Irkutsk John Doe was a homeless man found murdered in Irkutsk, Russia on 1 January 2011. In 2013, a serial killer duo, Artyom Anoufriev and Nikita Lytkin, were convicted and sentenced for his murder. He is also known as "Corpse No. 20".
Case[]
The victim was found near some garbage cans on Lermontov Street and later died at the hospital. He was beaten to death with 40 blows to his body and head. He could not be immediately identified and it is unknown if any identifiers were recorded.
On 15 January 2011, a young homeless man named Vladimir Bazilevsky was arrested after blood on his clothes were found. Although Bazilevsky initially stated that he was hanging around a sewer well at the time of the murder, he was beaten and forced to write a murder confession. In the false confession, Bazilevsky stated the unknown man's name was "Andrei", nicknamed "Taiga", and they were friends. He was convicted in April 2011 and sentenced to 4 years.
In May 2012, Bazilevsky was released and the charges dropped after it was determined that the blood on his clothing was not a match and that Andrei "Taiga" was still alive. One of the officers involved in the investigation, was subsequently convicted of falsifying evidence and sentenced to three years with 2 years prohibition of holding posts in state and municipal services, although his sentenced was sent for an appeal.
On 5 April 2011, Artyom Anoufriev and Nikita Lytkin were arrested and charged with murder, robbery, abuse of corpse, and organizing extremist activities. During their incarceration, they confessed to killing the unknown man with mallets.
Between December 2010 and April 2011, Anoufriev and Lytkin, motivated by fame and white power-influenced misanthropy, committed a series of assaults, robberies, and murders around the city of Irkutsk that killed six people and injured nine people. On 2 April 2013, Anoufriev was sentenced to life imprisonment and Lytkin to 24 years imprisonment, although this was reduced to 20 years imprisonment for Lytkin on 3 October 2013 by the Supreme Court of Russia.
Sources[]
- VSP:
- 13 Sept. 2012 (Russian)
- 2 April 2013 (Russian)
- Academy Manaiacs on Wikipedia