Nehru Nagar serial killer a loner: cops

The profile also hints at the suspect being a solitary person living alone and that loneliness may be triggering his actions. “However,unless we track him down and nab him,we would not know everything about his personality. We are hoping for more clues to help us nail him,” added the officer.

Police also believe the coins found near the victims might have been used by the killer to lure the girls to accompany him.

Police teams have been hunting for clues in the slums of Kurla since panic spread after the bodies of three minor girls all aged under nine,were discovered in Nehru Nagar area of Kurla since February. On February 9,the body of a five-year-old girl,who had gone missing a few days earlier,was found in a gunny bag. On March 7,nine-year-old Anjali Jaiswal was found on the terrace of the police quarters opposite Nehru Nagar police station. She had also been raped and murdered. Nusrat Shaikh,another 9-year-old girl who had gone missing while playing outside her house a few days ago was discovered in a locked house in a chawl at Vatsala Tai Nagar last Saturday.

Panic has led a high level of alertness among people,police said. On Thursday afternoon,a 41-year-old autorickshaw driver was apprehended by people when he was offering a 7-year-old girl some money. Suspecting him to be the killer,people thrashed him,took him to VB Nagar police station and handed him over to cops. The man,Kamlesh Sharma,did not match the killer’s description — police have a sketch of the suspect— but the police are leaving nothing to chance and would conduct an identification parade of Sharma and a DNA test.