March 8, 1971 - Yevgeny Litovchenko
His case is defined as much by institutional failure as by the crimes themselves — detained, having confessed, then allowed to escape during a police procedure, after which he killed again within weeks. The subsequent collapse of Russian-Ukrainian diplomatic relations meant he was never prosecuted for the full scope of what he is suspected of having done across more than eight years of violence. He remains imprisoned in Ukraine for the Kyiv murder alone, while the earlier cases in Leningrad Oblast remain formally unresolved.
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Yevgeny Anatolyevich Litovchenko (Russian: Евгений Анатольевич Литовченко; Ukrainian: Євген Анатолійович Литовченко, romanized: Yevhen Anatoliiovych Lytovchenko) is a Ukrainian murderer, serial rapist and suspected serial killer. The prime suspect in at least 4 murders and a series of rapes in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, from 2006 to 2014, he was detained by Russian authorities and confessed to the crimes, but escaped during an investigative experiment on June 6, 2014.
A month after this, Litovchenko murdered a girl in Kyiv, Ukraine, for which he was tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Following his conviction, the Russian government requested for his extradition, but this never occurred due to the subsequent breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two countries. As a result, he was never prosecuted for the crimes he committed on Russian territory.
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