Perhaps due to literature, film and television we tend to associate serial killers with the great cities of the West: London, Paris, Hamburg, New York, Los Angeles; however, this criminal species seems to thrive anywhere in the world where there are large urban concentrations, with high rates of moral and physical misery , as was the nineteenth-century London of Jack the Ripper, or the Mumbai of the century XX of Raman Raghav .
The "Jack the Ripper" of Mumbai
With this nickname the Indian assassin Raman Raghav passed to the history of the red pages , although his resemblance is relative, because he committed a greater number of murders and was eventually captured.
His story is largely known thanks to two books published by the police who coordinated the team that captured him, Ramakant Kulkarni , which also inspired a movie in 1991 and another feature film currently in progress.
The crimes of this Asian ripper were made in two bloody waves: the first 19 homic He committed them between 1965 and 1966, and the second round was in 1968, and was interrupted by his capture.
Raghav did not specialize in prostitutes, like his London counterpart, but he murdered humble people indiscriminately, men, women and children who survived in the poor suburbs of Mumbai, and who generally slept outdoors, in streets and squares.
His modus operandi was not very sophisticated either: he surprised his victims when they were sleeping and He crushed his head.
At first, because they were very humble people, the link between the crimes went unnoticed, but soon the rumor began that it was a murderer with supernatural powers, and finally the Police understood that it was a serial killer.
More than 2,000 agents were deployed to patrol the streets, but that did not prevent the city from panicking, speci Almente in the northern suburbs, where the largest population of homeless people was located.
Raghav was arrested as a suspect during the first wave of attacks, but was released shortly after due to lack of evidence.Fear made things worse by propitiating attacks from the crowd to homeless people they considered suspects.
The capture
Ramakant Kulkarni took over the case when the killings were restarted in 1968.Through the evaluation of evidence and of the testimony of some survivors an image of the suspect could be made that was recognized by one of the sub-inspectors of the Kulkarni team and that led to the arrest of Raghav.
Raman Raghav was a tall man and corpulent, belonging to the Tamil ethnic group, poorly educated and homeless; Like many in Mumbai, he lived on the street.
The interrogation was quite peculiar: the first two days he refused to speak; the third, when asked by one of the inspectors if he wanted anything, asked for chicken.Satisfied his desire he asked again for chicken and then a prostitute, although he knew they were going to deny it, and then he was pleased with a mirror, a comb and a glitter.When he combed his hair, he asked if he had been arrested for the murders, and proceeded to confess.
Raghav took the police to a thicket where he hid an iron bar and knives of various sizes that he used in his crimes.
I confess 41 murders , but the police believe that the victims could have been many more.When asked why he had answered, he was following God's instructions.
But only a god of misery and horror would be able to give such instructions.Madness strikes equally, no matter the origin of the person.Read also about evil as a hereditary trait.
Images: renu parkhi , Thomas Galvez, Wikipedia
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