Barnaul Maniac

The Barnaul Maniac is the name of an unidentified Russian serial killer who committed the murders of 7 girls from 1997 to 2000 in the city of Barnaul. The motives of the perpetrator remain unknown, with the main suspect in the murders having committed suicide a long time ago. Crimes: In 1998 and 1999, two abiturs to the ASTU disappeared and were subsequently found murdered in the Kalmansky District. The corpse of the first was found in a tributary of the Ob River, and the second in the forest belt. During the combing of the forest belt in the district, a skeleton was discovered. Moreover, as established by experts, it belonged to a girl, and her murder had been committed in 1997. According to the investigators, the killer was a man aged between 40 and 45, of medium build, 175-189 cm tall, had short dark brown hair, a hedgehog type haircut and correct pleasant features of the face. A facial composite was compiled from this information. In the summer of 2000, five students of the ASTU disappeared in Barnaul, with their remains being found soon after in the forest belt in the Kalmansky District. In September, market trader Alexander Anisimov was arrested on suspicion of committing the murders, confessing to everything. He was positively identified by witnesses to the crime. During the investigative experiments, he committed suicide by jumping out of a window. The case remains unsolved, however the murder of girls in Barnaul halted after his death. In 2001, a murderer named Alexander Pavlenko was tested for involvement in the murders of female students.