One report said detectives had also matched his DNA with that found in one of
thousands of local Lada cars after tracks were found next to bodies dumped
by the alleged murderer.
A former police colleague of Mikhail P. told a Russian
news website: “I worked side-by-side with him for many years. He was
just like everyone else, not particularly aggressive. He was an ideal family
man who often talked about his wife and his daughter Yekaterina and tried to
bring money home to the family.”
Russia has a chilling reputation for serial killers. Alexander Pichushkin
murdered at least 49 – and possibly 63 – people in Moscow’s Bittsevsky Park,
between 1992 and 2006. He became known as the Chessboard Killer because he
confessed he wanted to mark off a murder date in every one of the 64 squares
on a board. On his arrest, he declared: “For me, a life without murder
is like a life without food for you.”
The Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, known as the Butcher of Rostov,
murdered 52 women and children and was convicted and executed in 1994.
Mikhail P. is in custody in Angarsk but has yet to be formally charged.
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