Murad Nurmagomedov

On March 15, 2004, Nurmagomedov called over his friend, Ramazan Kayaev, to come over to his house. Accompanied by another friend, Kayaev went and inquired about when he would be repaid for a certain sum of money he had given to Nurmagomedov, to which he replied that he did not have the necessary amount yet. On the following morning, Kayaev received a phone call from his friend and was informed that he had gathered the money. Surprised by this news, he got into his car and drove to Nurmagomedov's house.^[1]

As the house passed by, Kayaev's wife and friends began to worry about him and opted to call him on his cellphone, but received no reply. They then submitted a complaint to the local police department which resulted in Nurmagomedov being detained for questioning in the case.^[1] During the interrogation, he denied any involvement in Kayaev's disappearance, claiming that he had gone to his house, taken the money and promptly left. Due to the lack of evidence to charge him, Nurmagomedov was released. The department's actions were criticized by Kayaev's family members, especially his mother, all of whom believed that he had been protected by his uncle, Kheyzudin Abdurashidov, a former police officer who was now the head manager of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise "Treatment Facilities". The case eventually went cold, and no new developments would occur for more than a decade.^[1]

In August 2013, Nurmagomedov visited a friend of his, surnamed Chernyshev, at the latter's house in the village of Chelobityevo, Moscow Oblast. For unclear reasons, the pair got into a quarrel that resulted in Nurmagomedov grabbing a nearby knife and stabbing his friend to death. In order to hide the body, he dragged to the nearby road and buried it in a shallow grave.^[2]

From August to December 2016, Nurmagomedov treated his home in Kaspiysk as a drug house, where he would sell marijuana and tramadol to friends and acquaintances.^[3] On December 6, he had invited an acquaintance surnamed Aduev into the house, but they got into a quarrel that ended with Nurmagomedov beating Aduev to death with a table leg and then burying his body in the yard.^[2] Four days later, he repeated this with another friend, Bashirova, whom he also beat to death and then buried her corpse in the yard. His final victim, a neighbor surnamed Aizarov, was lured to the house on December 25 and then hit at least five times on the head with an axe. In this case, Nurmagomedov also stole the victim's car.^[2]