Serial killer suspected as Cyprus police find woman's remains in toxic lake

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Cypriot investigators say a military officer has confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls — a crime spree that went undetected for almost three years in the east Mediterranean island nation.

Cypriot investigators are hunting for victims of a suspected serial killer after police retrieved a suitcase containing the decomposing remains of a woman from the bottom of a lake.At least two victims were from Romania, one was from the Philippines, and one was from NepalThe body is believed to be that of one of the victims of a Cypriot military officer who has confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls — a crime spree that went undetected for almost three years.

The suitcase was weighed down by a concrete block, the chief of Cyprus' Criminal Investigation Department said. Senior inspector Neophytos Shailos said a coroner who examined the body at the scene said it was in an advanced stage of decomposition. "After great and persistent effort and many difficulties, a travel case was pulled from the lake containing the body of a woman and a block of cement," Mr Shailos said.Authorities focused their search on the manmade lake, part of a now-defunct copper pyrite mine about 32 kilometres west of the capital, Nicosia, after the suspect — a 35-year-old army captain — told investigators that he put the bodies of three of his victims into suitcases and threw them into the toxic water.

 

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