Police sketch of Béla Kiss, an Austro-Hungarian serial killer who murdered at least 24 women and stored them in metal drums behind his house. He was conscripted into the army in 1914, and when police discovered his "collection" in 1916, he used the turmoil of war to disappear. 
Police found out that he'd been wounded and was recuperating in a military hospital in Serbia, but when they showed up, they found that he'd placed the body of a dead soldier in his hospital bed and run away. He was never caught.
Numerous "sightings" of Kiss were reported after the war in Romania, Turkey and even New York as late as the 1930s, and there were rumors that he'd joined the French Foreign Legion under the name Hoffman. However, Kiss' eventual fate remains unknown.
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