12 Facts About Vlado Taneski

Vlado Taneski was a Macedonian journalist and serial killer.

Vlado Taneski was arrested in June 2008 in Kicevo, his hometown, for the murders of two women on whose deaths he had written freelance articles; when arrested he was being investigated over the death of an additional woman.

Vlado Taneski was found dead in his cell the following day, after an apparent suicide.

Vlado Taneski was born in 1952 in Kicevo, SFR Yugoslavia, the second of three children.

Vlado Taneski initially worked at a radio station, while Vesna went on to become Kicevo's first female lawyer.

In 2003, exacerbating the financial problems he was facing, Vlado Taneski was laid off from Nova Makedonija, and in 2004 his wife received a promotion and moved to Skopje.

All these women were poor, uneducated cleaners, which was how Vlado Taneski's mother had earned a living.

Vlado Taneski came under suspicion for murder after having written articles about the three murders and was questioned on several occasions.

For example, differing from all other reports published in the Macedonian press on the murders, Vlado Taneski knew that the killer used a telephone cord to bind Temelkoska and that the same cord was left at the scene by the murderer.

Vlado Taneski was arrested on June 20,2008, after his DNA was matched to semen found on the victims.

Vlado Taneski was charged with the murder of two of the women, and the police were preparing to charge him with the murder of the third.

Vlado Taneski had apparently drowned in a plastic bucket of water.