Journalist suspected in women's deaths

by Barry Artiste | June 22, 2008 at 05:39 am

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What? Slow News day, so he decided to make his own news in order to scoop the competition? Journalists are ususally above suspicion and trusted when meeting the public, certainly this journalistic dark side was a shock to those in the newsroom.

SKOPJE, MACEDONIA -- Police arrested a Macedonian journalist on suspicion of murdering at least three elderly women, authorities said yesterday.

Vlado Taneski, a newspaper correspondent, first became a suspect because his articles included details of the crimes that officials had not released. He has not yet been charged.

"Police arrested Vlado Taneski, a 56-year-old man from Kicevo, a town about 120 km southwest of the capital, Skopje, as the main suspect in the murder of two elderly women," said police spokesman Ivo Kotevski. "He is also suspected of being involved in another murder of a woman and (in the disappearance of) a 78-old female who is still missing."

The three women died in 2005, 2007 and 2008.

Police alleged that Taneski, a former correspondent from Kicevo for the national daily Utrinski Vesnik (Morning Post), killed the three women in brutal fashion.