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1861-Martin Dumollard of Montluel, France, was convicted of murdering several young girls whose blood he drank. He was executed.

1872-Vincenzo Verzeni of Bottanaucco, Italy, was sentenced to life imprisonment in two cases of murder and 4 of attempted murder. He confessed that drinking blood of his victims gave him immense satisfaction.

1897-Joseph Vacher of Bourg, France, while on a walking tour through the country, killed at least a dozen people and drank their blood from bites in their neck. He finally captured, convicted, and executed.

1916-Followin a notice that Bela Kiss, of Czinkota, Hungary, had been killed in World War I, neighbors searched her property and found 31 individuals, all whom had been strangled. Each corpse possesed puncture wounds in the neck and had been drained of blood