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[Music] our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents if you feel at
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anytime you need support please contact your local crisis center for suggested phone numbers for confidential support
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please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website on November 16 2004 41 year-old Kenner
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in Kissimmee an Oscar contacted the local police station in Tkachev Oh a small city located in western Macedonia
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to report her mother mitra to be missing the 64 year old retired cleaner and housekeeper had left her home earlier
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that day for a trip to the market and hadn't been seen since kena Rinker originally thought her mother may have
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gone to visit some family members after going to the market but as time passed and Dimitra failed to return home her
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daughter's worry increased an inspection of mithras house showed no signs of forced entry or anything to suggest the
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struggle had taken place and - there were no other clues to indicate where she may have gone kena Rinker pressed
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the kid chavo police chief to launch an investigation into her mother's disappearance but she was met with
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reluctance and an unnerving sense that the police viewed her with suspicion when they asked her to pay the money to
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conduct an investigation a frustrated Kenna Rinka sought help elsewhere she walked a hundred metres down the road
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from her mother's home to the house belonging to renowned freelance journalist Vlado - neski as the primary
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national news contact for the municipality of tkachev Oh Vlad OH typically covered controversial
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political topics that plague to the region ranging from police corruption to rising unemployment and illegal logging
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while he had covered crime stories before most were related to less serious issues like petty theft
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despite this when Kenna Rinka Simeon Oscar stopped by his house requesting he write an article about her mother's
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disappearance Vlado agreed when the article was published a gun at a local curiosity but
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resulted in no leads as days passed with no sign of Metro Kenna Rinker became increasingly worried that her mother had
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met with harm yet friends and neighbors held a little concern as room is speculated that Metro probably ran away
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to escape a jealous boyfriend had simply relocated elsewhere and was safe and well in the following weeks
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Vlado 10's key continued to investigate Mithras disappearance scouting for information by interviewing her known
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acquaintances but nothing worthwhile came to light Mitra Simeon Oscar had vanished without a trace almost two
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months later on January 12 2005 a scrap collector was scavenging through the neglected construction site of a sports
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stadium on the outskirts of Tkachev Oh as he foraged through the piles of junk and waste searching for anything of
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worth he noticed something at the base of a steel construction frame there in a shallow hole under a pile of rubbish and
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heavy stones was a plastic garbage bag containing what appeared to be human remains
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[Music] the Macedonian city of Kidd Chavo is situated within the slopes of Bistrot
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mountain it offers a little appeal for visitors with its post Yugoslavian buildings crumbled sidewalks and bleak
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houses in desperate need of renovation most tourists don't bother stopping through only glimpsing at Zion on the
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journey south from Macedonia's capital of Skopje to lake off-grid on the Albanian border as was the case with
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most post Yugoslavian states the Macedonian government invested its money into more prominent and popular locales
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this meant smaller towns and villages lucky Chivo were often overlooked and forgotten deteriorating quickly as they
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fell behind the fast paced advances of modern life life was slow in Tkachev oh where it's 20 thousand residents enjoyed
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a quiet and relatively peaceful existence harbored by a close-knit community with strong traditional values
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as such cachero was rarely mentioned on national macedonian news but his word began to spread about the body found at
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the abandoned sports stadium Kitsch fo was suddenly making national headlines the chilling discoveries shocked even
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the most hardened of kid chavos the local police officers who were used to dealing with incidences of theft and
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domestic violence in their small town but rarely murder the victim was soon identified as missing 64 year old
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mistress immune Oskar forensic testing revealed she had been brutally beaten raped tortured and strangled to death
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with telephone cords he used to bind her legs together examiner's calculated Mitra had only been deceased for
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approximately ten days meaning she was kept alive and tortured by her abductor for the two months she had been missing
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community fear had little time to manifest as police soon announced that several arrests had been made in
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relation to the crime less than two weeks before Mithras body was found senior citizen radish Olive bosun auskey
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was spending New Year's Eve alone at his house in Malkin's a small village neighbouring tkachev oh when suddenly
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two men aged in their late 20s broke into his home under the influence of drugs and alcohol
