Dive into the dark world of serial killers as we explore the most notorious criminals who terrorized society from 2000 to 2024. This chilling countdown reveals the most infamous murderers of each year, their horrifying crimes, and the justice that ultimately caught up with them.
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00:00He was living among us and in plain sight.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're exploring the most infamous serial killers of every year of the 21st century so far.
00:11We'll be examining the year when justice came calling as the criminal was arrested or sentenced for their deeds.
00:18So you killed a greater number of people than the police know?
00:21Oh, yeah. Yeah. They might have a chance of it. I'll put it that way.
00:282000. Javed Iqbal. Sentenced March 16th, 2000.
00:34In 1999, a newspaper editor and the police station in Lahore, Pakistan received disturbing letters.
00:40The writer claimed he had abused and taken the lives of 100 underage young men.
00:45They finished with their intention to end their own life in a river.
00:48However, the water was searched and nothing was found.
00:51A month later, fearing police brutality after claims of being attacked by them previously,
00:57Iqbal turned up at a newspaper office and confessed.
01:00In 2000, he was sentenced to a brutal execution akin to how Iqbal had treated his victims.
01:06However, government officials stated it wouldn't be as bad as the judge had deemed.
01:11Before it could be enacted in 2001, Iqbal took his own life.
01:152001. David Parker Ray. Sentenced September 20th, 2001.
01:21Sometimes killers go that extra terrifying mile with their modus operandi.
01:26David Parker Ray modified a trailer that would be labeled his toy box.
01:31The trailer was soundproofed and filled with instruments for his violence.
01:34He called it the den of Satan.
01:37He would abduct women, abuse them for months in the trailer, and presumably eventually end their lives.
01:43Sometimes with accomplices, one of them being his girlfriend, Cynthia Hendy.
01:48In 1999, a woman managed to escape the toy box after three days and get help from a neighbor.
01:54That's what I went through. And these families deserve to have these people to know what happened.
02:03The police immediately arrested Ray and Hendy.
02:06On a plea deal, Ray was sentenced to 224 years in jail,
02:11while Hendy, who testified against her former partner, got 36 years.
02:15It's unknown how many women Ray killed, but some estimates are upwards of 60.
02:20He claimed to have abducted 40 women from across the U.S.
02:24Since no bodies were ever found, he was never charged, and he never will be.
02:29Ray died in prison in 2002 by heart attack.
02:322002. Terry Rasmussen. Arrested November 2002.
02:37Terry Rasmussen earned the moniker Chameleon Killer, not because he blended in,
02:42but because he went by a number of different aliases.
02:44Bob Evans was an alias, along with Curtis Mayo Kimball, Gordon Jensen,
02:49Jerry Markerman, or Lawrence William Vanner.
02:52They were all used by this man, Terry Rasmussen, a divorced father of four from the Southwest.
02:58While Rasmussen has only been convicted of one murder, experts believe that he committed at least five.
03:03Many peg him as the man behind New Hampshire's Bear Brook murders of the late 1970s,
03:08which encompassed the death of four girls, including Rasmussen's daughter.
03:13He just didn't disappear off the face of the earth without a name or an identity.
03:17He died before he could be tried for their deaths.
03:19He is also thought to have slain his girlfriend, Denise Bowden, in 1981.
03:24Finally, he did away with his wife, Unsun June, in 2002,
03:29and it was for this crime that he was finally arrested and imprisoned.
03:32He died in High Desert State Prison in 2010.
03:35Curtis Kimball.
03:36Curtis Kimball. Or Gerald Mock...
03:40Mockerman?
03:41Mockerman, right.
03:43Ring a bell?
03:44No.
03:452003, Gary Ridgway, sentenced December 18th, 2003.
03:50When it comes to confirmed killings, Gary Ridgway is the second most prolific killer in American history,
03:56behind the deceased Samuel Little.
03:58In Seattle today, a man called the Green River Killer has finally confessed to murdering 48 women and girls.
04:04Ridgway's known crimes occurred throughout much of the 80s and 90s,
04:07but they may have also stretched into the early 2000s.
04:10In that time, Ridgway killed a confirmed 49 people,
04:14but the true number may stretch past 90.
04:17He was given the nickname the Green River Killer,
04:19as some of his early victims were found in Washington's Green River.
