Beer Man
Encyclopedia
Beer Man is the name given to a suspected serial killer
who murdered seven people in south Mumbai
, India
, between October 2006 and January 2007. The nickname was gained due to beer bottles left beside each body, which was the only link between the deaths.
In January 2008 Ravindra Kantrole was convicted of one of the murders, that of a homeless man. He was charged with two other Beer Man murders but cleared of any involvement, thus leaving the remaining six murders unsolved.
In September 2009 The Bombay High Court acquitted Kantrole of any involvement in the murders due to lack of evidence. The forensic tests conducted on him were judged inadmissible, so was the eyewitness testimony of a person who said he/she had seen Kantrole for a few seconds and remembered his face 2 months later.
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
who murdered seven people in south Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, between October 2006 and January 2007. The nickname was gained due to beer bottles left beside each body, which was the only link between the deaths.
In January 2008 Ravindra Kantrole was convicted of one of the murders, that of a homeless man. He was charged with two other Beer Man murders but cleared of any involvement, thus leaving the remaining six murders unsolved.
In September 2009 The Bombay High Court acquitted Kantrole of any involvement in the murders due to lack of evidence. The forensic tests conducted on him were judged inadmissible, so was the eyewitness testimony of a person who said he/she had seen Kantrole for a few seconds and remembered his face 2 months later.
Sources
- 'Beer man' killer jailed for life - Straits Times
- Mumbai's serial killer beerman convicted - IBNIBNIBN or ibn may refer to:In general* ibn, patronymic in Arabic personal names * IBN code page , a Nordic language code page under MS-DOS...
- http://www.ptinews.com/news/287328_HC-acquits--serial-killer--in-murder-case - PTIPTI*PTI - PTI is the name of a band on the WTII Records label.PTI can be an abbreviation for:*Pacific Torah Institute, a high school in Vancouver that is a branch of Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva...