301:. Even before Kosarev's capture, it was known that there were two different criminals, due to the fact that the rapes occurred simultaneously in different locations of the city. The police even suggested that the rapists could be twin brothers, and therefore sent inquiries to psychiatric hospitals to monitor any twin brothers with paraphilias, but the search yielded no result. Kosarev himself told that during one of his "hunts" for schoolgirls, he saw a man dressed similarly to him, tracking the same girl. That event took place on Chicherina Street.
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was detained in Moscow. He immediately confessed to everything, and returned all of the stolen items. At the trial, Kosarev was charged with violence against minors, robbery and rape. The defendant argued that "another person entered into him"; however, according to the results of a comprehensive forensic psychiatric examination, he was sane. On 18 October 2012, the Moscow Oblast Court sentenced Oleg
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pretended to be blind. Kosarev's criminal activity peaked in the fall of 1995, when up to three similar attacks on children occurred each day in the capital. In one case, the rapist found five children—two boys and three girls—in an elevator, where he raped all three girls, threatening them with a knife and forcing the boys to have sex with them. In another instance, he raped a young mother in front of a small child, forcing them to observe the entire process.
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Kosarev inflicted at least three blows with the handle and blade of the knife on the head and hand of one girl, and the other—nine on the head, hand and body. After that, the offender took gold jewelry from his victims—a chain, rings with precious stones, a pendant and earrings, as well as two mobile phones, raping one the girls again before finally fleeing the scene.
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Kosarev, immediately returned to his criminal activities. He invited teenager boys to his house, plied them with alcohol, and when they fell unconscious, committed sexual acts on them. In February 2016, Deyev, during a quarrel with a neighbor, grabbed a
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At first, Kosarev denied his guilt, but soon, after some confrontations with the victims, he confessed. Although he admitted to around 137 rapes, the court could only prove around 40 instances, as many of his victims refused to cooperate with the investigators. In March 1997, the court sentenced him
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When the search for the rapist in
Serpukhov began, an investigator from the city's prosecutor's office appealed to the investigative department to inquire about a similar offender, active in Moscow in the mid-1990s. Investigators decided to check out the criminal, and on 21 April 2011, Oleg Kosarev
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The next attack occurred on the afternoon of 7 April, again in
Serpukhov. In the area of house number 160, on Tsentralnaya Street, he noticed two girls (17 and 18, respectively), both 11th-grade students of the local high school. On Osenniy Street, he attacked them, overtaking them in the elevator.
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Kosarev was released in June 1992, and a month and a half later, he made another attack. He usually stalked his victims—teenage girls—on the street, followed them into a building. Once in an elevator, he raped and robbed his victims, threatening them with a knife. To lull vigilant on-lookers, he
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Kosarev mentally competent to stand trial, and sentenced him to eight years' imprisonment. Kosarev stated later that, in the penal colony, he was subjected to sexual violence. There, he was forcibly tattooed a blossoming rose—the symbol for the
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Kosarev and Deyev. He committed at least six attacks, was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and sent off to involuntary commitment.
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pistol and fired some blank cartridges at him. He was detained, after which details the sexual assaults came to light. In 2017, Valery Deyev was sentenced by the court to 20 years' imprisonment in corrective labor colony.
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