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A court has recognized the evidence collected by the Buryatia Republic Office of the Investigative Committee as sufficient to convict 59-year-old Gennady Laletin found guilty of murder of two or more people under part 2, item “a” of Article 105, attempted murder of two people under Part 3 of Article 30, Part 2, item “a” of Article 105 and rape of a minor with cruelty and aggravated by a death threat under Part 2, items “a” and “e” of Article 132 of the RF Penal Code.

The court and investigators have established that on 12 October 1998, Laletin while under influence of alcohol after a row with his wife decided to get back at her. He raped her underage daughter in front of her, threatening the girl with a knife. After that the man went on the run. He lived in wells, dugouts, huts, then left the capital of the republic and stayed in different districts leaving a bloody trace behind him. During next few years he killed 5 people after drunken brawls. The man did not stay anywhere for too long and in each new place gave a new name. He did not confide in anybody though quickly wormed himself into people’s confidence and found shelter at his new acquaintances’ places. He was detained after attacking a man and a woman with a knife in a flat in Ulan-Ude on 2 June 2015. Despite severe stabbing wounds the victims survived and were able to describe and recognize him.

During further inquiry, when the investigators and police operatives compared his description, looked into style of the crimes and other data on several unsolved crimes, they came to a conclusion that the detained man may have been involved in a series of murders committed at different time during the past few years in Buryatia.

As a result of a psychological contact reached with Laletin during a well-planned and highly professional interrogation the investigators managed to get from the accused detailed statements on all the assault accounts. Later on, more than a hundred investigative operations were conducted, including 11 ones when residents of different districts of Buryatia recognized the man. It took the investigators a little over 6 months to collect all the evidence against the accused.

The court has sentenced Laletin to a life in prison and in a special-security correctional facility.