<p class="title">A former police officer jailed for murdering 22 women received a second life sentence on Monday for the murder of 56 more people, making him one of modern Russia's deadliest serial killers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dubbed the "maniac of Angarsk" after his home city in Siberia, 54-year-old Mikhail Popkov drove victims to secluded spots where he killed them with axes, knives or screwdrivers. Some were also raped.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was detained in the Russian Far East in 2012 two decades after he began his killing spree and was sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2015 for 22 murders and 2 attempted murders.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He confessed to 60 more crimes, including 59 murders, after he was convicted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Investigators said on Monday that Popkov had provided evidence allowing officers to exhume the remains of victims killed 15-20 years ago, along with their personal effects and the weapons he had used to kill them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Investigators said Popkov's victims were women aged from 16 to 40. He also killed one man, a fellow police officer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A state prosecutor told the court that Popkov had a phenomenal ability to recall minute details of his crimes, including the clothes, tattoos, and jewellery worn by his victims, RIA news agency reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Andrei Chikatilo, known as the Rostov Ripper, was convicted in 1992 of killing over 50 people. He was executed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 2007, supermarket worker Alexander Pichushkin was convicted of killing 48 people. He became widely known as the chessboard killer as he had hoped to put a coin on every square of a 64-square chessboard for each of his victims. </p>
<p class="title">A former police officer jailed for murdering 22 women received a second life sentence on Monday for the murder of 56 more people, making him one of modern Russia's deadliest serial killers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dubbed the "maniac of Angarsk" after his home city in Siberia, 54-year-old Mikhail Popkov drove victims to secluded spots where he killed them with axes, knives or screwdrivers. Some were also raped.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was detained in the Russian Far East in 2012 two decades after he began his killing spree and was sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2015 for 22 murders and 2 attempted murders.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He confessed to 60 more crimes, including 59 murders, after he was convicted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Investigators said on Monday that Popkov had provided evidence allowing officers to exhume the remains of victims killed 15-20 years ago, along with their personal effects and the weapons he had used to kill them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Investigators said Popkov's victims were women aged from 16 to 40. He also killed one man, a fellow police officer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A state prosecutor told the court that Popkov had a phenomenal ability to recall minute details of his crimes, including the clothes, tattoos, and jewellery worn by his victims, RIA news agency reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Andrei Chikatilo, known as the Rostov Ripper, was convicted in 1992 of killing over 50 people. He was executed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 2007, supermarket worker Alexander Pichushkin was convicted of killing 48 people. He became widely known as the chessboard killer as he had hoped to put a coin on every square of a 64-square chessboard for each of his victims. </p>