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| Man suspected of rape & killing spree spanning 22 years detained in Russia | |
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| Police have arrested a man suspected in a series of murders and rapes of women carried out over a period of 22 years in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. The man was about to flee the country, police say. | Police have arrested a man suspected in a series of murders and rapes of women carried out over a period of 22 years in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. The man was about to flee the country, police say. |
| The detained man, born in 1970, was previously indicted on similar charges, the Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman, Irina Volk, told journalists. He is suspected of carrying out a string of killings and rapes from 1992 to 2014 in different parts of Ekaterinburg. | The detained man, born in 1970, was previously indicted on similar charges, the Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman, Irina Volk, told journalists. He is suspected of carrying out a string of killings and rapes from 1992 to 2014 in different parts of Ekaterinburg. |
| Nearly 17,000 people have been questioned over the last eight years of the inquiry, Volk said. Investigators are now trying to establish whether the suspect could have committed other crimes. | Nearly 17,000 people have been questioned over the last eight years of the inquiry, Volk said. Investigators are now trying to establish whether the suspect could have committed other crimes. |
| The attacker’s typical approach would be to rob and rape his victims, threatening to murder them, Ekaterinburg investigators said. Most of the attacks took place near road bridges and interchanges. | |
| The first incident investigators could establish dates back to 1992, when a teenage girl was raped. | |
| The detained was at one point accused of murder, as well as a number of rapes and assaults. He was handed a 15-year jail sentence and was released in 2009. According to preliminary data, the man is unemployed and does not have a fixed address. | |
| It took police a substantial amount of time to find out there was a single person behind the crimes, which initially were investigated separately. Thousands of witnesses, DNA samples and various forensic expertise helped the inquiry to eventually create an identikit of the suspect. |