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Caught: teacher who killed 18 women
Updated On: 22 October, 2009 09:11 AM IST | | Mid Day correspondent
Police say the accused convinced young women to elope with him, satisfied his lust, poisoned them and left with their valuables
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Police say the accused convinced young women to elope with him, satisfied his lust, poisoned them and left with their valuables
Mohan Kumar (45), a physical education teacher who allegedly became a serial killer, was caught by the Mangalore police for killing 18 women and robbing them of jewellery over the last five years. The police stumbled upon him while investigating the case of Anitha, who went missing from her hometown Bantwal in Mangalore district on June 17. Anitha was Kumar's 18th victim.
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In police net: Mohan Kumar is accused of a string of murders across the state |
Marriage promise
Inspector General of Police (western range) Gopal B Hosur said, "Kumar would first befriend girls with the line Do I know you? I have seen you somewhere."
If the girl responded positively, Kumar would introduce himself and befriend her posing as an eligible bachelor.u00a0
After a couple of meetings, he would propose and persuade the girl to elope with him to a nearby town. He would then spend a night with the girl in a lodge, promising to marry her at a temple the next day.
Next, Kumar would take the girl to a nearby bus stand and make her take two cyanide pills, claiming that they were contraceptive pills. He would warn the girls that they were likely to vomit after consuming the pills and so it would be better if they swallowed the pills in the washroom of the bus stand.
"The women would take the tablets and within minutes drop dead. He would then flee from there taking gold valuables from them," the IG said.
Murder sites
Ten of the murders took place at Mysore bus stand, three at Madikeri bus stand, two at Hassan bus stand, two at Bangalore bus stand and one at Kollur temple in Udupi district.
On finding the bodies, the local police would invariably register it as a suicide due to a love affair gone awry. But when the Bantwal police probed his link with Anitha, he was caught.
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