Ivan Mandzhikov

At trial, Mandzhikov was unrepentant and unremorseful of his crimes, but begged for his life to be spared, even attempting to convince the judge that he was insane. A forensic psychiatric exam proved that was not the case, however, and Ivan Mandzhikov was sentenced to death. In 1993, he was executed in Almaty's Detention Center No. 1.

On January 21, 1989, the killings resumed, with the new victim being 18-year-old Gulmira Satpayeva, a student from the Faculty of Geography. Like Beisembaeva before her, she was raped, strangled, had her throat slashed and legs dismembered. But this time, Mandzhikov disposed of her body in the wasteland near the university dormitories.

The first girl to fall victim to Mandzhikov was Aizhan Zhumabaeva, a student in her early 20s from the university's Faculty of History, who disappeared in October 1988. She had been raped and strangled, with her killer slashing her mouth from ear to ear after death. The body, hastily covered with snow, was later found by a 6-year-old making snowballs on the outskirts of KazGU, an experience which caused him to be unable to speak for several days. Her clothes had been torn apart, and although her purse was missing, investigators ruled out the possibility of a robbery gone wrong. Her boyfriend and future fiancé at the time, a man named Talgat, was initially suspected of killing her, but was later cleared when his blood group didn't match that of the killer - Rh positive. In a futile effort, police looked into convicted criminals with this matching blood group, but to no avail.

Ivan Dmitrievich Mandzhikov (1965 – 1993), known as The Kazgugrad Monster, was a Soviet serial killer and rapist. Active between 1988 and 1989, he raped and killed students near the KazGU University, dismembering some of the victims' legs post-mortem. The investigation into his crimes was one of the largest-scaled ones in the history of the Kazakh SSR, and following his capture, Madzhikov was quickly sentenced to death and executed.