Orhan Aksoy (serial killer)

At his trial, Aksoy recanted his confessions, claiming that he was physically incapable of lifting the heavy boxes with the bodies inside them and that he confessed because he was "inspired" from watching many Turkish crime dramas and foreign films such as Once Upon a Time in America and Police Academy. Questions regarding his sanity were raised following his peculiar conduct in court, which included an incident in which he threw his watch at the judge. Eventually, the prosecution, who initially sought the death penalty, resorted to seek life imprisonment for each murder charge. In June 2004, Aksoy was convicted and given five life terms, as well as two years in solitary confinement.

On January 16, 2001, the first box was discovered by police, and over the next few days, the remaining were also located. Due to the nature of the crimes (the victims being found naked and taped all over), it was initially suggested that they were victims of Hezbollah militants. However, when Yeşilyayla was positively identified, police, who noticed that his phone was missing, kept tabs on the phone's tracking data, eventually getting a signal from Bursa. As a result, Orhan Aksoy was swiftly arrested there on January 26, 2001.

On October 26, 2001, Aksoy's father Ahmet, who by then had divorced his wife and moved to a residence in Bursa, was dead. A plastic bag had been placed over his head, and he had tied with duct tape in a remarkably similar fashion to his son's victims. Upon closely inspecting the fingerprints, the gendermerie linked them to the man's tenant, Hüsamettin Karaca, a convicted extortionist. It is thought that the killing was done as an act of revenge for Aksoy's own murders.

From the span of October 2000 to January 2001, he killed five people. They were the following:

Orhan Aksoy (born September 16, 1971), known as The Parcel Killer (Turkish: Kolici Katil), is a Turkish serial killer who strangled five people around Istanbul from 2000 to 2001, stuffing their corpses in boxes he dumped in open fields or near construction sites. For his crimes, he was given five life terms and two years of solitary confinement.

Orhan Aksoy was born as one of nine children on September 16, 1971, in Samsun, a port town to which his family had moved to from Sürmene. While he was still young, the entire family moved to Bursa. Both Aksoy and his siblings suffered terrible beatings from their father, Ahmet, who beat them for the smallest of mishaps. In a later interview with two of his older sisters, Perihan and Ruveyde, the pair claimed that when Aksoy was young and their home was undergoing construction work, he was running around when he fell and hit his head. Since that incident, he would occasionally wake up in the middle night, screaming and shouting that some invisible forces were going to get him.