Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Russian policeman gets life for murdering at least 22 women

MOSCOW (AFP) - A retired Russian policeman was jailed for life Wednesday for raping and murdering 22 women after he claimed he wanted to cleanse his Siberian hometown of prostitutes.

Mikhail Popkov, who worked as a police officer at the time of most of the murders, raped and stabbed the women late at night in the city of Angarsk after offering to give them lifts in his police car, investigators said .... http://www.france24.com