August 1, 1951 - Valery Skoptsov
Skoptsov's criminal career resisted easy categorization — he moved across the Soviet Union and later Russia committing offenses that ranged from property crimes to homicide, accumulating a record that spanned decades and jurisdictions. His nickname reflected not specialization but versatility, making him a difficult figure for authorities to track or contain within a single criminal profile.
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Valery Nikolaevich Skoptsov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Скопцо́в; 1 August 1951 – 12 April 2004), known as The Villain of all Trades (Russian: Злодей на все руки), was a Russian criminal and serial killer, who was known for committing a variety of crimes around the USSR and then after Russia, ranging from thefts to murders.
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