It seems that in the period of these 35 years after the fall of the previous system, the country has been swept by a Tsunami of violence and crime. Without delving into the reasons for such an explosion of evil - we will focus on the "cream оf the crop" of the so-called blood crime - serial killers and their less famous colleagues, the "mass murderers" For the latter, the definitions differ from one place to another, but for the purposes of this post we will take the magic number three as a starting point to allow them equality in that regard with serial killers.
Disclaimer, it is necessary to know that these are peacetime killers, and those who killed in the frequent, rich in content and sadism wars in these areas belong to some other category.
The first event of mass murder in this territory would certainly be the legendary campaign of Tome Stojanovski and his four victims in the circle of the Skopje Brewery. "Tome from the Brewery" became famous on February 10, 1966 when, armed with a Czech Zbrojevka in 7.65mm caliber, he set out to straighten several crooked paths of his destiny and take revenge for the injustices he was exposed to at work and outside of it. The dismissal from work and the firing from Communist Party was the last drop in the jar and left no room in Tome's mind for a different outcome than the extremely bloody one.
The second event that would be on the very border of the definition between mass and serial murder is the liquidation of three members of the Mudinov family on November 13, 1995, when three individual murders were committed in Strumica at different locations on the same day. This case is also the only one without an official legal resolution and remains in the realm of speculation, and there are probably politicians and local criminals and similar end products of social metabolism, after all, it was a time of the height of transition and shady deals.
The third character who committed mass murder is a kind of copycat of Tome, a legend that lasts till today. Using a somewhat stronger caliber, the standard 9mm Para, the Vinica avenger Mone Andonovski headed to the primary court in Vinica on September 25, 1995 and there he sentenced three victims - a married couple who had been suing Mone for a long time due to some kind of boundary between their properties and, of course, their lawyer. One of the most powerful reasons for deprivation of life in our country - property and legal problems often cause outbreaks of deadly violence, but most often it is a blow to the head with an ax or a pickaxe, never emptying a magazine into several people at the same time. Until the campaign of Mr. Mone who then fled to Italy from where he was extradited the following year to be pardoned by decree of the then El Presidente in 2006 (!?). He`s free to roam the streets for nearly 20 years.
The fourth in this chronology of maniacs is the guy with the most original name and surname of all listed. The arsonist from Drachevo - Gagarin Zendelović, a middle-aged family man, drunkard and devotee of the legal drug Bromazepam (Lexilium) committed the greatest atrocity of all because during his actions 35 people suffered, but fortunately (or not?) only four died. 11 escaped with serious injuries and 20 others with minor injuries. As a rare example of arson in these parts, Gagarin (lol), a creature from the bottom - found pleasure in watching fires. His magnum opus occurred on August 23, 2005 in Kisela Voda municipality of Skopje, where Gagarin crawled into the basement of an apartment building, slept for a while, and then burned some old newspapers and cardboard in the basement.
He later returned to watch the fire and was arrested the following days after confessing to his family what he had done. His family snitched on him and he wound up behind bars. In a fit of aggression, he threatened to burn down the Shutka pre-trial detention center and ended his life in prison by hanging himself on February 1, 2006 after being sentenced to 14 years in the Demir Hisar mental hospital...
The fifth on this list is perhaps the most effective, and that is Laze Radeski, the murderer of six currency exchange workers from Ohrid. Our Lazarus has nothing beyond banal greed, no "higher" motives, no voices in his head, he is extremely boring in his evil. Laze used a hammer as a weapon and, under the pretext of changing a larger amount, invited the money changers to the sanitary ware store on "Turistička boulevard" and killed them with blows to the head. Cutting up the bodies into parts that he packed into the trunk of his ancient "Polski Fiat PZ-1500" maniac found a temporary final resting place for the remains of his victims in the vicinity of Ohrid and Struga. The rumors about him being an alleged secret police hitman in Yugoslav times, are probably just that - rumors. Arrested in April 2008, it remains to be seen whether he will serve life in prison or be amnestied by some future El Presidente.
