The detained man, born in 1970, was previously indicted on similar charges, the Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman, Irina Volk, told journalists. He is suspected of carrying out a string of killings and rapes from 1992 to 2014 in different parts of Ekaterinburg.
Nearly 17,000 people have been questioned over the last eight years of the inquiry, Volk said. Investigators are now trying to establish whether the suspect could have committed other crimes.
The attacker’s typical approach would be to rob and rape his victims, threatening to murder them, Ekaterinburg investigators said. Most of the attacks took place near road bridges and interchanges.
The first incident investigators could establish dates back to 1992, when a teenage girl was raped.
The detained was at one point accused of murder, as well as a number of rapes and assaults. He was handed a 15-year jail sentence and was released in 2009. According to preliminary data, the man is unemployed and does not have a fixed address.
It took police a substantial amount of time to find out there was a single person behind the crimes, which initially were investigated separately. Thousands of witnesses, DNA samples and various forensic expertise helped the inquiry to eventually create an identikit of the suspect.
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