[2] Usually, when conductors found them riding without a ticket, they were dropped off at the nearest station, where they sought shelter from good samaritans before leaving the next day by train.
[citation needed] The pair grabbed a knife and a small wooden hammer from the kitchen, entered the pensioner's room, and punched, kicked, and beat her to death.
Several months later, on 22 June, Alexander Zhizhich found himself in the village of Lukhtonga, Arkhangelsk, where he befriended a young woman and her male roommate.
Leaving the train at Yavenge Station in Vozhegodsky District, they came across a local couple, to whom they recounted their stolen documents story.
[2] After killing the wife, Viktor held the husband down and forced him to watch Alexander strip the woman's corpse and shove an empty glass bottle into her vagina, before smashing it with a knife.
They rummaged through the house, stole a hydraulic pump, an electric saw, several lightbulbs, a wall lamp, a clock, and some food, which they packed into their bags and then quickly left.
They went to the house and discovered the walls covered with blood, the furniture was broken and their neighbours' bruised and mutilated bodies on the floor.
The authorities were notified, and witnesses told them they had seen the victims with two unfamiliar men the day before, with the pair later leaving the house with loaded luggage.
[2] The brothers were charged with several crimes, including the five murders, causing grievous bodily harm, robbery, and property damage.