Moscow 28 Mar (ANA) - Russia's worst-ever serial killer has given a chilling account of how he was a 'good husband and father' when he went on a killing rampage murdering 82 women over almost two decades. Mikhail 'The Werewolf' Popkov, 53, was formally charged with 60 new murders on Monday, adding to the 22 for which he is already convicted and serving a life sentence. Popkov, a former policeman, has already confessed to all the killings, saying he wanted to 'clean up' his Siberian city Angarsk of 'prostitutes' and 'immoral women'. Prosecutors believe 82 to be the 'final toll' of a killer who raped almost all his victims before butchering them with knives, axes or screwdrivers. But he says he was a 'good husband and father' to his wife, Elena, and Daughter, Katya, when he went on a killing rampage murdering 82 women over almost two decades. The cases date from 1992, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, to 2010. His newly confirmed victims were aged 17 to 38, according to law enforcement sources. In leaked testimony from the macabre case, he described to criminal investigators how he separated his 'ordinary' family life from his other existence as one of history's worst and most bloodthirsty serial killers using axes, knives and screwdrivers to murder his victims. 'I had a double-life,' he told investigators working on his case. 'In one life I was an ordinary person, I was in the service, in the police, having positive feedback on my work. 'I had a family. My wife and daughter considered me a good husband and father, which corresponded to reality. 'In my other life I committed murders, which I carefully concealed from everyone, realising that this was a criminal offence.(ANA)

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