We all (blanket statement) love sex. From teenagers with raging hormones to adults with the sex-drive of the teenagers we once were. And sex, like most things, can be used and is widely used as a weapon (against women). No, I am not saying that men never get victimized by sexual predators...though, statistically, it happens less.

Mohan Kumar is one of those that reminds you (man or woman) to be careful with whom they bed.

Mohan Kumar killed anywhere between 20 to 32 women between thier early twenties to thirties, spanning five different districts of southern Karnataka in India.

A majority of the bodies were found inside public restrooms that went along with the bus stops. The doors were always locked inside, from the inside and each of the women were dressed in wedding sarees, however there was never any jewelry found on the bodies. For my non-Indian readers, the jewelry on a bride signifies that she will be becoming a part of her husband's extended family. (For my Indian readers, if there's more of an explanation about this tradition that you would like to share, I'd love to hear about it!)

Most of the women that Kumar killed went unidentified for years. He found his preference for victims were the women that could not get or did not have a dowry worth enough to find a decent husband. Kumar, after finding his next victim, would lure the women with promises of marriage along with a new, happy life for them.

I feel like, and this is just my opinion here...and it could very much be a cultural difference...but no matter where you're from or what your culture (though I realize it's easier said than done for most)...but ladies...look out for men like this.

They may have different ways of luring you...but don't follow a man to bed (especially a stranger) because he promises you anything. A drink, a hit...a new happy, shiny life...remember, if it seems too good to be true...it probably is. Watch out for yourself. Watch out for each other.

But I digress...

After Kumar bedded the women, he would convince them to then take a walk with him.

Also...something else ladies...trust your instincts. If some dumb mother fucker you don't know is trying to get your to go anywhere with him for whatever reason (even after a sexual encounter) and suddenly your hackles go up and that tiny voice inside you says DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER...listen to that voice...your Spidy-sense is going off for a reason.

So as they would be walking, he would stop at a bus stop restroom and tell them to go into the restroom and take what they thought was a birth control pill. However, these pills were laced with cyanide. (If you don't know what cyanide is, it's a deadly poison often described to have the smell of bitter almonds. Although only a certain percentage of the population can smell it)

If you hadn't already guessed, these women came from very poor backgrounds and their families could not afford to pay for an investigation into their daughters' disappearances or deaths. Most of the families to the victims admitted that they thought that their daughters' had simply committed suicide. Some families did not even discover their loved one was dead until Kumar's trial. There were many cries of outrage and surprise and devastation as faces of victims were shown on the news.

Now, in Indian culture, marriage is a big deal. It's very important. And a lot of young women do, in fact, kill themselves should they be unable to get married. This is usually due to a lack of money for a good dowry.

Other parents thought that their child died from natural causes, such as a seizure.

However, as more and more causes of death were ruled as cyanide poisoning, suspicions began to climb.

Unlike America (and likely many other countries), cyanide is not an easy chemical to get in India and it's even more uncommon for people to kill themselves by cyanide poisoning.

There are parts of India which are more conservative than others, and in these regions sex before marriage is extremely taboo. In these areas, it is not uncommon for the younger generations to hide sexual relationships from their parents. (And really, that's pretty much every culture. Most kids don't want their parents to know their having sex and most parents would freak out if their kids were having sex.)

But in these areas, where sex is likely never spoken of but in hush whispers in the privacy of a darkened bedroom, made Kumar's selection of victims that much easier. Given the fact that the girls would not inform their parents or families about this relationship, he pretty much had a free-for-all when it came to his choice of victim.

He also convinced several women to run away with him, and in essence, kidnapped them. He would convince them that running away together would be their ticket to that wonderful life of marriage most girls dream of (no matter where you're from).

Because they were running away, the women would only take the few valuables that they owned.

The authorities believe that Kumar stole the valuables from the women he killed in order to help pay for things that he and his families needed. While he was educated, and had worked as a P.E. teacher, he was unemployed when he was arrested. At the time of his arrest, he also had two wives (I am not informed on Indian marriage laws insofar as to how many wives you can have at the same time. If anyone would like to inform me, please do!) as well as one ex-wife, along with four children.

He would also use his victims' stolen cell phones in order to contact new victims. Now this worked for him so well because autopsy results move quite slowly. Any one autopsy could take months to get the results, and for one victim, two years...so by the time the family discovered their daughter was dead, he would have already moved on to another cell phone.

However, this is also what got him caught.

One of his victims, (the 19th reportedly), Anitha Barimar, was unlike his other victims. She came from a very close knit community that did not take her disappearance (and subsequent murder) lightly or lying down. They threw an extreme amount of pressure on the police to find Anitha, going so far as to threaten arson on the police station if she wasn't found.

Now it seems to me that the cops in any country are the same to a certain extent in that they're so quick to dismiss missing persons unless they're under a certain age. If they're a teenager or older it's always, "Well...I'm sure they're just out doing this or that and they'll be home in a couple of days..." or something similar to this.

It was no different with Miss Anitha Barimar. The police told the family that she had been taken away with "love Jihad", which is a derogatory term that's used to describe a young woman who had run away in order to elope with Muslim men, who then would convert to Islam.

