Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
He Killed People And Then Wrote a Novel About It - The Vlado Taneski story
Sun, 02 Feb 2025
This is the story of Vlado Taneski, the journalist who went on a murder spree in North Macedonia
Chapter 1: Who is Vlado Taneski and what is his story?
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.
Chapter 2: How did Vlado choose his first victim?
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.
Chapter 3: What happened to Vlado's first victim, Mitra?
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.
Chapter 4: How did Vlado avoid suspicion and even report on his own crimes?
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.
Chapter 5: Who was Vlado's next target after Mitra?
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.
Chapter 6: How does Vlado connect the murders in his articles?
And of course, this is a small town in Macedonia, so this murder is huge news. And guess which freelance journalist is right there to cover the story? Flotto. And he's out here, he's like interviewing her friends and her family. And three days after Labiche's body is found, he publishes an article about her.
And in this article, he actually theorizes that this murder and the Mitra murder might be linked. Like he's telling on himself. Oh, but Vlado's not done, because a few months later, he chooses his next victim, this woman, Zivana. And Zivana's 65, and just like the other victims, she's a cleaner. She also knew Vlado's mom, because they all live in the same neighborhood.
And one day, she's sitting at home, and she gets a phone call, and it's her friend. And her friend is like, hey, have you heard the news? There's been a horrible car crash and they're saying your son is involved. So Zivana, she goes and she turns on the news on the radio. And yeah, there's a report that there's been a horrible car crash involving her son.
So Zivana immediately drops everything and she leaves her place. And as she's leaving, her neighbor sees her and he's like, hey, what's going on? And she's like, I think my son was in a horrible car crash. I'm going to the hospital to see if he's there. And then she heads straight for the hospital. And that is the last time anyone sees her.
And again, it is speculated that while she's on her way to the hospital, Vlado crosses paths with her and he likely offers her a ride. And somehow he gets her alone and he kidnaps her. And then he takes her to some unknown location and he beats her up and he essays her and he strangles her with a telephone cord.
Then he puts the body in a nylon bag and he ties it up with the same telephone cord he used to unalive her. But after she had left the house that day, that same afternoon, that neighbor that she saw, he gets a knock on the door and it's Zivana's son. And son asked the neighbor, hey, have you seen my mom? I can't find her anywhere.
And neighbor's like, dude, she went to the hospital because she heard you got in a car accident. Now, of course, Sun had not, in fact, been in a car accident. So he's like, what the f*** are you talking about? And he hadn't been in a horrible car accident because there had been no horrible car accident. It was all a hoax.
Now, it is speculated that Vlado, who is a journalist, that he called the local radio news station and reported to them that there had been a car crash and that Zivana's son had been involved. so that that radio station would report on it and Zivana would hear it and go out looking for him. And I guess it worked because she did.
Regardless, nine days later, some people find Zivana's body unalived in a pile of trash that had been dumped next to the local soccer field. And three days after that, Vlado publishes a news article about the murder in one of the biggest national newspapers in Macedonia.
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