March 31, 1958 - Alexander Vasilyev
Operating across a four-year span in Krasnoyarsk, Vasilyev carried out seventeen killings driven by what investigators characterized as homicidal mania rather than any material motive — a pattern that placed him among the more prolific serial offenders in post-Soviet Russia. The legal outcome drew scrutiny: a sentence later reduced on appeal left many to note the disconnect between the scale of the crimes and the punishment ultimately handed down.
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Alexander Nikolayevich Vasilyev (Russian: Александр Николаевич Васильев; (31 March 1958 – 28 January 2020), known as The Black Angel (Russian: Черный ангел), was a Russian serial killer who committed 17 murders in Krasnoyarsk from 1997 to 2001, out of an apparent homicidal mania. Despite the severity of his crimes, he was given a relatively lenient 25-year sentence, which was successfully reduced on appeal to 21 years and 10 months.
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