His father also noticed that he started exhibiting odd behavior, with one particular instance being him posing with two fellow soldiers brandishing an axe and staring into the camera.

[2] Lobanov's modus operandi consisted of seeking out pretty young girls and women in the Motovilikhinsky City District and approaching them to talk, often at night.

[2] On the night of March 2, 2000, Lobanov was on a tram riding through Gagarin Boulevard when he noticed an 18-year-old girl getting off on the Vagonoremontny Zavod stop.

Lobanov went to the bathroom, washed off the blood and, taking a cast-iron bucket from the sink, returned to the victim and hit her approximately 45 times with it.

Shortly after this murder, Lobanov suffered a breakdown and realized that he was a danger to others, and immediately decided to apply for treatment at a psychiatric hospital.

[3] Lobanov then started hitting her on the head with a rod covered with a rubber hose and stabbing her with a folding knife a total of 14 times, before eventually disemboweling her and removing her internal organs.

Realizing that his father would return soon and that he had no time to hide the corpse or traces of the murder, he attempted suicide by eating a handful of aminazine tablets and slashing his wrists, but he managed to survive.

[1] After receiving prompt medical attention, Lobanov was detained and questioned, whereupon he immediately confessed to all the murders, but tried to place the blame on the victims, claiming that they had "hurt [his] male dignity".