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Harvard University boasts the highest undergrad completion rate of all research universities -- a whopping 98 percent of those enrolled in 2002 graduated by 2008, according to a new report by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

 In Graduation Rates Over Time, the Chronicle compared graduation rates at public and private research universities in 2002 and 2008, surveying students who enrolled in 1996 and 2002, respectively.

 On Harvard's heels are Yale University and the University of Notre Dame, with rates of 97 and 96 percent. Among public research universities, the University of Virginia had the highest graduation rate in 2008 at 93 percent, followed by the College of William and Mary and the University of California-Berkeley.

 The Chronicle also found that 33 percent of universities showed a lower graduation rate in 2008 than in 2002. Some institutions suggest that the decrease in graduation rates may be a reflection of students taking longer than six years to earn a degree.

 Below, check out the twelve universities with the highest graduation rates in 2008, and see the Chronicle for a complete list.

 What do you think of these findings? Let us know in the comments section. ||||| A recently released Chronicle of Higher Education study found that overall, graduation rates at American higher education institutions have declined by 33 percent since 2002 -- with the recession as a likely cause.

 Below are the 12 public and private research universities with lowest graduation rates.* The Chronicle has a searchable list of all colleges and universities included in their research.

 See the schools with the highest graduation rates here.

 Does this list surprise you? Share your thoughts in the comments section.

 *Some institutions included in the study, such as Golden Gate University and Alliant International University, enrolled few students -- 50 or less -- who were classified as full-time by government criteria and thus eligible for inclusion in the federal survey of graduation rates from 2002 to 2008. These students represent a minority of the institution's total enrollment in certain instances.

 Colleges With The Lowest Graduation Rates ||||| ANALYSIS: Graduation Rates Fall at One-Third of 4-Year Colleges

 SORTABLE TABLES: Graduation Rates Over Time, by Type of Institution:

 Public Research | Private Research | Public Master's | Private Master's | Private Baccalaureate Arts & Sciences

 We compare here the graduation rates at four-year colleges for the six years ending in 2008 with the rates for the six years ending in 2003. Because rates can spike up or down in a particular year, we also show a separate comparison that tends to reduce the effect of those outliers on differences in colleges' rates over time. To make this comparison, we averaged each college's rates in 2003 and 2008 with rates in the immediately preceeding years, then compared the averages. To further illustrate changes over time at each college, we show in boldface type any rate that increased over the one in the immediately preceeding year. Figures are rounded. About These Data

 ** Change in averaged graduation rates: the difference, in percentage points, of the average of the rates for 2001 and 2002 compared with the average of the rates for 2007 and 2008.

 Institution Change in percentage points, 2003-8 Change in averaged graduation rates** Change in admissions selectivity 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Clark Atlanta U 14 13 none 31% 31% 34% n/a 40% 44% 45% Trevecca Nazarene U 13 15 more 30% 37% 39% 40% 48% 48% 50% Stevens Inst of Tech 13 12 more 65% 66% 75% 72% 73% 76% 79% Yeshiva U 10 3 less 88% 72% 55% 81% 66% 84% 83% Adelphi U 10 12 more 48% 53% 53% 54% 61% 63% 64% Northeastern U 10 10 more 56% 60% 60% 61% 65% 66% 70% U of La Verne 10 11 none 47% 50% 47% 52% 51% 59% 60% U of Miami 9 10 none 65% 67% 71% 71% 73% 76% 77% U of Hartford 8 4 none 55% 52% 53% 56% 51% 54% 60% U of Tulsa 8 4 more 63% 55% 60% 61% 61% 63% 63% U of Southern California 7 8 more 76% 81% 82% 83% 84% 85% 88% Vanderbilt U 6 6 more 84% 83% 86% 88% 89% 91% 89% Biola U 6 7 more 63% 64% 62% 69% 67% 71% 70% Carnegie Mellon U 6 5 none 82% 81% 85% 86% 86% 87% 87% Brigham Young U 6 6 none 71% 74% 70% 70% 78% 78% 79% Clarkson U 6 5 none 66% 64% 64% 71% 70% 70% 70% George Washington U 6 5 none 73% 75% 79% 78% 79% 78% 81% New York U 6 6 more 78% 79% 80% 83% 84% 84% 84% Azusa Pacific U 6 7 more 55% 57% 62% 86% 56% 65% 63% U of Rochester 6 3 none 81% 78% 81% 80% 80% 81% 84% Clark U 5 5 more 71% 68% 69% 70% 72% 76% 73% Drexel U 5 6 none 57% 57% 57% 60% 60% 64% 62% Brandeis U 5 4 more 85% 84% 89% 88% 88% 89% 89% U of Chicago 5 3 none 89% 87% 87% 91% 89% 90% 92% Boston U 5 6 more 75% 75% 75% 77% 81% 82% 80% Florida Inst of Tech 5 4 none 53% 54% 54% 52% 57% 56% 59% Washington U in St. Louis 4 4 more 89% 89% 92% 91% 91% 92% 94% American U 4 6 none 66% 71% 73% 71% 71% 73% 76% Andrews U 4 5 none 48% 53% 38% 51% 57% 54% 57% Texas Christian U 4 5 less 64% 65% 67% 69% 68% 69% 69% Oral Roberts U 4 2 less 52% 50% 54% 54% 55% 52% 54% Samford U 4 2 none 67% 73% 68% 70% 71% 67% 77% U of Denver 4 5 none 69% 71% 69% 70% 72% 74% 74% Trinity International U 4 4 none 43% 48% 52% 37% 61% 47% 52% U of San Diego 4 5 more 67% 72% 73% 73% 75% 74% 75% Saint Louis U 3 3 none 72% 71% 74% 75% 75% 74% 74% Pacific U 3 6 less 53% 64% 65% 64% 59% 63% 67% U of Pennsylvania 3 3 none 92% 92% 94% 94% 94% 95% 95% Worcester Polytechnic Inst 3 2 none 74% 77% 79% 74% 75% 76% 79% Southern Methodist U 3 2 more 70% 72% 71% 71% 74% 71% 74% Rice U 3 1 none 92% 90% 91% 90% 93% 90% 93% Case Western Reserve U 3 4 more 76% 78% 81% 77% 78% 81% 80% Baylor U 2 1 none 72% 70% 72% 72% 74% 72% 73% New School 2 7 n/a 50% 59% 61% 57% 60% 62% 61% Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst 2 3 none 78% 81% 81% 81% 82% 82% 83% Catholic U of America 2 6 none 65% 69% 73% 70% 68% 75% 71% Pepperdine U 2 3 none 75% 80% 77% 80% 79% 79% 81% Tufts U 2 1 none 88% 90% 91% 90% 92% 89% 92% Duke U 1 1 none 93% 94% 94% 93% 94% 94% 95% Illinois Inst of Tech 1 6 none 56% 62% 61% 69% 68% 67% 64% Johns Hopkins U 1 2 none 88% 88% 88% 88% 92% 90% 89% Massachusetts Inst of Tech 1 2 none 91% 92% 92% 94% 93% 93% 94% Yale U 1 1 none 95% 96% 96% 96% 96% 96% 97% Boston C 1 3 none 87% 89% 89% 91% 91% 91% 91% U of Notre Dame 1 1 none 95% 95% 96% 95% 96% 95% 96% Seton Hall U 1 1 less 56% 59% 57% 56% 58% 57% 61% Cornell U 1 2 none 88% 92% 92% 93% 92% 92% 93% Long Island U-C.W. Post Campus 1 3 none 37% 40% 36% 43% 47% 42% 41% Wake Forest U 1 2 none 87% 87% 86% 88% 88% 89% 88% U of San Francisco 1 -1 none 67% 66% 66% 67% 65% 65% 67% Tulane U 1 2 none 73% 74% 73% 73% 71% 76% 74% California Inst of Tech 0 2 none 86% 88% 89% 90% 89% 89% 88% Columbia U 0 1 none 92% 92% 93% 92% 93% 93% 93% Northwestern U 0 0 none 93% 93% 92% 93% 93% 93% 94% Stanford U 0 2 none 93% 94% 95% 94% 95% 95% 94% Georgetown U 0 0 none 94% 93% 93% 93% 94% 93% 93% Marquette U 0 0 less 76% 76% 77% 80% 78% 75% 76% Dartmouth C 0 -1 none 95% 95% 95% 93% 94% 93% 95% U of the Pacific 0 -1 more 69% 68% 70% 65% 68% 67% 68% DePaul U 0 0 none 63% 64% 61% 63% 64% 62% 64% Harvard U 0 -1 none 98% 98% 98% 98% 98% 97% 98% Howard U 0 6 none 58% 65% 60% 67% 67% 69% 65% Fordham U 0 3 none 73% 79% 77% 78% 78% 80% 78% Duquesne U 0 1 less 70% 72% 69% 68% 70% 72% 72% Princeton U 0 -1 none 97% 97% 97% 97% 96% 95% 96% U of Bridgeport -1 2 none 36% 41% 51% 34% 43% 42% 41% Lehigh U -1 0 more 83% 86% 84% 85% 86% 83% 85% Pace U New York Campus -1 0 none 52% 56% 59% 56% 56% 53% 55% U of Dayton -1 0 more 76% 76% 74% 79% 77% 76% 75% Syracuse U -1 2 none 77% 81% 79% 79% 82% 82% 80% Brown U -1 -1 none 95% 96% 96% 95% 94% 95% 94% Loyola U Chicago -1 -3 none 70% 68% 65% 67% 70% 65% 66% Polytechnic Inst of New York U -2 -2 more 50% 55% 43% 45% 50% 47% 53% Hofstra U -2 -1 none 55% 56% 51% 55% 56% 53% 54% Saint Mary's U of Minnesota -3 -6 none 62% 60% 58% 65% 61% 53% 57% Widener U -3 -6 none 60% 59% 60% 57% 60% 52% 56% St. John's U -4 -6 none 69% 64% 66% 64% 59% 61% 61% Emory U -4 -2 more 88% 91% 86% 91% 87% 88% 87% U of Saint Thomas -4 -1 more 70% 76% 71% 74% 74% 72% 72% George Fox U -4 0 more 59% 66% 61% 59% 66% 62% 62% Nova Southeastern U -6 0 none 40% 47% 42% 39% 42% 46% 41% Wilmington U -8 -13 none 53% 47% 49% 38% 45% 35% 39% Spalding U -13 -14 more 40% 46% 49% 49% 29% 24% 33% Barry U -16 -10 less 44% 57% 39% 50% 34% 39% 41% Immaculata U -18 0 less 50% 65% 53% 60% 56% 67% 47% Alliant International U-San Diego -19 -16 n/a 34% 30% 88% 34% 45% 20% 11% Golden Gate U * -27 -12 less 47% 37% 6% n/a 50% 50% 10%

