Farit Gabidullin

After his conviction, Gabidullin was transported to the Black Dolphin Prison, where he remains as of 2022. In May 2021, he contacted the Chelyabinsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office and confessed to another murder – he claimed that in 2002, he had attacked a man in the lavatory of a railway station in Zlatoust and stabbed him in the abdomen and chest, killing him. His testimony was almost instantaneously dismissed, as the alleged crime had occurred two years after he and his brother were arrested. Following this incident, additional medical examinations were ordered for Farit, and he is presumably undergoing treatment.

Ultimately, prosecutors managed to prove the brothers' involvement in 14 murders. While the Gabidullins recanted their confessions and pleaded not guilty, they were nonetheless found guilty by the Chelyabinsk Regional Court on October 11, 2001. Farit Gabidullin was found guilty of 10 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment, while Timur was found guilty of four and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. The reason for Timur's more lenient sentence was due to the fact that the court judges determined that his actual role in the organization and planning of the murders was minimal, and he just acted on his twin brother's orders.

In October 2000, investigators from the Chelyabinsk Police Department detained the brothers on suspicion of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman. During their interrogations, the twins confessed to raping and brutally killing the victim on the train tracks, but to the investigators' shock, they also admitted to committing a total of 30 such crimes in the region. According to Farit, their very first victim was their own mother, whom they killed during a quarrel in 1989. He claimed that both of them dismembered her body and then buried the remains somewhere in the woods on the outskirts of Chelyabinsk, as authorities were unable to find the supposed location, she is officially still listed as a missing person.

In their confessions, the brothers indicated that they buried the bodies in the Mitrafanovsky Cemetery, near the Automechanical Plant. During an investigative experiment, Farit indicated a potential grave, and after digging a hole three meters down, law enforcement officers unearthed more than 100 human skulls and several hundred bone fragments. Autopsies determined that most of them had been killed by some sort of traumatic brain injury or were shot in the head. Due to this, it was determined that some of the remains belonged to victims of the Red Terror that had been buried here, but the remaining portion belonged to people whose deaths occurred in the 1990s. Because of this, investigators suspected that the Gabidullin brothers were telling at least the partial truth and were responsible for multiple additional murders.

Farit Gabdulkhayevich Gabidullin (Russian: Фарит Габдулхаевич Габидуллин; born December 5, 1972) is a Soviet-Russian serial killer and rapist who, together with his twin brother Timur, were responsible for at least 14 murders of young girls and women around Chelyabinsk Oblast from 1989 to 2000. Both were convicted and sentenced for their respective roles in the crimes, but some suspect that they might have killed many more people than the amount they were convicted of.

The Gabidullin brothers were born on December 5, 1972, in Chelyabinsk. They came from a disadvantaged background, as both of their parents were alcoholics and their father – a repeat criminal offender – was incarcerated shortly after they were born. At only three-years-old, both brothers were abandoned by their mother and left in the care of their grandmother, while she left her home and began to live on the streets.