I GAVE THE LADIES GOOD SEX THEN KILLED THEM
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RUSSIA’S biggest serial killer and mass rapist grinned during a TV interview ahead of his trial.
And he claimed many victims happily had “good sex” with him – just moments before he butchered them.
Ex- cop Mikhail Popkov, 53, was convicted two years ago of killing 22 women, and ahead of a second trial next month, he confessed to SIXTY TWO other murders – taking his total to 84.
Nicknamed “The Werewolf”, he violently raped victims before bludgeoning or stabbing them to death using axes, bats, knives or screwdrivers, according to previous convictions and new charges.
Despite already serving a life sentence, he was allowed to do a TV interview on state- funded Rossiya 1 channel in which he blamed his wife’s “treason” for his attacks on women in the Siberian city of Angarsk, and denied being a rapist.
Popkov said he wanted to “clean up” his city of “prostitutes” and “immoral women”.
Grinning as he enjoyed the limelight, Popkov’s appearance produced an angry backlash amid accusations he was mocking his 84 victims with his self- serving statements, claiming he hoped one day to be released.
He said: “My genetic material was found on the clothes of victims, so I was automatically accused of rape.
“But I will say 100 per cent – none of the victims was raped. If I had sexual intercourse with anybody, it was voluntarily. “I gave them good sex.” He also boasted about having an affair with a woman called Elena Porokhina, who has admitted the relationship and told police he didn’t harm her.
In the video clip he said: “I know what she told, I read the protocol of her interrogation.
“You will not find anybody who will say bad about me.”
His appearance on telly sparked a flood of online demands for Russian President Vladimir Putin to end a moratorium on the death penalty so that Popkov can be shot at close range – the traditional Russian method of execution.
A smile was wiped off Popkov’s face when the interviewer, Ksenia Zotina, told him that his wife is now in a relationship with a police investigator who was on his case, Vasily Domoradov.
Looking upset, he asked: “How long... if it is not a secret?”
He added: “No... I will not think about this and feel upset.
“You can always find a positive side. She shouldn’t spend all her life with a bonehead like me.”
But he accused his wife of “treason”, saying: “There was an incident with the infidelity of my wife. Then I... if I can say so... ‘ treated’ that young man.”
He coldly revealed to police how he cruelly selected women to kill during his 18- year reign of terror in the Irkutsk region between 1992 and 2010.
He bragged: “The victims were those who, unaccompanied by men, at night, without a certain purpose, were on the streets, behaving carelessly.
“They were not afraid to enter into conversation with me, get into my car, and then go for a drive in search of adventures, for the sake of entertainment, ready to drink alcohol and have sexual intercourse with me.”
He used his police car, offering lifts to some victims, then taking them to remote areas to rape and murder them.
“Not all of these women became victims.
“But those of a certain negative behaviour, I had a desire to teach and punish,” he said of his decision who would live and die.
The cases date from 1992, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, to 2010.
His newly confirmed victims were aged 17 to 38, according to law enforcement sources. PRIMETIME TV: Killer Mikhail Popkov gives the interview