 * Institution enrolled relatively few students (50 or fewer in 2002) who met the federal government's criteria (like full-time attendance) to be counted in the graduation rate for the six-year period ending in 2008. In some cases, those students may represent a small minority of all students enrolled at the institution. A college's graduation rates can rise or fall significantly over time because of small year-to-year variations in the number of such students who enroll and complete degrees.

 About These Data

 The Chronicle analyzed changes in graduation rates reported by more than 1,000, four-year public and private nonprofit colleges and universities. We examined only institutions classified as research, master's, or Baccalaureate Colleges—Arts & Sciences by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2005.

 These rates, which colleges report annually to the U.S. Education Department, are calculated as the percentage of all first-time, full-time students entering in the fall seeking bachelor's degrees who completed bachelor's degrees within six years. At some institutions, this definition excludes a significant number of students, for example, those enrolled part time.

 The column labels showing a single year -- 2002 through 2008 -- refer to the final year of six-year periods. The six-year period ending in 2008 was the most recent for which comprehensive data were available from the Education Department when The Chronicle published these tables. The six-year period ending in 2002 was the first for which all colleges participating in federal-aid programs were required to report the data to the Education Department. Figures are rounded.

 In these tables, we compare rates for the six years ending in 2008 against rates from five years earlier, in 2003.

 A college's graduation rate sometimes spikes up or down in a particular year. To account for such fluctuations, The Chronicle also averaged the graduation rates for 2002 and 2003 and compared those sums with the averages of the 2007 and 2008 rates. That approach yielded results similar to those shown when only 2003 and 2008 were compared.

 Colleges typically describe their graduation rates using a similar but slightly different set of data, which includes students who completed any degree program, such as associate degrees. The Education Department recommends examining only students seeking bachelor's degrees when comparing four-year institutions because it facilitates consistent comparisons and because producing bachelor's recipients is a core mission of those institutions.

 The Chronicle's analysis recognizes that a college's graduation rate may rise if its admissions become more selective. Greater selectivity typically brings more academically prepared students, who in turn are more likely to complete degrees within six years. Conversely, graduation rates can slip when institutions become less selective. We labeled institutions that became more or less selective during the period covered by these graduation rates. The source was Barron's Profile of American Colleges, which assigns colleges among seven tiers of selectivity. We recorded whether a college changed tiers from 1996-7 to 2001-2.

