Vasile Tcaciuc

Vasile Tcaciuc (c. 1900 – 17 October 1935) was a Romanian serial killer who lured victims and then murdered them with an axe that he specially constructed. He killed between 21 and 26 people from 1930 to 1935; the primary motive was robbery.

Originally from Bessarabia, Tcaciuc was known to the Iași police since around 1930, and had been arrested and sent to prison on robbery and burglary charges. On 7 September 1935, a dog found six bodies under his house in Iași. He confessed to having committed at least 21 murders at the behest of a 17-year-old girl, who then helped him bury the victims under the floors of several isolated houses and in a forest. He was shot dead by a policeman while trying to escape during a reconstruction of one of his crimes.