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Russia arrests suspected 'Volga Maniac' linked to 26 killings

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/12/01/volga.jpg"/><figcaption>Russian police arrested a man known as the Volga Maniac suspected of killing 26 elderly women, sometimes posing as a social worker to enter their homes before strangling them and stealing their valuables, law enforcement agencies said.<em> Screenshot of video from Russian Investigative Committee/Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs via Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MOSCOW - Russian police arrested a man on Tuesday suspected of killing 26 elderly women, sometimes posing as a social worker to enter their homes before strangling them and stealing their valuables, law enforcement agencies said.</p><p>Russia&#x27;s RIA news agency and other state media said investigators believe him to be a serial killer known as the Volga Maniac who preyed on retired women living alone in twelve different regions in 2011-12, most of them near the Volga River.</p><p>The Investigative Committee that handles probes into serious crimes identified the suspect as a metalworker named Radik Tagirov, 38, who was jailed for theft in 2009 and released in 2010. His lawyer could not be reached for comment.</p><p>The agency said it had DNA samples linking the suspect to the killings. He was apprehended at an address in the city of Kazan, it added.</p><p>The Vesti state television channel aired footage of a man it said was the suspect admitting to strangling women, a method he described as &quot;quiet, quick and painless for them, I thought.&quot;</p><p>The killer used nearby objects such as a dressing-gown cord and a cable for an iron to strangle victims, RIA reported.</p><p>Authorities had offered a reward of up to 3 million roubles for information on his whereabouts and been looking for him for years.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/adiWXGGeB1w?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>MOSCOW - Russian police arrested a man on Tuesday suspected of killing 26 elderly women, sometimes posing as a social worker to enter their homes before strangling them and stealing their valuables, law enforcement agencies said.</p>

MOSCOW - Russian police arrested a man on Tuesday suspected of killing 26 elderly women, sometimes posing as a social worker to enter their homes before strangling them and stealing their valuables, law enforcement agencies said.