[GODREKR]

"The Cleaners" are the predecessors to the Project Sanitater 88 gang. You can read about them HERE.

A Russian court has convicted a murderous gang including one female killer who admitted she felt 'sexual pleasure' from repeatedly stabbing dying victims.

The five butchers, who murdered 15 homeless people, saw themselves as 'street cleaners' in a 'crusade' to rid Moscow of vagrants and drunks.

The only woman in the gang, Elena Lobacheva, 26, 'laughed' during the slayings and admitted to detectives that she was inspired by a Hollywood horror movie Bride of Chucky, about a doll possessed by a serial killer.

She told police that 'randomly stabbing the body of a dying human brought her pleasure compared to sexual pleasure', reported Life news website.

One victim killed by her and two male accomplices was knifed 171 times, while others were repeatedly struck with hammers, the court was told.

The gang formed after meeting at a forum of 'ultra radicals', and they admitted to being inspired partly by vicious 'Chess Board maniac' Alexander Pichushkin, 43, a notorious serial killer who was convicted of murdering 49 people, mainly homeless and alcoholics in Bitsevski Park in Moscow.

Lobacheva confessed to being involved in seven of the murders and her accomplice Pavel Voitov, 22, said he took part in 14 of the killings. Another 'street cleaners' gang member Maksim Pavlov, 21, admitted he was involved in four murders of homeless people.

Others convicted by a Moscow jury were named as Vladislav Karatayev, 22, and Artur Nartsissov, 24.

The group kept in contact using nicknames via sinister social media groups like one - now banned - called Time to Hate, prosecutor Yaroslav Mytz told Meduza news site.

Here chilling messages were posted such as 'Everything happens for the first time, like first love, first kiss, first sex, first kill'; 'When you are near, the world becomes better. Love you, your Knife'; 'I am not killing, I am cleaning up the world'; 'Every moment of the day you can pick up a knife, go out and make the world better'; and 'Love is finding the one and only who will go killing with you.'

They murdered their victims between 1am and 4am in derelict areas away from CCTV cameras.

The killings were conducted with 'ultra cruelty'.

A body found near Belarussky railway station had 44 knife wounds; a victim killed in the Moscow Hippodrome was stabbed 51 times and suffered 18 hammer blows; another close to Begovaya metro station had 35 knife wounds; one more, near Workers village had two wounds inflicted by stones, and 46 knife wounds.

Lobacheva delighting in the killings, including watching her male accomplices carry out the murders, according to evidence gathered ahead of their conviction this week.

Voitov said of her: 'It was clear that she loved murders and enjoyed watching them.

'She always spoke about torture and the dismembering of bodies.

'She laughed as we killed, it was clear as day that she loved it.'

Earlier this female killer had experimented with her appearance, shaving her head, and later wearing military clothes.

When her flat was searched, police found five knives and on her computer a 'step-by-step instruction to killing people and photos of all of her victims with their stomachs cut open and body parts cut off'.

Folders titled 'Tenderness' and 'Need this' contained hundreds pictures and video recordings of torture and executions.

In a notebook she had recorded the number of knife wounds on the gang's victims' bodies. A female friend of Lobacheva, called Anastasia Soldatova, said: 'We often discussed beauty of death with Lena.

'Voitov and Lobacheva were keen on serial killers, they spoke a lot about maniac (Pichushkin) who was like an icon for them.

'They wanted to be like him.'

Pichushkin wanted to kill one person for each of the 64 squares on a chess board.

Lobacheva's flat was 'messy and filthy', reported Life, even though her neighbours had described her as 'polite and nice'.

'There were horrible smells and personal belongings all over the flat' which she shared with a pet rabbit,' read the report.

She was nicknamed 'Chucky's Bride' after admitting being obsessed since childhood with the 1998 movie, starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, and Katherine Heigl.

Lobacheva had a tattoo linked to the movie on her arm.

Her mother Olga Lobacheva said she had no inkling of her daughter's bloodthirsty and murderous obsession.

'She's messy but she is a good person. She's supportive. She didn't kill. There is no anger in her eyes,' she said.

The gang's killing spree was mainly between July 2014 to February 2015.

Pavlov told investigators: 'Voitov was our authority. He was extremely cruel in day-to-day life, and very calm and composed during the murders.

'He often spoke about arranging a terrorist attack.

'Once when we walked past a station, he said it would have been so good to blow an explosive so that it hits as many people as possible, and how "their bodies would fly in the air".

'It was only Voitov who used a hammer to kill. He enjoyed killing.'

Voitov said of his perverted motivation: 'I despise drunk people, this is why I killed them. I consider them to be biological waste.'

The gang never stole from their victims, and avoided posting incriminating evidence on the web.

Victims included women and men, among them Alyona Shitik, Gennady Danilov, Nikolay Babin, Oleg Daikun, Stanislav Yevseev. One woman was named as Tatiana.

