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Ali Kaya is a Turkish serial killer. Nicknamed "The Babyface
Killer", Kaya is responsible for ten murders between 1997 and
2002.
Killings
Ali Kaya committed crime such as theft, assault
and snatch theft, and was imprisoned at the age of 17. He was
released from prison in 1997 when he was 19 years old. The same
year, he began with his murders.
He stabbed his uncle Celal Kaya to death while
working at his real estate office in Alanya in 1997. Kaya was
sentenced to five-year aggravated imprisonment in Silifke Prison
for this crime. In 1999, he was released on parole.
He then killed Zeynel Abidin Gümüş, whom he
believed had sexually assaulted his mother. During his
incarceration at Elazığ Prison, he was diagnosed with a "mental
disorder". Kaya was transferred to a psychiatric hospital, from
where he was released due a report attesting him as having
claustrophobia.
On free foot, he stabbed three people in Alanya,
a music hall owner called "Dedo", a procurer caled "Mehmet of Ağrı"
and Fırat S., of which two died later. Since he had a psychiatric
report, he was not detained during his trial.
Kaya killed two wardens of Alanya prison, Kemal
Aksakal and Hasan Askeroğlu, by stabbing on the street. He was
placed in Manisa Psychiatric Hospital on the diagnosis of
borderline personality disorder.
In the night of 13 March 2000, he murdered his
roommate, the rapist and child killer Ayhan Kartal, nicknamed "The
Beast of Izmir" (Turkish: İzmir canavarı), together with Tayfun
Şahin by stabbing him in the throat and the stomach.
Following this crime, Kaya was nicknamed "The
Babyface Killer" (Turkish: Bebek yüzlü katil). In 2001, he was
arrested and placed in Şanlıurfa Prison.
Briefly after his release, he killed Mehmet
Poyraz, who lived in his parental home in Gaziantep. Kaya was
again captured in November 2013 by the Turkish Gendarmerie forces
after a fierce shootout.
2003 escape
Ali Kaya escaped from the semi-open prison in
Şanlıurfa in 2003. He was apprehended in 2004 when a suspicious
vehicle was stopped in the village of Mahmutlar, Alanya. He
possessed a fake ID card on the name Erdal Yılmaz.
A long death list was found on him, which
included the names of notable businessmen and people he claims to
have abused him during his childhood. Kaya stated in his
interrogation that "he would confront his enemies and the sinners.
He was not successful so far. However, he would clean the society
from bad people".
2014 escape
On 5 January 2014, Ali Kaya managed to escape
for a second time. During visitation hours at 10:30 local time on
Sunday, he apparently walked out of Gaziantep Prison with the
crowd. His break was noticed only during the physical presence
check in the evening.
Kaya is considered by the authorities to be
extremely dangerous, and both police and gendarmerie forces have
launched an extensive manhunt for his capture. It was investigated
that he went to Adana and Mersin, and had plans to cross the
Syrian border. He was captured by security forces in downtown
Gaziantep on 3 March 2014 as he was fleeing from the house of a
friend of him. He was in possession of a handgun and a death list
of ten persons as he was apprehended. Kaya was brought back to the
prison he had escaped from.
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