Monday, a Macedonian reporter who was the main suspect in the killing of at least three women, was found dead in his cell. According to guardian.co.uk, police said the journalist was suspected of killing three elderly women because, when he reported the news, he gave some details which hadn’t been released by the police.

Vlado Taneski, 56, allegedly killed himself Sunday night. He worked for the national daily Utrinski Vesnik (Morning Post). He was put in custody on Sunday, as the judge ruled that he should remain 30 days in jail, during the investigation. Sunday evening he killed himself by putting his head in a bucket filled with water, reported BBC.

Police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said that the women died in 2005, 2007 and 2008 and they were killed in a very brutal way. They were found without clothes, strangled, wrapped with phone cables and placed in nylon bags hidden in different locations,” said Kotevski, according to guardian.co.uk. There was evidence of sexual and physical abuse.

Officials said that the women resembled Taneski's late mother. They worked as cleaners and lived in Kicevo, the same neighborhood as Taneski, located about 120 km south-west of Skopje, Macedonia’s capital.

Police arrested Taneski on Friday and they took some DNA sample which proved to match the DNA samples from the women.

The editor-in-chief of Utrinski Vesnik Ljupco Popovski said he couldn’t believe that Taneski was “capable of doing something like that.”

Taneski had two sons but was separated of his wife.