16-YO Arrested After Fatally Stabbing Pedophile 23 Times

Aug. 2021

A 16-year-old teen has been charged with the premeditated murder of a pedophile after the young man visited his home with a knife and stabbed him 23 times. The teen then attempted to burn down the pedophile's apartment to hide evidence tying him to the crime.

The 16-year-old was not identified due to his age.

Convicted Pedophile Found Dead in His Apartment

The convicted pedophile, 42-year-old Haim Vizman, was found dead by two teens around three in the morning in mid-August inside his Netanya apartment. The teens called police and paramedics. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Vizman had a history of sexual offenses against children. His M.O. was to seek out young men for sexual gratification.

In the indictment, Lod County officials described the murder as “cruel and unusual.”

Teen Confesses to Murder

The teen suspect initially denied involvement in the murder but later made a full confession to the crime, telling police that he acted in self-defense.

The teen met the convicted pedophile on Facebook approximately one month before the murder. He told The Times of Israel after the Aug. 8, 2021, arrest:

“I met him on Facebook. I wanted to get to know him out of sexual curiosity. I’m uncertain about my sexuality. I was very confused.” He continued, “We met in Netanya and went to his house. I did not like how he looked, there was no attraction but he wanted to force sex on me, closed the door of the house and didn’t let me out. I went to the kitchen and took a knife to threaten him to leave me alone and open the door. There was a fight between us and during it he was stabbed with a knife and died.”

Police Say Murder Was Premeditated

Through their investigation, police determined this version of events to be untrue, stating that he was in possession of the knife before the meeting and cited the number of stab wounds the main sustained. Finally, police said that the attempted arson to cover up the scene after the stabbing convinced them it was an intentional, premeditated murder.

STORY TWO:

What Did Richard Ramirez Think About Jeffrey Dahmer?

Further proof that opinions are like assholes and everyone’s got one, Richard Ramirez, aka The Night Stalker, a satanist serial killer responsible for the deaths of at least 14 people in the Los Angeles area and probably more, as well as the torture of dozens of others, had plenty to say about fellow serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Richard told a reporter from his prison cell during an interview that Jeffrey was a “wolf in sheep's clothing.” Ramirez went on to say, “This is a guy you think it’d be okay to go to his house, have a drink, and smoke a joint, but it would be your last drink because you’d find yourself handcuffed and the next thing you know, this guy would be eating you.”

He’s not wrong, though.

Dahmer murdered, dismembered, and had sex with the dead bodies of 17 young men in the Milwaukee and Bath, Ohio, areas during the 1970s until his 1991 capture. Fellow Columbia Correctional Facility inmate Charles Scarver beat Dahmer to death with a metal dumbbell in 1994.

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