[1] Rakhmanov was described as a handsome, well-dressed young man who often hung out with friends and frequently got tips from girls at his job as a waiter, owing to his knack for complimenting them.
[1] In October 2014, Rakhmanov wandered the city centre at night, peering through the windows of houses in search of a potential victim he could rob.
He stopped in front of a house on Bashilovskaya Street, near the Savyolovsky Railway Station, pressing the intercom button and awaiting the tenant to open the door.
On December 5, he knocked on the door of an apartment on Nagatinskaya Street, introducing himself as a Mosgaz employee who needed to check the pipe system.
After ransacking the apartment and stealing 70,000 rubles, he released one of the gas valves, expecting that an explosion would occur and destroy the evidence, but that did not happen.
Despite the fact that his addictions prevented him from thinking clearly, he was successful in avoiding the authorities, who by then were aware that a serial offender was on the prowl in the city.
[citation needed] He claimed that his motive was robbery and that the victims were chosen at random, but was incapable of reproducing how he committed the acts, as he was always drugged while doing so.