I Have Been Reading About Mysteries,

of the First World War,

and came across the story of a petrol hoarder, a Hungarian tinsmith by the name of Béla Kiss, off to war he went, all went well but as the war progressed his decision to hoard petrol before the war now made sense to the townspeople, they with his housekeeper opened the first barrel, but it did not contain petrol, it contained alcohol, with a preserved body inside! from the article,

'A search of Kiss’ property revealed 24 dead bodies, 23 women and a man, who had been strangled and pickled in alcohol. Further investigation uncovered a secret room and stacks of letters between Kiss and 74 different women. Police discovered that he had defrauded countless women and had even been taken to court. They issued an arrest warrant for Kiss. He was almost apprehended in a Serbian hospital in October of 1916, but escaped at the last minute.

From there, Kiss vanished. Rumours circulated about a French Foreign Legion soldier who used his alias (Hoffman) and boasted about strangling people). Another alleged sighting occurred in New York City. But Béla Kiss’ fate – and his story in general – remains one of the more sinister mysteries of World War One. It’s also likely that not all of his victims were found',

a likeness of Béla Kiss, he has also been the depicted in a film, The Kiss of a Killer, not my sort of film, but I am sure Diana would love it! one has to ask if he had not gone of to war, how many other victims would have shared the same fate? for a fuller version of the murders have a look here.