March 1, 1970 - Alexander Spesivtsev
Operating in the industrial city of Novokuznetsk during a period of social upheaval that left many children without stable homes or oversight, Spesivtsev exploited the vulnerability of street youth and young women over what investigators believe was a span of years. The crimes were domestic in setting but extreme in nature, and were carried out with the active involvement of his mother, making them a collaborative enterprise rather than the work of a solitary offender. The gap between the four convictions and the suspected total of more than eighty victims reflects both the difficulties of forensic investigation and the precarious social conditions that left many victims without anyone to report them missing.
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Alexander Nikolayevich Spesivtsev (Russian: Александр Николаевич Спесивцев, born 1 March 1970) is a Russian serial killer, also known as the Novokuznetsk Monster and the Siberian Ripper, convicted for the killing of four people in Novokuznetsk in 1991 and 1996.
Spesivtsev, with the assistance of his mother Lyudmila, targeted street children and young women across Novokuznetsk by luring them into their apartment, where they would be tortured and killed, and sometimes cannibalized. He confessed at some point to nineteen murders, but later retracted his confession and was convicted for only four. Based on found evidence he is suspected of having committed over 80 murders starting from as early as 1991.
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