"The Cairo Killer" an exert from A Killer's Mind by Mira Koray, p87.

In 1923, Mr Varik Jäger, Egyptian national, had lured his 14th victim to his apartment in the heart of busy Old Cairo. The nature of the murder and the media attention it garnered would make the young fox, Nick Pines, the most famous of Jäger's victims.

Nick Pines, like all of Jäger's victims, was a European immigrant; he had come to Egypt from England at the age of 4 with his parents. At the age of 16 he began to independently tour the country, performing at clubs, bars, and small music houses.

Several witnesses identified Jäger on several nights in the underground Ren Faire Nightclub, where Pines worked as a dancer and musician. After talking to the fox on numerous occasions, Jäger was seen inviting Pines to his apartment, which later lead to his questioning and eventual arrest. Jäger was known to frequent the clubs in the area and would frequently be seen returning with younger men to his apartment.

The body of Nick Pines was found four days later. Foregoing his usual burial at sea in small sacs as he had disposed of victims back to 1919, Jäger had opted instead to string the body up between two lamp posts a few blocks from his apartment. The skin had been flayed from the body, leaving muscle and bone exposed, and the intestines had been opened onto the street. This was to be the first of three public mutilations that eventually lead to Jäger's arrest; in his later confession to police, kept classified until 1979, Jäger referred to the murders as "works of art" he had created to beautify his hunting ground of the Cairo district known to be populated by illegal bars and frequent male prostitution.

Jäger said of Pines: "I had become obsessed with him. I was absolutely enamored by his beauty. I wanted the entire world to see him as I did."

The gruesome display of Nick Pines was heavily documented by several newspaper and amateur photographers before the body could be removed. As Jäger's next two victims were more hastily hidden by police, it is Pines' death that has entered popular culture, especially in the Cairo Region, inspiring several works of art including numerous songs from the 1930's onwards, some rumored [citation needed] to be composed by Pines himself. The 1997 film The Vampire of Cairo heavily features Jäger's taboo relationship with Pines and his subsequent torture and death, which is known to have taken over two days. The film's title references the nickname given to Jäger by the press after his admission to over 20 murders, all of which included biting or slashing the throat to cause death and flaying and dismemberment of body parts prior to death.

Jäger's arrest and assessment by psychiatrists prior to his execution lead to many questions due to the rapid decline of Jäger's sanity and his confessed compulsions, which suggested a loss of control compared to his relatively secretive and well-planned murders prior to Pines. Though many blame drugs that were circulating in the Old Cairo bars, supernatural rumors still surround Pines' murder and the other displays of Jäger's gruesome 'art'.

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