Anitha's father is quoted to say, "The police asked us to keep our mouths shut...they were not willing to listen, despite no one having seen Anitha talking to any person of another community."

However, the community pretty much told the cops to go fuck themselves and demanded answers, forcing the police into action. Eventually, they broke under the pressure and investigated. (This is not unique to the police in any one country, either.)

Investigators looked into Anitha's phone records. The records showed that she had spent many nights talking to someone who was using a phone that belonged to another missing woman.

This woman's name was Kaveri Manku and she was from Madikeri. When the investigators looked at her phone records, it was the same story. She had spent many nights talking with someone who was using a phone that belonged to another murdered woman.

This woman was Pushpa Vasukoda from Kasargod and on and on and on. They discovered that each victim spoke to someone on a phone linked to another victim.

As they continued investigating, they came across something they found rather interesting. Each phone that belonged to a missing or murdered woman had, at one point or another, been turned on in the village of Deralakatte, which is located in Mangaluru.

This was a huge break in the case. Police came down upon this little town like locusts. They began searching hotels and "guesthouses", questioning the staff members.

Now, the missing women had not, at this point, been linked to the bodies that had been found in the restrooms...so they remained hopeful that the missing women were still alive; perhaps having fallen into a trafficking prostitution ring.

But while the police were searching, they were able to snatch the lead they needed. Someone had turned on one of the cellphones for three minutes. The police were able to track down the phone rather quickly, tracing it to a 16 year-old boy by the name of Dhanush.

When they questioned the boy, he informed the police that his Uncle Mohan had gifted him the phone. As they traced Kumar's phone, they learned that he had recently been talking to a woman by te name of Sumithra Shekhara Pujari in Bantwal.

Knowing that she was likely the next victim, the police were able to convince her to be the bait in the trap that caught him. Which good on her...that's not an easy thing to do...

Imagine the police approached you and said the person you were involved with was a serial killer and they wanted you to go ahead and meet with him as planned. Anything could happen...anything could go wrong...and while the police are near and likely listening...there's always the question of whether or not they'll get there in time to rescue you alive. Could you do it? Would you do it? So, I completely commend this woman for her actions in helping catch a serial killer.

Once he was in police custody, they didn't have to try very hard to get him to talk. Mohan Kumar boasted that he killed 32 women and informed them about the after-sex walks, the "birth-control pills" and having them go into the restrooms at the bus stops. He said that he told them to take the pill in the bathroom because it sometimes made you throw up.

The women believed him.

As the poison began to take effect and the women lie dying on the bathroom floor, Mohan Kumar robbed them and returned to his hotel room.

Kumar moved between several different aliases as he moved from victim to victim, always using a surname that indicated he was in the same lower-class of society as his next mark.

Now, he confessed to 32 murders, but the police think the number is closer to 20.

So, serial killers will do one of three things. They will either exaggerate their number of kills, under-exaggerate the number of victims, or on the most rare event, be truthful about the number of victims.

They will exaggerate to make themselves seem like a bigger bad ass, for lack of a better word, or under-exaggerate to try and lessen any charges they might get, or perhaps, to maintain a modicum of control.

Here are (some of) Mohan Kumar's victims.

The detectives discovered that Kumar had purchased the cyanide from a person who thought he was a jeweler. Cyanide is sometimes used to clean jewelry. Mohan learned this when he was in prison where he had met a jeweler that had accidentally killed several livestock by negligently throwing the substance into a river.

This is most likely where Kumar had picked up the idea on how to murder his victims. When he met his victims (mostly at bus stops), he would ask for their phone numbers and ask them if they wanted to get a drink. (Not talking about alcohol...)

He judged the women with how easily they fell in love with him, with how easily they were duped into believing all he told them.

Now, the irony of life in this story comes from the fact that the reasoning he was put in prison in the first place, and made him lose his job as a P.E. teacher, was that he had made an attempt at killing a woman years earlier.

He told police, "There was a woman who wanted to marry me but when I refused she started arguing with me and fell in the river Netravath. But some fisherfolks nearby thought I had pushed her and registered a complaint against me."

Evidence exists also that clearly states that murder wasn't the only criminal hobby Kumar had. He was involved in bank fraud as well as other financial crimes.

Prior to the murder trial of the 20 girls, Mohan Kumar recanted his statements, stating that he had not, in fact, kill anyone.

There aren't many serial killers that I've found that tried to act as their own defense council. And any person that represents his, her, or themselves, has a fool for a client.

However, like Bundy, Kumar attempted to represent himself, and, like Bundy, he lost and was sentenced to the death penalty. When he was asked if he felt any remorse for his victims, he said, "Every time a woman died I felt very bad but it only lasted 15 to 20 days. Then another woman would come along and I would forget all about the past."

In another comparison to Ted Bundy, the women in Kumar's life had no idea or were in complete denial about the person he actually was. Each of his wives and even his mother all stated that he had always been very gentle and caring.

This case is a harsh reminder that you never really know anyone...no matter how well you think you know them.

December of 2013 he was given a sentence of death. I could not find anything that stated he had been executed, so as far as I know he's waiting for his execution on death row.