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both assailants subjected to raddest love to extreme acts of physical and sexual torture before beating him to
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death and fleeing the scene in possession of nothing more than some loose change the two perpetrators were
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promptly arrested and identified as Tkachev Oh locals on Terrace deskey and to Igor MO Chesky when the remains of a
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Mithra simeon Oscar were discovered later that month with wounds similar to those found on radoslav a connection
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between the two murders was quickly established this link was later confirmed during a police interrogation
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when rest' Eskie intimate Chesky age confessed to both murders but by the time their trial commenced two months
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later in 2005 RIS deskey intimate Chesky retracted their confessions in relation
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to Mithras immun Oscars murder denying any and all involvement they claimed their confessions were false given under
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duress after enduring severe beatings from interrogating police officers lost both accused were able to provide
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exhaustive details about the crimes they committed against a rudder Slav they claimed to know nothing about what
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happened to Mitra furthermore aunt iris deskey insisted he had a solid alibi for
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the day she went missing as he had been working away from Tkachev Oh at the time
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of her disappearance nevertheless the judge found a boat that the accused guilty of double murder and
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aunt iris dusky and Egor majeski were each sentenced to life in prison given the disturbing nature of the two
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crimes in the otherwise peaceful City the murder trial garnered intense interest from the national media in the
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courtroom the press bench was full of reporters scribbling notes as they listened to the prosecution defense and
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evidence provided by witnesses amongst the crowd was journalists the Vlado to neski observing the sad conclusion to me
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true story that he had personally been covering since she initially vanished in his subsequent article about the trial
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for daily newspaper Nova makedonia titled surgical gloves for a monstrous murder a Vlado rode in handcuffs and
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with searching eyes twenty-eight-year-old aunt iris dusky and his friend igor majeski accused of a
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horrible double homicide in Tkachev oh and de mal Katz walked into the courtroom they stared vacantly at the
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ceiling and from time to time whispered as if to themselves it's all over into now we'll pay for our crimes
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[Music] in early November 2007 almost three years to the day since mid thrush simian
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Oscar's abduction 56 year old cleaner Lubitz Alec Oscar left her house to buy groceries for lunch from a nearby
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supermarket two days later she still hadn't returned home and on November 12 lubitz's son
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Juuko filed a missing-persons report with the local police as the word of lubitz's disappearance began to spread
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investigators were at a loss as there was nothing to suggest she had met with foul play the 56 year old was an
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upstanding citizen a quiet friendly woman who worked hard cleaning apartment buildings to support
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her family weeks passed and with no sign of Lubitz a-- cagiva locals began to speculate over the similarities between
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her disappearance and to the abduction of mithras immune Oskar three years earlier they were also reminded of yet
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another missing woman 73 year old garite's up FL scar a retired cleaner who was last seen five and a half years
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earlier on May 30 2003 at the time of her disappearance neighbors theorized that garita who
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lived alone had perhaps moves to scope yes to look for work without notifying anyone alternatively some speculated she
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may have suffered a heart attack or stroke the wall on her own in a remote area there was nothing at her apartment
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to suggest something untoward had happened and her disappearance had been quickly pushed out of the public
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consciousness but given what had happened since Caritas disappearance seemed far more sinister now On February
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3 2008 her truck driver was passing through the cachero area on his way to the city of ghost River when he stopped
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at a roadside refreshment area near this Trujillo mountain range as he gazed down
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into the surrounding ravine something caught his eye sticking out from a rubbish filled ditch
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was a human hand police were instantly notified and an autopsy confirmed the body in the ravine
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was that of missing woman Lubitz ilakaka forensic testing revealed the 56 year-old had been beaten raped
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and strangled to death her remains bound with telephone cords and wrapped in a plastic garbage bag lubitz's death was
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calculated to have occurred just days before her body was discovered indicating she was held captive for the
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three months she was missing the similarities between the murders of Lubitz Ehrlich Oscar
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Mithra Simeon Oscar and to a lesser extent Redis Lavazza no ski were too obvious to ignore especially for
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freelance journalist of lado to neski who had covered all cases extensively for local newspapers days later on
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February 6 Vlado expressed his suspicions in an article for Macedonia's Morning Herald
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and newspaper he wrote rumors abound while the police are working on the case the majority of people in Tkachev oh
