August 5, 1961 - Andrei Barausov
The crimes attributed to Barausov unfolded over more than a decade in the remote Sakha region of Russia, with the victims — all underage girls — remaining unconnected to a single perpetrator for decades. His 2023 confession, made while already imprisoned for rape, closed cases that had gone cold for as long as forty years. The long gap between the killings and their resolution reflects both the geographic isolation of the area and the limitations of Soviet-era investigative infrastructure.
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Andrei Ivanovich Barausov (Russian: Андрей Иванович Бараусов; born 5 August 1961), known as The Lensky Maniac (Russian: Ленский маньяк), is a Soviet-Russian serial killer and rapist who murdered at least 7 underage girls in Sakha from 1983 to 1997. Most of these killings remained unsolved until early January 2023, when Barausov, now serving a sentence for serial rape, confessed to them.
For his latest crimes, he was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment to be served concurrently with his 2018 conviction, consisting of 18 years.
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