country References 1973 births Living people 21st-century criminals Male criminals Male serial killers Egyptian serial killers Fraudsters Egyptian people convicted of murder People convicted of murder by Egypt Uxoricides People convicted of fraud People convicted of forgery Egyptian prisoners sentenced to death Prisoners sentenced to death by Egypt Egyptian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Prisoners sentenced