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think that this murder is related to the double homicide of a mistress immune Oscar and rudder sloth buzz an auskey
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he speculated over the possible scenarios that could have led to lubitz's abduction putting forward the
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possibility that the attacker may not have been premeditated he suggests that she may have been hit by a car and
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instead of the driver coming to her aid they saw it as an opportunity to take advantage of the situation
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weeks later on the evening of May 7 2008 65 year-old Savannah Tomoko scre a retired janitor who Nell
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worked as a local cleaner was sitting alone in her apartment when she received the startling phone call from a friend
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they had been listening to local community radio station canal 77 when they heard the news that Savannah's son
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Zoran had been involved in a car accident neighbors witnessed Silvana fleeing the apartment building with a
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worried expression on her face walking at a fast pace in the direction of the hospital in actuality Zoran had not been
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involved in an accident and was perfectly fine he returned home later that evening to find the apartment empty
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when his mother failed to return home that night his Oren questioned friends and neighbors discovering the bizarre
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circumstances that led to Savannah fleeing the building worried Zahran contacted police to report his mother
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missing only to discover there had been no reported car accidents that evening this revelation raised four likelihood
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that the radio broadcast the bells Oren's accident was not done in error but was an elaborate hoax to lure
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Savannah from her apartment by whomever was responsible for her disappearance the next day a woman
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walking on a street near the local kindergarten heard a ringing sound coming from nearby and followed the
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noise to a discarded mobile phone lying in a patch of grass she decided to answer the call and was
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startled when a police officer spoke to her asking the woman to identify herself
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into ordering her to stay put police arrived on the scene and confirmed the mobile phone is belonging to savanah
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Timmel Kostka given the location where the phone was found police believed it had been thrown out of a moving vehicle
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they were now convinced Savannah had met with foul play on May 16 2008 nine days
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after Savannah vanished a passerby at a soccer field on the outskirts of town made a disturbing
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discovery amongst the pile of rubbish they found a plastic garbage bag containing the body
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of Savannah Tomoko scar the 65 year old cleaner had been raped tortured and strangled her
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body burned with telephone cords similarities were immediately drawn to the murders of mistress immune Oscar in
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2005 Angelou beats Ehrlich Oscar just months earlier with only one obvious difference unlike the other victims who
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had been found and naked Savannah was wearing a green polkadot nightgown an item of clothing that did not belong to
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her further forensic examination revealed Savannah had likely been killed on the same day of her abduction an
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autopsy revealed she had suffered multiple internal and external injuries including five broken ribs 13 knife
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wounds to the skull and had endured a violent sexual assault traces of semen found on Savannah's body were sent off
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for DNA testing as a police spokesperson fronted the media saying we are talking
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about a volunteer caused in an exceptionally monstrous way rumors that a serial killer was active
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in tkachev o presented a sensational news story Vlado to neski who had been reporting on
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the string of murders from their outset made the connection between victims by the killer's weapon of choice a
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telephone cord which was then used to bind their bodies a unique detail too specific to be a mere coincidence on May
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19 2008 following the discovery of Savannah temel Koska Vlad oten s key wrote the
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people of Kosovo live in fear and panic after another butchered body of a woman from the town was found at this weekend
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the local police and the citizens to see the mysterious disappearance and hideous
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deaths of Savannah Timur Posca and Hulu beats Ehrlich Oscar as an act of the same man a serial killer police sources
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confirm the existence of a serial murderer in the town based on the fact that the women were tortured and killed
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in the same way which eliminates the possibility that this was done by different people the article explained
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that although investigators had interrogated several suspects all had been released from custody shortly
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afterwards meaning the killer was still at large the journalist who then coined - the
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name the unknown killer would come to be known as stating the motives of the Tkachev o monster remain unclear the
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concept of a serial killer targeting the townspeople seemed so alien that even the mayor of cachero stated his
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disbelief quote we have seen something like that only in films western films about serial killers in our town nobody
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could ever assume this could happen but there it was it happened and - right in our neighborhood
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- despite the fact that her killers had already been convicted questions still remained as to whether or not miss Rossi
