November 15, 1952 - Nikolai Dzhumagaliev
His crimes unfolded across more than a decade in the Kazakh SSR, interrupted by institutionalization and then an escape that allowed the killings to continue — a pattern that raises as many questions about institutional failures as about the individual himself. The cannibalism element and the circumstances of his repeated encounters with Soviet authorities made his case one of the more disturbing to emerge from that era's criminal record.
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Nikolai Espolūly Jumağaliev (Kazakh: Николай Есполұлы Жұмағалиев, Russified as Dzhumagaliev, Russian: Николай Есполович Джумагалиев; born 15 November 1952) is a Soviet serial killer who killed ten people in the Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan) between 1979 and 1990. He was nicknamed "Metal Fang" due to his dental crowns.
Between 1979 and 1980, Dzhumagaliev killed and cannibalized eight women, having also served a brief prison sentence for the accidental killing of a male co-worker during this time. He was institutionalized in 1980, but escaped custody in 1988. Dzhumagaliev remained a fugitive for two years committing at least one additional murder while on the run before his recapture in 1991.
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