Vlado Taneski worked as a journalist for over
20 years.
For most of his career, he worked for local
newspapers in his hometown of Kičevo, Macedonia.
The town was small and quiet, and for the
most part, his stories were on the going’s
on in the local schools and government offices.
Then, in 2005, he got a big story.
A woman had gone missing, a local cleaner,
and her body had been found r@ped and murdæred
just outside of the town, her body wrapped
in plastic bags.
Taneski worked closely with the local police
and authorities to cover the murdær, with
his editor and the residents of the town praising
him for his attention to detail.
Over the next three years, three more women
would go missing, two of them later discovered
in the same condition as the first.
As he had with the first murdær, Taneski
covered them all with the same attention to
detail, his column quickly becoming a crowd
favorite amongst the locals.
However, police soon began to become suspicious
of Taneski’s coverage.
There were details that were popping up in
his stories that police noticed hadn’t been
shared with the public, and they began wondering
if Taneski knew who the murdærer was and
was keeping it to himself so he could continue
to get rave reviews for his media coverage.
It turned out that the truth was much more
sinister.
The police had been half right.
Taneski did indeed know who was behind the
murdærs — as he himself was the killer.
For three years, Vlado Taneski had been living
a double life.
His wife of 31 years described him as “quiet
and gentle,” and his coworkers called him
“unbelievably low-key and soft-natured.”
However, Taneski’s behavior elsewhere in
his life suggested otherwise.
Of the four women who disappeared, the three
whose bodies were found displayed signs of
being viciously r@ped, m0lested and t0rtured
before being strangled to death with a phone
cord.
It was the knowledge of that detail that led
police to Taneski in the first place.
Though they had initially revealed that the
women had been strangled, they had not said
with what.
Noticing that Taneski had correctly named
the specific type of phone cord used, they
arrested him on suspicion of murdær.
After questioning him, they obtained a search
warrant for his home, which revealed further
insight into his twisted mind.
His home was filled with pornography, and
notes about the crimes.
He had been carrying out the murdærs, then
writing about them in great detail for the
paper, as if taunting the police.
As for his motives, the police were unable
to discover them.
The victims were all cleaners, the same profession
that Taneski’s mother was in, and bore a
striking resemblance to her.
Police believed that they might have known
his mother, though a further connection was
never established.
After matching his DNA to the semen found
on the victims, Taneski was arrested.
While the police built their case against
him, the former reporter committed suicide
in his cell by drowning himself in a bucket
of water.
How is that even possible?
How can you drown yourself in a bucket of
water?
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