 Other changes in student demographics could also have increased how each institution's rate changed over time, and this analysis did not further account for those effects. |||||

– Graduation rates at US institutions of higher learning have dropped 33% since 2002, a Chronicle of Higher Education study finds, and the recession may be to blame. The Huffington Post lists the 12 colleges with the lowest graduation rates: Golden Gate University, San Francisco: 10% Alliant International University, San Diego: 11% Idaho State University, Pocatello: 16% University of Arkansas, Little Rock: 21% University of New Orleans, New Orleans: 22% Cleveland State University, Cleveland: 26% Texas A&M, Kingsville: 27% University of Alaska, Fairbanks: 27% University of Texas, El Paso: 31% Indiana University—Purdue University, Indianapolis: 32% Morgan State University, Baltimore: 32% University of Massachusetts, Boston: 33% See the colleges with the highest graduation rates.


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 You may just call it late summer; for many die-hard sports fans, it's called fantasy football drafting season.

 Fantasy sports is a huge business, with an estimated 36 million people in the U.S. and Canada picking teams and talkin' trash, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.

 And now we may be at a tipping point.

 One man - Drew Dinkmeyer - actually left his job as an investment analyst to play fantasy sports full-time.

 As Dinkmeyer explained to NPR's Jacki Lyden, he can afford to take such a risk because he gambles multiple games a day on upward of $500 each game — a far cry from the once-a-season cash outlay that many gamers throw down.

 "So after a few years of playing," he said, "I started to have income levels that were commensurate with what I was making in the financial world. And it started to become more of a reality and less of a dream."

 Dinkmeyer likens what he does to day-trading on the stock market.

 "What you're doing is you're trying to find a company that is trading for less than it's really worth. ... So if there's a company out there that's priced at $50 on a given day, and you think that company is really worth $60 or $70, you want to own that company and invest in that company, and that's the same thing daily fantasy players are doing.

 "They're given a list of prices for all the individual players, and they have to figure out which ones are worth more than those actual prices to compile the best team that can put together the most points."

 Combined with his incomes as a writer for fantasy sports websites and a host on satellite radio, Dinkmeyer says he can live out this sports fantasy for the long haul.

 "This is something that I imagine doing for the rest of my life." |||||

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– His job is literally a fantasy: Drew Dinkmeyer makes his money by betting on fantasy games, and he's not exactly struggling. The 31-year-old quit his work as an investment analyst in June so he could concentrate on fantasy sports, and he's making comparable money. "After a few years of playing, I started to have income levels that were commensurate with what I was making in the financial world," he tells NPR. But Dinkmeyer may not be playing what you're playing: He plays "daily fantasy sports," where instead of being stuck with a team for a season, the action is compressed into a single night. So instead of laying down one bet per season, he makes daily bets. (The Wall Street Journal has a good rundown on how it works, and how "advanced statistics" play a part.) Being a "daily fantasy" player is like day-trading, Dinkmeyer says. "What you're doing is you're trying to find a company that is trading for less than it's really worth." Fantasy players get a football-player price list, for instance, "and they have to figure out which ones are worth more than those actual prices to compile the best team that can put together the most points." The Journal reports that of the 30 million fantasy players in America, experts believe no more than 100 earned at least $40,000 last year. NPR notes that Dinkmeyer pads his income by writing about fantasy sports online and hosting a satellite radio show, and has a wife who "does very well in the financial industry."


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In this Oct. 20, 2016, photo, a highway sign greets motorists heading into the small town of Whiteclay, Neb. The Lakota Hope faith ministry in Whiteclay has started a fundraising campaign to buy out the... (Associated Press)

 In this Oct. 20, 2016, photo, a highway sign greets motorists heading into the small town of Whiteclay, Neb. The Lakota Hope faith ministry in Whiteclay has started a fundraising campaign to buy out the four beer stores that sell millions of cans annually in the tiny village next to the Pine Ridge Indian... (Associated Press)

 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A faith ministry in Nebraska has started a fundraising campaign to buy out four stores that sell millions of cans of beer each year in a tiny village next to a South Dakota Indian reservation plagued by alcoholism.

 The Lakota Hope street ministry in Whiteclay is looking to raise at least $6.3 million to close the stores, which are only about 200 yards from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The officially dry reservation is plagued by high rates of fetal alcohol syndrome and encompasses some of the nation's poorest counties.

 Whiteclay only has about a dozen residents, yet the four stores sold 3.5 million cans of beer in 2015. The beer stores have remained opened for decades despite state investigations into alleged liquor law violations, lawsuits and protests that occasionally turned violent.

 Ministry founder Bruce BonFleur and his wife have lived in Whiteclay for nearly two decades, feeding people on the streets and launching programs designed to help members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. BonFleur said he has talked with the businesses, and "we believe that the beer store owners are ready to sell out."

 The stores have been facing increasing legal and political pressure, and state liquor regulators are meeting next month to discuss the stores' licenses.

 Still, some activists have their doubts. Olowan Martinez, an Oglala Lakota activist who has led protests against Whiteclay, said she would be thrilled but shocked if the buyout worked as intended. Martinez said she would support replacing the stores with a roller skating rink, movie theater or a park to help entertain young people.

 The idea rang hollow to Frank LaMere, a Native American activist who has fought for 18 years to close the stores. LaMere said the beer store owners shouldn't be rewarded with a payout and wants the state to revoke their liquor licenses.

 "Whiteclay sadly continues to be the golden goose to many," LaMere said.

 On a recent day in the Whiteclay, some people were passed out on garbage-strewn sidewalks or begging for change. Others loitered on the streets or in abandoned houses littered with dirty blankets and empty beer cans. Some people wandered along the side of the main highway through town, Nebraska Highway 87, which leads into the reservation, past 1970s-era federal housing, decrepit mobile homes and abandoned cars.

 Lance Moss, a Whiteclay grocery store owner who does not sell alcohol, said he didn't know if the town would change substantially if the beer stores were sold. Moss said some regular visitors might congregate in Whiteclay and buy beer from bootleggers.

 "Obviously, all the beer that's sold in Whiteclay is going to get sold someplace else," he said.

 The Nebraska Liquor Control Commission is set to meet March 7 to discuss the stores' liquor licenses amid complaints that the village lacks adequate law enforcement. Last month, the local county board with jurisdiction over Whiteclay recommended that the state renew the licenses, partially amid concerns that closing the stores would lead to an increase of intoxicated drivers in Nebraska.

 Representatives of two of the Whiteclay beer stores, Stateline Liquor and Arrowhead Inn, declined to comment because of their pending cases before the liquor commission. Attempts to reach the owners of the Jumping Eagle Inn and D&S Pioneer Service weren't immediately successful.

 The ministry's new effort is called "B.O.B.S. Whiteclay P.L.A.N.," short for "Buy out the beer stores" and "Promote the Lakotas as a nation."

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 Contrasted against the old liquor store buildings, the Makerspace will provide a safe place to work, access to art supplies, and state of the art equipment.