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monoski could have been a victim of the Kitsch fo monster aunt iris desk e n2 Eagle no Chesky continued to profess
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their innocence for her murder insisting the confessions they provided in 2005 were false given mithras crime
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scene bore parallels to those of Lubitz Ehrlich Oscar and Savannah Tomoko scar who were abducted and killed
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whilst frist deskey intimate Chesky were serving time in prison a judge requested
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a review of a Mithra simeon Oscars case the subsequent inquiry exposed a major error in the original investigation when
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it was revealed that semen obtained from Mithras body at the time of her murder did not match either rest' s key or
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Murch s keys DNA this critical information was known by investigators prior to the trial in 2005 but was never
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presented in court although police insisted this crucial DNA evidence had been passed on to all relevant parties
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at the time including the public prosecutor it soon became clear that the DNA results were intentionally withheld
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to ensure speedy conviction for Mithra human Oscars brutal murder following this revelation aunt iris dusky and
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igorevich esky were cleared for the wrongful conviction of the murder of a Mithras immune Oscar the remained
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incarcerated for the murder of rudder sloth was an auskey which they continued to accept responsibility for no one was
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held responsible for suppressing the DNA evidence that ultimately proved their innocence
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diera became a major embarrassment for Kidd Chavo Police and the Justice Department
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there are netha collections enabling the kid Chavo Monster to continue to roam freely and harm others
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with Mithras immun Oscars murder officially revised to unsolved the semen sample found on her body was tested
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against the sample found on Savannah Tomoko scar while neither sample matched any known offenders within the criminal
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database the semen found on both victims was confirmed to have come from the same
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perpetrator expelling any doubts that a serial killer was at large in a bid to cash tickets Evo monster local law
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enforcement collaborated with the superiorly resource Skopje Police Force to create a psychological profile of
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their suspect they deduced he was likely a middle-aged male with the substantial
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physical strength required to restrain and strangle his victims before transporting their bodies he had to be
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intimately familiar with catch Evo and a given there was no evidence of a struggle at any of his victims homes or
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elsewhere it was possible he was known and trusted by each woman the abductions and subsequent slayings appeared to be
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planned in advance suggesting the killer had a higher than average intelligence while the similarities between each
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employed he was well organized the killer's haphazard way of discarding his victims within city limits was explained
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by a police spokesperson who stated whether it was three weeks or three years after they were murdered the
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killer wanted the bodies to be found The Killers preferred victims suggested he harbored sexual frustration towards
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older women that had likely stemmed from childhood trauma and developed into sadomasochistic desires although it
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couldn't be ruled out that the cachero monster had an accomplice investigators believed he acted alone the
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psychological profile enabled police to narrow down their search but a large pool of potential suspects remained
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a much-needed breakthrough in the investigation came when New Jersey located niece Ivana Tomoko Ska's body
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was found to contain traces of an unknown person's blood opening up the possibility it belonged to her killer
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police had the blood sample tested to determine the blood type allowing the suspect pool to be narrowed down further
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through a process of elimination the number of suspects was whittled down to approximately 150 men each was brought
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in for police questioning and were eliminated one by one bringing the list down to just ten names after verifying
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the alibis of the ten remaining persons of interest police were left with just three likely
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suspects DNA samples were taken from each but would take days to be tested against evidence collected from the
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crime scenes the comprehensive efforts undertaken by police were equally overseen by the media including the main
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reporter responsible for covering the case Vlado two neski in one newspaper article he wrote several teams of police
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experts are working day and night in the field and the laboratory to establish the identity of the serial killer yet
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unbeknownst to the press and public investigators were already confident they had identified the Tkachev own
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monster on the afternoon of June 20 2008 Augmon charged courage an editor for daily newspaper no vomica Danya received
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a phone call from one of his contacts at the Tkachev o police department advising
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that an arrest had been made in relation to the recent spate of murders his contact wouldn't disclose the identity
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of the suspect in custody the Dodman verified the information with the Ministry of the Interior who
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confirmed it to be true Dicky Chivo monster had been caught recognizing the breaking story presented
