(Photo courtesy Siberian Times)Former Siberian policeman Mikhail Popkov, who is already serving a life sentence for the murders of 22 women, has confessed to killing 59 more, police told the Siberian Times. When he was first detained in 2012, the Siberian Times said, he told police his goal was to “cleanse” the streets of prostitutes. Irkutsk police spokeswoman Karina Golovacheva has told the Siberian Times that Popkov has now confessed to 59 new slayings. After laborious probes, police have found body after body in the places where Popkov told them they were hidden. The Siberian Times speculated that he was confessing gradually to the killings rather than all at once in hopes of delaying his transfer from a detention prison to a penal colony.

Source: Washington Post January 12, 2017 09:08 UTC