Thug Behram

Thug Behram (c. 1770 – 1840), also known as Buhram Jemedar and the King of the Thugs, was a leader of the Thuggee cult active in Oudh in northern central India during the late 18th and early 19th century, and is often cited as one of the world's most prolific serial killers. He may have been involved in up to 931 murders by strangulation between 1790–1840 performed with a ceremonial rumāl, a hand-kerchief like cloth used by his cult as a garrote. Buhram was executed in 1840 by hanging.