Thug Behram

Thug Behram (or Buhram) (1765-1840), leader of the thuggee cult in India, was one of the most prolific serial killers.

It is attributed to 931 victims between 1790 and 1840, a large amount with rumal (which in Hindi means handkerchief, a piece of yellow cloth of ceremonial use, used in this cult for ritual strangulation).

Behram was executed in 1840 by hanging. James Paton, an officer of the British East India Company, who worked in the "Thugs and Dacoitis Department", wrote a manuscript about the Thuggee in the 1830s, there quotes Behram as saying that he had been present in 931 murders, who had strangled with his own hands about 125 men, and who had seen them being strangled to 150 more.

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