Vasile Tcaciuc

Vasile Tcaciuc ( 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 and the primary motive was robbery.

Originally from Bessarabia (or, according to other sources, from Kitsman, Bukovina), Tcaciuc was known to the Iași police since around 1930, He was shot dead by a policeman while trying to escape during a reconstruction of one of his crimes.