A former teacher confessed to the murders of 20 women he says he wooed with promises of marriage - only to poison them with cyanide passed off as birth-control pills, Indian police said.
Forty-six-year-old Mohan Kumar confessed to a 20th murder Monday, a 35-year-old woman found dead in a Bangalore bus station, the Times of India reported.
"The confidence trickster used to lure innocent women promising to marry them and then elope with them," Bangalore Police Superintendent A.S. Rao told Agence France-Presse. "He would then rape and poison them with cyanide-laced pills."
Police say Kumar killed the women, ranging in age from 22 to 35, after he had sex with them and in some cases pocketed their jewelry after the murders.
Kumar has been married three times - he lived with wives No. 2 and 3 near the city of Mangalore at the time of his arrest.
Investigators working on the disappearance of one of his victims, identified as Anitha, nabbed Kumar after tracing a call from her cellphone to the cell of another missing woman, the Web site mangaloremithr.com reported.
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