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blood-splattered white shoe was found, as well as drag marks on the nearby grass, indicating that the victim had been killed elsewhere. The local
Department of Internal Affairs, which was assigned to handle the case, quickly established the identity of the victim as that of 20-year-old Elena Rambakh, a seamstress who worked at a nearby factory. According to her neighbors, she was last seen near the Tubbolnitsa bus stop. While questioning her parents, the investigators learned that the killer had stolen a gold watch with a bracelet from the victim. The officers also learned that her parents were
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was reported: a young married couple had been attacked just outside
Leninsky. Both of them had been hit from behind with a blunt object, with the husband, Yuri Perepyolkin, surviving, but his wife was dragged away, raped and then strangled in a nearby field. After killing Mrs. Perepyolkin, her killer stole two watches. Not long after, the killer tried to strike again, attacking a trio of druzhinniks, knocking out one of the men, but was warded off by the second, Nikolai Romanenko. While fleeing, the "demon" dropped his axe, which would later be used to track him down.
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that the interviewed villager's nephew, Viktor
Selikhov, often left the village at night without telling anyone where he went. Operatives were dispatched to arrest him, but Selikhov slipped away before he could get caught. While searching through his home, authorities found eight women's watches, as well as numerous women's clothing and accessories which belonged to the elusive killer's victims. A few days after his identification, he was arrested at a local market, where he was examining some of the new axes that had just arrived.
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Prigorodnoye. She had been raped, blindfolded and subsequently killed with a blunt object. On April 7, 1964, in the village of Leninsky, another young woman was brutally abused in this same way, but survived her injuries. This was followed up by another attack on May 8, when the offender attacked a young saleswoman outside her store in Alamüdün.
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divorced her husband, with whom she had had a son, Selikhov approached her yet again, offering to marry her and to even take care of her son. However, he was rejected yet again, leaving him even more embittered than before. Not long after, a mysterious wave of rapes and murders swept the localities around Frunze.
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Selikhov's upbringing. Born in the Kirghiz SSR's capital, he lived in a small house on the outskirts and was described as a polite young man by his neighbors, who never drank or engaged in hooliganistic activities, and was a decent accordion player. He worked at a local factory,
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During his interrogation, Selikhov confessed almost immediately to all of the crimes. During the subsequent psychiatric evaluation, Selikhov was recognized as sane, and put on trial on charges of 3 murders, 10 rapes and 17 attempted rapes. He was convicted on all counts and sentenced to death, an
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After getting a hold of the axe, the investigators showed the weapon to the local villagers, with one of them recognizing it as
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At one point, he fell in love with his roommate, Tonya, to whom he would eventually propose, but she rebuffed his advances and married another man. Angered, Selikhov began writing and sending her numerous letters, in which he continuously tried to convince her to marry him. After Tonya eventually
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tendencies, but this theory was thrown out of the window when all the local psychiatric wards confirmed that their patients were kept under watch. Security around the capital was tightened, but this also led to the spread of rumors of a maniac roaming the area: as a result, women refused to work
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to help with the capture, but to no avail. On June 1, Selikhov struck again, attacking nurse Rimma
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