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Russian serial killer convicted of 56 more murders
Source: The Guardian
Russian serial killer convicted of 56 more murders
Mikhail Popkov raped and killed dozens of women in Angarsk over two decades
Andrew Roth in Moscow
Mon 10 Dec 2018 12.05 GMT
A court in Siberia has convicted a former police officer of raping and killing a further 56 women, making him Russia’s worst serial killer in the last century.
Mikhail Popkov, 54, terrorised his home city of Angarsk in the Irkutsk region for nearly two decades, luring women into his car late at night and then assaulting them with tools such as axes and shovels.
In 2015, he was sentenced to life for 22 murders. All the killings were committed between 1992 and 2010.
Aleksandr Shkinev, a regional prosecutor, said: “There is no doubt that Popkov committed these murders. He clearly showed the places where the bodies were buried, and, by an earring, tattoo or some other feature, described the murders and victims in detail.”
Investigators finally linked Popkov to the crimes in 2012 using DNA evidence and descriptions of his car.
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Mikhail Popkov raped and killed dozens of women in Angarsk over two decades
Andrew Roth in Moscow
Mon 10 Dec 2018 12.05 GMT
A court in Siberia has convicted a former police officer of raping and killing a further 56 women, making him Russia’s worst serial killer in the last century.
Mikhail Popkov, 54, terrorised his home city of Angarsk in the Irkutsk region for nearly two decades, luring women into his car late at night and then assaulting them with tools such as axes and shovels.
In 2015, he was sentenced to life for 22 murders. All the killings were committed between 1992 and 2010.
Aleksandr Shkinev, a regional prosecutor, said: “There is no doubt that Popkov committed these murders. He clearly showed the places where the bodies were buried, and, by an earring, tattoo or some other feature, described the murders and victims in detail.”
Investigators finally linked Popkov to the crimes in 2012 using DNA evidence and descriptions of his car.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/10/russias-worst-serial-killer-jailed-for-life-mikhail-popkov
Popkov has been described as Russia's worst serial killer in recent decades (file photo)