A serial killer who was sentenced to life in prison for killing 81 people in Russia later confessed that he had killed two more women in the past, and was sentenced to 9 years and 8 months in prison.
However, since he has already been sentenced to life in prison twice by the courts and is serving a sentence, the ruling is unlikely to affect his life in prison.
According to the Russian state-run TASS news agency on the 6th, on the 4th, the Angarsk District Court in the Siberian Irkutsk Region sentenced former police officer Mikhail Popkov (57) to 9 years and 8 months in prison for the murder of two women.
The Irkutsk Oblast branch of the Federal Investigation Committee responsible for the investigation of serious crimes previously charged Popkov with the murder of two women in Angarsk in 1995.
Popkov pleaded guilty but declined to comment, Tas said.
Popkov confessed to police that he killed 81 people in the Irkutsk region between 1992 and 2010.
Including the two newly revealed people this time, the total number of victims of the crime he admitted is 83.
Popkov mainly targeted young women, such as drunken waitresses and drunkards.
He was called the 'Angarsk maniac' or 'werewolf' by the locals for his terrible method of kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and then killing the victims.
Retired from the police in 1998, he continued to commit crimes, but in 2012, he was caught by the police in Vladivostok in the Far East.
At the time, investigative authorities identified and charged 22 murders of Popkov's total offences.
In 2015, a local court recognized this and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Since then, Popkov has confessed to 59 additional murders and charged with prosecution, but in 2018, a local court found only 56 of his crimes and sentenced him to life in prison.
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