Jack Unterweger's Copycat ?

[Rigby]

Unterweger makes fascinating reading for anyone not familiar with his story.

Now it appears that police in Macedonia have arrested a journalist who had broken stories of three murders of elderly women. And all his own handiwork.

[sdreid]

Hi Rigby,

Yes, that Unterweger guy got around.

[Stephen Thomas]

The Macedonian journalist has just killed himself in prison

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/24/pressandpublishing.internationalcrime

[Dan Norder]

Well, I think we need to be a bit cautious before assuming that he was the killer and that he killed himself. Based upon what few details we know -- all provided by the police -- it's likely that he was responsible, but the man isn't around to defend himself. Police have fitted up reporters for crimes they didn't commit before based upon the idea that they knew more than the police thought they ought to.

[Stephen Thomas]

Well, I think we need to be a bit cautious before assuming that he was the killer and that he killed himself.

You may well be right, Dan.

Suicide by sticking your head in a bucket of water sounds a bit weird to me.

[Rigby]

You can add 'reporting details of these murders which were not released by the police' to your list of weird for this case. Not to mention that self-croaking is an odd way of protesting one's innocence.