Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (; 12 July 191610 October 1974) was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, credited with 309 kills. She is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history.
Academy maniacs
Olga Lipchinskaya, a journalist of "Komsomolskaya Pravda", a month before the arrest of the "Molotchniki", when, accordingly, no one could establish their identities, gave this description of the "Academy Maniac":
On January 15, 2011, on suspicion of murdering the unknown homeless man, the homeless 19-year-old Vladimir Bazilevsky, who had blood on his clothes, was detained. On the night of January 1, Bazilevsky, according to his statements, had spent in a sewer well, but the operative who interrogated him began to convince him otherwise using beatings. According to Bazilevsky, the investigator literally knocked out a murder confession from him, forcing him to write it down. The name of murdered - Andrei, nicknamed "Taiga" - Bazilevsky gave under pressure: that was the name of one of his friends. During the investigative experiment, Bazilevsky explained how the murder took place and where the body laid, taking his testimony to the camera. In fact, based on results from a biological examination, which showed the blood of the murdered and the blood on Bazilevsky's clothes matched, Judge Andrei Obyskalov convicted Bazilevsky in April 2011, sentencing him to 4 years. Subsequently, investigator Yevgeny Karchevsky, while checking the man's testimony, found with the help of an investigator from the Sverdlovsk Oblast that the blood on Bazilevsky's clothes did not match the victim's. In addition to this, the investigators found that Andrei "Taiga" was actually alive. He asked the prosecutor's office to reconsider the case, but he was refused. However, the lawyers of the human rights organization Public Verdict soon found out about it, because of which Karchevsky's second petition was granted. In May 2012, Bazilevsky, after one and a half years imprisonment, was released from prison, and all charges against him were dropped. The operative who pressed him was never found. Another officer, Yuri Fedorov, was accused of falsifying evidence and removed from work at the end of July. On October 9, 2014, he was sentenced to three years with 2 years prohition of holding posts in state and municipal services. Fedorov did not admit guilt and filed an appeal, after which in February 2015 his sentence was canceled and sent for review. For the illega sentence, Bazilevsky's lawyer demanded compensation from the state amounting to 3,000,000 rubles, but as a result, on November 19, 2013, the Sverdlovsk District Court of Irkutsk ordered the state to pay only 300,000 rubles.
A few days before his arrest, Lytkin's mother found a knife packaged in the hallway (according to other sources, she found the knife in a pocket of his jacket). When asked why he needed a knife, Nikita answered that he has it for self-defense. A little later, he said to his grandmother: "I will soon be lost." Both were arrested on April 5, 2011, after the alleged facial composites were distributed at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, where Lytkin's grandmother worked at the time. His grandmother and Nikita's uncle Vladislav studied the images, and suspecting something was wrong, Vladislav went to Lytkin's house. Nikita was not at home then, but at that very moment he had left his camera, in which he inadvertedly left a flash card with a recording of Alevtina Kuydina's murder. Upon seeing the recording, Vladislav took the camera to the police, and after an hour and a half the "Molotchniki" were detained by officers. Lytkin reacted calmly to the arrest, as the relatives persuaded him to surrender. By midnight, Lytkin and Anoufriev confessed to the authorities about five of the murders and six other attacks. When Anoufriev signed the protocol, he imitating Pichushkin, told investigator Yevgeny Karchevsky that: "As one hero said, give me a glass of whiskey and a cigar - and you will learn so much new about this life that your hair will begin to move on your head." Later the number of crimes increased to six murders and ten attacks. Anoufriev and Lytkin also added that in the evening of that day they had planned another murder.