Macedonian Police Arrest Viktor Karamarkov, 28, Over the Killings of Four Elderly Women in Skopje
He was suspected of killing four women who lived alone and trying to kill three others. Press reports said he had confessed and taken a polygraph test.
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For eight months in 2009, elderly women living alone in Skopje were being attacked in their homes. On November 10, 2009, Macedonian media reported that police had arrested a 28-year-old suspect, Viktor Karamarkov.
He was suspected of killing four women and trying to kill three others, and had confessed and undergone a polygraph test, Bulgaria's 24 Chasa reported, citing Macedonian media. The women were aged 69 to 83. According to the reports, he posed as a man collecting money for his sick mother, attacked the women once they let him in and stole their gold jewelry. Karamarkov was born in 1981 in Skopje's Gjorče Petrov district and was known to police for thefts. The killings took place between March and October 2009. Because he admired Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," the press called him the "Macedonian Raskolnikov."
The four women killed were Ljubica Hristovska, 83; Bosilka Krasojević, 71; Vera Bogoevska, 76; and Elena Mileva, 69, according to the Macedonian newspaper Republika. A court later sentenced Karamarkov to life in prison.
24 Chasa reported that his victims were women aged 69 to 83, while Republika listed a 42-year-old woman among those he tried to kill.