Boris Gusakov
Boris Gusakov | |
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Death | |
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Victims | 6 |
Span of crimes | 1964–1968 |
Country | Soviet Union |
State(s) | Moscow |
Date apprehended | 16 May 1968 |
Boris Vasilyevich Gusakov (
Background
Boris Vasilevich Gusakov was born in 1938, in the Saltykovka district of
In 1955 he graduated from the school, but did not enter
From February 1 to February 23, 1968, he worked as a chauffeur at the motor depot of the Moscow Post Office. From February to May 1968, he had no permanent job and survived by doing odd jobs. Until May 14, he worked at the Moscow Children's Distribution Receiver of the UOOP of the Moscow Executive Committee, as the head of the darkroom operations.
Murders
At the end of December 1963, the 25-year-old Boris Gusakov launched his first attack on a girl at the Moscow Institute of History and Archives. He was unsuccessful, however, as the victim resisted and broke free. When the child ran out into a yard, an outfit of the Komsomol fighting squad tried to detain the attacker, but he disappeared. At that time, it was suggested that the attack was carried out by another killer: Vladimir Ionesyan, the "Mosgaz" killer, who operated in Moscow in late 1963.
On June 21, 1964, in the Tomilinsky Forest Park located in the Lyuberetsky District, Gusakov committed his first murder. He raped and killed 11-year-old Valya Scherbakova, striking her several times on the head with a blunt object. On September 4, 1965, Gusakov raped and killed his second victim, a student named Yanova, again in the Tomilinsky Forest Park. By 1968, when he began his new murder series, the cases of his first murders had been classified.
On March 11, 1968, Gusakov raped and killed two first-year female students, Olga Romanova and Elena Krasovskaya in the attic of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. There he left the murder weapon - a scrap from a steel water pipe - with his fingerprints on it. It turned out that the last time the girls were seen was with their classmate Oleg Ryabkov, but his fingerprints did not match those found on the murder weapon. On the wall of the attic an inscription addressed to the murders was found, mentioning an Igor and Sergey. The investigators located the two young men mentioned, but their fingerprints did not coincide as well.
In April 1968, Gusakov killed another 9-year-old girl, attacking a couple afterwards. During the attack, he hit the man with a blunt object and then killed the woman. However, the man survived and was able to describe his attacker. Since both crimes were committed in the Lyuberetsky District, the detectives decided to investigate all similar attacks in recent years. They then discovered that the murders of Scherbakova and Yanova were committed by the same criminal, as well of the murders of the three girls in the spring of 1968.
Arrest and conviction
On 16 May 1968, Gusakov met two tenth-grade girls in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, who he invited to go with him to the countryside. At first he tried to poison then kill them with a cleaver, but when Gusakov tried to attack the girls they escaped, where they alerted a nearby policeman who detained Gusakov.
In 1969, a court found Gusakov guilty of five murders and he was sentenced to
In the media
- The documentary film "Beauties and the Beast" from "The Investigation was conducted..." series, on NTV.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "Beauties and the Beast" (in Russian). NTV. 2008. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011.
Bibliography
- Robert Kalman, Born to Kill in the USSR, FriesenPress, 2014, ISBN 9781460227305; Chapter 'Student hunter', pp. 53–59
- Alina Maximova - "Boris Gusakov, the Student Hunter"