April 7, 1947 - Gennady Mikhasevich
Over fourteen years, Mikhasevich carried out one of the most extensive series of killings in Soviet history, targeting women across a substantial stretch of the Byelorussian SSR while remaining undetected by authorities for over a decade. The investigation's failure had devastating consequences beyond the crimes themselves — at least fourteen innocent men were wrongfully convicted for murders he had committed, with some dying in custody before the truth emerged.
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Gennady Modestovich Mikhasevich (Belarusian: Генадзь Мадэставіч Міхасевіч; 7 April 1947 – 25 September 1987) was a Soviet serial killer and serial rapist known as the "Vitebsk Strangler" (Віцебскі душыцель), who murdered a minimum of 36 women in Vitebsk, Polotsk and the surrounding regions in the Byelorussian SSR between 1971 and 1985.
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