A Russian police officer in Siberia has been murdered in the opinion of the court, a total of 78 women. The 53-Year-old could go down as the most dangerous serial killers in the criminal history of Russia. A court in the city of Irkutsk spoke to the man named Mikhail Popkov on Monday of the murder of 56 women guilty and imposed a sentence of life imprisonment, as the state investigative Committee said in Moscow. Already in 2015, the man was convicted of the murder of 22 women to a life sentence. In detention, he had confessed to the other cases.

The offenders had made from 1992 to 2010 in the city of Angarsk hunting for women. If you were alone in the evening on the way home, he offered them a ride. In lonely Places in the forest, raped her and he killed the women. He thought of himself as a “cleaner” and murdered the women because of their allegedly “immoral lifestyle”. He worked as police officer until 1998, as a strip. The investigators in the impoverished city of hard-to-actions over the years to come the gentlemen on the track.

As the worst serial killer in Russian history has been Andrei Chikatilo (1936-94), demonstrated to the Soviet times, 53 people were murdered. (dpa)