Igor Irtyshov

Igor Anatolievich Irtyshov (born August 16, 1971 in Krasny Khutor, Krasnodar Krai) is a Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile.

Igor Irtyshov
Born
Igor Anatolievich Irtyshov

(1971-08-16) August 16, 1971
Krasny Khutor, Krasnodar Krai, RSFSR
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyDeath; commute to life imprisonment
Details
Victims2
Span of crimes
1993–1994
CountryRussia
State(s)St. Petersburg
Date apprehended
November 28, 1994
Imprisoned at"Mordovian Zone" Special Regime Colony

He was sentenced to death for several rapes of young boys, two of which ended in fatalities. Later, in connection with the moratorium on the death penalty imposed by Boris Yeltsin, the verdict was replaced by life imprisonment.

Biography

Irtyshov was born on August 16, 1971 in the Krasnodar Krai.[1] He grew up in a dysfunctional family, with both his mother and father being alcoholics. When he was 10 he got into a car accident and got a serious craniocerebral injury as a result. He did not recover from the consequences: he was diagnosed with "an intellectual disability in the degree of moderate debility", after which his mother sent him to a special boarding school, in which Irtyshov was raped.[2][3]

After the boarding school he graduated from a vocational school. In 1993 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he got a job as a dishwasher at the "Pegasus" coffeehouse, but his main source of income was homosexual prostitution. The clients were popular for their sadistic inclinations, and hysteria, egocentrism and cowardice were highlighted. Igor did not consider himself a homosexual, as he also had sex with women.[4]

Crimes

Irtyshov began his crimes in December 1993. While he was walking through the territory of the Sosnovsky Park, he noticed two brothers, 11 and 12 years old respectively. Threatening them with a knife, the criminal took the children to a quiet, secluded place where he raped them, forcing them to drink something from a jar beforehand. As the boys later said, "the liquid had a strange taste and an unpleasant smell." Both victims received serious bodily injuries.[5]

The next attack occurred in the Kolpinsky District of St. Petersburg. While violently abusing a boy, Irtyshov squeezed his throat too much, causing him to die from suffocation. Igor himself later said that he did want to kill him, but simply did not calculate the strength, because he was drunk. After this, an active search was conducted to catch the serial rapist. Many criminals who were brought to criminal responsibility for such offenses were tried.

The next child Irtyshov raped was in May 1994. He dragged a 10-year-old boy into the attic of a house along the Riga Avenue and brutally raped him. After the act of violence, Igor broke the boy's hands, leaving him permanently disabled. It is noteworthy that all the attacks were committed in the daytime, approximately between 12 and 18 hours, but the perpetrator managed to escape unnoticed. A month later he raped two more boys, 11 and 12 years old, on the banks of the Neva River.

The seventh victim of the pedophile almost became a 15-year-old teenager, whom the criminal attacked in an elevator. However, the boy managed to fight back and escaped. On the same day, Igor, who was angry because of his failure, committed his eighth, and final, crime. After brutally raping a 9-year-old boy, he left the crime scene. The boy miraculously survived and was able to give a detailed description of the criminal. After that, he was put in a hospital in the United States, with calls for financial help on the television for the necessary operation, but in spite of the fact that the necessary amount of intestines were collected for an organ transplantation, the boy died. This crime, like the many others of Irtyshov, were committed in front of the victim's residence.[6]

Arrest and trial

On the streets and in the newspapers, the rapist's facial composite and his verbal description were distributed. Irtyshov was frightened: the composite was very similar to him, which forced him to fly to Murmansk. A month later, having decided that everything had quieted down, Igor returned to St. Petersburg, where on November 28, 1994, he was detained by law enforcement agencies, which by that time had amassed a vast amount of evidence against him.

Irtyshov was "given up" by one of his lovers. After the last rape, Igor brought the boy's briefcase home and boasted about it to his roommate. He suspected something was amiss and turned to the police. Soon Irtyshov was captured, and later many victims identified him.[7]

For a long time, Irtyshov did not give any confessions.[8] However, later he began to talk about the crimes and participated in investigative experiments. At the interrogations he behaved inadequetly, and pretended to be mentally defective.[9]

Psychiatric examinations of the killer took a long time. As a result, the experts identified a number of mental abnormalities, but in general, Irtyshov was declared sane. The case was then referred to the city court of St. Petersburg. Many forensic experts were inclined to believe that soon Irtyshov would begin to purposefully kill his victims, and in addition to rapes, there would be a chain of corpses.

Irtyshov noted that he liked the clinic where he was examined, and said that he would like to be recognized as insane and prescribed compulsory treatment. He said: "I'm crazy, since I did this...Exactly abnormal! I do not want to go to jail, put me in hosptail, forever!" However, he was not recognized as insane, as he "had enough intelligence to lead the investigation."

Irtyshov's trial was closed in order to avoid lynching. In total, he was accused of violating 15 articles from the Criminal Code of Russia. The court found Igor guilty of several articles, including murder, rape, serious bodily harm, and was sentenced to death.[10] In 1999, in connection with Russia's accession with the Council of Europe, he, like all other "suicide bombers" at the time, was given life imprisonment by presidential decree.

As of 2000, he was detained in the special regime colony "Mordovian Zone" in the Sosnovka settlement in Mordovia. His current status in unknown.[11]

In the media
  • "Out of the law" (d/f) (1997)
  • "Life imprisonment. Sentenced to life" (d/f) (2000)
  • "Lifetime deprivation of liberty. Confession of the condemned" (d/f, Vakhtang Mikeladze) (2010)
  • "Ruthless and Very Dangerous" (a film from the documentary series "Law is the Law") (2016)

See also

References
  1. "Пожизненный срок. Приговорённые жить". ОРТ. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  2. Бейлькин М. М. (2005). Медицинские и социальные проблемы однополого влечения. Челябинск: Урал ЛТД. pp. 142–147.
  3. Андрей Пекарев. "Каннибал ел бёдра жертв". «Наша версия» на Неве. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  4. Георгий Арефьев, Виктор Бовыкин, Владимир Дудченко, Олег Засорин (1997). Очерки криминального Петербурга. СПб.: Библиополис. p. 276. ISBN 978-5-7435-0191-5.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Модестов Н. С. "Восьмая жертва". Маньяки… Слепая смерть: Хроника серийных убийств.
  6. Уголовный розыск. Петроград — Ленинград — Петербург. М.; СПб.: АСТ; Астрель-СПб. Сост. В. Н. Пименова. 2008. ISBN 978-5-9725-1360-4.
  7. "В Санкт-Петербурге задержан молодой мужчина, изнасиловавший 3-летнюю девочку". NEWSru.com. 2005-09-19. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  8. "Вне закона 1997". Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  9. Терентьева Л., Павлов А. "Игорь Иртышов — маньяк-проститутка". Комсомольская правда, 16.11.1995. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  10. "Вне закона (фильм, 1997, 00:37:08)". ДТВ. 1997.
  11. "Приговорённые пожизненно". Retrieved 2015-07-17.

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