Yuri Kurilsky

A psychiatric examination ruled that Kurilsky was sane, and eligible to stand trial. During the trial, he again reiterated that he was guilty and asked for forgiveness from the victims' families. Subsequently, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. Upon hearing the verdict, Kurilsky simply smiled. After presumably refusing to appeal his conviction, Kurilsky was shot in the execution chamber of Pishchalauski Castle in Minsk in 2007, though the exact date remains unknown.

From 2004 to 2005, Kurilsky would cruise around the Vitebsk Region in his black Volga and would pick up any victims he found suitable to satisfy his sexual demands. The first victim was a 23-year-old resident of Novopolotsk, whom, after he had sex with her, Kurilsky beat to death with a tire iron and then threw her body into the Usvyacha river. At first, this murder was considered an isolated incident, but almost a year later, two more bodies were pulled out of the river, bearing similar injuries to the first one. The first victim was determined to be a 16-year-old schoolgirl from Gvozdovo, who had been strangled, while the other was a prostitute from Polotsk whose throat had been cut. The latter murders were determined to have been committed only a month apart, but DNA determined that all three victims had had sexual intercourse with the same man.

Yuri Kurilsky (Belarusian: Юры Курыльскі; 1978/1979 – 2007), known as The Monster with the Black Volga (Belarusian: Монстар з чорнай волгай) was a Belarusian serial killer who killed three women and girls around the Vitebsk Region from 2004 to 2005. He was convicted, sentenced to death and subsequently executed for these crimes in 2007.