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Altai Court Sentences Vitaliy Manishin to 25 Years for 11 Murders

The verdict caps a cold‑case reinvestigation using confessions plus on‑site verifications to link him to killings from 1989–2000.

Overview

  • Manishin will spend the first seven years in a prison facility with the remainder in a strict‑regime penal colony, and he must pay 4 million rubles to victims.
  • Investigators say most victims were connected to Altai State Technical University, with the attacker luring young women on promises of help before rape and strangulation, and in one case a fatal blow with a car fire extinguisher.
  • He confessed after his May 2023 arrest and led authorities to burial sites, including bone remains of a 16‑year‑old; the sentence was issued by the Kalman District Court and read in Barnaul.
  • Separate enforcement records show bailiffs are pursuing about 80,000 rubles from Manishin over loan and tax debts.
  • In other cases, a 51‑year‑old in Yelabuga was remanded for two months over an alleged killing and dismemberment, investigators in Ulyanovsk opened a homicide case after a woman and two children were found dead and are checking a relative, and a Moscow bank employee, Konstantin Toporov, was ordered held until November 29 over the fatal stabbing of his supervisor.