"‘Werewolf’ of Siberia ranked among worst serial killers ever after confessing to 81 victims, says report" by Fred Barbash Washington Post January 12, 2017
WASHINGTON — Former Siberian police officer Mikhail Popkov, who is already serving a life sentence for the murders of 22 women, has confessed to killing 59 more, police told the Siberian Times.
Nicknamed the ‘‘werewolf’’ of Siberia for the brutality of his methods — he raped women and then killed them with axes, knives, or screwdrivers — Popkov carried out his bloody rampage between 1992 and 2010 in the Angarsk and Irkutsk regions of Siberia, the paper reported. According to the state news agency Tass, he resigned as a police officer in 1998.
It's always a wolf in the fold.
When he was first detained in 2012, the Siberian Times said, he told police his goal was to ‘‘cleanse’’ the streets of prostitutes.
Then buy a street sweeper (not the gun, the machine with brushes).
According to Tass, the investigation began when women kept disappearing from public places in Angarsk in the mid-1990s, at the time Popkov was a police officer. Later, authorities started finding mutilated bodies of the women around Irkutsk.
They also found tire tracks from a Niva cross-country vehicle at some of the crime scenes, which ultimately led them to Popkov.
At first he confessed to three murders.
But as police investigated, and as he began talking, the number rose to the 22 for which he was convicted and sentenced in January 2015.
Irkutsk police spokeswoman Karina Golovacheva has told the Siberian Times that Popkov has now confessed to 59 new slayings.
Of the 59 cases, 47 have produced charges. ‘‘We are quite sure about the 12 other cases,’’ Golovacheva told the paper, and ‘‘in the nearest future we can bring charges’’ in the 12 others.
The victims have ranged in age from 17 to 38.
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His defense is I was drunk.