 The space will also provide an online store where our local artists can establish a more reliable income and teaching/mentoring opportunities. |||||
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– A faith ministry in Nebraska has started a fundraising campaign to buy out four stores that sell millions of cans of beer each year in a tiny village next to a South Dakota Indian reservation plagued by alcoholism. The Lakota Hope street ministry in Whiteclay, Neb., is looking to raise at least $6.3 million to close the stores, which are only about 200 yards from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The officially dry reservation is plagued by high rates of fetal alcohol syndrome and encompasses some of the nation's poorest counties. Whiteclay only has about a dozen residents, yet the four stores sold 3.5 million cans of beer in 2015. The beer stores have remained opened for decades despite state investigations into alleged liquor law violations, lawsuits, and protests that occasionally turned violent, reports the AP. Ministry founder Bruce BonFleur and his wife have lived in Whiteclay for nearly two decades, feeding people on the streets and launching programs designed to help members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. BonFleur said he has talked with the businesses, and "we believe that the beer store owners are ready to sell out." The stores have been facing increasing legal and political pressure, and the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission is set to meet March 7 to discuss the stores' liquor licenses amid complaints that the village lacks adequate law enforcement. Last month, the local county board with jurisdiction over Whiteclay recommended that the state renew the licenses, partially amid concerns that closing the stores would lead to an increase of intoxicated drivers in Nebraska.


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Lakhan Kale's grandmother tied him to a bus stop so she didn't lose him, when she worked. (Getty Images)

 A photograph of a 9-year old Indian boy tethered to a bus stop in Mumbai has drawn outrage from Indians about the lack of resources for the disabled, according to Getty Images.

 Lakhan Kale cannot hear or speak and has cerebral palsy and epilepsy. His grandmother cared for him and when she worked selling toys and flower garlands on the roadside, she tethered the child to a local bus stop, according to Getty. At night Kale's grandmother tied his leg to hers, so she would know if he ran off.

 Pictures of the boy lying listlessly on the ground were printed in the local newspapers this week and drew outrage from readers. After the photos were published, local authorities intervened, according to the Times of India.

 The boy has since been taken to a children's shelter. ||||| MUMBAI: Clad in a shirt and shorts, Lakhan Kale eats biscuits off his grandmother's shrivelled hands, lies on a bench and stares sleepily at the brown, sloping roof. It is perhaps for the first time that his ceiling isn't the sky or bus stop number five.

 Nine-year-old Lakhan is a pavement dweller who suffers from cerebral palsy and seizure disorder. His father died four years ago; a few months later his mother went missing. As a routine, Kale's grandmother, Sakkubai Kale (66) and his sister, Rekha (12), used to tie him to a pole at the bus stop near Mantralaya before going to work for fear of him wandering off or being run over. "I tried to admit him in a few shelters but they refused to entertain me," Sakkubai said.

 Two days ago, a daily printed a picture of Lakhan with his leg tethered, after which a team from Marine Drive police station brought in Lakhan's family for questioning and, later, took them to meet social worker Meena Mutha. On Wednesday, with the help of Mutha, police sub-inspector SG Phanse and sub-inspector Santosh Tore were able to admit Lakhan to The Children's Aid Society, a shelter for destitute, orphaned and victimised kids in Dongri.

 An NOC from Sakkubai, Lakhan's medical reports and a letter from Mutha's Manav Foundation, which works towards rehabilitating those mentally-ill, helped secure the admission. "At least, we can now rest assured that he is in good hands," says Mutha, who had been trying to find a shelter for Lakhan since Tuesday. "The shelter will also take care of Lakhan's treatments," said Mutha as her car pulled out of the shelter. A teary-eyed Sakkubai, her hands folded, asked if she would be able to meet her grandson often.

  ||||| Disabled Indian boy, 9, tied by his leg to bus stop on scorching summer's day so his grandmother can go to work

 Lakhan Kale, of Mumbai, cannot hear or speak and has cerebral palsy

 Grandmother Sakhubai Kale raised Lakhan on the street near bus stop

 His father died several years ago and mother walked out on the family

 Concern among charities and police have now seen him taken into care

 But activists say his plight on the streets comes as little surprise in India

 The nine-year-old boy dressed in blue lay listlessly on the pavement in the scorching Mumbai summer afternoon, his ankle tethered with rope to a bus stop, unheeded by pedestrians strolling past.

 Lakhan Kale cannot hear or speak and suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, so his grandmother and carer tied him up to keep him safe while she went to work, selling toys and flower garlands on the city's roadsides.

 ‘What else can I do? He can't talk, so how will he tell anyone if he gets lost?’ said homeless Sakhubai Kale, 66, who raised Lakhan on the street by the bus stop shaded by the hanging roots of a banyan tree.

 Left alone: Nine-year-old Indian boy Lakhan Kale is tied with a cloth rope around his ankle, to a bus-stop pole in Mumbai. He cannot hear or speak and suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy

 Tied up: A photograph of him tied up appeared in a local newspaper this week, sparking concerns among charities and the police, and he has since been taken into care at a government-run institution On the street: The boy's ankle is tethered with rope to a bus stop, unheeded by pedestrians strolling past

 Lakhan's father died several years ago and his mother walked out on the family, his grandmother said.

 A photograph of him tied up appeared in a local newspaper last week, sparking concerns among charities and the police, and he has since been taken into care at a government-run institution.

 But activists say his plight on the streets comes as little surprise in India, where those with disabilities face daily stigma and discrimination and a lack of facilities to assist them.

 Ms Kale said Lakhan ‘tends to wander off’ and that there was no one else to stop him walking into traffic while she and her 12-year-old granddaughter, Rekha, were out making a living.

 At night she would tie him to her own leg as they slept on the pavement so she would know if he tried to walk away.

 Homeless: Lakhan's grandmother and carer Sakhubai Kale, 66, tied him up to keep him safe while she went to work, selling toys and flower garlands on the city's roadside

 Family: Lakhan's father died several years ago and his mother walked out on the family, his grandmother said

 ‘I am a single old woman. Nobody paid attention to me until the newspaper report,’ she said. ‘He was in a special school, but they sent him back.’

 Social worker Meena Mutha has since managed to place Lakhan in a state-run south Mumbai home, which takes in a range of needy children from the disabled to the destitute.

 'What else can I do? He can't talk, so how will he tell anyone if he gets lost?' Sakhubai Kale, grandmother

 ‘Residental homes are very, very few. There's a major need for the government to do something, a social responsibility to provide residential centres for children like Lakhan,’ said Ms Mutha, a trustee at the Manav Foundation helping people with mental illness.

 She said government-run centres that put together children with different needs did not always have the range of facilities required.

 ‘They don't have the infrastructure, the staff,’ said Ms Mutha. Conversely, non-government organisations ‘have expertise, but not the space,’ she said, highlighting the squeeze on land in the densely-packed city.

