Killer `confesses' to more murders

London - A serial killer, Bruce Childs - a hitman serving life for slaughtering six people - has admitted five more murders, …

London - A serial killer, Bruce Childs - a hitman serving life for slaughtering six people - has admitted five more murders, according to the Mirror.

The 62-year-old contract killer, whose six known victims included a boy of 10, made the confessions in a series of jail interviews with the Mirror. Police are reported to have reopened files into a string of unsolved crimes going back 30 years.

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