04:23Ridgway, a suspect for nearly 20 years, was arrested in 2001 after DNA testing matched him to the crimes.
04:30Like the Golden State Killer, Ridgway was eventually caught with the help of DNA testing and sentenced to life in prison.
04:36As of 2023, he is 74 years old and confined to Washington State Penitentiary.
04:42Gary Ridgway will spend the rest of his life in prison.
04:462004, Larm Price, sentenced February 11th, 2004.
04:51In the wake of September 11th, 2001, Price's paranoia spiraled out of control.
04:56With a long criminal history and mental health issues,
04:59he believed he was being followed and had a tracking device in his hand.
05:03In 2003, Price began his spree.
05:06Altogether, he took the lives of four people as revenge against those who enacted the 2001 attack.
05:11However, only one of his victims was of Middle Eastern descent.
05:15Price walked into a police station and told them a person called Dog had been responsible.
05:20The officers, heavily suspecting Price, met with him the next day and he confessed to his crimes.
05:26In 2004, he was sentenced to 150 years in jail without parole.
05:302005, Dennis Rader, arrested February 25th, 2005.
05:36Having named himself BTK after his modus operandi,
05:40for 20 years, Rader was a massive thorn in the side of the police in Kansas.
05:44When BTK came forward, everybody's life changed.
05:49He would see a woman walking and he would say, she's next.
05:53Like the infamous Jack the Ripper, he sent mocking letters to the cops and media.
05:58But in person, Rader seemed nice.
06:01He had a loving family and was the president of his local church congregation.
06:06His first victims were the Otero family in 1974.
06:09And his 10th and last victim was Dolores Davis in 1991.
06:14Then he dropped off the map.
06:16But in 2004, he began taunting them once again.
06:19However, he got sloppy with a floppy disk and it was traced to his church.
06:24He asks the police in one of the communications,
06:28what if I were to give you a floppy disk with more details of the killings?
06:34Could you identify me?
06:36In 2005, Rader pleaded guilty and got 10 consecutive life sentences.
06:412006, Charles Cullen, sentenced March 2nd, 2006.
06:46This is a frightening serial killer and one of the most prolific in American history.
06:51Charles Cullen worked as a nurse in various New Jersey hospitals
06:54throughout the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.
06:57He was able to move from hospital to hospital without so much as a bad reference.
07:01And in that time, he killed multiple patients by overdosing them on drugs.
07:06His true number of victims is unknown.
07:0829 have been confirmed, but he has personally confessed to killing 40.
07:12But even that number may be low.
07:14Investigators believe that Cullen was responsible for hundreds of deaths.
07:18We'll never know how many people Charlie Cullen killed.
07:20It was noticed that many patients were dying under Cullen's care.
07:24But a national shortage of nurses ensured that he kept finding work.
07:28He was finally arrested in December of 2003 and has since been given 18 life sentences.
07:34What do you want me to tell you?
07:40Names.
07:42I can't remember all the names.
07:442007, Peter Tobin, sentenced May 4th, 2007.
07:49As police investigated Angelica's murder in 2006,
07:53they quickly realized that it wasn't carried out by a first-time murderer.
07:57In 2006, Pat McLaughlin was a maintenance worker at a church in Glasgow, Scotland.
08:02However, that wasn't his real name.
08:05Tobin had used the alias to hide his criminal history of assaulting two teenagers and spending 10 years in jail.
08:11After Angelica Cluke's body was found at the church,
08:14Tobin's identity was discovered and he was arrested for her murder.
08:17Mr. Tobin is considered a potential risk to members of the public.
08:23Any person who sees this man is advised not to approach him.
08:27In 2007, he was found guilty and sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years.
08:32In 2007 and 2008, the remains of two teenagers, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol respectively,
08:39were found at former homes Tobin lived in.
08:42Both had been missing since 1991.
08:45Tobin was found guilty of both murders,
08:47having his life minimum sentence increased to a whole life order in 2009.
08:51He's never going to talk.
08:53He won't talk about anything, any of his other crimes.
08:57But we know that during that period of time, Peter Tobin was in this area.
09:022008, Ronald Dominique, sentenced September 23rd, 2008.
09:07We're doing everything we can to catch this person responsible and still end up with dead bodies.
09:14From the late 90s into the 2000s,
09:16Louisiana had been experiencing a spike in murders and assaults of men and boys,
09:21often black and sometimes gay, each showing a similar cause of death.
