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Valery KOPYLOV
Classification:
Serial killer
Characteristics: Quarreling
- Robberies
Number of victims: 19
Date of murders: 1998 - 2004
Date of birth: 1971
Victims profile: Men and women (homeless)
Method of murder: ???
Location: Altai, Siberia, Russia
Status: Sentenced to 25 years in prison on September 2005
Forest dweller accused of
multiple murder
News.com.au
July 29, 2005
A RUSSIAN man who had
been living in a forest dug-out in the
Siberian region of Altai has gone on
trial for killing as many as 18 people,
ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
Valery Kopylov never
returned home after serving a prison
sentence for unspecified crimes, but went
into the forest and dug himself a shelter,
the court in the regional capital Barnaul
heard.
Police believe he then
went on a killing spree, murdering 12 people
nearby and another six in other areas, ITAR-TASS
reported.
Many of the victims were
homeless, and their identities remained
unknown.
Kopylov allegedly told a
woman living with him about the killings,
and she then went to the police.
He could face a life
prison sentence if found guilty.
A Russian killer sentenced to 25 years
in prison for 19 murders
September 22,
2005
The court of the
Altai region of Siberia, has condemned the serial killer Valery
Kopylov, 34, to 25 years imprisonment.
The prosecutor of
the region, Valery Ziyastinov, from the Siberian city of Barnaul,
murdered 19 people in the Altai after being released from prison in
1998.
Kopylov was a homeless man who lived in a hole he had arranged,
located in the forest near Barnaul. He killed other homeless with whom he had quarreled.
Kopylov had talked about the killings with the
woman who lived with him and would have alerted the police.