 No surprise in India: Activists say his plight on the streets comes as little shock in the country, where those with disabilities face daily stigma and discrimination and a lack of facilities to assist them No longer on the streets: Lakhan has now been placed in a state-run south Mumbai home, which takes in a range of needy children from the disabled to the destitute

 Across India, the 40 to 60 million people with disabilities often face similar struggles to get the help they need, activists say.

 'There's a major need for the government to do something, a social responsibility to provide residential centres for children like Lakhan' Meena Mutha, social worker

 ‘There's no collective responsibility. You have a disabled child, you look after it,’ said Varsha Hooja, chief executive at Adapt, another charity working with disabled young adults and children.

 Ms Hooja said she had seen other cases of parents locking up children with disabilities while they go to work. ‘The state gives no support,’ she said.

 A long-awaited bill was introduced into the Indian parliament in February aiming to give disabled people equal rights - including access to education, employment and legal redress against discrimination - but it has yet to be passed.

 Lawyer Rajive Raturi was on the committee that began drafting the bill five years ago, and said the Congress party-led government which has just lost power had pushed through a ‘complete dilution’ of the original, especially on sections regarding women and children with disabilities.

 Widespread problem: Across India, the 40 to 60 million people with disabilities often face similar struggles to get the help they need, activists say

 Progress? A long-awaited bill was introduced into the Indian parliament in February aiming to give disabled people equal rights - but it has yet to be passed

 Mr Raturi, who handles disability cases at the Human Rights Law Network, said he hoped the new parliament elected this month, dominated by incoming prime minister Narendra Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, would ‘listen to the stakeholders and then make a decision’.

 'There's no collective responsibility. You have a disabled child, you look after it' Varsha Hooja, Adapt chief executive

 ‘We can't change attitudes with an act but if the bill has the right provisions, people will think twice,’ he said.

 Back by the Mumbai bus stop, Ms Kale squatted on the pavement drinking chai and eating bread on the morning after bidding a tearful goodbye to her grandson.

 She was hopeful she would get to see him regularly once she acquired an official identity card that would allow her to visit the centre. |||||

– Lakhan Kale's grandmother would tie him to something on the street before each work day and walk away. That's because 9-year-old Lakhan has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, and no one else in Mumbai, India, would care for him, ABC News reports. Cringing? You're not alone: News photos of Lakhan tied to a bus stop drew enough outrage in India that a state-run home took the boy in, and activists found a rallying cry for the nation's 40 to 60 million disabled, reports the Daily Mail (which also has photos of Lakhan). "There's no collective responsibility," said the head of a charity for the disabled. "You have a disabled child, you look after it." A social worker for the mentally ill said Mumbai lacks facilities, and those that exist are low on staffing or short on space in the densely-packed city. An equal-rights bill for the disabled reached the Indian parliament in February, but a lawyer who helped draft it five years ago said it's been diluted. At least Lakhan's grandmother now has peace of mind: "The shelter will also take care of Lakhan's treatments," she told the Times of India, before tearfully asking staffers how often she could visit her grandson.


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Prosecutors in southern Minnesota aren’t saying that Long Vang provided a weapon to Jessica Haban or gave her instructions on how to kill herself. And they aren’t saying Vang supplied Haban, the mother of his two children, with an illicit drug that led to her death.

 But prosecutors are accusing Vang of inflicting 10 years of relentless physical and emotional abuse on Haban during their relationship until she lost her will to live and died by suicide.

 Now Vang, 34, of Stewartville, is charged in Olmsted County District Court with third-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter and stalking in connection with Haban’s Dec. 16 suicide. A message was left with Vang’s attorney Wednesday seeking a response to the charges.

 “I believe Mr. Vang’s conduct directly contributed to the death of his partner,” County Attorney Mark Ostrem said in a statement announcing Friday’s charges. “Mr. Vang was clearly aware of the precarious state of his partner’s emotions following her hospitalization, and he continued the relentless contacts until her death.”

 Charging an abuser with murder for another person’s suicide is a rarity in Minnesota if not unprecedented, according to Ostrem and others.

 Ostrem said Wednesday that he has come upon no other prosecution under these circumstances ever in Minnesota, and he knows that means extra pressure on his office as it pursues its case against Vang.

 Long Vang

 “We have put a lot more scrutiny into charging this than in a typical case,” he said. “We know there are going to be some challenges and some questions. We plan to have our ducks in a row.”

 Haban’s family has found comfort in the charges. It “means there is finally going to be some justice for Jessica,” said her mother, Rita Prinzing. “While we know that it won’t bring her back, he will be held accountable.”

 Bob Small, executive director of the Minnesota County Attorneys Association, said Ostrem “is being courageous” with this new approach.

 Small anticipates that other county attorneys “certainly could” follow Ostrem’s lead and bring their own criminal cases involving suspected abuse triggering suicide. “If prosecutors come up with new ways to do things, as an association we want to share those,” said Small, a former Hennepin County judge and federal prosecutor.

 Suicide by abused women is not new. Liz Richards, executive director of the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women, which was founded in 1978 and has been tracking homicides related to domestic abuse since 1989, noted that when it looked at data of Minnesota women who died by suicide over a three-year period, it found that between 6 percent and 13 percent of cases included “a documented court record about domestic violence of some type,” Richards said.

 The research involved suicides from 2009-2011. Noting the difficulty in collecting information on suspected abusers, she called the correlation significant. “What we take away from this brief review of the records is that this is an issue that warrants deeper inquiry and research,” Richards said.

 A mental blow

 The abuse inflicted upon Haban was wide-ranging and persistent, and some of the interactions came despite a court ordering him to have no contact with her, according to charges.

 She was sometimes knocked unconscious, had her hair pulled and was thrown against a wall. Bruises were evident on her arms, legs and hands.

 Vang put a knife to her throat once during a gathering in a home in Austin, Minn., and surrendered the weapon only when a man in the home intervened, according to the charges.

 Jealousy prompted one outburst, and financial difficulties were behind another. In one instance, Vang poured vegetable oil “all over” Haban because she “had bad in her,” the complaint read.

 But it was Vang’s final blow — this one emotional — that apparently pushed Haban over the brink, the complaint spelled out.

 Haban told a county social worker assigned to her domestic abuse case that Vang was pressuring her to leave inpatient mental health treatment and return home. Otherwise, Vang told her, she would be institutionalized and lose custody of their two children.

 On Dec. 10, Haban told the social worker she wanted to end her treatment, and she was discharged on Dec. 13.

 She killed herself three days later.

 Richards, of the battered women’s coalition, said that though her knowledge of the case is limited, “there appears to be some culpability” for Vang to bear.