09:25This led to the killer being named the Bayou Strangler.
09:29In 2006, the police arrested Dominique after one man told them he'd escaped a dangerous situation from him.
09:35I pulled him out of the passenger side.
09:38I hurry up and I grabbed him, pushed him in the ditch and then took off.
09:43While he denied the allegations, Dominique gave them a blood sample.
09:46On the surface, he didn't look like a killer, as he was short and had heart issues.
09:51Yet the DNA sample came back positive for several cases, causing Dominique to confess to 23 murders.
09:58In 2008, due to a plea bargain, Dominique was sentenced to eight life imprisonment terms without parole.
10:04The night early the next morning, Ronald Dominique confessed to 23 murders.
10:112009, Kang Ho-soon, sentenced April 22nd, 2009.
10:16From 2006 to 2008, women living in Seoul, South Korea had to live in fear.
10:21An unknown man was picking them up from various places, assaulting them and then taking their lives.
10:26The investigation into it led police to Kang in 2009.
10:30During the interrogation, he confessed to killing eight women.
10:33However, in 2005, Kang had escaped a house fire that had taken the lives of his wife and his mother-in-law.
10:40While he denied causing the fatal arson, he was found guilty of the crime,
10:44totaling his victim number to 10 women.
10:46In 2009, Kang was sentenced to execution.
10:49However, an informal moratorium in South Korea has halted capital punishment since 1997.
11:052010, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., arrested July 7th, 2010.
11:10And you were accused of not caring because they were black women.
11:13Yes, there were a few activists that were there accusing us of doing nothing.
11:19That was not true.
11:20Shepard says the LAPD didn't have the manpower nor the technology at the time to solve the multiple murders.
11:27Active initially in the 1980s, the grim sleeper earned his moniker from the extended break that he took between 1988 and the early 2000s.
11:37Real name Lonnie Franklin Jr., the sleeper took his first confirmed victim in 1984.
11:43He then claimed a further nine lives, with his final murder occurring on September 11th, 1988.
11:50Look how many years it was.
11:53I mean, it was a 30-year gap almost.
11:56Before they eventually caught somebody, 30 years to catch a black person that killed another black person, 30 years.
12:05Why is that? Because they weren't really looking.
12:08He did attack a 30-year-old woman the following November, but she survived,
12:12perhaps fearing the repercussions of her survival, the sleeper laid dormant for over a decade,
12:17his next victim likely being 43-year-old Georgia Mae Thomas on December 28th, 2000.
12:23It wasn't until the advent of DNA testing that Franklin was considered a suspect,
12:27and he was finally arrested in 2010, 26 years after taking his first victim.
12:33And I'm fairly certain that Lonnie Franklin was going to take to the grave
12:39all of the information regarding the unprosecuted, unknown victims that we were never able to put together.
12:472011, Anthony Sowell, sentenced August 12th, 2011.
12:51Relatives of victims complained that their missing persons report weren't taken seriously by police,
12:57even after one victim identified Sowell, he was released from jail only to kill more women.
13:03In 1990, shortly after being discharged from the U.S. Army, Sowell was sentenced for assaulting a woman.
13:09He was released in 2005, and years later began the killing spree that would get him the moniker of the Cleveland Strangler.
13:16In 2009, after one victim survived and informed the police of her assault, the cops arrived at his Cleveland, Ohio home.
13:23He knew how to coax them. He knew how to get next to them.
13:27He knew how to make them feel comfortable, and he knew at what time to approach them.
13:32There, they found the remains of 11 women and arrested Sowell.
13:36After several delays, the trial got underway in 2011.
13:39Sowell was found guilty of the 11 murders, as well as a litany of other crimes.
13:44The judge agreed with the jury's recommendation and sentenced Sowell to capital punishment.
13:48However, he passed away naturally in 2021.
13:52Shawn was unconscious and taken to the hospital with Sowell at her side.
13:56He dropped her off and left without ever being questioned by the police.
14:002012. Israel Keys. Arrested March 13, 2012.
14:05What's most terrifying for the police and the public is a killer with no M.O.
14:10But to make things worse, how about one who was also trained by the U.S. Army?
14:15This was the case of Israel Keys.
14:30He's not anywhere near where you live that other people go to as well.
