in 1995, mukhankin committed nine murders and two attempted murders, targeting women and girls, mostly in the town of shakhty, rostov oblast. victims were stabbed or suffocated, some of them tortured before death, their bodies would be dismembered and sometimes burned. rape was not a part of his usual modus operandi, but in at least one case mukhankin had sex with a 13-year-old victim whom he then killed. mukhankin mainly targeted women and young girls to kill, and it is believed he had an extreme hatred of women.