Dmitry Lebed

A vast search and rescue operation, led by Borgoyakova's father - Viktor Kicheev (an ex-police officer), was initiated, but yielded no success. Kicheev, dissatisfied with the lax attitude of the authorities working on the case, did research of his own, realising that young women have been vanishing without a trace from Abakan and the surrounding areas for a few years. In spite of his correct deduction of a serial killer operating in the area, his claims were not taken seriously by police. His daughter's body was found two and a half years later, in November 2017.

On June 6, 2015, the 30-year-old married mother of two disappeared off the streets of Abakan. Little information is available about her killing, but authorities found her body a month after she vanished, on a road connecting Abakan and the settlement of Askiz.

A week after Yakova's disappearance, on Russia Day, Lebed picked up 29-year-old Nastya Borgoyakova. She had been out celebrating at a café with her husband and friends, but got into an argument with her spouse and left, flagging down the first car she saw, which happened to be Dmitry's. He drove around 60–70 kilometers away from Abakan, stopping at a store along the way to buy vodka, before stopping at a farm area where some shepherds were herding cattle. Supposedly, in his half-an-hour-long stay, Lebed sexually assaulted and finally strangled Nastya, but decided against dropping her body off there, as the shepherds would find it very easily. He instead drove to the Askizsky District, where he disposed of the body in the forest, among the kneep-deep tall grass.

In the early morning hours of September 1–2, 2017, Lebed picked up 24-year-old Oksana Litvinova from the Zagotzerno bus stop. The young woman had spent the night at the Arsenalnoye café with her friends, whom parted with her after they were kicked out from another taxi for not having enough money. A witness later said that she had seen her standing at the bus stop, and after she returned to the window minutes later - she was already gone, without seeing the car the girl had gotten into. Failing to return to their shared apartment, her younger sister Anya began calling her family and relatives, as her sister was a responsible and homely woman who never stayed out that late. A huge search party, named "The Volunteers of Khakassia", scoured every inch of the city for any possible trace of the missing Oksana, without success. Three weeks later, on September 21, just as they were about to head out to nearby Minusinsk, Litvinova's body was found in the forest of the Minusinsky District. She had been raped and strangled to death, with all her jewellery stolen.

During the course of the investigations, two officials from the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Khakassia, Alexei Popov and Anton Kaudaurov, were charged with criminal negligence and abuse of official authority. The reasons for doing so were their refusals to initiate criminal proceedings against Lebed in 2013 and 2014, for attempted murder and attempted rape - if tried for these offences, the lives of some of his victims could've been saved. Both Popov and Kaudaurov have been removed from their posts until the end of their respective trials.

Lebed grew up in the small mining town of Abaza, one of three brothers. He was described as a quiet, calm child and a good student, whom, however, was bullied regularly, even by smaller children. When he got older, Dmitry and his family moved to Abakan, where he got a job and married his first wife. It didn't last long, as their relationship quickly deteriorated, starting with a major scandal in the summer of 2012, which resulted in Dmitry being thrown out of the house. Lebed later tried to get back to them, but his wife was so frightened of him that she took the children and fled to Krasnoyarsk, seizing any and all contact with him. When questioned later on, she revealed that at one point, Dmitry had choked her during an argument they had. Later on, Lebed entered a common-law marriage with Stella Komissarova, whom he treated with much more love, bringing her jewellery whenever he could - without Stella knowing that it belonged to victims of his.

On June 19, 2012, 22-year-old Lashkova disappeared from Krylova Street, a few blocks from the high-rise building where Lebed lived in. Despite this, she only remains a suspected victim, as her body has never been found. Volunteers and investigators suspect that her corpse could be possibly be buried in a garbage dump behind the village of Bizha, but so far, it hasn't been found.

Dmitry Valerievich Lebed (born 1986), known as The Abakan Strangler, is a Russian serial killer and rapist who operated in the Khakassian city of Abakan and its surrounding areas. Pretending to be a taxi driver and using rented cars, he raped 11 women, possibly more, four of whom he successfully murdered. Following his arrest for the murder of 24-year-old Oksana Litvinova, he confessed to other crimes not long after, for which he received life imprisonment at a special regime colony.