Nine women have been found murdered in a similar manner in a span of 14 months in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district. Police suspect the spree of killings could be the handiwork of a serial killer. All victims – women between the ages of 45 to 55 – were murdered in a radius of 25 kilometres in villages that fall under two police stations.
According to a TOI report, all the victims were found strangled in fields around noon. Their clothes were dishevelled but were not sexually assaulted.
UP DGP Prashant Kumar told TOI that the police have been investigating these murders for six months and haven’t ruled out the possibility of a serial killer at loose because of a similar modus operandi.
“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 said.
A serial killer is a person who murders two or more people over a significant period without a motive. The main motivation for the killings is psychological gratification. Most of the serial killers display patterns in the type of victims and their modus operandi.
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