Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
He Killed People And Then Wrote a Novel About It - The Vlado Taneski story
02 Feb 2025
This is the story of Vlado Taneski, the journalist who went on a murder spree in North Macedonia
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So this journalist is about to unalive some people so that he can write news articles about the murders. Let me explain. Now the journalist, his name is Vlado, and he lives in a small town in Macedonia, and he's a bit messed up in the head. Apparently, he had always had a super contentious relationship with his late mother. And bro's allegedly got some mommy issues.
Because one day, I guess Vlado finds a way to take out all these frustrations on some women that live in his neighborhood. And so he targets his first victim, this woman, Mitra. Mitra's 64 and she knew Vlado's mom and Mitra even works as a cleaner just like Vlado's mom worked as a cleaner. But one day Mitra leaves her place to go to the grocery store and that is when Vlado shows up.
Now it isn't clear exactly how he goes about this because there are no witnesses Not sure if he offered her a ride in his car or what, but suddenly bam, Vlado straight up kidnaps her and he takes her somewhere and he starts beating her and then he essays her. And after that, he keeps her alive for several months, which means he would have had to feed her and like take care of her.
But ultimately he finally strangles her with a telephone cord until she's unalived. Then he stuffs her body into a nylon bag and he ties it up with the telephone cord and he dumps it at an abandoned construction site on the outskirts of town. And two months after she first disappeared, police finally find Mitra's body in the construction site.
So they investigate and they start accusing these two other random guys of the murder. And eventually they go and arrest those two guys. Meanwhile, Vlado isn't even a suspect. So he like totally gets away with it. Now, remember how I said Vlado is a journalist? Well, pretty quickly, he starts reporting on the case and he publishes a news article about Mitra going missing.
And he goes and he interviews some of her friends and family members about the crime. He even reports on the trial of the two random guys who were wrongly accused of unaliving Mitra. Which, by the way, those two guys who were falsely accused, they ultimately both get sentenced to life in prison. But don't feel bad for these two guys.
Part of why they're murder suspects in the first place is because they actually unalived someone else, a totally different, unrelated guy, which they admitted to. So they get life in prison. Anyway, three years pass, and Vlado still hasn't been caught. And he's feeling pretty confident. He's ready to do it all over again. And that is when he sets his sight on this woman. Her name is Labicha.
And Labicha's 56, and like Mitra, she also works as a cleaner, and she's also familiar with Vlado's mom. So she is just his type. And all these people live in the same small neighborhood, so Vlado and all his victims, they all know each other. But one day, just like Mitra, Lubica leaves her place to go buy groceries. That is when Vlado shows up. But suddenly, boom, Vlado just kidnaps her.
And then he takes her somewhere, to some secret location. And he ties her up, and he beats her, and he essays her, and he keeps her alive there for about three months. And then he finally strangles her with a telephone cord until she's... unalived. And three months after she had been abducted, police find her body in a nylon bag she had been dumped in a ravine near the edge of town.
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