His father was an aggressive alcoholic who physically abused and even threatened to kill young Mikhail and his mother, leading to the boy becoming withdrawn and showing signs of a personality disorder at an early age.
[1] Eventually, his mother divorced her husband and remarried, after which she took the children and moved to the neighboring village of Norovka, where Dorogavtsev graduated from high school.
[1] Due to his introverted nature, he was unpopular and considered an outcast by his peers, leading to him losing interest in studying and achieving mediocre grades.
After completing the ninth grade, Dorogavtsev enrolled at a vocational school in Livny, where he graduated in the early 2000s, but was unable to find employment in his chosen profession.
Not long after, the prison authorities discovered that he was abusing the inmates in his designated cell block by subjecting them to cruel treatments, leading to his dismissal.
[2] According to Dorogavtsev himself, he committed his first murder at age 17 in late December 2001, shortly after he had returned to Livny to celebrate New Year's Eve with friends.
[2] Dorogavtsev then took a knife from the car, dragged the woman's body to a secluded area and then proceeded to stab her multiple times in the abdomen chest and neck, killing her on the spot.
[4] Despite the immense amount of blood and stab wounds, Dorogavtsev proceeded to have sex with the body, and then buried it in a shallow grave near Kshen River.
[5] On 5 May, Dorogavtsev was driving around the Livensky District when he came across 35-year-old Oksana Chechetkina, a post office employee who was out delivering pensions and welfare, near an unpaved road in Kazanskoye.
During an inspection of the area, officers found puddles of blood along the road, leading them to initially believe that Chechetkina might have been killed in an automobile accident and that the driver hid the body out of fear of being imprisoned.
[1] The investigators looked into all vehicles with this corresponding number, eventually locating a blue Audi 80 belonging to 28-year-old Mikhail Dorogavtsev, who was visiting relatives at the time.
His house was also searched, leading to the discovery of jewelry belonging to Chechetkina which was found in an asbestos pipe in the outhouse and blood splotches on the interior of Dorogavtsev's car.