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A former police officer arrested for the murder of 22 women was sentenced on Monday to a second life sentence for the death of 56 others, becoming the largest serial killer of modern Russia.
Mikhail Popkov, 54, was nicknamed the "Angarsk maniac", after the name of the city where he lived in Siberia. He took the victims by car to isolated places where he had killed them with an ax, knife or screwdriver. Some of them have also been violated.
He was arrested in 2012, two decades after the start of the series of murders. In January 2015, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for 22 homicides and 2 homicide attempts.
After the conviction, he confessed 60 other crimes, including 59 murders. Investigators said on Monday that Popkov had provided sufficient evidence for the exhumation of the victims' remains 15 to 20 years ago, as well as his belongings and the weapons he had used to kill them.
Popkov said that he would appeal the verdict, as well as the motion to withdraw his police pension, that he continues to receive despite the conviction of 2015.
The victims of Popkov were women aged 16 to 40 and a man was a cop. Crimes were committed between 1994 and 2000.
The Attorney General in charge of the case told the Court that Popkov had a phenomenal ability to remember every detail of his crimes, including Tattoos and jewels of the victims, according to the agency.
Irkutsk police investigated murders perpetrated in the area for several years. Dozens of women had been raped and murdered in remote areas. To help identify the killer, samples were collected from 230,000 Angarsk residents.
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