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his publication a huge opportunity of men immediately grab his phone and called his go-to contacting Tkachev oh
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award-winning freelance journalist Vlado to neski but much to his dismay the call
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went unanswered old and dialed again and again but still there was no response this was highly out of character for
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Vlad oh who was consistently reliable and always available when needed given that Vlad OH had been covering the case
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at the Tkachev Oh monster since the beginning it was even more unusual for him to be missing during the most
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significant moment of the entire investigation augments inability to reach of Vlad Oh to neski led him to
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believe he starte journalist was two steps ahead and toad already learnt of the news and ventured to the police
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station to chase deanna Scoob Ogden called the police station again expecting to locate Vlad oh there but
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was instead told by an officer you don't have a reporter in Tkachev Oh anymore earlier that afternoon
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dozens of police officers had closed in on an unassuming house in a quiet residential neighborhood of Tkachev oh
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metal window shutters half-drawn police entered the property and placed its owner 56 year old a flooded town s key
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of ladderton Eskie had been a person of interest for the killing since early in the investigation and had been called in
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for police questioning multiple times he fit the profile of the killer impeccably
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the 56 year old was tall and in good physical shape lived alone in the same neighborhood as the murdered women and
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was known to each of them initial suspicions were cast upon turn s key when investigators noticed he had the
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uncanny ability to stay one step ahead of his journalistic rivals he was able to write about the murders with a deeper
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level of insight that included specific details police had intentionally withheld from the press turn s key wrote
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that police had wrongfully convicted aunt iris deskey and to igorevich s key for mistress simeon Oscars murder
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long before the case was reviewed and to DNA evidence confirmed their innocence he was also the first person to publicly
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suggest the serial killer was responsible for the deaths of mitra savanah and Lupita long before police
00:33:41
had suggested the same additionally two neski speculated over the way in which savanah
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temel Koska had been abducted specifying that she may have been coached from her
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house by false radio reports that her son had been involved in an accident as a recorder turn s key regularly
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submitted stories for inclusion on local radio news bulletins ensuring he had the
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means to issue a false statement for broadcast suspicions directed towards tennis ki were fully ignited when police
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noticed the seemingly offhand detail in an article he wrote for novo makedonia about Lubitz Allah Kostas murder quote
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the monstrous murderer brutally tortured the helpless woman killing her by strangling her with a telephone cord the
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fact that a telephone cord was used as the killer's signature weapon was not publicly known at the time and had been
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strategically withheld by police to maintain the integrity of their investigation a police spokesperson said
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we read to neski story center they made us suspicious he knew too much following
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his arrest turn s key insisted he didn't know any of the victims personally a remark that only served to further
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arouse police suspicion they were fully aware that 10s key lived in the same close-knit neighborhood as the murdered
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women enter that H had been an associate of his late mother furthermore Lubitz Allah Koska had
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previously worked as a cleaner for 10s key and two the two had once worked together at the local metal Factory turn
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s key was hold in police custody for 24 hours but refused to provide a statement
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his answers to questions were evasive and he declined the invitation to contact a lawyer or advise anyone of his
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arrest in the meantime the results of his DNA testing came back three independent blood tests revealed
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tenesmus blood sample matched traces of semen found on Metro Simeon Oscar and Savannah Tomoko scar as well as the
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blood stain to Jersey found her next to Savannah's body based on these discoveries
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Vlada 10's key was formally charged with the murders of Miss Froy and Savannah initial DNA testing in relation to
00:36:10
evidence obtained from Lubitz Allah Cosby's crime scene was inconclusive but forensic investigators initiated the
00:36:17
examination of seven human hairs discovered at the dump site near her body it would take a number of weeks
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before these results came back giving police the ample time to look into flood oten s Keys history to learn what could
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have motivated the well respected journalists to carry out such a brutal string of crimes born in cachero in 1952
00:36:42
Vlado turn s key was the middle child in a traditional macedonian household with
00:36:47
an older sister and a younger brother his father Tryon had fought in World War two before spending most of his adult
00:36:55
life working as a night watchman in a timber factory his mother Gauri cha worked as a cleaner at the
00:37:01
local hospital the couple were firmed disciplinarians often resorting to corporal punishment to ensure their
00:37:09
children's obedience after his siblings left home Vlado 10's key was left to care for his aging parents alone he
00:37:18
found a passion for journalism and politics that developed in his teenage years where he served as the head of
