Murder-Accused Journalist Prison Death
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008That’s a strange old story, isn’t it?
Vlado Taneski, a Macedonian reporter, was in prison, accused of killing elderly women and then writing gruesome reports on their murders.
Rough.
A grim business.
In other words, exactly the sort of thing my poor old mother would have stayed up all night reading about, smoking cigarettes, drinking tea and muttering darkly.
True Confessions.
Murder Mysteries.
Horror Killings.
What is it with old women and savage, sadistic attacks? What is it about elderly ladies that they seem to love this kind of story so much? I don’t know, but I can tell you this: my mother and her ilk had a boundless appetite for the horrible details of these matters, and the more sordid the better.
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Tell me more.
Anyway, this fellow, Taneski was accused of assaulting and murdering heaps of women. Then it’s a quick shower and straight down to the news desk, fill out all the details and wait for the glory. What a reporter! Marvellous, except it turns out he’s not only the reporter, but the killer as well.
That’s not great for a local paper’s image. Not great. It wouldn’t be a great selling point for the Limerick Leader, for instance.
Local papers send out photographers to take pictures of people in bars. Out and about. They report on what the dog warden did. They put in hundreds of pictures of a fucking fool in a gold chain shaking hands with other fucking fools. Today, the Mayor …
They make money from readers buying copies of the paper when their picture is in there. Look! There’s me in a ridiculous dress that doesn’t fit me because I’m a big fat fucker from swallowing hundreds of hamburgers! Don’t I look great?
Buy a picture from us, you fat fucker. That’s what local papers do.
Local papers do NOT murder people. Generally speaking, that is. They tend not to.
Taneski, it seems, lost the run of himself, and reported details that the cops hadn’t released to the public. Things only the killer could possibly know.
Ha! Gotcha!
Anyhow, when he was locked up, Taneski must have decided the game was up, so he drowned himself by shoving his head into a bucket of water.
I know. It does seem a bit odd. Even as I write this, I’m trying to figure out how you could drown yourself in a bucket and to be truthful, I’m having difficulty imagining it, but that’s what seems to have happened.
More correctly, I suppose, that’s what the Macedonian authorities say happened.
He committed suicide. He put his head in a bucket of water, according to a police spokesman. It is unclear how none of his cell mates or guards noticed while he was doing so.
Yeah. It seems a bit strange all right. There’s a fella with his head upside down in a bucket, kicking and twitching, forcing his own face into the water and nobody notices.
Right. I see.
Maybe it’s a Balkan thing, I don’t know, but I’ll tell you this: my mother would have loved it.
Stumble it!
June 25th, 2008
Halloween Bock, bobbin apples, he made and mistake and inhaled.
But your mam musta known mine! I think it’s a girl thing, this fascination with the macabre. They’re always on about this eye gouging murder or that skull splitting tragedy, at work.
June 25th, 2008
Interesting indeed.
I don’t think it’s just an elderly woman thing. I think it’s an Irish mother thing. My Mam has always been obsessed with death and gore. Any time she rings the first thing she tells me is who died or some horrible crime, then the weather of course.
The worst part is I think I’m sliding down the same tragic path! :)
June 25th, 2008
A suicide so miraculous the bucket was probably upside down as well.
June 25th, 2008
Conan yes the mraculous suicide..:0)
I’ve just (out of curiosity you understand)went and got my bucket, and measured it.
10 inches wide, 10 inches high, and a base of 7 inches….
As a woman I have a small head.But I think I’d have difficulty committing suicide by drowning in a bucket.
I would assume that the average Macedonian male would have a bigger head then mine.
There’s not all that much room left for water.
Unless ofcourse the Macedonian bucket is far larger then the Australian one I have.*hehe*
Good comment though..:0)
June 25th, 2008
.. it’s like a bad TV movie…. heck I think it WAS a bad TV movie!
June 26th, 2008
Towards the end of your piece I was sure you were working around to a comment on our own boys in blue. You know, bizarre suicide while in police custody, case safely closed, unfortunately the perpetrator is not in a position to give us an insight into the motives for his ghastly deeds…you know, a fit up.
You’re slipping Bock.
June 27th, 2008
Sorry. I’ll try to do better in future.