Alexey Falkin
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1982 (age 42–43)
"The Ural Chikatilo"
Alexey Falkin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexey Sergeevich Falkin 1982 (age 42–43) |
| Other names | "The EMERCOM Maniac" "The Ural Chikatilo" |
| Conviction | Murder x4 |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4 |
Span of crimes | 2004–2017 |
| Country | Russia |
| State | Sverdlovsk |
Date apprehended | April 16, 2017 |
Alexey Sergeevich Falkin (Russian: Алексей Сергеевич Фалькин; born 1982), known as The EMERCOM Maniac (Russian: Маньяк из МЧС), is a Russian serial killer and rapist responsible for four murders and eight rapes from 2004 to 2017, in Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyaya Pyshma.[1] Following his arrest for the murder of Irina Vakhrusheva, he was connected to previous crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.[2]
Little is known about Falkin's early life. Born in Yekaterinburg, he served in the army before finding a job as a firefighter for the Ministry of Emergency Situations. He was married, had two children and was perceived as an ordinary family man by those who knew him.[1]
Crimes
Between October 2004 to April 2017, Falkin assaulted six women and two underage girls in the Nizhneserginsky District, Yekaterinburg's Ordzhonikidzevsky City District and in Verkhnyaya Pyshma. From these attacks, three of the victims died from their injuries: a 20-year-old in 2004, a 43-year-old in 2014 and a 30-year-old in 2017.[1]
In 2012, two significant events occurred on unspecified dates: in the first instance, Falkin tried to kill a woman using a screwdriver, but the victim's frightened screams drew the attention of two men, causing Falkin to flee.[1] In the second case, near the end of the year, Falkin picked up a hitchhiking young teacher from Beryozovsky in his car, agreeing to drive her to her home in exchange for 400 rubles.[3] After offering to have sex with her to pay for the fare, since he believed the woman didn't have the necessary amount of money on her, and after his advances were refused, Falkin slammed her head into the car window, dragged her into the back seat and raped her.[1] Six months later, he was arrested for the crime, but since he expressed apparent remorse, he was given a three-and-a-half-year sentence. Following his arrest, he lost his job and his family abandoned him. After spending two years behind bars, he was paroled. Not long after, Falkin found himself a new girlfriend and got a job as a turner at a factory, but continued to prowl the city in search of new victims.[1]
Murder of Irina Vakhrusheva
On April 15, 2017, at about 8:25 PM, the highly intoxicated Falkin was driving around in Verkhnyaya Pyshma in his Dacia Logan.[2] While passing by Mashinostroiteley Street, he came across 31-year-old Irina Vakhrusheva, who had gone out to visit a friend at a neighboring house.[3] Acting on impulse, Falkin attacked her while she was talking on the phone, grabbing Vakhrusheva by the neck and holding up a knife to it, draggin her to a nearby abandoned basement, where he proceeded to violate her on the stairs. Then, using a knife, he stabbed her at least 40 times in the head, neck, elbows, torso and legs. After he was finished, he put the bloodied corpse in the trunk of his car, drove out to a nearby forest and proceeded to cut off the genitals from the body, which he put in a bag, before burying her in a shallow grave.[3] Falkin then disposed of the bag and the knife, washed off his clothes, went home and directly went to sleep.[1]