Killer gets life sentence for murdering 31 women

A Russian serial killer has been jailed for life for murdering 31 elderly women.

On Thursday, the court in the city of Kazan also found him guilty of several attempted murders as well as assaults on 34 more elderly women.

Radik Tagirov, known as the “Volga Maniac” was arrested in 2020 on suspicion of the killings.

They were committed across 15 cities in and around the Tatarstan region, about 730km east of Moscow, between 2011 and 2012.

Law enforcement agencies said he had sometimes posed as a social worker, electrician or plumber to enter the women’s homes before strangling them and stealing their valuables.