A man was shot dead by police on August 19, 2017 in Surgut, Russia, after a knife attack.
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A man suspected of killing 26 elderly women, whose homes he robbed in 2011 and 2012, has been arrested in Russia, the Russian Investigative Committee, the main body in charge of criminal investigations in Russia, said on Tuesday.
Radik Taguirov, a 38-year-old locksmith living in Kazan, more than 800 km east of Moscow, was arrested after "systematic and meticulous" work by the police, including more than 10,000 genetic expertise, he explained.
Murders with a "stereotypical character"
The murders were committed in 12 different regions of this country, according to investigators.
But the biological traces and the prints of shoes discovered at the scene of the crimes as well as the "stereotypical character" of the acts of the murderer made it possible to conclude that their author was one and the same person, they specified.
Radik Taguirov, who was already tried in 2009 for theft, is confessing, investigators added.
Russia has seen some of the most prolific serial killer trials in the world in recent years.
A former Siberian policeman, Mikhail Popkov, was sentenced to life in prison for 78 murders of women committed between 1992 and 2007. He raped and killed his victims after offering them for a ride at night, sometimes in a police car outside of his working hours.
Alexander Pitchouchkine, nicknamed by the Russian press the "chess killer", was sentenced to life imprisonment in Moscow in 2007 for 48 murders, committed mainly between 2002 and 2006. He admitted to having wanted to kill 64 times, ie the number of squares on a chessboard.
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