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Between July 2000 and July 2001, 16 women were murdered in the holy Iranian city Mashhad, all but one of them with a prior incarceration for prostitution or drug-related charges. When 39-year-old Saeed Hanaei was arrested and then confessed to the killings, he proudly claimed his actions were in accordance with holy teachings of preventing vice and promoting virtue.
Featuring a chilling first-person prison interview with Hanaei, AND ALONG CAME A SPIDER tells the story of Iran's infamous "spider killings" - named for the way he drew victims into a deadly web.
Director Maziar Bahari received special judicial permission to interview Hanaei while he was awaiting trial. In the interview, conducted at Mashhad's Vakil Abad Prison by journalist Roya Karimi, Hanaei dispassionately relates how he lured prostitutes to his apartment in late afternoon while his wife was away, posing as a customer and often strangling them with their own scarves. A volunteer in the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s, Hanaei declares he is not a killer, but rather an "anti-street-woman activist" who was only doing God's will by ridding Iran of moral corruption. He believes the spider killings are acts of piety, observing, "I realized God looked favorably upon me, that He had take
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