May 1, 1982 - Volga Maniac
Over roughly a year and a half, Tagirov systematically targeted elderly women across Tatarstan, ultimately killing 31 of them — a concentrated campaign that made him one of Russia's more prolific serial killers of recent decades. The geographic focus on a single republic and the vulnerability of his victims gave the case an unusually grim coherence, and it would be more than a decade before a life sentence was handed down in 2024.
From Wikipedia
Radik Tagirovich Tagirov (Russian: Радик Тагирович Тагиров, Tatar: Радик Таһир улы Таһиров; born May 1982), dubbed the Volga Maniac, is a Russian serial killer who murdered 31 elderly women in and around the republic of Tatarstan between 2011 and 2012. In March 2024, he was sentenced to life in prison.
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