 This is “a [prosecutorial] approach, at least on a tentative basis, that we support,” Richards said.

 Haban’s mother said the case against Vang “has brought back a lot of emotions” for her and the children, who are now living with Prinzing in Rochester. “Two precious little ones have lost their parents,” Prinzing said.

 Despite the accounts of chronic abuse inflicted on her daughter by Vang, Prinzing said while fighting back tears, “He’s very sick. I honestly have given this over to God. … We can’t get consumed with anger or revenge.”

 Haban grew up in Rochester and graduated from John Marshall High School in 2006. She and Vang were “culturally married” in 2010, according to an obituary in the Rochester Post-Bulletin.

 Prinzing said her daughter had recently graduated from cosmetology school and had been balancing “taking care of the kids, working and going to school. … She was amazing.” ||||| GoFundMe Prosecutors say Jessica Haban took her life after years of domestic abuse, and now they want to hold her partner accountable.

 For approximately 10 years, Minnesota authorities say, Jessica Haban was physically and emotionally abused by her partner. Long Vang, 34, allegedly smashed her head into a washing machine, tossed her into the wall by her hair, held a knife to her throat, and in May 2015, punched her in the head with a closed fist, causing a traumatic brain injury.

 The head trauma left Haban struggling with dizziness, confusion and nausea. She fell into a depression, and told a social worker that she felt as though Vang had already killed her. While Vang was under court order to stay away from her, she told police, he was continuing to call and text. The abuse, she said, was starting to take a severe toll on her mental health.

 Haban was hospitalized on three occasions, but never stayed long. She was afraid of losing custody of her kids -- which, according to a social worker, is what Vang told her would happen if she continued receiving care.

 On December 16, 2015, three days after being discharged from the hospital, Haban killed herself at age 28. Earlier this month, in a surprising move, authorities arrested Vang and charged him with murder for allegedly driving his partner to take her own life.

 "I believe Mr. Vang’s conduct directly contributed to the death of his partner," Olmsted County Attorney Mark Ostrem said in a press release. "Mr. Vang was clearly aware of the precarious state of his partner’s emotions following her hospitalizations and he continued the relentless contacts until her death."

 It’s extremely rare for a person to be charged with causing someone else's suicide. People who die by suicide are typically considered to have intentionally and voluntarily taken their own life. None of the experts contacted for this story had heard of a similar case involving domestic violence.

 However, in the past few years, there have been a few high-profile cases involving children. In 2013, Florida officials charged two girls with felonies for allegedly bullying a 12-year-old girl until she killed herself. And in 2015, a Massachusetts teen was charged with manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her online boyfriend to kill himself.

 Vang was charged with a type of murder referred to as "depraved heart murder," which doesn’t require prosecutors to prove an intent to kill. Instead, they must prove that the suspect consciously did something that was very likely to kill, and in doing so, displayed complete disregard for human life -- or, in other words, acted with a depraved mind. (The ancient-sounding charge received renewed attention this year, when the Baltimore police officer who drove the van Freddie Gray rode in before he died was charged with depraved heart murder.)

 "In common law, courts and judges decided over time that sometimes people were so reckless, so indifferent to human life, that it was functionally equivalent to intending to kill them," explained Joseph Kennedy, professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "A modern example would be a guy who rode his high-speed motorboat through a lake crowded with swimmers. Maybe you can’t prove that he was intending to kill someone, but he is so indifferent to the high risk that it is a functional equivalent of intending to kill."

 For the prosecution to make a successful case against Vang, Kennedy said, they would need to prove that he consciously disregarded a substantial risk that Haban would kill herself as a result of his conduct.

 "If he can prove that, I think the depraved part comes easily," he said. "Domestic violence is antisocial by its very nature."

 Experiencing domestic violence significantly increases a person's risk of suicide, according to research.

 "Women who make suicide attempts experience higher rates of domestic violence than women who do not, and women who experience domestic violence have higher rates of suicide attempts and ideation than women who have not been victimized by an intimate partner," said Carole Warshaw, director of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health.

 She pointed to a 2012 survey conducted by the National Domestic Violence Hotline in which 73 percent of callers reported that their partner deliberately did things to make them feel like they were going crazy or losing their minds.

 "It's critical that people be attuned to the ways that perpetrators of domestic violence actively engage in behaviors designed to undermine their partner's sanity," Warshaw said. "They may try to control their access to treatment, coerce them to overdose on drugs, threaten them with involuntary commitment or take actions to sabotage their recovery. The stigma associated with these issues can mean that the perpetrator is seen as more credible than the person they have been abusing for years."

 It's critical that people be attuned to the ways that perpetrators of domestic violence actively engage in behaviors designed to undermine their partner's sanity. Carole Warshaw, National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health

 Liz Richards, director of the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women, said this was the first case that she was aware of in which an accused domestic abuser faced criminal charges for his partner’s suicide.

 “We know that domestic violence, and specifically, domestic violence that involves coercive control and occurs across many years, does have a negative impact on people’s psychological and mental well-being,” she said.

 After years of hearing anecdotal reports of domestic violence victims' suicides, members of Richards' organization did some research into the problem. They pulled all the public records of adult women in Minnesota who died by suicide from 2009 to 2011, and cross-referenced them with protective orders and criminal charges of domestic violence.

 "Even with extremely limited information, we found that between 7 and 14 percent of those cases had a documented domestic violence record," Richards said. "This is an area that would be nice for someone to look into deeper."

 David Rossman, professor of law at Boston University School of Law, said the case against Vang raises complicated legal questions. In many cases of suicide, he said, it would be easy to find someone in an individual's past who had mistreated them when they were vulnerable. But how far back do you go? And how do you prove that it was another person's actions that ultimately caused the suicide?

 Rossman also worried about prosecutorial overreach.

 "It leaves a lot of power in the hands of the prosecutor to bring a criminal prosecution when there is an awful lot of speculation," he said.

 For Haban's family, the charges offer some reassurance that authorities are taking her death seriously.

 "There is finally going to be some justice for Jessica,” her mother, Rita Prinzing, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "While we know that it won’t bring her back, he will be held accountable."

 An obituary for Haban described her as a highly talented young woman who excelled at everything she put her mind to.

 "She loved her children with all her heart and did everything she could to make their dreams come true," it read. "She really made an impact on many people's lives and was known for her caring heart, long conversations and putting others in front of her own personal needs."

 Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

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 Melissa Jeltsen covers domestic violence and other issues related to women’s health, safety and security. Tips? Feedback? Send an email or follow her on Twitter.

