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/FL/Jacksonville – A man accused of killing seven women and convicted of one murder was sent to Florida’s death row on Thursday.
Paul Durousseau was convicted in June of the rape and slaying of 24-year-old Tyresa Mack in 1999. The same jury voted 10-2 to recommend the death penalty.
Durousseau’s attorneys argued that his life should be spared because he suffers from brain damage and other mental illnesses that impaired his behavior. But prosecutors said Durousseau was well aware of what he did when he killed the woman and deserved the death penalty.
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US/MI/Lansing – The attorney for accused serial killer Matthew Macon tries to get his clients’ trial moved to another county. It’s a case that captured mid-Michigan’s attention this summer. Matthew Macon is suspected of brutally attacking six women. He’s now set to stand trial in three of those cases. His attorney requested that Macons’ trial be moved out of Ingham County because he believes media coverage has tainted potential jurors. Judge William Collette denied a motion to move the murder trials. He told the prosecution and the defense that if the county could pick a jury for the high profile trial of Tim and Lisa Holland, he’s confident it can find one for Matthew Macon.
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US/MO/Strafford - A serial killer confesses; a decades-old cold case is cracked; and one man from Strafford says he can now move towards closure.
Law officers in Cape Girardeau said Monday that an Illinois prison inmate’s admission to killing nine people solved a murder that has ties right here in the Ozarks. Don Call, a retired Strafford School District superintendent, is the son of one of the victims who was killed 25 years ago.
Timothy Krajcir, 63, pleaded guilty on Monday for first-degree murder for the strangling of a Southern Illinois University student in 1982. Detectives say he also has agreed to plead guilty for murdering five women in Cape Girardeau between 1977 and 1982.
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CA/BC/New Westminster - The jury in the case of a pig farmer accused of being Canada’s worst serial killer was continuing deliberations after the judge clarified a portion of his instructions.
Deliberations were suspended for about two hours Thursday following a question passed on to the judge from the jury, which focused on the possible roles of other people in the crime. The jurors finished their sixth full day of deliberations late Thursday and will resume Friday morning.
Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton went on trial in January on the first six of 26 first-degree murder charges for the deaths of women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood.
The defense suggested during the trial that others who visited the farm might have committed the murders.
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CN/Beijing - China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has issued a class-A warrant for the arrest of a 39-year-old man suspected of murdering five persons on three occasions and defrauding 210,000 yuan (28,000 U.S. dollars) in northeast China.
The fugitive, Liu Renfeng, was suspected of involvement in a homicide case that occurred on Nov. 28 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, in which one person was killed.
According to police investigation, the fugitive was also suspected of robbing and killing two persons on May 2, 2000, in Harbin.
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FR/Lyon - French police have arrested Nicolas Panard, 68, on suspicion of killing 18 men between 1980 and 2002. According to police, all of the victims died from blunt force trauma and stab wounds. When their bodies were later found, they were partially nude with their heads covered.
Police believe an accomplice, a man they have identified as Slim Fezzani, 43, aided Panard in the killings. Fezzani is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence on a separate murder conviction. Both men deny involvement in the murders. Formal charges will not be filed until a judge reviews the evidence against them.
US/MI/Jackson – A confessed serial killer who police said may have been responsible for dozens of deaths died Friday, a little more than a week after he received a second life sentence, authorities said.Coral Eugene Watts, who said he targeted women with evil eyes, died in a secure area of Foote Hospital, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said. Read More »
TR/Ankara - Turkish police arrested a self-confessed cannibal in Ankara. The killer´s own words after arrest: “I love the taste of blood and human flesh…”
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