During that time frame, he met a young woman aged between 18 and 20 years old in the village of Amkhavaya 2 [be], offering to take her to his dacha to relax and have a drink.
[1] Sometime after the first victim's murder, Tymoshenko and his mother moved to Fatina Street in Mogilev, a run-down area of the city occupied by poor people.
[2] He made a living by doing odd jobs, most notably butchering pigs at a slaughterhouse, but once his elderly mother passed away, Tymoshenko stopped working overall.
As Karaseva's family members had abandoned her due to her constant drinking and frequent disappearances from home, she was not reported missing.
[2] Less than a month later, Tymoshenko was returning home when a seemingly drunken woman ran up to him and asked him for help, claiming that somebody was chasing her to steal her bottle of vodka.
Rumors of all kinds started spreading, ranging from organ trafficking gangs to a supposed note being found at one crime scene, with the perpetrator proclaiming that he wanted to kill all women.
[3] In a press statement, the Secretary of the Mogilev Prosecutor's Office Alla Kuznetsova refuted claims that a serial killer was operating in the area, saying that the murders were likely the result of "either a scandal, drunkenness, or a showdown on domestic grounds".
[2] A forensic psychological examination determined that he was sane, noting that Tymoshenko's only notable issues were several episodes of delirium tremens caused by his chronic alcoholism.
[4] Attempts to identify the woman proved futile, as the lack of any form of identification and the passage of time prevented law enforcement from confirming any missing persons reports.
[1] A few months after his initial confession, the Head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Mogilev Region, Fyodor Baleiko, made a statement to the press that it was very likely Tymoshenko had killed others.