INDONESIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR SERIAL KILLER
April 6, 2009: an Indonesian man who confessed to murdering 11 people was sentenced to death. The court in West Java's Depok district, just south of Jakarta, found Verry Idham Hermansyah, better known as Ryan, guilty of murdering Hery Santoso, who was stabbed and bludgeoned to death before being dismembered.
The man was believed to be Ryan's last murder victim.
Santoso's body parts were discovered by the Jakarta city police in a bag at a roadside the southern Jakarta on July 11, 2008.
Ryan previously confessed to murdering 10 other people and burying their bodies behind his parents' home in East Java province. (Sources: Monsters & Critics, 06/04/2009)
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