First woman serial killer nabbed

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BANGALORE: She is perhaps the country's first woman serial killer. The city woke up to this chilling news on Monday. Before wrapping up the year, the city police nabbed K D Kempamma alias Mallika (43) who trapped women in distress and killed them with cyanide.

Kempamma killed six women since 1999 till date. In the last three months alone she had murdered five women, all from Bangalore. On Sunday, Kempamma was arrested by the Kalasipalyam police when she was trying to dispose of the jewellery of the victims. Upon interrogation, she admitted to the crime.

The numbing revelation that she killed her gullible victims in cold-blood while they were asleep or praying has shocked the city. City police commissioner N Achuta Rao said: "She had single handedly murdered six women by using cyanide and decamped with their jewellery and valuables." ...Read...

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Treasure seeker 'sacrifices' women

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Close on the heels of the arrest of serial killer Mallika alias K D Kempamma, a 'treasure hunter' has been arrested for killing two women. The main accused, Ravindra (24), murdered Aruna and Elizabeth after luring them to Bangalore Rural on the pretext of performing pujas.

Ravindra, also known as Kadu Manushya alias Ajay, hails from Mulakatte in Nagamangala taluk. He, along with associate Mohan and accomplices Shekar, Ravikumar and Chandrashekhar, killed Aruna on December 25. He bludgeoned Elizabeth to death two days later. The cases have been registered in Bellur and Maddur in Mandya, respectively. Ravindra believed there is treasure beneath the earth in some divine places. His greed came to the fore when he stayed at the house of his friend Subbu in K P Agrahara...Read...

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A new Serial killer family in Bangalore,

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Bangalore, Jan. 18: A balding, plump and genial 48-year-old, Chandrakanth Sharma gives you only one reason not to consider him the ideal neighbour. He claims to have murdered 21 people, all of them acquaintances.

If that is true, he ranks high on the list of India’s serial killers but so far, Bangalore police have evidence only about one victim. The decaying, mutilated body of Sharma’s landlord Raghavan was found in a gutter 180km from Bangalore early this week.

But the real estate dealer says he committed 20 others across Maharashtra between 1978 and 1981 before marrying and moving to Bangalore.

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