Thiruvananthapuram: The 38-year-old woman, who was stabbed to death in Nursery plants near my Ambalamuk, turned out to be a victim of alleged serial killer.
Defendant, Rajendran, 49, from Vellamadom near Thenda in Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu, has admitted before the police that he had committed four similar murders in Tamil Nadu before.
All of the murders were committed when the victims rejected their robbery efforts.
The defendant was arrested by a member of the Special Investigation Team from his current residence at Kavalkinar in the Tirunelveli district during early Friday.
He was taken to the Peroorkada police station, where his arrest was recorded at 4pm.
Police said the previous Rajendran victims including a customs officer and his wife who lived below the Aralvaimozhi police station in Tamil Nadu.
Two other victims lived below the limit of the Kanyakumari police station.
The defendant was a loner, who floated from one place to another and committed crime and a small and small crime.
“We will contact the Tamil Nadu police to find out more about the record of his crime,” said Peroorkada Station House Inspector V Sajikumar.
He said the defendant was not ready to work with the interrogation at first and acted as if he was mentally unstable.
However, he began talking once the police showed him all the visual evidence collected against him.
He said, being a customer, he always brought a knife with him.
While walking randomly along Ambala Nagar near my Ambalamuk, last week, he saw victims of Vinitha sprinklers in the baby’s room.
He also watched the golden chain he was wearing.
He entered the kids room as if to check the plants and after making sure he was alone, he attacked him using a knife.
He was too sustaining injured in his arm during the upheaval with the victim.
The City Control Room Assistant Commissioner R Prathapan, who was part of the investigation team, said they traced the defendant by following several leads, including visual surveillance cameras and the people offering him a ride after the crime was committed.
Visual camera surveillance shows that he took a rickshaw from the intersection of the Santhwana Hospital to the alappuram pool near Muttada after crime.
There, he was refreshing in the pool and changed his clothes by throwing his clothes.
From there he was caught with a camera riding a scooter.
The scooter rider was tracked and he told the police that he dropped it in Ullooor.
The police also found another pedicab driver, who dropped it back in Peroorkada from Ullour.
The driver of the rickshaw told the police that he dropped the suspect near the District Hospital in Peroorkada.
Know at the hospital, it was found that he was looking for care for injury in his arm.
Another question among traders near the hospital revealed that the suspect had worked at a tea shop near the hospital for the past month.
The police could track it easily because he had shared the details of Aadhar with the shop owner to secure the work there.
Assistant Commissioner Cantonment Dinaraj and Narcotics Cell Assistant Commissioner Sheen Tharayil is also part of the investigation team supervised by Commissioner of the city of G Sparjankumar and Deputy Commissioner Ankit Asokan.
Tamil Nadu’s man was held for my ambalamuk murder