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– In a potentially unprecedented move for the state, a Minnesota man is being charged with murder for allegedly driving his partner to suicide. According to the Olmsted County Attorney, Long Vang and Jessica Haban were together for 10 years. During that time, Haban was subject to increasing levels of domestic violence. She was thrown into a wall by her hair and had a knife held to her throat, the Huffington Post reports. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Vang allegedly knocked Haban unconscious multiple times and poured vegetable oil on her because she "had bad in her." In May 2015, Vang allegedly punched Haban in the head, causing a traumatic brain injury, which led to depression. Despite a court order, Vang repeatedly called and texted Haban. She told a social worker she felt like Vang had killed her. Haban sought mental health treatment, but Vang threatened her, telling her she would lose custody of their two kids if she didn't stop getting medical care. Three days after leaving treatment in December 2015, Haban killed herself. She was 28. Vang was arrested this month and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The county attorney believes Haban killed herself to escape Vang. It's extremely rare to be charged with murder for someone else's suicide. In what is called a "depraved heart murder," prosecutors must prove Vang "did something that was very likely to kill" while displaying "complete disregard for human life," HuffPo explains. The county attorney believes they can do so. Haban's mother tells the Star Tribune the charges mean "there is finally going to be some justice for Jessica."


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A former police officer from Siberia who was jailed for murdering 22 women has been charged over another 47 deaths to which he has confessed, making him Russia’s most prolific killer.

 Mikhail Popkov, nicknamed the Werewolf, was handed a life sentence two years ago after the murders in the city of Angarsk, near Lake Baikal. He attacked women he considered were immoral because they were out late at night.

 Between 1994 and 2000 Popkov offered his victims lifts before taking them to remote locations where he killed them with axes, knives or screwdrivers. Three of the murders were committed while he was on duty, using a police car.

 Local media reported that Popkov, 49, had admitted in prison to another 60 killings. So far prosecutors… ||||| Popkov has confessed to 59 new murders. Picture: Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda

 Siberian maniac and former policeman Mikhail Popkov - who raped his victims before killing them - appears to be the world's third worst known serial killer.

 In an interview today with The Siberian Times, the Russian Investigative Committee - the Russian equivalent of the FBI - clarified a series of confusing news agency and newspaper reports this week on the number of new cases.

 The true total of women victims - believed to be aged 17 to 38 - is far higher than previously reported.

 The sensational new findings follow intensive detective work over two years since father-of-one Popkov - who was married when he committed his offences and is nicknamed 'The Werewolf' - was convicted in January 2015 of an initial 22 murders of mostly young women.

 Irkutsk Investigative Committee spokeswoman Karina Golovacheva: 'So there are 59 new murders. That means, if we add them to the earlier 22, it will be 81 murders in total.' Picture: Investigative Committee in Irkutsk region

 The butcher sexually attacked his mainly young female victims before slaying them with axes, knives or screwdrivers over an 18 year period immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

 Irkutsk Investigative Committee spokeswoman Karina Golovacheva admitted there had been confusion over the numbers, and used her interview with The Siberian Times to officially clarify and confirm the sinister detail of Popkov's reign of terror.

 'To clarify the numbers, Popkov has confessed to 59 new murders,' she said. 'We are not counting in this total those 22 for which he was already sentenced. These cases are already closed.

 'So there are 59 new murders. That means, if we add them to the earlier 22, it will be 81 murders in total.'

 Popkov (middle) has a higher total than worst-ever Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo (right) who was convicted of 53 murders, and the more recent Moscow maniac Alexander Pichushkin (left), known as the Chessboard Killer, who killed 49. Picture: The Siberian Times

 She said that currently he is charged with 47 new murders, and another dozen are still officially under investigation, but imminent charges are expected over these additional alleged crimes.

 She emphasised: 'We are quite sure about the 12 other cases. We are now gathering all the evidence.' Further analysis of the evidence is underway and 'in the nearest future we can bring charges in these 12 cases' which Popkov has already admitted.

 Earlier, contradictory reports in Russian news agencies led to conflicting reports on the numbers.

 But it is today clear that Popkov - on the basis of charges to which he has already confessed - has a higher total than worst-ever Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, aka the Butcher of Rostov, who was convicted of 53 murders, and the more recent Moscow maniac Alexander Pichushkin, known as the Chessboard Killer, who killed 49.

 He is also higher than Ukrainian Anatoly Onoprienko, who was active at the end of the Soviet era, and was convicted of a total of 52 murders.

 'He says very clearly, when and what was done. We are looking for evidence that confirms his words. A large number of episodes are confirmed.' Picture: Investigative Committee, The Siberian Times

 If - as expected following his confessions - his toll is confirmed by the court as 81, only two serial killers in the world, Luis Garavito and Pedro Lopez, both South American, will have had higher numbers of proven victims.

 'When the investigation is finished, and Popkov has read the case materials, the trial can begin,' she said.

 It is also now established that his murders continued for a full decade after police previously believed they had stopped. 'The period of his murders also has changed,' she said. 'He was killing women from 1992 to 2010, so he did not stop in 2000.'

 Earlier, investigators believed he was correct in saying that he had halted his vicious sexual attacks and killings in 2000 because he became 'impotent' after contracting venereal disease from a victim.

 Tatiana Martynova (right) with a friend Yulia Kuprikova (middle) who they were both killed together. Viktoria Chagaeva (L), pictured with her younger sister Tatiana and mother Lyubov. Viktoria Chagaeva, 49, who owns a beauty salon in Angarsk, with a picture of her beloved younger sister Tatiana, killed by the 'Wednesday murderer'. Pictures: The Siberian Times

 Popkov is co-operating with investigators, and his testimony has been crucial to uncovering the 59 new cases. But it is not ruled out that there are more cases than the 81 he admits.

 One theory is that he is deliberately rationing his confessions to delay the moment when he is sent from his current detention prison to a harsh penal colony to serve his life sentence.

 In a court appearance in Irkutsk, details of which have just been disclosed, he was asked by judge Pavel Rukavishnikov how many women he had killed. He shrugged and replied: 'I can't say exactly, I didn't keep a record.'

 But the mass killer told the court: 'I admit my guilt in full'....'committing the murders, I was guided by my inner convictions.'

 After he was detained in 2012, he told police he wanted to 'cleanse' the streets of 'prostitutes'.

 The maniac's victims, top to bottom - Yulia Shapovalova and Maria Molotkova; Maria Molotkova funerals, and pictures of two other victims, Marina Lyzhina, 35 (l) and Liliya Pashkovskaya, 37 (r) at their funerals. Pictures: The Siberian Times

 He often offered victims nighttime lifts in his police car before taking them to remote locations where he raped and killed them, leaving their naked bodies in woods on roadsides.

 Senior investigator Andrei Bunayev disclosed last year: 'The investigation will be very long because there are a lot of cases. He names the places where bodies are hidden.

 'We find these bodies, and check his involvement. He says very clearly, when and what was done. We are looking for evidence that confirms his words. A large number of episodes are confirmed.'

