Russia's worst-ever serial killer - who has confessed to killing 83 women and may have killed as many as 200 - says he sometimes wishes he had been executed.
Mikhail Popkov - branded ‘The Werewolf’ for his sick crimes - has also for the first time expressed 'regret' for his reign of terror.
The ex-policeman raped most of the 81 women he was convicted of killing. Now serving a life sentence in a penal colony, where he has been put to work making face masks during the coronavirus pandemic, he recently admitted another two murders in the 1990s.
Police believe his final toll will be higher, with a senior investigator on his case predicting more than 100 and possibly “closer to 200”. “There were moments when I thought the death penalty was
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