A Moscow court today sentenced to life imprisonment serial killer Alexei Gaskov, found guilty of killing ten people, despite having confessed more than a hundred crimes.
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28/09/2026
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Lusa
Gaskov, 51, first called the attention of the Russian police in 2002, when he was studying at VGIK Cinematography University in the Russian capital.
At that time, Alexei Gaskov was friends with another serial killer, Mikhail Yudin, and the crimes he confessed were eventually attributed to Yudin.
In 2006, Gaskov was again arrested for raping an 11-year-old girl, a crime for which he remained ten years behind bars.
In 2024, authorities reopened several lawsuits from 20 years ago and again suspected his involvement in these crimes.
Russian investigators proved that between March and November 2002, Gaskov killed nine girls and one man. One of her victims was the 23-year-old Peruvian student Agnes Santisteban.
Arrested in 2024, the criminal himself confessed, in an interview in March this year, to having committed more than a hundred crimes since 1995.
“ I didn't count them, of course, or write them down. Only crazy people keep that account, but, in my opinion, more or less, there are more than 100 [murders],” he said to Russian television.