November 26, 1959 - Sergey Golovkin
Over six years in the late Soviet period, Golovkin carried out a sustained campaign of abduction and killing targeting children in the Moscow region, operating largely undetected through the social cover of his work with a state horse-breeding facility. The crimes took place during a moment of institutional upheaval, as Soviet law enforcement frameworks were poorly equipped to pursue what Western investigators had long categorized as serial offending. His 1996 execution — carried out by shooting — marked the end of an era in Russian criminal justice, making him the last person put to death before the country's moratorium on capital punishment took effect.
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Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin (Russian: Серге́й Александрович Головкин; 26 November 1959 – 2 August 1996) was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 16 in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. Golovkin, also known as Fisher and The Boa, tortured, raped and killed young boys in his garage basement and the forests outside Moscow.
Golovkin was the last person to be executed in Russia before the moratorium on capital punishment.
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