00:37:24
tkachev o--'s communist the youth organization after graduating high school he worked at a local metal
00:37:31
Factory but his aspirations for journalism led him to go on and study at a political school in Croatia at 21
00:37:41
years old to neski attended a regional poetry reading which was a huge success for the young rider not only did his
00:37:48
poem win first place he also met a striking young law student named Vesna the two bonded over their love of
00:37:57
literature and began dating soon after deciding to get married four years later days before their wedding Vestas family
00:38:06
were in a car accident which claimed the lives of both their father and brother she survived the ordeal but the trauma
00:38:14
led her to suffer from depression throughout the remainder of her life although this didn't stop her from
00:38:20
fulfilling her goals and she went on to complete her law degree becoming the first female lawyer in catch ever at the
00:38:30
same time her husband began working at the local radio station before securing a position as a full-time reporter for
00:38:37
the largest daily newspaper in the country novo makedonia although theirs was a supportive
00:38:44
marriage that had issues from the start stemming from Vestas conservative event authoritarian in-laws she'd watch her
00:38:53
husband as he often clashed with his parents turning his typically gentle demeanor into one of agitation and
00:38:59
aggression whenever vesna voiced her issues about her mother-in-law to neski always sided
00:39:06
with his mother other than these issues the pair had a relatively happy marriage
00:39:12
and were well respected within their commune they had two sons who grew up to establish successful careers as
00:39:19
academics and doctors with two neski taking on the role of a helpful and supportive father the turn s Keys owned
00:39:29
a secluded summer cottage five kilometers from catch Evo where the family's aging patriarch Tryon chose to
00:39:36
spend a majority of his golden years tending to his vegetable gardens and to raising goats in solitude the ramshackle
00:39:44
old cottage was surrounded by cornfields in the middle of nowhere which suited the elderly man perfectly then in August
00:39:53
2002 Tryon was found dead in the cottage with his death rumored to have been the
00:39:59
result of suicide following Trion's death things only went downhill for the family in December 2002 just four months
00:40:11
after the death of her husband matriarch of God Rita took an accidental overdose
00:40:16
of sleeping pills and passed away in the family home the sudden deaths of his parents introduced financial problems to
00:40:24
validate and s keys life as he no longer received income from their pensions to help with the bills to make matters
00:40:31
worse in 2003 the newspaper he had been employed by for twenty years Nova makedonia was also experiencing
00:40:39
financial hardship and as a result he was laid off from his full-time position after starting work as a freelance
00:40:48
writer for several publications ternasky was paid on commission but without the stable income the responsibilities of
00:40:55
financially supporting their family lay on his wife's shoulders in 2004 the ministry of education
00:41:03
offered vest no a promotion to the position of university inspector a career advancement which meant she would
00:41:10
have to relocate the scope year the country's capital Vesna bought an apartment close to her
00:41:16
new workplace while her husband remained in Kosovo alone planning to join her in
00:41:21
Skopje when the timing was right in the meantime turn s key gained a technical qualification and opened a
00:41:29
local air-conditioning store to ensure he was bringing in regular income investment her husband as a progressive
00:41:38
thinker who was far too ambitious to waste his talents in the small town of Tkachev oh but he strongly preferred the
00:41:45
quiet provincial way of life turn s key believed capitalism Western ideals enter
00:41:52
the open market economy were destroying the traditions of his country and he longed for the time before Macedonia is
00:41:59
independence from Yugoslavia those ideals spilled into his writing where he wrote long nostalgic articles romancing
00:42:08
the Macedonian countryside glorifying manual labor and to the rural lifestyle many regarded finesse keys writing is
00:42:16
outdated and too there were conflicting views about his journalistic style in a country intent on keeping up with modern
00:42:23
times well they didn't seem to be much interest in his whimsical long-form prose turn s key was committed to
00:42:31
succeeding in the career he'd worked a lifetime to establish when the kitch fo monster began his reign of terror
00:42:38
Vlado 10's key secured himself as the lead reporter on the case interviewing friends and family of the victims whilst
00:42:46
writing up stories for several major publications ensuring his content received a nationwide coverage when
00:42:55
Metro Simeon Oscar disappeared turn s key agreed to write an article about the case on behalf of her daughter Kenna
00:43:01
Rinku yet even after two men were convicted for Mithras murder turn s key in explicitly continued to investigate
00:43:10
and report on the crime when Lubitz Allah Koska disappeared to neski met with her worried family into
00:43:17
sat with her sister as she described blue pizza as quiet and gentle details he later used in his articles on the
00:43:24
missing woman lubitz's sister later stated I never suspected that he was the murderer I knew him as a good honest
00:43:34
person we weren't close at all but we were neighbors turn s key door not to the area when savanah
00:43:43
temel Kostka disappeared again interviewing neighbors relatives center law enforcement before publishing his
00:43:50
findings in articles on the crime her son's or instated when my mother disappeared janeski asked
00:43:59
me questions even when he met me in the street he'd inquire if I had news or if I suspected anyone in particular we were
00:44:08
neighbors for a long time knew each other for years so it never even crossed my mind that he might be the guilty one
00:44:16
upon learning that police had arrested the journalist in relation to his mother's murder
00:44:21
Zoran said he can't describe the feeling it was very hard on me to have someone kill your mother and then come to your
00:44:32
house to say hi it's horrifying thorough searches are flat-out and s keys properties uncovered a collection of
00:44:42
pornographic videos and magazines that his family's remote summer cottage along with various ropes and cords items of
00:44:51
clothing and shoes belonging to the victims were also found at the cottage leading police to speculate he had held
00:44:57
the women captive at his property where they were brutally tortured and sexually
00:45:01
abused over an extended period of time before he killed them and disposed of their bodies Vesna stood by her husband
00:45:10
and insisted the items of clothing in question belonged to her late mother-in-law yet the green polkadot
00:45:17
nightgowns Ivana Timmel Kostka was wearing at the time her body was discovered was believed to have once
00:45:23
belonged to flat out and asked his mother indicating a possible connection between the murders and turn s keys
00:45:29
maternal relationship adding to this theory was the fact the victim shared many similarities with his
00:45:37
