Shabad killer’s last trail: police reconstruct Raj Kumar’s final 63 hours
For nearly three days after six people were killed in Daivalaguda village of Shabad, P. Six murders, a dead suspect and a chilling trail gone coldAccording to an officer from the Future City police, Raj Kumar spent Saturday, the day after the murders, moving around the Kothur area while evading police. He hired a car from his village in Daivalaguda and abandoned it near Chegur, Kothur about 12 kilometres away after it ran out of fuel.
- ▪For nearly three days after six people were killed in Daivalaguda village of Shabad, P.
- ▪Six murders, a dead suspect and a chilling trail gone coldAccording to an officer from the Future City police, Raj Kumar spent Saturday, the day after the murders, moving around the Kothur area while evading police.
- ▪He hired a car from his village in Daivalaguda and abandoned it near Chegur, Kothur about 12 kilometres away after it ran out of fuel.
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For nearly three days after six people were killed in Daivalaguda village of Shabad, P. Raj Kumar appeared to have disappeared without a trace until his body was found on a Monday (July 13) afternoon in Kothur.Now, investigators from the Future City police say they have pieced together his final movements, reconstructing a journey that took him from a village temple to a budget hotel in LB Nagar, onto a taxi back towards Kothur and, finally, to an isolated roadside where he is believed to have consumed a herbicide and ended his life. Six murders, a dead suspect and a chilling trail gone coldAccording to an officer from the Future City police, Raj Kumar spent Saturday, the day after the murders, moving around the Kothur area while evading police.
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