Valery Kopytov

Dissatisfied with his life, he left home and built a dugout beneath the New Bridge beside the Ob River.

Later, they were led to Valery Kopytov, after a friend reported him to the police after he told him of his crimes.

[1] Kopytov was arrested and led investigators to an additional six bodies buried around the cities of Novoaltaysk, Zarinsk, and Biysk.

[3] Kopytov told investigators that most of the victims were fellow homeless people with whom he got into quarrels, while some others he killed to steal their belongings.

Due to his cooperation with law enforcement, he avoided a life sentence, instead receiving 25 years in prison—10 to be spent in prison and 15 in a special regime colony.