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Sep 2024

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The Volga Maniac's Last Murder - Septemb...

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September 27th: Volga Maniac's Last Murder (2012)

Some victims are chosen at random. Others are picked to make a crime that much easier to commit. On September 27th 2012 a serial killer in Russian took his last victim. An elderly woman who, trusting, let a man into her home and was easily overpowered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Maniac, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/volga-maniac-radik-tagirov-serial-killer-arrested-russia/, https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-crime-murder-idUKKBN28B612, https://nypost.com/2020/12/01/russian-man-confesses-to-being-volga-maniac-serial-killer/, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9006439/Russian-serial-killer-dubbed-Volga-Maniac-strangled-26-elderly-women-arrested.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55153407

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