[1] Early on in their childhood, both Farit and Timur began to show signs of mental illness, and after they were officially diagnosed as intellectually disabled, they were put in special education.
Neither showed any interest in completing their education, as a result of which, the brothers spent their time messing around, refusing to make friends with their peers and constantly angering their grandmother.
After the death of their grandmother and their graduation from high school, the Gabidullin brothers made a living by committing petty thefts and doing odd jobs but never managed to stay in one workplace for a prolonged period of time.
He claimed that both of them dismembered her body and then buried the remains somewhere in the woods on the outskirts of Chelyabinsk, as authorities were unable to find the supposed location, she is officially still listed as a missing person.
During an investigative experiment, Farit indicated a potential grave, and after digging a hole three meters down, law enforcement officers unearthed more than 100 human skulls and several hundred bone fragments.
The reason for Timur's more lenient sentence was due to the fact that the court judges determined that his actual role in the organization and planning of the murders was minimal, and he just acted on his twin brother's orders.
[4] In May 2021, he contacted the Chelyabinsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office and confessed to another murder – he claimed that in 2002, he had attacked a man in the lavatory of a railway station in Zlatoust and stabbed him in the abdomen and chest, killing him.