After two hundred years of waiting, he would claim his final victim tonight.
In Europe, it claims 548 000 victims a year, or one every minute.
Atlanta has been claiming victims for a number of years.
Mexico's drug war has claimed more than 47,500 victims in five years, according to a government body count.
Sadly, the war had not claimed its last victim by 1945.
Over all, crime claimed 280,000 fewer victims than it had five years earlier.
The two world wars claimed more than 80 victims from among the village's men.
The winter turned out to be quite mild and claimed few victims.
The day before yesterday, an attack on an Indian army camp claimed 9 victims.
The trio of killers claimed at least 110 victims between them.