Number 8 Zahid Naseem In May of 2018, friends of British woman
Christina Abbots became concerned when she didn’t turn up for her 29th birthday party. Local police
went to her residence in Crawley, West Sussex, and used a battering ram to break down her front door.
Abbots’ lifeless body was found naked on her bed and it would later be determined that she’d
succumbed to head trauma and manual strangulation. On the couch, the police found a bathrobe-clad
man, subsequently identified as 47-year-old banker Zahid Naseem. As shown by bodycam footage,
he appeared to be unconscious but a police officer and a paramedic noted that he could’ve
been feigning his condition. He kept up the alleged act for roughly two and a half hours,
before he started speaking to law enforcement in the hospital. When asked about Abbots’ death,
Naseem claimed he didn’t remember anything and told officers “I'm not some hyper
high-functioning psychopath creating a story for you a la Silence of the Lambs.”
An investigation revealed that Abbots, who’d told friend and family she was working in IT,
had been offering escort services online, under the alias Tilly Pexton. She and Naseem had met on
several occasions and they’d been captured by CCTV kissing in a supermarket leading up to Abbots’
death. An examination revealed that, at some point during the drug and alcohol-fueled night,
she’d been struck in the head 13 times with a kitchen pestle before being fatally strangled.
Naseem would eventually admit to have hit her but claimed it had been in self-defense. He’d
allegedly become fearful and overtaken by a “red mist” in the midst of a consensual game in which
Abbots’ was strangling him. Multiple defensive wounds on the victim’s body contradicted his
version of events. He was ultimately found guilty of murder and jailed for at least 19 years.
Number 7 Neil Ellerbeck
In November of 2008, millionaire banker Neil Ellerbeck got into an argument with his wife,
Kate, at their home in Enfield, North London. Ellerbeck, then in his mid-40s, had been secretly
monitoring his wife’s phone calls and reading her texts. He discovered that she’d been having
an affair with their son’s tennis coach while also maintaining close relationships with a chef at the
Ritz and a childhood sweetheart. Ellerbeck had also reportedly been seeing someone else during
the course of their tumultuous 14-year marriage. The HSBC banker knew a divorce was imminent but
was allegedly willing to go to any lengths to prevent it. A row erupted when Kate finally
asked that they separate. The argument turned into nearly an hour long physical altercation
during the course of which Ellerbeck inflicted 43 separate injuries on his wife, 18 of which
were to the face. He then went out to pick up their daughter from school and,
when the child asked where her mother was, Ellerbeck replied she’d gone shopping. In reality,
she’d succumbed to pressure which he’d applied to her neck for a period of 20 seconds to 2 minutes.
In the ensuing trial, a jury accepted that Ellerbeck hadn’t meant to kill his wife
but he was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter. As of the latest updates on the case,
the former banker had been released from prison and he returned to the home in which he’d killed
his wife, while reportedly trying to resume his relationship with their teenage son and daughter.
Number 6 Davide Fontana In March of 2022, a passerby
found a mutilated human hand with glitter nail polish on it off a mountain road in Brescia,
a province roughly two hours outside of Milan, Italy. The authorities were called and over a
dozen more body parts were discovered in scattered garbage bags. The remains were confirmed as a
woman’s but she couldn’t be identified as her face had been burned. The police released a description
of her multiple tattoos, several of which were intact. The victim was eventually identified as
26-year-old adult film actress and OnlyFans model Carol Maltesi, who performed as Charlotte Angie.
During the investigation, the police was approached by banker Davide Fontana, who
lived next door to the victim, in Rescaldina. He offered information about her disappearance which
directly contradicted what the police had learned. 43-year-old Fontana was arrested as investigators
deemed his report suspicious. The authorities searched his home and found a large freezer,
the same type of bags used to dispose of Maltesi’s body as well as incriminating DNA
evidence. Additionally, earlier in March, cameras had captured Fontana driving the victim’s car. He
ultimately broke down and admitted to have killed her on January the 10th or 11th. He kept paying
her rent and used her phone to message those who knew her, to maintain the illusion she was still
alive. As per Fontana’s testimony, he and Maltesi had arranged to make two adult films together,
the second of which was more violent. The woman was handcuffed to a stripper pole naked
and with a bag over her head. Fontana then started tapping her legs with a hammer,
progressively hitting her harder as he worked his way up. He then forcefully struck her in the head,
multiple times, until she was on the verge of death. “I don't know why I did it” Fontana
reportedly told investigators, adding that, in an “act of kindness” he then removed the bag from
Maltesi’s head and slit her throat with a kitchen knife. He cut her body up and kept it in his
freezer but disposed of the remains upon learning the police was looking for her. Fontana was
consequently charged with aggravated first-degree homicide, dismemberment and concealing a corpse.
Number 5 Stephen Irvin Saunders Florida banker Stephen Irvin Saunders was arrested
by Hillsborough County Police, in December of 2021, for punching a female teenager in the
face during a road rage incident. The victim had allegedly cut off Saunders’ custom Porsche 911 on
Florida Avenue North, in Tampa. While they were stopped at a red light, the banker got out of
the convertible and approached her vehicle yelling out a barrage of profanities. He then reached into
the unnamed victim’s open driver’s side window and struck her in the jaw with a closed fist. In the
investigation that followed, the teenager easily identified his custom-painted Porsche and then
recognized Saunders when presented with a picture of his driver’s license. He was taken into custody
and charged with burglary of a conveyance with assault or battery which Hillsborough County court
systems view as a “felony punishable by life.” As of the latest information released to the media,
Saunders had pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on a $15,000 bond.