The sixth case is certainly the most famous and the most exposed in the media. On June 22, 2008, Vlado Taneski, a journalist from Kitschevo, was arrested, who allegedly killed four women and then committed fornication post mortem on them. The day after the arrest, the "killer bucket", a phenomenon unknown to the world at that time and since then, entered the collective consciousness. That bucket was the container in which Vlado, according to the comical police reports, managed to drown himself. In some other environments, this might have been an insult to the intelligence of the population, but in Kitschevo and Hunzistan, all kinds of shit happened and still happen, and so did the deadly bucket. For one of the murders later attributed to Vlado, the famous local judiciary convicted the wrong people...
But the story of the Kitschevo Strangler does not end there. On several occasions in the following years, the corpses of middle-aged women murdered with a similar modus operandi to the one with which four lives were previously taken would be found in the Kitschevo district. Whether the final number of murders is over six or even ten and whether the real culprit is walking around freely is difficult to say.
Viktor Karamarkov, nicknamed Sugar Boy (!?) and then the Skopje Raskolnikov, is the only one with alleged literary motives in this sad gallery of violence. Like the literary character from Dostoevsky, Viktor used an axe to kill and killed the same target group, elderly women who could not defend themselves...But unlike Rodion Romanovich, Sugar Boy killed seven women, four outright and three more that died of injures inflicted by the maniac while at hospital. Which means that he took lives seven times more than the untried lawyer from the famous book. Once the top of his generation in high school and a strong student, later a scoundrel and an ass-hole, Viktor, inspired by Rodion, began to explore unconventional ways to raise money. Choosing victims according to age and lifestyle (loneliness), the killer with a health card in hand would appear at the victims' doors, appealing to their maternal instinct with a story that he needed money for his mother's surgery. If he judged that the victim was alone, Sugar Boy would enter and liquidate the victims with several precise blows to the head. Then he would transform into Termite and collect everything of any value in the victim's home. He was arrested in November 2009, after an extensive investigation and was found in a basement in Gyorhce Petrov municipality, completely "stond" and unable to escape. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The eighth case enters the waters of organized crime and as such may be on the verge of relevance but is worth mentioning because of the unusual weapon used for the murders, the (most) famous AK-47 assault rifle or probably an M-70 or another variant of the ubiquitous sower of death, the Kalashnikov. Namely, on September 3, 2010, in the Skopje neighborhood of Aerodrom, colleagues in crime were sitting at the same table in a bar, two from that side and one from this side of the law, a member of the legalized racketeering service known as the police. A certain Toni Denkovski entered the bar and emptied at least three frames into the victims, one for each of the murdered. Whether it was a matter of fear and insecurity or whether Toni was just an extremely bad shooter and had to resort to overkill is not known. He surrendered himself the next day and was later sentenced to life imprisonment.
Allegedly, it was a debtor-trustee relationship in which the murderer was in the role of debtor, allegedly he was an old dealer and ex-colleague of the murdered, allegedly he was only an executioner, allegedly he was blackmailed, allegedly the victims threatened him with the liquidation of his family... too much "allegedly" and not enough "certainty", as is often the case in this type of "murders"...
The following are a couple of cases that are an extract of the element of life in its post-transition extreme, the marital relations poisoned by paranoia that often fill the pages of the dark chronicles. On November 9, 2014, in a place called Kavadarci, a divorce took place between a member of the special police forces, unpopularly known as Alfie, and his wife. A few days after the divorce, the namesake of the previous murderer, Toni Stanoev - probably consumed by suspicion and anger, went to the home of his then-newly ex-wife's family and shot her father, mother and sister with his service pistol and attempted to kill a fourth person. One can speculate about the reasons for such an epilogue, but it is not far from logic to assume that the murderer considered the victims responsible for his failed marriage. The police found and arrested him within a few hours in a very symbolic place - the city cemetery...
