It's victim No 8 for South Mumbai serial killer

MUMBAI: The serial killer stalking the streets of South Mumbai is getting bolder.  On Saturday morning he struck again, claiming his eighth victim, bludgeoning a 20-year-old unidentified youth to death.

The body was found by policemen in a secluded spot between Churchgate and Grant Road. The killer had struck on Friday morning too, killing another youth just a kilometre away near the Wankhede Stadium railway foot overbridge.

“We found a 10 kg stone that was used to crush the victim’s head,” a senior police officer told DNA.  “From the food packets and some leftover chicken curry found at the site it seems that the victim was first offered food before being killed.”

The police, however, are awaiting the post-mortem report to establish whether the serial killer had sexual intercourse with his victim. All his previous victims were sexually assaulted before being killed.

“The stone appears to have been brought by the killer in a gunny bag, which we recovered from the site,” said the officer. “We have discounted the possibility of the bag belonging to the youth, who appears to be a rag picker, as it was clean. A sack used for collecting scrap and garbage would have been dirty.”

Police officials involved in the investigation feel that the killer is a South Mumbai resident who knows all the secluded spots in the area.