The killer targeted foreign workers in tourism-driven Cyprus, where advocates say racism blunted earlier police inquiries.
Police officers, rescuers and divers retrieve a suitcase, which police say contains a female body, in man-made lake near the village of Mitsero, Cyprus, on Sunday.
The killer has now spent weeks guiding police to the places where he dumped the victims, including the crimson lake, where authorities on Sunday found a suitcase full of human remains sunken beneath the poisonous water — the fourth body tied to his spree. In the hours after Tiburcio was identified, police zeroed in on the father of her daughter, the Cyprus Mail reported. The Romanian man was interrogated as authorities used remote cameras to search the flooded shaft, searching for Tiburcio’s 6-year-old daughter, Sierra. But then detectives latched onto a new lead.
Last Thursday, police say the suspect tipped them off to a third corpse, which police soon found near a military firing range. That body hasn’t been identified yet, though police told local reporters it could be Ashita Khadka Bista, a woman from Nepal. In all, police said the suspect has admitted to killing five women and two children, detailing his slayings in 10 pages of handwritten confession.
Police defended their investigation, noting that local legislators had not given them the ability to access missing peoples’ email and telephone records. But they have also appointed a three-member panel to look into whether they’d botched their probes into the missing women.
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