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Vlado Taneski ( mk, Владо Танески; 1952 – June 23, 2008) was a Macedonian
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and
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. He was arrested in June 2008 in Kičevo, his hometown, for the murders of two women on whose deaths he had also written freelance articles; when arrested he was also being investigated over the death of an additional woman. These articles had aroused the suspicion of the police as they contained information which had not been released to the public. After
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connected Taneski to the murders, he was arrested and imprisoned on June 22, 2008. Taneski was found dead in his cell the following day, after an apparent
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.


Personal life

Vlado Taneski was born in 1952 in Kičevo,
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, the second of three children. Both of his parents were conservative disciplinarians, and he had a particularly tense relationship with his mother. His father was a
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veteran. After studying journalism in Croatia, Taneski began an interest in poetry and writing. At age 21 he met his future wife, a law student named Vesna, with whom he had two children. Taneski initially worked at a radio station, while Vesna went on to become Kičevo's first female lawyer. By the 1980s he worked as a reporter for
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-based newspapers ''
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'' and ''
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'', and his career ultimately spanned twenty years. In 2002 his father committed
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and, a few months later, his mother accidentally
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d on medicine. In 2003, exacerbating the financial problems he was facing, Taneski was laid off from ''Nova Makedonija'', and in 2004 his wife received a promotion and moved to Skopje.


Murders

Taneski's victims were: * Mitra Simjanoska (64) – disappeared November 16, 2004 after a trip to the market; found January 12, 2005. She had been strangled, bound, tortured, and raped, and had been dead for less than two weeks. * Ljubica Licoska (56) – disappeared in early November 2007 after going to buy groceries; found on February 3, 2008. She had been strangled, bound, beaten, and raped, and had been dead for only a few days. * Zivana Temelkoska (65) – disappeared on May 7, 2008 after a hoax about her son being hospitalised; found on May 16. She had been tortured, raped, strangled, and was bound with telephone cords. All these women were poor, uneducated cleaners, which was also how Taneski's mother had earned a living. The victims had known Taneski's mother personally, which may have been the reason for their selection as victims.


Investigation and suicide

Taneski came under suspicion for murder after having written articles about the three murders and was questioned on several occasions. According to police, Taneski's articles contained information which had not been released to the public. For example, differing from all other reports published in the Macedonian press on the murders, Taneski knew that the killer used a telephone cord to bind Temelkoska and that the same cord was left at the scene by the murderer. Taneski was arrested on June 20, 2008, after his DNA was matched to
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found on the victims. Examination of the Taneski family's rural cottage uncovered a cache of
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material, ropes and cords matching those used to tie the victims, and items belonging to the victims. Taneski was charged with the murder of two of the women, and the police were preparing to charge him with the murder of the third. Details of the case were printed on June 21, and police were also planning to question Taneski on the May 30, 2003, disappearance of the 73-year-old retired cleaner, Gorica Pavleska. After being transferred to
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, Taneski was found dead in his shared prison cell on June 23. He had apparently drowned in a plastic bucket of water. An
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concluded that, in the absence of other evidence, his death was suicide.


See also

* Wallace Souza – Brazilian journalist accused of setting up murders for ratings *
John Wayne Glover John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was an English-Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women (aged from 60 to 93), over a period of 14 months from 1989 to 1990 including Winifreda, Lady Ashto ...
– nicknamed the "Granny Killer" *
Karol Kot Karol Kot (18 December 1946 – 16 May 1968) was a Polish murderer who terrorized the city of Kraków between 1964 and 1966. Due to trial evidence and to the seemingly random choices of victims, which included children and elderly people, Kot was ...
– a Polish serial killer *
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References

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