UA/Kiev - A criminal expert has gone on trial in Ukraine accused of raping and murdering dozens of young women and girls over a period of 25 years, prosecutors said Friday.
Sergei Tkach has been charged with multiple premeditated murders and prosecutors have evidence he committed at least 60 rapes, murders or both, said Yuriy Boychenko, a spokesman for the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Authorities say Tkach, who has training in criminal investigation, has confessed to more than 100 rapes or murders, and investigators are working to verify his claims.
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UA/Dnepropetrovsk - Dnepropetrovsk Court of Appeal has begun hearings on Thursday into the case of serial killer Sergei Tkach who has 80 rapes and murders in his criminal record. The defendant claims 100 victims at least, mostly girls and young women under 18, he is responsible for.
The maniac caught in 2005 had committed crimes on the territory of Ukraine since 1980. The criminal who had once been a forensic expert, managed to escape prosecution thanks to his professional experience.
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US/Los Angeles/CA – One of the worst serial killers in Los Angeles history will pay for his deeds with his own life, as determined by a sentence delivered on Tuesday, July 10. Chester Dewayne Turner, who was convicted of murdering ten women and one unborn fetus, became the 665th inmate on California’s death row following an emotional and shocking trial. Read More »
US/Los Angeles/CA – A former pizza delivery man described as one of the most prolific serial killers in Los Angeles history after being convicted of 11 murders has been sentenced to death.
Chester Turner, 40, was found guilty at Los Angeles Superior Court in April after a four-week trial which heard how he preyed on women largely in the city’s run-down South Central neighbourhood during an 11-year reign of terror. Read More »
US/Los Angeles/CA – Jurors deciding whether one of Los Angeles’ most prolific serial killers should be put to death were asked Thursday to imagine being one of his victims.
Chester Turner, a 40-year-old Arkansas native and former pizza deliveryman, killed at least 10 transient women, two of whom were pregnant, prosecutors said. Read More »
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IN/New Delhi – A serial killer who has been leaving headless torsos outside New Delhi’s jail for more than a year, allegedly in revenge for wrongful imprisonment, has struck again.
It’s the fourth time since December 2005 that a torso had been left in a sack outside Tihar Jail with a letter, an Indian Express report said today. Read More »
IN/New Delhi – A headless body of an unidentified male was found outside Gate No. 1 of the high-security Tihar Central Jail here on Friday. It is the third such body to be recovered from outside the jail premises since last October, with the murderer challenging the police to catch him. Read More »
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IN/New Delhi – Police think that the serial killer who has dumped four torsos on the doorsteps of Tihar Jail since December 2005 might have killed many more people. Investigations reveal at least five similar cases across Delhi.
However, senior officers would not say where the other bodies were found. “We have almost identified the killer and a breakthrough is expected soon,” a senior officer said. “The killer might have murdered many more. But at present we have only information about five more cases,” added the officer. Read More »
US/Chicago/IL – The NYPD is trying to determine if its cold case squad has captured a possible serial killer.
Police say Emerson Tucker, 50, was arrested by cold case detectives and charged Thursday with strangling a woman and stuffing her body into a suitcase in 2003. He pleaded not guilty to the killing. Read More »
US/Los Angeles/CA – A man described by prosecutors as the city’s most prolific serial killer deserves the death penalty for the murders of 10 women and a fetus in the 1980s and 1990s, a jury said Tuesday.
A judge will consider the jury’s recommendation and impose a sentence for Chester Turner at a July 10 hearing. Read More »
