UP: SERIAL KILLER IN BAREILLY? 9 WOMEN FOUND MURDERED IN 14 MONTHS

Nine women have been found murdered over 14 months in a rural patch of Bareilly district, prompting the police to suspect that the crimes could be linked to a serial killer.

UP: SERIAL KILLER IN BAREILLY? 9 WOMEN FOUND MURDERED IN 14 MONTHS

The victims were murdered in a radius of 25 kilometres in villages that fall under two police stations. The profiles of the victims are similar – all aged between 45 and 55.

The victims met similar ends. At noon, they were found in fields, strangled.  although their clothes were unkempt, they had not been sexually molested.

The publication was informed by UP DGP Prashant Kumar that the police have been looking into these instances for six months. Due to a similar method of operation, they haven't completely ruled out the idea of a serial killer.

"Our teams have been investigating this case for six months and have not ruled out the possibility of a serial killer due to the nearly identical modus operandi of the murders," he stated.