Moscow Serial Killer Couple Arrested 2015: Case Photos

deanmine · #1 ● 04-18-2015, 02:34 AM

A serial killer couple was placed under arrest in Moscow on February 20, 2015.

Their last attack, on a janitor, occurred on February 15, but the victim, a street cleaner, was able to escape the murder attempt by fending the killers off with a screwdriver. He suffered knife wounds and found his way to a hospital where he was placed in an intensive care unit. He was able to give police a good description of the couple, which led to their arrest.

The press had been aware for some time that the unidentified couple had been targeting homeless men and had nicknamed them “The Cleaners.” All of the victims were killed by a large number of knife stabs.

Beginning in July 2014, Elena Lobacheva (Елены Лобачёвой), 25, and Paul Voitov, 20, (according to police allegations) murdered 12 men in Moscow, all homeless, with one exception, Sergei Yevseyev, a middle-class bank employee. The male partner, Paul Voitov, claimed their motivation was to “clean up” the city by killing alcoholic homeless men. Russian media nicknamed Elena “Chucky’s Bride.”

Elena Lobacheva is a sexual sadist, with her 20-year-old male accomplice, whose alternative sexuality preference involved stabbing 12 men (up to 107 times), all strangers, randomly selected, to death, and photographing them “with their stomachs cut open.” She was, as she claimed, inspired to become a murderess by the movie “Bride of Chucky,” and has a tattoo of the Chucky character on her arm.

English language news sources broke the story of the arrest on February 24 and announced Elena’s shocking confession regarding her sexual perversion on February 27.

Elena Lobacheva is quoting as stating: “Randomly stabbing the body of a dying human brought me pleasure comparable to sexual pleasure.”

Olga Lobacheva, mother of the confessed female serial killer, has anounced, in essence, that her daughter is a nice girl who wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Elena Lobacheva is not the first female serial killer to demonstrate classic sadistic sexual proclivities. Many female serial killers throughout history were known to have experienced pleasure witnessing the intensely painful slow deaths of their victims through poisoning. The specific knowledge of orgasmic pleasure has rarely been recorded not because it is necessarily uncommon, but for the simple fact that such information would not be made available other than through a direct confession of the murderess. Additionally, since female sexual perversion in relation to homicide has received little attention from criminologists and psychologists, resulting in ignorance and still-prevailing false stereotypes. Dr. Deboarah Schurman-Kauflin is one of the rare scholars to take this matter seriously to study it closely.

Nevertheless, some cases where female serial killers are known to have experienced sexual ecstasy from participating in murders are Elizabeth Bathory (1610, Hungary), Jane Toppan (1901, USA) and an anonymous case we at UHoM have dubbed the “Southern Stripper Female Serial Killer” (1990s, USA). Toppan’s case is particularly well-documented (see the classic true-crime book: Harold Schechter, Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer, 2002).

Other cases such as Gesche Gottfried (Germany, 1831), Martha Grinder (USA, 1866), Martha Rendell (Australia, 1909), Antoinette Sierri (France, 1925), show, inferentially similar proclivities. And there are others (see: Sadism & Female Serial Killers).

Another important aspect of the Lobacheva case is the collecting of “relics” of her crimes, in the form of photos reportedly showing her victims “with their stomachs cut open.” Another recent case features a similar use of photos as serial killer “relics,” that of prolific Italian serial killer nurse, Daniela Poggiali, who would make “selfies” posing with the corpses of the patients executed.