Yuri Ivanov

Ivanov himself asked for the death penalty, and in 1989, he was sentenced to death. Before the execution he asked to arrange a meeting with his daughter, but she flatly refused to come to her father. Later in 1989, Ivanov was executed by firing squad.

From 1977 to 1987, Ivanov did not kill, as his personal life was again adjusted. But after he broke up with his partner in 1986, he returned to his criminal way of life. In 1987, he killed a 16-year-old girl. At the crime scene, an aluminum button and a hair sample were found that did not belong to the victim. An ambush was set up at the murder scene, and on the next day, when the maniac came back, he was arrested. Under the pressure of evidence (two of his cohabitants, to whom he had given items from the victims, gave the police a purse with his fingerprint, and his jacket lacked an aluminum button). Ivanov confessed to the murder of 16 women and girls with rape, and 14 rapes without murders. Ivanov perfectly remembered all the events of many years with the slightest detail, showing all the crime scenes almost without error. He said that he remembered the faces of his victims, and to prove this, the investigators devised a unique experiment - "identification of the contrary": they showed him photos of different women, so he would determine which of them he had raped or killed. Ivanov pointed at his victims without any mistake. For the murder of one of these women, committed in 1974, the victim's husband was convicted. By that time he had served most of the term - 7 out of 12 years. The verdict against him was later abolished, and the murder correctly imputed to Ivanov.

Yuri Anufrievich Ivanov (Russian: Ю́рий Ану́фриевич Ивано́в; born 1956 in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakh SSR - 1989), known as the "Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac", was a Soviet rapist and serial killer. In the span of 13 years (with a break), he raped and killed 16 girls and women. He committed his crimes in Ust-Kamenogorsk, in the area of the "Combine of silk fabrics" factory.