mother Goddard certain Eskie in that they were of similar age appearance and held the same job as a cleaner when
00:45:45
interviewed for the documentary series evil up-close British psychologist Emma short explained to the likelihood that
00:45:52
an esky had selected his victims based on their similarities to his mother considering the murder spree had begun
00:45:59
after his mother's death it was possible to ness Keyes desire to kill was linked
00:46:04
to the loss Emma short quote he was clearly very strongly attached to her but a strong attachment to a parent
00:46:14
doesn't always mean love sometimes it can mean hate or resentment but those things are just as powerful as love the
00:46:25
day after 10:00 s key was placed under arrest the Ministry of Interior released the public statement announcing the
00:46:31
cachero monster had finally been caught Vlado turn s keys full name was released
00:46:38
along with details about his occupation and a list of the evidence so far collected against him the revelation
00:46:45
sent shockwaves throughout the country Macedonia's Morning Herald newspaper broke the major news story which was
00:46:52
unlike any the media or public had ever heard before the article read is it possible that around the family lived
00:47:02
such a killer who was hiding so skillfully behind the mask of loyal and faithful husband proud father gentle
00:47:10
son-in-law and exemplary son many refused to believe the allegations with speculation rife that police had framed
00:47:19
two neski due to his intricate coverage of the case which pointed out the many failings of macedonian law enforcement
00:47:26
throughout the investigation in an interview with Esquire magazine a close friend and former colleague of 10s
00:47:34
Keyes described his friend of 20 years as shy humble and unobtrusive quote I never felt there was any aggression
00:47:44
anger or inhumanity within him Vlado just seemed completely normal when I heard that he was accused of being the
00:47:52
serial killer there was as if a lightning had struck me in an article for the Financial Times one of turn s
00:48:01
Keyes former editors stated to say that I was gobsmacked is an understatement I was speechless I was shaking I couldn't
00:48:10
believe he was the serial killer and part of me still doesn't believe it even relatives of the cachero monsters
00:48:19
victims were uncertain whether to believe the news Lou beats Alec Oscar's sister said she could never have
00:48:26
suspected to neski was the murderer as she had only known him to be a good and honest person although not everyone
00:48:35
remembered him that way one neighbor described to neski as a mysterious silent man who never said so much as
00:48:42
hello throughout his entire life another neighbor recalled him to be strange and
00:48:48
anti-social Vlado 10's key was ordered to remain in police custody for a 30-day detention period before legal
00:48:58
proceedings commenced he was assigned a public defender and transferred to a prison in total Valle a town located 70
00:49:07
kilometers north of catch ever upon his admission to prison a medical review declared him to be of good health
00:49:15
a prisoner accused of crimes as serious as 10s keys was expected to be treated carefully and provided with their own
00:49:23
cell however like most of the jails in Macedonia at the time total volt prison was severely overcrowded turn s key was
00:49:33
placed into the only space available a tiny cell consisting of two bunk beds and a grimy bathroom containing a toilet
00:49:41
sink and a large bucket the small cell already housed three inmates two men in their 20s who had been charged for
00:49:50
meddling in the recent parliamentary election and a 49 year old awaiting trial for poisoning a 14 year old girl
00:49:59
severe water restrictions meant taps were turned off during the day and inmates were instead provided with
00:50:06
bottles of drinking water and plastic buckets to use for personal hygiene these restrictions occurred during
00:50:12
daytime hours only and weren't enforced during the night On June 23 2008 three days after turn s keys arrest one of his
00:50:24
cellmates awoke to the sound of running water just before 2:00 a.m. the prisoner
00:50:29
went into the bathroom and found turn s key on his knees with his arms by his side face down in a bucket of dirty
00:50:36
water correction officers rushed into the soul but attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful by the time a doctor
00:50:45
arrived Vlado tone s key was dead the search of his body revealed three items inside his
00:50:53
pockets a round-trip train ticket from tkachev otoscope e air a blister pack of the antidepressant medication paroxetine
00:51:01
and a note directing authorities to check under the pillow on his bed there they found a second a note which read
00:51:10
I am proud of my family and I love them very much I have not done any of the things I am accused of I did not commit
00:51:20
these murders a subsequent autopsy of turn s keys body found the presence of water in his lungs confirming drowning
00:51:31
to be his cause of death other than a small bruise on his forehead which was sustained whilst this body spasm -
00:51:38
during the drowning there were no other signs of violence or defensive injuries to suggest foul play was involved
00:51:45
testing of the water in the bucket revealed no traces of sedatives chemicals or poisons the prison's
00:51:54
governor confirmed to neski had not been behaving suspiciously or raised any cause for concern in the day prior to
00:52:01
his death he communicated well with his soul mates a doll of his Mills and acted
00:52:07
normally there were no marks or injuries on any of turn s key soul mates to suggest that they could have been
00:52:14
involved in his death in any way during their attempts to resuscitate turn s key
00:52:20
prison guards had dragged him from the cell into a hallway contaminating the scene without knowing specific facts
00:52:27
like the exact positioning of turn s keys body at the time of his death an inquest concluded the journalist had
00:52:34
voluntarily ended his own life a police spokesperson stated he put his head in a
00:52:41
pail full of water he ended his life like in a horror movie under Macedonian criminal law the prosecution of a
00:52:51
deceased person is not permitted meaning there would be no further legal proceedings against the flood oten s key
00:52:59
given the highly unusual way that turn s key had chosen to end his life conspiracy theories ran rife that
00:53:06
implicated police in his death with claims that correction officers had purposely sabotaged the crime scene to
00:53:13
hinder any further investigations some of the wilder theories suggest that the journalist had been a victim of
00:53:20
waterboarding from officials desperate to extract a confession some started to speculate that
00:53:26
government officials had framed 10s key for the murders and orchestrated his death with his DNA either planted or
00:53:33
falsified to ensure the case was solved quickly as with the botched conviction of aunt iris dusky and Eagle majeski
00:53:42
although this seemed highly unlikely given the Republic of Macedonia aimed to join the European Union
00:53:49
and any further significant failures of their judicial system would reflect poorly on the developing country the
00:53:57
Macedonian government had much more to gain from conducting a fair trial of the accused serial killer in delivering a
00:54:04
