November 1, 1979 - Vladimir Mirgorod
Over four years in the early 2000s, Mirgorod carried out one of the more prolific strings of killings in recent Russian criminal history, strangling 33 people before going undetected for another six years. His eventual arrest came not through witness testimony or investigative breakthrough, but through the cold persistence of forensic evidence — a fingerprint match made a decade after his crimes began.
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Vladimir Viktorovich Mirgorod (Russian: Владимир Викторович Миргород; born 1 November 1979), known as The Strangler (Russian: Душитель), is a Russian serial killer who killed 33 people from 2000 to 2004. He was detained in 2010 when his fingerprints matched with those found at the crime scenes. In 2012, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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