14:35Across the country, Keys had set up kill kits, which gave him access to equipment wherever he decided to attack someone.
14:42After he killed 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, the FBI was able to track his bank account use
14:48and make an arrest following the demand for a ransom.
14:51Police arrested 34-year-old Israel Keys 4,000 miles away in Texas.
14:58Once he was in custody, however, it was discovered that Keys was responsible for the murder of multiple victims.
15:04We did spend a fair amount of time talking about his crimes and his offenses as well,
15:08and those times were definitely very chilling to hear him talk about what he has done.
15:14Before he faced trial in 2012, Keys took his own life
15:18and taking with him information that might have been used to solve other crimes.
15:232013, William Clyde Gibson, sentenced November 26, 2013.
15:28The first woman you killed was Karen Hodella, a 40-40-year-old woman who you'd never met.
15:33Why did you kill her?
15:36Just felt like it.
15:38During his time in the U.S. Army, Gibson developed substance use issues, leading to being dishonorably discharged.
15:44From there, he had stints in jail for several crimes, including theft and assault.
15:49This led to many accusations of mental illness, but nothing that was officially confirmed by professionals.
15:54In 2012, after Gibson's mother died, he snapped.
15:58Within a few weeks, he had assaulted and murdered two women.
16:01One of his victims was his mom's friend, whose body was discovered in Gibson's home.
16:0675-year-old Christine Whitus was found strangled in his home,
16:10and police connected Gibson to the cold case death of 45-year-old Karen Hodella shortly after.
16:15He confessed to both murders to the cops, plus another he'd done in 2002.
16:20In 2013, the jury took less than 20 minutes to find Gibson guilty of one murder.
16:25Altogether, he received two death sentences and 65 years in jail.
16:30Judge Orth says the serial killer's lack of remorse played a part in her verdict.
16:35She mentioned that Gibson's tattoo that says Death Row x3 is an indication of his feelings toward his crime.
16:422014. Samuel Little. Sentenced. September 25th, 2014.
16:47In 2019, the FBI confirmed that they'd identified Samuel Little as the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.
16:55After being convicted for slaying three people in 2014,
16:58the unsettling extent of his crimes began to leak out over the next few years.
17:03By 2018, Little had confessed to killing 93 women across the country.
17:08It's disturbing to listen to, but investigators want to hear it all and more.
17:1379-year-old Samuel Little has confessed to 93 murders.
17:18That's more than were committed by Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer combined.
17:22Little provided the FBI with details on many of the cases from 1970 to 2005,
17:28and even drew the victims from memory to prove he was telling the truth.
17:32These are the portraits drawn by Samuel Little himself that there were many claims to have killed.
17:37They're so accurate that family members have recognized lost loved ones from them.
17:41Before he passed away in 2020, more than 60 of Little's confessions across at least 14 states had been confirmed by the authorities.
17:502015. Mikhail Popkov. Sentenced. January 14th, 2015.
18:07Starting in 1992 and lasting nearly two decades, the Russian city of Ongarsk and the surrounding area
18:13was plagued by a killer known as the Werewolf, or the Ongarsk Maniac.
18:18Mainly targeting women, the criminal had taken many lives, including a police officer.
18:23During an investigation at one of the crime scenes, there were tracks from a vehicle typically used by cops.
18:29In 2012, when current and former officers were DNA tested, Popkov's matched,
18:34who was now working as a security guard after leaving the force.
18:37In 2015, he was sentenced to life for 22 murders.
18:41Over the years since, Popkov has confessed to taking the lives of as many as 86 people,
18:46earning him further life sentences and years to his punishment.
18:50He offered rides to women, sometimes in his police car while he was off duty.
18:54Still, his crime spree first went unnoticed.
18:582016. Bradley Robert Edwards. Arrested December 22nd, 2016.
19:03Between 1996 and 1997, three women went missing from Claremont, a suburb in Western Australia.
19:10Two were later found dead.
19:12The night Sarah Spears vanished from Claremont in January 1996
19:17was the beginning of one of the darkest chapters in WA's history.
19:22These circumstances made police suspect a serial killer was responsible.
19:26But finding that killer would require one of the largest, most expensive investigations in Australian history.
19:32Over the following years, numerous suspects were interrogated, watched, and eventually ruled out.
19:38Lance Williams was a prime suspect in the eyes of the police.
