A Macedonian journalist is currently in jail after police discovered he was behind a series of heinous murders. The murders involved three elderly women who were tricked by the journalist under the pretense to clean. When he was alone with them, he would kill, rape, and dispose of the body. Afterwards, he would follow the story and subsequent trial of the person police thought was responsible. This does not bode well for both Macedonian journalists and the police. Police began investigating journalist Vlado Taneski after they noticed his stories had more information than was publicly available. He is currently not being charged for anything but that will soon change as more information on his crimes mount. Police allege Taneski kidnapped, abused, both physically and sexually, and cut up the women’s bodies before dumping them in garbage bags.

“All victims were found naked, strangled, wrapped with phone cables,” the spokesman said.
“The women were sexually and physically abused. For example, the last victim, a 65-year old female, was found with 13 deep wounds on her skull and multiple rib fractures.”

In addition to being a complete psychopath, Taneski desperately needed stories for the paper and figured his crimes would make great headlines.

Mr Taneski’s editor at the Utrinski Vesnik newspaper told the Associated Press: “We are all shocked with this. I know him as an exceptionally quiet man and I would never believe that he is capable of doing something like that.”

This guy is truly something else. We can’t even begin to comprehend what would drive someone to do this. You know, some people out there fake stories to put in the paper but actually committing the crimes is just way out there.

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