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”’Alexey Valerievich Yuzhakov”’ (born 1974, [[Vladivostok]] , [[Primorsky Krai]] , [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|RSFSR]] , [[Soviet Union|USSR]] ) is a Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile. Among Yuzhakov’s victims were two underage girls and his own sister. Despite the severity of the crimes he committed, he managed to avoid criminal punishment in the form of life imprisonment, and in late 2006, Alexey Yuzhakov was sentenced to 24 years in prison.<ref>https://www.dv.kp.ru/daily/27592/4943814/</ref>

”’Alexey Valerievich Yuzhakov”’ (born 1974, [[Vladivostok]] , [[Primorsky Krai]] , [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|RSFSR]] , [[Soviet Union|USSR]]) is a Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile. Among Yuzhakov’s victims were two underage girls and his own sister. Despite the severity of the crimes he committed, he managed to avoid criminal punishment in the form of life imprisonment, and in late 2006, Alexey Yuzhakov was sentenced to 24 years in prison.<ref>https://www.dv.kp.ru/daily/27592/4943814/</ref>

== Biography ==

== Biography ==

Alexey Valerievich Yuzhakov (born 1974, Vladivostok , Primorsky Krai , RSFSR , USSR) is a Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile. Among Yuzhakov’s victims were two underage girls and his own sister. Despite the severity of the crimes he committed, he managed to avoid criminal punishment in the form of life imprisonment, and in late 2006, Alexey Yuzhakov was sentenced to 24 years in prison.^[1]

Biography

Alexey Yuzhakov was born in Vladivostok in 1974. He had a younger sister. He spent his childhood and youth in a socially disadvantaged environment. Already at an early age, Yuzhakov began to demonstrate such a character trait as isolation. According to the recollections of teachers at the school where Alexey studied, in response to conflict situations, he often ran away from home for a long time and lived in the forest, digging dugouts, just to avoid crossing paths with people. Later, Yuzhakov’s unsociability only increased. In the early 1990s, he began to get into alcoholic beverages. Due to his character, Yuzhakov did not have a wife or children and lived with his mother and sister in the village of Rynda, located on the western shore of Russky Island . Initially, Yuzhakov worked in Vladivostok at a parking lot, but in the mid-2000s he changed jobs to a career as a plumber at a local housing office, since at his previous job he was paid very little and most of his salary went on the ferry to Vladivostok and back. Despite his isolation and passion for alcohol, Yuzhakov never demonstrated aggressive behavior towards others and was characterized as a decent and hardworking person, and his colleagues at work considered him “an excellent specialist with golden hands.” According to one of Yuzhakov’s acquaintances named Sergei, the maniac may have been prompted to commit murders by a breakup with a girl he loved very much.

Murders

Alexey Yuzhakov committed his first murder on May 11, 1995. That day, he was walking around his native village of Rynda in a state of alcoholic intoxication. On one of the streets, he met an 8-year-old girl who was going to her grandmother. Yuzhakov immediately wanted to kill her. Not afraid of being noticed, Yuzhakov attacked her right on the street, strangling her with his bare hands. He hid the body in a ravine near the house and covered it with last year’s leaves. However, the next day, Yuzhakov, fearing that the remains would be found and scattered around the area by local dogs, hid the body – he buried it on the shore of the bay of Russky Island. Subsequently, the body of Yuzhakov’s first victim was never found. Since the place where it was buried is near a sea current, it is likely that during the 11 years before Yuzhakov’s arrest, the remains were carried out to the open sea.

The subsequent murders occurred in 2006. On January 3, Yuzhakov had a heated argument with his 26-year-old sister Natalya. That evening, they were both drunk, and Yuzhakov did not want to let his sister go to her neighbors, where she was planning to continue celebrating the New Year. At some point, the girl simply got up and went to them, and Yuzhakov became furious. He caught up with his sister, threw her to the floor and squeezed her neck with his hands, after which she lost consciousness. After some time, the sister came to, began calling for help and threatening Yuzhakov that her friends would deal with him. Frightened, Yuzhakov began to strangle her again, and ultimately the woman died. The son of the deceased, Yuzhakov’s nephew, was also in the apartment at the time of his mother’s murder and later told how Yuzhakov argued with her and then took up scotch tape, but no one believed him. Yuzhakov hid the body of his sister in the basement of the house at number 1 on Zelenaya Street, and so that it would not give off a putrid smell during decomposition, he doused it with white paint. Yuzhakov also took all of the murdered woman’s belongings to the same basement. Yuzhakov’s sister was not looked for – she often disappeared for weeks in Vladivostok, leaving her son with his grandmother. Yuzhakov lied to his relatives that his sister left home on January 3, and a few days later she called him and said that she was leaving by train and would not return.

On February 25 of the same year, Yuzhakov committed his last murder. The victim was his 10-year-old neighbor. First, Yuzhakov met her in the entryway when he was going up to the apartment, then he saw her playing with other children through the window. Then he developed a criminal intent towards her. To gain courage, Yuzhakov drank vodka, waited for the girl to go home, knocked on the door of her apartment and, under a false pretext, lured her to his home, saying that he wanted to return her mother’s jacket. At home, Yuzhakov tried to rape the victim, but she began to actively resist him, after which he simply strangled her. The body lay in his apartment for two days, and then he took it to the basement where his sister’s body lay and buried it in the trash. He threw several dead cats on top. Also at this moment, Yuzhakov took the murdered girl’s mother’s gold earrings in the shape of ladybugs, which he hid in the kitchen sink drain.

Arrest, investigation and trial

The disappearance of the 10-year-old girl caused a great public outcry – they searched for her almost around the clock: district police officers questioned residents, police officers with dogs and a battalion of army police combed the areas. Soon, the police narrowed the circle of suspects to Yuzhakov, and on March 6, 2006, he was arrested. During interrogation, Yuzhakov wrote confessions for all the murders, including the 1995 episode, in which he was not suspected. He showed where he hid the bodies, and he was the only one on the island who had the keys to the basement where they were lying. During the preliminary investigation, Yuzhakov was held in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 in Vladivostok. In mid-2006, Yuzhakov was sent for a forensic psychiatric examination, which declared him completely sane and also identified his main characteristics, describing him as “withdrawn, cold in communication with loved ones, distrustful, wary, vindictive, cruel…”. The trial was held behind closed doors, since the victims were minors. Yuzhakov’s actions were classified by the state prosecution and the court under Art. 103 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (premeditated murder); Art. 105, part 2, paragraphs “a, b, k” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more persons, a person known to be in a helpless state, accompanied by violent acts of a sexual nature); Art. 30, 131, part 3, paragraph “b” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted rape of a victim known to be under fourteen years of age); Art. 158, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (theft). On October 31, 2006, the Primorsky Krai Court found him guilty on all counts and sentenced him to 24 years in prison. Yuzhakov could not be sentenced to life imprisonment due to his confessions. As of 2022, Yuzhakov continued to serve his sentence.

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