19:44They were desperate for somebody to look at for these crimes,
19:49and he definitely put his head up over the parapet.
19:52Then, a study of fibres from the crime scenes revealed two important facts.
19:57What the murderer had been wearing and what kind of car he drove.
20:00Both implicated Bradley Robert Edwards.
20:03His DNA also turned out to match samples found under one of the victim's fingernails.
20:08The police had caught up with him because really science had caught up with him.
20:11It was the DNA that got police to Bradley Robert Edwards' door.
20:15It was the DNA that got him into court in 2019 for the trial.
20:20Edwards was arrested and charged with murder in 2016 and is currently serving a life sentence in prison.
20:262017, Todd Kohlhepp, sentenced May 26, 2017.
20:31That's what happens as family member after family member gets up to speak.
20:36Todd shows no emotion, even though many in the courtroom are in tears.
20:41In 1987, as a teenager, Kohlhepp was sentenced to jail for kidnap and assault.
20:47Released in 2001, he later became a realtor.
20:50In 2016, Kayla Brown and Charles David Carver vanished from one of Kohlhepp's properties.
20:56A couple of months later, she was found chained up in a storage container based at the location.
21:01Brown told police that Kohlhepp had murdered Carver, assaulted her and shown her the graves of other victims.
21:08I kind of got to see it from the beginning and I kind of got to see it as it was coming to an end.
21:14The police soon found two bodies of a married couple who'd gone missing in 2015.
21:19When Kohlhepp was arrested, he confessed to the three murders, plus the 2003 killings of four people in a motorbike shop.
21:27In 2017, a plea bargain got him seven consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
21:33You've got multiple murders, shallow graves, a huge mysterious property, a serial killer who has this larger-than-life personality.
21:432018. Darren Deon Vann, sentenced May 25, 2018.
21:48He preyed on individuals that might be less likely to be reported missing.
21:54In 2013, former U.S. Marine Vann was released from jail after serving four years for assault.
22:00The next year, the body of Africa Hardy was discovered in Hammond, Indiana.
22:04The investigation led officials to Vann.
22:07During the interrogation, he confessed to Hardy's murder, but also to many others.
22:12They located a body, but it wasn't the right one. It wasn't one of mine.
22:17For several years, a reporter and later a coroner had warned police about a possible serial killer in Gary, Indiana, with up to 18 victims.
22:26But their concerns were dismissed.
22:28Vann led police to abandoned houses where he slashed seven of his victims, mostly in the city of Gary.
22:34In 2018, as part of a plea deal, Vann was sentenced to seven concurrent life sentences without parole.
22:41Investigators continue to question Vann and plan to use cadaver dogs to search abandoned buildings for other possible victims.
22:472019. Robert Hayes, arrested September 15, 2019.
22:52Nicknamed Squeaky and with a friendly reputation, Hayes seemed like a good person.
22:57However, behind the scenes, he was anything but.
23:00From late 2005 to 2006, the bodies of three sex workers were found in Daytona Beach, Florida.
23:07Hayes was investigated for being the Daytona Beach killer.
23:10However, he was dismissed as the criminal profile called for a white man.
23:14We conducted many, many, many operations to try to catch him.
23:18We knew he had his DNA, so we knew sooner or later he was going to stub his toe and we were going to get him.
23:21In 2007, a similar murder happened.
23:24Then another in 2016, which matched DNA evidence from the Daytona Beach slayings.
23:29The DNA was run through an ancestry genetic database, leading to a match for Hayes.
23:35In 2019, he was arrested.
23:37In 2022, Hayes was sentenced for the Daytona murders to three consecutive life sentences without parole.
23:43He's currently awaiting trial for the 2016 murder.
23:46Detectives say DNA links Hayes to the 2016 murder.
23:50Now they say he's connected to at least three other murders in Daytona Beach between 2005 and 2006.
23:572020. Joseph James D'Angelo, sentenced August 21, 2020.
24:03Police officers are meant to be honorable and find justice for victims, not cause a wake of destruction like Joseph James D'Angelo.
24:11For decades, Joseph James D'Angelo was America's most wanted man.
24:17The Golden State Killer.
24:19In 1976, he began his spree of assaults and burglaries in Sacramento, California.
24:25In the space of three years, he had committed 50 attacks.
