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Taganrogskaya Stret, under some train tracks. By that time, the local media were reporting extensively on the disappearance, and many searches were organized to find Rachkovskaya. About three months after the fact, her decomposing body was found by some passers-by. When the details of her brutal killing were circulated by the media, it frightened Barkovsky. In the following month, unaware that there were undercover officers out to catch him, Barkovsky approached one female operative and put a screwdriver to her chest in attempt to accost her. The woman managed to shout for backup over the radio, and the officers detained the man for questioning. However, due to the lack of evidence, he had to be released.
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Born in 1983, Barkovsky, a married man with a son, worked as a gravedigger in Rostov-on-Don's northern cemetery. On March 30, 2008, he abducted 16-year-old Marina
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murders in Rostov-on-Don and the surrounding areas, investigators connected
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In August, a young local girl named Elena also disappeared while walking along the route in
Kazachiy Yerik, in a remarkably similar fashion to how the surviving victim was abducted. After prolonged searches, her naked body was found hastily buried in a field. She too had been beaten, raped and
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