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 |  Subject: Journalist charged with carrying out murders he wrote about  Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:42 pm | |
| A Macedonian journalist has been charged with murdering two elderly women -- crimes he wrote about for his newspaper -- and police said today they were investigating his possible involvement in a third death.
Vlado Taneski was transferred to Tetovo prison today after a court in the north-western town of Gostivar ordered he be held for 30 days while police investigate, police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said. Taneski was also being questioned about a fourth woman who went missing, he said.
"Police have already filed charges for the murder of two women. The investigation for the other two cases is still under way," Kotevski said.
Police began to suspect Taneski, 56, after reading his articles about the crimes in national daily Utrinski Vesnik and noticing details that had not been released to the public, Kotevski said. Since then, police have found Taneski's DNA on the bodies of the victims, the spokesman said.
Taneski was arrested on Friday at his home in the town of Kicevo, about 120 km south-west of the Macedonian capital, Skopje. Police were searching his house as well as his cottage in a nearby village.
All of the victims were elderly women who worked as cleaners and lived in the same neighbourhood of Kicevo, police said.
The three women's bodies were found naked and stuffed in nylon bags hidden in different locations, police said. They had been sexually and physically abused, strangled and wrapped with phone cables, they said.
The body of 65-year-old Zivana Temelkoska was found this year; the body of Ljubica Licoska, 56, was found last year, and that of Mitra Simjanoska, 64, in 2005, police said.
Police are also searching for a 78-year-old woman who went missing in 2003, and suspect she also may have been a victim, Kotevski said.
It was not immediately clear if Taneski had a defence lawyer.
Some of the victims family members said they had met Taneski when he was preparing his articles about the crimes.
"He came to our home, we talked, he asked for details," Zoran Temelkoski, son of murdered Zivana Temelkoska, told private TV station A1.
He expressed outrage that Taneski might be involved in the killings. "Who could imagine that it would be our neighbour at the end," he said.
Licoska's sister, Cvetanka, told A1 TV she was shocked police had named him as a main suspect. "I'm very surprised with this outcome. He came to me and asked for some details for my sister. He came here and asked for my sister's photo."
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| | Subject: Re: Journalist charged with carrying out murders he wrote about Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:59 pm | |
| 'Journalistic integrity.'
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