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Russia has arrested the "madman from the Volga," who murdered 26 older women
Redik Tagirov, 38, disguised himself as a social worker or maintenance man to enter the homes of women who lived alone in the Volga region.
Between 2011 and 2012, he strangled at least 26 of them to death with occasional objects like a robe or cable belt, and robbed some of them.
"I thought it was a quiet, painless way for them," he admitted
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Tuesday, 01 December 2020, 21:31
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He terrorized the Volga region.
Radik Tagirov
Russian police today (Tuesday) arrested a suspect in the serial murder of 26 older women a decade ago.
Law enforcement officials said he sometimes impersonated a social worker or maintenance man and thus entered the homes of the women, most of them over 70, where he strangled them and stole valuables from them.
From other homes he took nothing, and thoroughly cleared responsibility for the arena.
The RIA news agency and other state media outlets said investigators believe he is the serial killer known as the "Crazy from the Volga," who ambushed retired women living alone in 12 different areas, most near the Volga River, between 2011 and 2012.
Russia's commission of inquiry, which deals with serious crimes, has identified the suspect as a metal worker named 38-year-old Radik Tagirov.
He was jailed after being convicted of theft in 2009 and released a year later.
His lawyer could not be reached for comment on his arrest.
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The agency said it had DNA samples, footprints and other evidence linking the suspect to the murders.
He was apprehended at a house in the city of Kazan.
The state channel "Vesti" broadcast documentation of a man described as the suspect, who admitted to strangling the women.
He described the method as "quiet, fast and painless for them, I thought."
The killer reportedly used casual items such as a bathrobe belt and an iron cord to strangle his victims.
Authorities offered a reward of up to three million rubles for information on his whereabouts, and they searched for him for years.
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