UP: Serial killer in Bareilly? 9 women found murdered in 14 months | Latest News India

9 ladies have been discovered murdered over 14 months in a rural patch of Bareilly district, prompting the police to suspect that the crimes could possibly be linked to a serial killer.

The victims have been murdered in a radius of 25 kilometres in villages that fall beneath two police stations. The profiles of the victims are related – all aged between 45 and 55.

The victims have been killed equally. They have been discovered strangled in fields round midday. Their garments have been dishevelled however weren’t sexually assaulted, reported TOI.

UP DGP Prashant Kumar informed the newspaper that the police have been investigating these instances for six months. They have not dominated out the potential for a serial killer due to an identical modus operandi.

“Our groups have been investigating this case for six months and haven’t dominated out the potential for a serial killer because of the almost similar modus operandi of the murders,” he stated.

Who’s a serial killer?

A serial killer is a felony who murders two or extra individuals over a major interval with no motive. The principle motivation for the killings of a serial killer is psychological gratification. Most of those serial killers show patterns in the kind of victims and the way in which they commit murders.

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Serial killer in Delhi

India has had a variety of serial killers since independence. The newest was Ravinder Kumar, who was arrested for raping and murdering a six-year-old lady in July 2015.

Ravinder Kumar later admitted to raping and killing a minimum of 30 extra youngsters throughout Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over eight years. Nonetheless, what astounded investigators essentially the most was the “vivid and correct” descriptions of those crimes that he remembered.

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“Amongst crimes he confessed to was the rape and homicide of a five-year-old lady in Hathras in 2013. In that case, Ravinder described the precise location and date on which he had dedicated the crime. After I known as the Hathras police, they confirmed the small print, and stated the lady’s father was at the moment beneath trial for the rape-murder,” an officer informed HT final yr.