March 31, 1971 - Alexander Murylev
Operating in the chaotic post-Soviet property market of the early 1990s, Murylev exploited the sudden privatization of housing to target victims whose apartments he could seize and sell after their deaths. His crimes placed him among the earliest known practitioners of a distinctly Russian criminal phenomenon — the so-called "black realtor" — in which the collapse of Soviet-era protections left vulnerable people exposed to predators who murdered for real estate. Eight people were killed within the span of roughly a year.
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Alexander Vladimirovich Murylev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Мурылёв; born 31 March 1971), known as Yeltsin's Culler (Russian: Санитар Ельцина), is a Russian serial killer and former real estate broker. Between 1993 and 1994, he killed eight people in order to seize and then sell their apartments, making him one of the first black realtors in Russia.
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