verdict based on the presentation of fair and factual evidence the conspiracy theories reached a political level with
00:54:12
several journalists criticizing Macedonia's executive and judicial power they blame to the Ministry of Interior
00:54:20
for revealing Vlado 10s keys identity on national television the day following his arrest and act today believed to
00:54:27
compromise the possibility of him receiving a fair trial the entire investigation against 10s key was
00:54:35
heavily scrutinized including the fact that no witnesses were present when key evidence was collected from his home and
00:54:42
to the remote summer cottage where his victims were allegedly imprisoned two weeks after flattened s Keys death the
00:54:50
DNA test results for the seven hairs found near Lubitz Erlich Oscars body were in revealing they belonged to turn
00:54:58
s key a police spokesperson said all these women were raped molested and two murdered in the most terrible way and we
00:55:09
have very strong evidence that 10sp was responsible for all three in the end there were many things that pointed to
00:55:17
him as a suspect that led us to file charges against him for two of the murders we were close to charging him
00:55:23
with a third murder and hoped he would give us details of a fourth woman who disappeared in 2003 because we believe
00:55:31
he was involved in that case too the fourth woman was 73 year old god roots are Pavelka the retired cleaner
00:55:40
who hadn't been seen since May 2003 whether or not turn s key was involved with her disappearance would now likely
00:55:48
never be determined her whereabouts remain unknown members of the public continued to form strong opinions on the
00:55:58
matter Macedonia is leading criminologist Marianne Cotter Sookie called Tennessee suicide balance tant
00:56:06
indentures saying the only person who had anything to gain from Tennessee's death was to neski himself he believed
00:56:16
that when faced with the evidence siness Key had cautiously examined all the pros and the cons of his situation
00:56:22
and to chose the mysterious outcome that would ensure he avoided the embarrassment of a public trial while
00:56:28
causing people to question his guilt therefore protecting his family from disgrace using great willpower Maryann
00:56:37
Kotowski believed it was very possible that Tennessee had overcome his biological reflexes to gasp for air and
00:56:44
he was able to keep his head under water until he eventually passed out and died
00:56:51
another controversial issue surrounding 10s key suicide was the paroxetine tablets found in his pockets at the time
00:56:59
of his death the main ingredient in this medication is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or SSRI which is used
00:57:08
to treat depression anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder although paroxetine is a popular drug with many
00:57:16
health benefits when administered correctly it is also very potent several studies have linked the medication to an
00:57:24
increase in suicidal thoughts and behaviors in certain individuals who use it in Macedonia there was a certain
00:57:32
stigma surrounding mental health especially in more traditional communities like get Chavo
00:57:38
despite paroxetine being proven to be effective in treating a range of mental health issues many avoided seeking
00:57:45
treatment out of fear of being judged by family members neighbors or coworkers Vlad Otonashi had faced the difficult
00:57:55
and challenging period from 2002 onwards after the unexpected death of both his parents followed closely by the loss of
00:58:02
his long-term job but he never sought medical help from his doctor in Macedonia paroxetine was available
00:58:10
over-the-counter in turn s key had been purchasing it without a prescription therefore it was unknown how long he had
00:58:18
been taking the medication for and whether or not it could have influenced his decision to end his life due to
00:58:26
Macedonia's criminal law against prosecuting a deceased person in September 2008 officials confirmed that
00:58:35
the investigation into the murders of Metro Simeon Oscar Lubitz Ehrlich Oscar and Savannah
00:58:40
Tomoko skur was officially closed there were still many people unconvinced of turn s keys guilt daniela troop Cheska a
00:58:51
crime reporter from Macedonia's Morning Herald newspaper stated police said it was suicide
00:58:58
others like me don't think so and I'm not 100% convinced that Vlada was the killer either after all he never stood
00:59:08
trial sometimes I think maybe he really did it maybe he killed those poor women and he had some awful desire or need to
00:59:18
write about it but then again he didn't seem like he could harm anyone let alone
00:59:24
be a serial killer in an interview with journalists at the meteor Kenard of the literary magazine
00:59:32
Virginia quarterly review Vlado 10s Keys Widow Vesna continued to stick by her husband believing him to be
00:59:41
innocent she explained I went to see him in custody and that the police told me I
00:59:48
shouldn't waste my money on lawyers since they had pretty solid evidence against him when I saw him I asked him
00:59:55
if he was guilty or not and he said I don't know what you're talking about I told him I'd forgive him everything if
01:00:03
he would just tell me the truth he swore by his own children he wasn't guilty he said greet the children for me and
01:00:12
tell them I haven't done anything wrong one day things will be cleared up many others staunchly disagreed pointing out
01:00:22
that turn s key published information in his articles that only the killer could
01:00:26
know while also arguing that turn s keys DNA found on the bodies of the victims proved that without doubt that he was
01:00:34
responsible for their deaths a police spokesperson said the results are absolutely categorical that was a 100%
01:00:44
match it's unfortunate for us that because the suspect died the case will never go to trial and our evidence
01:00:52
cannot be presented in court in 2001 the Macedonian Institute for Media established a journalistic code of
01:01:01
ethics in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia the code states that the main
01:01:08
duty of the journalist is to respect the truth than the right of the public to be
01:01:12
informed while striving to prevent censorship and distortion of news journalists are required to respect
01:01:19
ethical values and professional standards while reporting honestly and objectively at all times the code
01:01:27
specifically states having in mind their role in the building of democracy and civic society journalists shall defend
01:01:36
human rights dignity and freedom in an interview with Esquire magazine vest nurten esky spoke of her late husband's
01:01:46
love for his chosen profession saying journalism was something he couldn't live without quote if he was given an
01:01:54
assignment he would drop everything whenever he was working he would rub his hands together and be so happy however
01:02:03
many former colleagues dispute turn s keys journalistic integrity claiming that throughout his career his writing
01:02:10
was full of cliches and often didn't satisfy the basic journalistic structure or standards as stated by dr. mimosa
01:02:19
Rostova a science professor specializing in forensics at Skopje University quote
01:02:26
Vlado turn s key didn't have a source for much of the information in his reports the only source he had was
01:02:35
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