Romulus Vereș: The Satanic Delusions Behind the Man with the Hammer

Between 1972 and 1974, the city of Cluj in Romania lived in fear. Women were attacked in the streets and in their own homes, struck without warning by a man the press would later call the Man with the Hammer. His name was Romulus Vereș, and the brutality and randomness of his attacks left the city terrified. When he was finally caught, he claimed he wasn’t responsible at all. According to him, satanic forces had stolen his appearance and committed the murders in his name.







