Zhukov was a radio engineer by trade, working in the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Russian division as an international telephone operator.
On June 24, 2006, he kidnapped and killed a 9-year-old girl in the village of Voskresenskoye, throwing her body into a lake outside Nizhny Novgorod.
In August 2007, he was arrested: one of his rape victims managed to memorize the car as well as the view from the window of Zhukov's apartment.
[2] On September 15, 2008, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court found Vladimir Zhukov guilty of three murders and 11 rapes and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
In September 2010, he confessed to the abduction of a girl of 8–10 years in 2002 in the city of Gorodets, followed by a rape and murder in the Koverninsky District.