24:29By 1978, D'Angelo progressed by slaying Brian and Katie Maggiore.
24:34He morphed into the original Night Stalker and later the Golden State Killer before the crime stopped in 1986.
24:42Then in 2018, the police used genetic genealogy from the DNA found at D'Angelo's crimes to trace it back to him.
24:50The search takes anywhere from 24 to 48 hours.
24:53Within a day, I had the list of potential relatives to the Golden State Killer.
25:00In 2020, amongst several charges, he pled guilty to 13 murders as part of a deal to avoid capital punishment and got a life sentence.
25:10But tonight, the Golden State Killer muttering this apology to his victims.
25:14And I'm really sorry.
25:19Moments later, Joe D'Angelo was sentenced to life without parole.
25:232021, Francois Virov. Confession, September 29th, 2021.
25:28From 1986 to 1994, at least three females were assaulted and murdered in Paris, France by the same assailant.
25:36Nicknamed the pockmarked man due to acne scars, the police were stumped for decades.
25:41However, during the investigation and witness statements, they realized the killer was an officer.
25:46Armed with DNA from the 1987 murder and modern technology, the cops summoned current and former officers to a test in 2021.
25:54Shortly after getting the request, Virov vanished.
25:58He'd worked as an officer in Paris for years before retiring in 2019, even appearing on a national game show.
26:04Virov took his own life.
26:06As well as his DNA matching, he left a letter to his wife that confessed to committing the crimes before stopping in 1997.
26:152022, Juan David Ortiz. Sentenced December 7th, 2022.
26:20The person arrested and charged in the killings that left four dead.
26:24An individual nobody expected. A border patrol agent.
26:28For 10 years, U.S. Navy veteran Ortiz had an impeccable record as a member of the United States Border Patrol in Texas.
26:36In 2018, Erica Pena ran to a state trooper and told them she'd escaped from Ortiz's vehicle.
26:42He was soon connected to the murder of four women within two weeks, all of whom were sex workers.
26:47Ortiz ran from the police after he was approached.
26:50However, he was soon found hiding in a parking lot and was arrested.
27:02The police believe Ortiz attempted to not be taken alive.
27:06The border agent confessed to the four murders during the interrogation.
27:10However, Ortiz still pleaded not guilty.
27:13In 2022, he was found guilty and sentenced to life in jail without parole.
27:18Provost assured the Border Patrol maintains high hiring standards and referred to the suspects as rogue agents.
27:24Ortiz was placed under indefinite suspension without pay.
27:272023, Rex Yerman. Arrested July 14th, 2023.
27:32One of the most infamous cold cases of our time was the Gilgo Beach killings.
27:36Dating back to 1996, a man did away with at least 10 people and dumped their remains in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island.
27:44Now, there were 10 sets of remains all told found along that area of Gilgo Beach.
27:50It had long been a dumping ground for bodies.
27:53In December 2010, the remains of four women were found and they were dubbed the Gilgo Four.
27:59Just a few months later, investigators found six more sets of remains, bringing the body counts to 10.
28:05The case was extensively studied until July 2023, when a Manhattan architect named Rex Yerman was arrested and charged with killing three of the Gilgo Four.
28:15He's been charged in the deaths of three women and he is the prime suspect in the death of a fourth.
28:20Maureen Brainerd Barnes was found right with the other three.
28:24And so it seems that 27 years after the death of the first victim, the mystery of the Gilgo Beach killings may have been solved.
28:32It's not clear that Yerman's going to be linked to all 10 sets of human remains, but it's a good bet, Kira, that prosecutors are going to move forward charging him with the death of Maureen Brainerd Barnes.
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28:572024. Rajik Tagirov, sentenced March 21st, 2024.
29:10From 2011 to 2012, the Volga maniac was taking the lives of elderly women who lived in low-cost apartment buildings within and around the Volga and Ural districts of Russia.
29:21The assailant pretended to be a utility or social services worker to gain access to their homes.
29:27Then they fatally attacked and robbed the victims.
29:36In 2020, after years of false leads, DNA evidence and shoe print analysis led the police to Tagirov, who had a criminal history of theft.
29:45After initially admitting to the crimes, he later withdrew his statement and blamed being under stress during the confession.
29:51In 2024, Tagirov was found guilty of 31 murders, several attempts and 34 assaults, earning him life imprisonment.
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