The last, tenth case of mass or serial murder is almost a carbon copy of the previous one and happened only two weeks later, on November 24, 2014, in a certain settlement of Zletovo with the modest difference that the murderer was a professional soldier instead of a policeman. Dragan Manoilov, haunted by the possibility of his wife's infidelity - left his workplace along with his assault rifle, again a relative of the AK-47, and with it, in a fit of frenzy and rage, decided to kill! Unable to locate the allegedly unfaithful subject, Dragan decided that the saddle would cause more tragedy than the donkey and went to the home of his wife's family, where after a short argument, he shot and killed the father and mother of his wife and the uncle of the alleged seducer of his chosen one... well, whatever he had instead of a heart. Unsatisfied with the "score" of three murders and with a still unsatisfied thirst for blood, Dragan went to the shared house where he also beat up his wife's brother. But fortunately, this time the target proved tough and in the ensuing fight, the unsuspecting corpse managed to physically overpower the maniac and take away his weapon. The maniac escaped and the next day hanged himself in a barn in the Zletovo district...
In the famous Yugoslav horror comedy that dealt with the theme of serial killings "Strangler vs. Strangler", it was noted that a city that has never had a serial killer on its streets cannot be considered a metropolis. This dubious condition for gaining urban recognition for metropolis status is currently met by Skopje, Ohrid...And the incredible Kitschevo!
Bitola has no airport... and no serial killer. Yet.
Update :
1.In the meantime, another mass murder took place, this time in a settlement called Glumovo, in the Saraj Governorate in Skopje, where the person Shaban Sulejmani shot his brother Avdilj and his two sons with a gun, in the middle of the street and in broad daylight. Shortly afterwards, confronted by the arriving police - the murderer Shaban took his own life by shooting himself in the skull.
This case did not receive much publicity in the media, perhaps because the murderer and the victims were Shqiptars and not Hunzas. And we know that everything is fine when Shqiptars kill Shquipats. Or Hunzas slay Hunzas. Murder becomes murder in the collective consciousness of the people only if the victim and the perpetrator belong to a different collective identity.
Blood feud, an update of content from the canon of Leka Dukagjini or a psychiatric case - the motive for this massacre is still unknown.
2.Less than a month before the event described in the first comment, another bizarre crime occurred.
Of course, this is the oldest spree killer on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia ever, perhaps the oldest murderer with a firearm, possibly the oldest murderer in general or even a perpetrator of a blood crime. The perpetrator was some long-retired cop whose name and surname the media still do not publish, only the initials P.T. At the age of 84, he fell into a murderous rage and with his 7.65mm caliber pistol, probably some old Red Flag from the time of the Militia - he liquidated his grandson on the spot with a shot to the head. Then he emptied the magazine on his daughter and his wife. The latter died the next day in hospital due to the injuries and the daughter succumbed to her wounds two days later.
Then he took his own life with a shot to the skull, thus saving a certain amount of money for the citizens of the country intended for legal settlement. The information available on the net is too scanty that there is not a single speculation about the causes of the event, and that is quite strange. A maniac who suppressed his thirst for blood acquired in the militia until June 1, 2017, a powerless old man on whom the family was taking advantage, chaotic property and legal relations or just good old psychopathy... all that remains is speculation.
3.On July 26, 2018, a bizarre event occurred in a certain place called Debar, which apart from occasional bloodshed has nothing to boast about. Triple murder of a married couple and their daughter.
So far, nothing unusual for the world of mass murders, but the fact that the other daughter of the same couple and sister of one of the victims was the perpetrator. Finally, we have a female mass murderer, (hurrah), who shot with a gun while the victims were sleeping, had a couple of accomplices who acquired illegal weapons and forged documents so that she could flee to Italy from where she was extradited. 26-year-old B.Poceska, a criminal in an alleged relationship with an Italian mafia boss, cold-bloodedly liquidated her parents and 15-year-old sister with motives that are still unclear, speculations mostly move towards financial or property interests. However, this crime is not original either, it drowns in the banality of greed and, apart from the gender of the murderer and the number of corpses - it is nothing special in the local annals of crime.
But there is time, maybe new information will come out that will change all that.
4.A certain M.V. from the village of Dobrejci, Strumica district, was arrested these days, who has serious claims to become the first village serial killer in Macedonia, for now the number of corpses is fluctuating like a pendulum of death between 3 and 4 corpses, and with it the status of the mass killer. The murders occurred in the summer of 2019, and the investigation found the alleged perpetrator after half a year.
This blog will follow any new case of mass muder or serial killing and new information will follow as information becomes available.
(Roger Mortis, 144)
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