The gang came from different cities and were not linked online, it was reported.

Among their victims was bank worker Sergei Yevseyev - stabbed more than 100 times - who was believed to have been mistaken for a homeless man after he stopped at a local park on his way home from work.

His father Alexander Yevseyev, 60, said: 'My son Sergei was neither homeless nor alcoholic. He worked in a bank and had met with a friend in a local park for a chat and a drink.

'After leaving he was walking home when they attacked him, stabbing him over 107 times.'

The gang was finally caught after they were filmed attacking a street cleaner who managed to escape.

Prokhor Gorshkov, then 45, had finished work and was on his way home when he was set upon by the crazed couple.

He was stabbed in the back before managing to flee to a nearby police station where he gave a description of his attackers.

Senior investigator Sergey Azhayev said: 'Several homeless people were killed next to the railways near Belarussky station.

'All were killed in one particular "style", first being struck with a hummer on their heads, and then 'finished' with knives.

'Every murder had several dozen knife wounds which showed the extreme cruelty of the killers.

'Yet initially we couldn't find a trace to help stitch the cases together.

'All the crimes were carried in the middle of the night or very early in the morning when there were no eye witnesses.'

He praised Gorshkov, an immigrant worker from Kyrgyzstan, for fighting back against the vicious when he was attacked.

'The man didn't give in. Elena tried to distract his attention, while Pavel and accomplice Artur went at him with two knives.

'Yet the cleaner fought back and survived the attack. He had several deep knife wounds.

'He lost a lot of blood but he managed to make his way home and told his son about the attack.'

He was then able to describe the attackers to police.

'This was the thread that helped investigators to stitch this and other cases together.'

The Moscow court is due to announce their sentences 'soon'.

[GODREKR]

Pavel Voitov, Elena Lobacheva, Artur "Narcis" Narcissov, Maxim "Zakirka" Pavlov and Vladislav "Persik" Karataev were a gang of Russian serial killers and neo-Nazis. Between 2014 and 2015, they killed more than 15 people in Moscow, the Moscow Oblast and the Yaroslavl Oblast. Their victims of choice were mainly homeless and alcoholics. Many attacks were filmed and posted on the darknet and on the VK page "OBO16". They called themselves "The Cleaners" (Russian: Чистильщики, romanized: Chistilshchiki).

On October 23, 2017, the Moscow City Court sentenced Pavel Voitov to life imprisonment, Elena Lobacheva to 13 years' imprisonment and Maxim Pavlov to 9 years and 6 months' imprisonment in a penal colony. Vladislav Karataev was sentenced to 16 years, and Artur Narcissov to 9 years and 6 months, which were to be served in a corrective labor colony.

Murders
The young people met in far-right groups on the social media website VKontakte. The leading role among the participants was taken by Pavel Voitov: he distributed roles, made decisions and actively led the activities of the gang. The motives for the killings was the desire to "clean the city", and "hatred of alcoholics and homeless people". According to the investigators, they wanted to "oppose themselves to others and show their superiority".

They committed murders with particular cruelty in different parts of Moscow from July 2014 and February 2015. Victims were found not far from the Belorussky railway tracks, sometimes in the Eastern Administrative District. The corpses were subsequently found in deserted places, where there are no surveillance cameras (under bridges, near fences, garages, in abandoned hangars or on far-away glades in forest parks):

• one killed at the Belorussky station, with 44 knife wounds on the body;
• one killed at the hippodrome, with 18 hammer blows and 51 stab wounds on the body;
• one killed in Begovaya, with 35 stab wounds on the body;
• one killed under the bridge near Workers' Village, with 46 stab wounds and 2 blows from a stone on the body;
• two killed on Izmaylovsky Boulevard, one of them with 15 stab wounds and 10 blows from a hammer, and the other sustaining 13 stab wounds;
• one killed next to Filevsky Park, with 48 stab wounds on the body;
• one killed in Nagornaya, with 9 knife wounds on the body;
• one killed in Odintsovo, with 50 stab wounds on the body;
• one killed near Kurskaya, with 48 stab wounds and 6 blows from a hammer on the body;
• one killed on Lilac Boulevard, with 84 stab wounds on the body;
• one killed in Kuskovo, with 171 stab wounds and 5 hammer blows on the body;
• two killed on Bryansky Post Street, with one sustaining 42 stab wounds and 2 hammer blows, and the other sustaining 35 stab wounds.

Investigation and arrest
In the fall of 2014, operatives paid attention to a similar style of murders in different parts of the city: victims were tricked into visiting scarcely populated or deserted areas, mostly at night, then hit with a hammer first and struck with dozens of knives afterwards, the victims usually being heavily drunk or homeless, sometimes guest workers. Suspecting that all the crimes were committed by the same people, the investigators combined them into one case. But the investigation had no serious clues for a long time. Suspicion fell on supporters of Nazi ideology, and relevant groups in social networks were actively studied, but no trace of crimes in the virtual space could be found.

