February 6, 1979 - Mikhail Neznamov
Operating in the industrial city of Kamensk-Uralsky over a five-year span, Neznamov targeted teenage girls and women while evading detection for nearly two decades after his final killing. The gap between the last murder in 2005 and his arrest in 2023 — eighteen years during which the cases went unsolved — is central to his place in this catalog. His subsequent conviction and the leniency of the resulting sentence drew attention to the handling of serial violence cases within the Russian judicial system.
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Neznamov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Незнамов; born 6 February 1979), known as The Kamensk Strangler (Russian: Каменский душитель), is a Russian serial killer who murdered at least five teenage girls and women in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast from 2000 to 2005. He remained undetected until 2023 when he was arrested and subsequently confessed to the crimes.
He would later be convicted for the murders in a trial, but despite the severity of his crimes, he was sentenced to a more lenient sentence of 17 years imprisonment.
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