 He said Popkov 'left biological traces in some cases which were not studied earlier - but now there is an opportunity to examine them'. In other cases, sites were dug up guided by the convicted mass murderer.

 Victim Yulia Kuprikova, killed by the 'Wednesday murderer'. Picture: The Siberian Times

 'Popkov is collaborating with us,' he said. 'Everything he says is confirmed. He confidently guides us to the place where a body is found and explains what happened, what injuries he caused.'

 After he ceased being a policeman, it is known Popkov drove between his home city of Angarsk, in Irkutsk region, where many of his crimes were committed, and Vladivostok, on the country's Pacific coast, a distance of some 3,900 kilometres.

 Yet a painstaking search has not found evidence of crimes in other regions - so far.

 'It was established that he killed women in other cities and towns of Irkutsk region, but we have not found any evidence he killed someone in other regions,' - said Lieutenant Golovacheva.

 'At the moment we cannot give much detail as the investigation is ongoing. We can say more when the trial starts.'

 Two of his earlier victims were Tatiana (Tanya) Martynova, 20, and Yulia Kuprikova, 19, found dead on 29 October 1998 in an Angarsk suburb following a night out.

 One theory is that he began his murder spree after - wrongly - suspecting his wife Elena of cheating on him. Pictures: Channel 1, NTV

 'The pain does not go away - it was me who gave Tanya a ticket to go to a concert, and she was killed after attending it," said her sister Viktoria Chagaeva, 49, who owns a beauty salon in Angarsk.

 Popkov's wife Elena, 51, and daughter Ekaterina, 29, a teacher, initially stood by him, refusing to believe he was a mass killer. But since his trial they have moved to another city to begin new lives.

 One theory is that he began his murder spree after - wrongly - suspecting his wife of cheating on him. He found two used condoms in the rubbish at home, and this led to his drive to take revenge on women, it is claimed. In fact the contraceptives had been used by guests.

 'I just had some reasons to suspect her,' said Popkov, of his belief that his wife had slept with another man. 'I'm not looking for excuses, but this was the impetus for my future.'

 His daughter Ekaterina, 29, a teacher, initially stood by him, refusing to believe he was a mass killer. Pictures: Channel 1, NTV

 He admitted to having a negative view of women who went out at night to drink without their husbands or boyfriends. Now he says: 'I had no right to evaluate people, their behaviour ... this is my repentance.'

 He evaded capture for years because police could not contemplate that one of their own officers could be a mass killer.

 He daughter at first refused to believe he could be a mass killer.

 'I do not believe any of this. I always felt myself as 'Daddy's girl',' she said. 'For 25 years we were together, hand in hand.

 'We walked, rode bikes, went to the shops, and he met me from school. We both collect model cars, so we have the same hobby. I wanted to be a criminologist, so I read a book with tips of how investigators catch serial killers and there were also basic classifications [about murderers].

 he told police he wanted to 'cleanse' the streets of 'prostitutes' in his home city of Angarsk where he worked as a policeman. Pictures: The Siberian Times, Photo-Angarsk

 'Daddy doesn't fit any of these classifications -- he doesn't look like some maniac.'

 Popkov has previous told journalists that he was only caught because of advances in DNA technology used to tackle crimes.

 'I could not anticipate the examination of DNA,' he said. 'I was born in another century. Now there are such modern technologies, methods, but not earlier. If we have not got to that level of genetic examination, then ... I would not be sitting in front of you.'

 Asked he could turn back time, what he would do differently, he said: 'All initially should have been changed. Straight from school. Since childhood.' |||||

 (Photo courtesy Siberian Times)

 Former Siberian policeman Mikhail Popkov, who is already serving a life sentence for the murders of 22 women, has confessed to killing 59 more, police told the Siberian Times.

 Nicknamed the “werewolf” of Siberia for the brutality of his methods — he raped women and then killed them with axes, knives or screwdrivers — Mikhail Popkov carried out his bloody rampage between 1992 and 2010 in the Angarsk and Irkutsk regions of Siberia, the paper reported. According to the state news agency Tass, he resigned as a police officer in 1998.

 When he was first detained in 2012, the Siberian Times said, he told police his goal was to “cleanse” the streets of prostitutes.

 According to Tass, the investigation began when women kept disappearing from public places in Angarsk in the mid-1990s, at the time Popkov was a police officer. Later, authorities started finding mutilated bodies of the women around Irkutsk.

 They also found tire tracks from a Niva cross-country vehicle at some of the crime scenes, which ultimately led them to Popkov.

 At first he confessed to three murders.

 But as police investigated, and as he began talking, the number rose to the 22 for which he was convicted and sentenced in January 2015.

 Irkutsk police spokeswoman Karina Golovacheva has told the Siberian Times that Popkov has now confessed to 59 new slayings. “That means, if we add them to the earlier 22, it will be 81 murders in total.” Of the 59 cases, 47 have produced charges. “We are quite sure about the 12 other cases,” Golovacheva told the paper, and “in the nearest future we can bring charges” in the twelve others.

 The victims have ranged in age from 17 to 38.

 Popkov, according to earlier reports of the case, started his spree when he was a policeman, offering women rides in his police car and then taking them to remote locations and raping and killing them.

 After laborious probes, police have found body after body in the places where Popkov told them they were hidden.

 The Siberian Times speculated that he was confessing gradually to the killings rather than all at once in hopes of delaying his transfer from a detention prison to a penal colony.

 If authorities ultimately confirm 81 as the number of Popkov’s victims, that would make him one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, behind Colombia’s Luis Garavito, a child-killer nicknamed “The Beast” who claimed at least 138 lives in the 1990s, and Pedro López (“The Monster of the Andes”) with 110 proven victims in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru between 1969 and 1980.

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What is a summary?

– An ex-cop already serving life for 22 murders has been charged with 47 more killings and another 12 are under investigation, which would make Mikhail Popkov the worst serial killer in Russian history and the third-worst in world history. Law enforcement sources tell the Siberian Times that Popkov, who targeted women he thought were immoral because they were out late at night, has been providing investigators with information including the locations of bodies. He claims to have started his killing spree, which stretched across a large area of Siberia, after he began suspecting that his wife had cheated on him. Popkov, who resigned from the force in Angarsk in 1998, per the Washington Post, was arrested in 2012 after investigators got a tip-off and checked the DNA of thousands of current and former police officers, the Times of London reports. Police sources say he has claimed to have killed at least 81 women with axes, knives, and screwdrivers, a total that exceeds the 52 killed by "Butcher of Rostov" Andrei Chikatilo between 1978 and 1990 and the 48 murdered by "Chessboard Killer" Alexander Pichushkin between 1992 and 2006. (Here's why he was called the "Chessboard Killer.")