April 9, 1959 - Fyodor Kozlov
Operating across three Soviet oblasts over more than a decade, Kozlov carried out a sustained series of sexual murders that went undetected long enough to establish a pattern stretching from the mid-1970s into the late 1980s. The case reflects the particular difficulties Soviet law enforcement faced in identifying and prosecuting itinerant serial offenders during that era. He died by suicide in custody before a death sentence could be executed.
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Fyodor Nikolayevich Kozlov (Russian: Федор Николаевич Козлов; 9 April 1959 – 1 September 1990), known as The Iskitim Maniac (Russian: Искитимский маньяк), was a Soviet serial killer and rapist who committed a series of murders in three oblasts from 1976 to 1989. Convicted and sentenced to death for these crimes, he hanged himself in prison before the verdict could be carried out.
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