He brutally raped and beat the girl, before finally strangling her to death and disposing of her body in a drainage ditch along Taganrogskaya Stret, under some train tracks.
[3] Along the road connecting the two locations, there was a bar where young people often gathered and partied at a nearby farm, and knowing this, Barkovsky decided that this would be his new hunting grounds.
[3] In August, a young local girl named Elena also disappeared while walking along the route in Kazachiy Yerik, in a remarkably similar fashion to how the surviving victim was abducted.
[5] Unbeknownst to the killer, a trio of local farmers had paid close attention to the car that Elena was last seen boarding, even remembering that the license plate ended in 011.
[1] In 2016, as a result of examining cold case murders in Rostov-on-Don and the surrounding areas, investigators connected Barkovksy to an unsolved rape-murder that took place in the city.
On the night of March 1–2, 2008, he came across a woman walking home on the street, whom he grabbed, violated and then transported to the Nightingale Grove, where he proceeded to strangle the victim to death.