A suspected Turkish serial killer who is being sought internationally for the murder of three people, including a Russian
citizen, has been revealed to be a fan of the popular TV series
“Dexter,” which depicts the life of a forensics expert who is also a
serial killer.
Istanbul police raided a storage unit rented
by the suspected murderer, Atalay Filiz, inside the warehouse of a
logistics firm in the metropolis’ European neighborhood of Hadımköy on
June 2.
A number of books and DVDs as well as a bicycle were
seized as part of the investigation, while reports suggested most of the
books were crime novels.
Found among Filiz’s stash was a number
of DVDs of the popular TV series “Dexter” – the story of a blood spatter
analyst at the Miami Metro Police Department who murders individuals
who had gone unpunished through the justice system.
Previously,
numerous crossword puzzles were retrieved from Filiz’s apartment in
Istanbul’s Tuzla district, where he is believed to have murdered a
40-year-old history teacher, Fatma Kayıkçı, allegedly because she had
doubts about the serial killer’s real identity, as Filiz used a false
identity and introduced himself as Furkan Altın.
Filiz was also a
self-proclaimed fan of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” a literary
classic dealing with the psychology and moral dilemmas of a murderer,
according to his profile on a popular Russian social networking site.
The
suspected murderer has been on the run for more than three years after
he allegedly killed his childhood friend Göktuğ Demiraraslan, the son of
Maj. Gen. Hasan Hüseyin Demiraraslan, and his Russian girlfriend, Elena Radchikova, on Sept. 16, 2013.
While
the motive behind the double murder remains unknown, recent reports
claimed Filiz murdered the couple because they grew suspicious that
Filiz was involved in the sudden disappearance of his girlfriend, Olga
Seregina, who was friends with Radchikova.
According to the
latest allegations, Seregina was Filiz’s first murder and he committed
the subsequent crimes in order to cover up his first killing, which he
reportedly committed after the woman attempted to break up with him.