Subsequently, employees of the Main Department of the Sledkom and FSB were able to track the mobile phones in the areas where the killings occurred. Several of the same numbers "fought" on communication towers near the crime scenes. Having researched the owners of the numbers, the FSB officers calculated the suspects. On February 15, 2015, Pavel Voitov and Artur Narcissov attacked a janitor in Vykhino, but he actively resisted. The criminals were forced to flee, and the janitor was able to testify and describe them.

As a result, on February 19, 2015, the police, together with the FSB, detained 20-year-old Pavel Voitov and 25-year-old Elena Lobacheva—their place of residence was calculated from video cameras installed around the city. During the searches, six knives, an unregistered "Osa" pistol, clothes with the janitor's blood and a hammer were found inside their home. After some time, the police arrested two other suspects—19-year-old Maxim Pavlov and 21-year-old Vladislav Karataev. A little later, 23-year-old Artur Narcissov was also detained. The detainees confessed at the first interrogation, including to the killings, even though the authorities hadn't suspected them of the murders.

Trial
The investigation of the "Cleaners" criminal case ended in April 2017, after which the criminals were transferred to the Moscow City Court. Elena Lobacheva demanded that the jury convicted them, and this request was fulfilled. From late May to mid-June 2017, the prosecutor read out the evidence of the prosecution in court. Analyzing each episode, he showed the jury photos from the murders. At the first sessions, some jurors turned away from the photographs, but until the end of the process they had to see hundreds of photos. For the entirety of the trial, only Lobacheva's mother came to visit from any of the defendants' relatives.

On June 21, 2017, the jury found all five defendants in the case guilty and undeserving of leniency. The exception was Narcissov, whom the board unanimously found guilty of attempted murder, but was divided on the issue of leniency—6 were in favor and 6 were against.

According to the accusation, Pavel Voitov committed 14 murders: five on his own, six with Lobacheva, five with Lobacheva only observing, two together with Karataev and Lobacheva, and two with Pavlov. Voitov and Narcissov committed an attempted murder. Pavlov, Karataev and Voitov also robbed two people, with one of the attacks resulting in Voitov killing the victim.

About the criminals
Two members of the gang, Lobacheva and Narcissov, lived in Moscow. Elena Lobacheva had grown up on the outskirts of Moscow near the Vykhno metro station, and after school she worked first as a courier, then as an assistant accountant. Before the murders she had had a suspended sentence for a series of thefts. Artur Narcissov worked in a warehouse, also as a courier. Vladislav Karataev was born and lived in Pavlovo, 70 kilometres away from Nizhny Novgorod, with his father raising him. He previously had resided in a psychiatric hospital and had taken medication. The youngest of the "Cleaners", Maxim Pavlov, who at the time of the crimes was only 16, lived in Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast.

The leader of the gang Pavel Voitov was registered with his grandmother—a war veteran—in the Ruza District of the Moscow Oblast. During the investigation, Voitov claimed that he lived through robbing people, stealing mobile phones from passers-by. But the numerous cases listed by him, with the exception of one, were not confirmed, or at least there were not reports to the police from the victims. From five to thirteen years old, he lived with his parents on Izmailovsky Boulevard, then, after his parents divorced, he spent some time in Riga with his father, where in 2012 he was sentenced to a year of imprisonment for the desecration of graves at a Jewish cemetery.[10] He wanted to be a soldier, so, together with Karataev and Pavlov, he tried to go to war against the rebels in the far-right Azov Battalion, but all three were instead deployed on the Russian-Ukrainian border, and then returned home to Moscow by bus.

All of the members led a healthy lifestyle, and did not drink anything stronger than beer.

Subsequent psychological examinations determined that all of the "Cleaners" were sane, with the exception of Karataev, who was recognized as partially sane.

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[Bastet]

Wow, what a superb read! The bookworm in me bows in gratitude

This is what may happen when a bunch of psychos "blessed" with low self-esteem come together. (That Narcissov, well, nomen est omen ). Absolutely deranged stuff. I find it hard to believe that even Elena Lobacheva was deemed to be sane. To me, a 26-year-old who apparently took a Chucky movie way too seriously doesn't sound like a sane individual at all.

Next I'm off to the Project Sanitater 88 post

[panflute1968]

Holy shit

[kellyhound]

crazy mofo's

[pgcotype]

I've never heard about this before. Thanks for a great post.

[zeb247]

Chucky sucks.

[Bastet]

Originally Posted by zeb247 ↗

Chucky sucks.

"Rude fucking doll!"

Poor Chucky seems to attract the most disturbed and delusional crowd. If the perpetrators themselves don't use Chucky as an excuse for what they did, the yellow press will be there to blow things out of proportion. Another "Chucky-influenced" murder I remember is that of Suzanne Jane Capper from 1992.

[Pyramid_Head]

They even look like nutcases.

[*Ragdoll_Cutie*]

Great post