Number 4 David Pomphret Barclays executive David Pomphret was jailed
for life, with a minimum of 20 years served, after being convicted of murdering his wife,
Ann Marie, on November the 2nd of 2018. The banker, then in his early 50s, had attacked
the woman at the stables where they kept horses, near their home in Winwick, Cheshire, England. He
used a crowbar to strike 49-year-old Ann Marie over 30 times, primarily focusing on her head,
as she fruitlessly cowered and tried to defend herself. David then left her to die in a pool of
her own blood, cleaned himself up and disposed of the murder weapon in a pond. While in an apparent
distraught state he called law enforcement and claimed to have found his wife of 22 years with
“brain and blood everywhere”. He maintained the façade of a heartbroken man for months
before a key piece of evidence, in the form of airborne blood on his socks, tied him to the
murder. He then changed his story and admitted to killing his wife but denied premeditation,
blaming her volatile behavior for what he deemed had been a temporary loss of a control on his
part. Ann Marie had a number of health issues which included being on the autism spectrum
as well as having Asperger syndrome, and she’d recently had treatment for cancer.
Her declining health reportedly took a heavy toll on David, to whom she’d allegedly been verbally
and physically abusive for years. As David later told the authorities, she’d slapped him and called
him names when he went to the stables to retrieve some tools. He then snapped and attacked her with
the crowbar. During the ensuing trial, David was called an “accomplished liar and an accomplished
actor” by the prosecution, leading up to the pronouncement of his mandatory 20-year sentence.
Number 3 Robert S
An investment banker, only identified as Robert S. by Swiss authorities, was arrested on suspicion of
murder, in September of 2014. The banker, then in his late 40s, was accused of strangling a
high class escort to death at the five-star Dolder Grand Hotel, near Zurich, on September the 16th.
He then moved the victim’s body and, about a week after the alleged murder, it was found in Robert’s
home, in the town of Kuesnacht. He’d stuffed the remains in a suitcase and kept them in a wine
fridge in his cellar. The 25-year-old victim’s identity was protected by Swiss privacy laws
but she worked under the aliases Ona, Deborah and Kathleen. She’d trained to become a nurse in her
native Poland and kept regular contact with her family, who’d initially raised the alarm about her
disappearance. Robert admitted to her killing but denied premeditation, claiming it had occurred in
the spur of the moment. He claimed that he and his victim had actually been in a relationship
and that she wanted to move in together. As per his account, he’d decided to remain with his
exiting partner and an argument ensued when Kathleen demanded he pay her off.
He told the court “I never intended to kill this woman. I just wanted her to be quiet”.
Prosecutors argued that, for months, the banker had been paying Kathleen for intercourse and it
was he who’d wanted a relationship with her before committing the murder fearing rejection. Robert
was eventually sentenced to 17 years in prison. Number 2 Sanjay Nijhawan
On May the 21st of 2016, Sonita Nijhawan was found dead at her multi-million dollar residence in a
gated community of Weybridge, England. The woman’s husband, 46-year-old Sanjay, had recently quit
his high-paying banking job in the City of London while they still had a mortgage of over $800,000.
He’d reportedly been depressed for months and suffered a mental breakdown when Sonita
told him that she wanted a divorce. Investigators determined that he’d killed his wife by delivering
over 120 axe strikes to her head and body. He then slit her throat with a knife before sitting next
to her body and repeatedly stabbing his own legs. Hours before the brutal attack, he’d reportedly
Googled ways to end his own life as well as "soft parts of a female human skull". Relatives,
who were aware of tensions between them, went to their home, after they were unable to reach Sonita
on her phone. They discovered the bloody scene upon their arrival and alerted the authorities.
Sanjay survived his self-inflicted wounds and a psychiatric evaluation was ordered. A jury
ultimately convicted him of manslaughter, after accepting that he wasn’t in full control of his
actions at the time of the horrific killing. He was jailed for a minimum of 9 years and 172 days.
Number 1 Rurik Jutting A Cambridge-educated banker was
labeled “sadistic and psychopathic” by a judge in a Hong Kong court upon being convicted of brutally
murdering two escorts. Rurik Jutting had worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch's London office
before moving to its Hong Kong branch in 2013. By that point, his life had reportedly spiraled
out of control due to his addiction to violent adult films, drugs and escort services. On the
morning of November the 1st of 2014, he called the police three times from his
luxurious one-bedroom apartment at the J Residence in Wan Chai, claiming that “something happened”.
30-year-old Seneng Mujiasih, also known as Jesse Lorena, was found by officers clinging to life
while lying naked on the floor. The woman, originally from Indonesia, had sustained
knife wounds to her neck, throat and buttocks. She was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
Hong Kong police then discovered the badly decomposed body of 23-year-old
Sumarti Ningsih, also from Indonesia, stuffed in a black suitcase on the apartment’s balcony. Her
remains were wrapped in towels while her arms and legs were bound. During the ensuing trial,
the jury was shown gruesome photos and videos, taken from Jutting’s IPhone. In addition to scenes
of horrific abuse and violence, they also contained rambling monologues from Jutting,
including his self-confession. Ningish, the first victim, had been murdered after three
days of prolonged torture carried out at knife point by the banker. After putting her body in
the suitcase he made preparations for a second killing, claiming he wanted to be “as inhumane
as possible”. He found Mujiasih and offered her around $250 for intercourse. Upon arriving at
the apartment and realizing the danger in which she found herself, the woman began to scream.
Jutting threatened her with a knife but, when she continued to struggle, stabbed her
to death. The victims’ families asked for the death penalty but Jutting, who’d been found to
suffer from narcissistic personality disorder, was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment.
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