Russia’s deadliest serial killer? Cop-turned-slasher faces 60 new murder charges, death toll at...

He's a Russian femicidal killer with homicidal mania, and an ex-police sergeant.
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A former Russian policeman, Mikhail Popkov, who is already serving a life sentence for killing 22 women, has been charged with an additional 60 murders. If the charges are proven, it will make Popkov Russia’s worst-ever serial killer.

“We have discovered the true motives of Popkov’s actions, and the circumstances under which he became a serial killer, working across our region for two decades,” a statement from the Investigative Committee of Irkutsk Region read, which asserted that police had “incontrovertible proof” of his guilt.

The deaths of women between the ages of 16 and 40 “of radically varying social status” occurred in the period between 1992 and 2007, and were uncovered as a result of “establishing psychological communication” with the killer, who admitted his guilt.

Investigators say they have interviewed 900 witnesses, conducted 200 forensic experiments, and exhumed 20 bodies, including several that had been hidden for up to two decades. The bodies had to be recovered from “forests, lakes, and swamps with the help of heavy machinery and divers” often using pointers from Popkov himself.