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Alexander Vasilyevich Kiselev, nicknamed by the media as The Tie Maniac, is a Russian serial killer who commited three different murders in two separate years. The first one was in 2003, and the second one being in 2022 as he was let out of prison. He first served 17 years and is now serving another 13 for the separater murder he commit.
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Alexander Kiselev was born in 1978 in Perm. He grew up in a socially advantaged environment. Both of his parents were employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Perm Krai. They led law-abiding lives, had no criminal record, and had no bad habits that negatively impacted their son's life, health, or the family's well-being. Despite this, Alexander Kiselev began to exhibit signs of mental illness in his teens.
Due to unspecified personal and social factors, Alexander withdrew from his social life and sought extreme social isolation, leading to a conflict with his father as he approached adulthood. After finishing ninth grade, Kiselev neither studied nor worked, living independently of his mother, but did not indulge in alcohol or drugs. In the late 1990s, he moved into an old apartment building on the outskirts of the city at 64 Penzenskaya Street.
In the early 2000s, Kiselev developed a passion for creating pseudonyms and false identities to mislead others. When making acquaintances, Kiselev would introduce himself to people by his nickname, "Kudin," taken in honor of a Perm crime boss from the 1990s, and would pose as a convicted crime boss with strong connections in the criminal underworld, although in reality, he had no sort of connection to the criminal world.
The apartment where Kiselev lived:
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Alexander Kiselev met his friends and later victims, 18-year-old Liliya Tarutina and 20-year-old Olesya Danutsa, at the Perm-2 train station. The girls were returning from summer vacation from their parents' home in the city of Kogalym.
The girls' mothers had been friends since childhood. They lived in the same building in Perm's Kirovsky District, grew up, got married, and moved north. When their daughters grew up, their parents sent them to Perm to study. The students lived with their grandmothers in the same building on Khimgradskaya Street. They attended the same institute. Olesya, the older one, was a fourth-year economics major, while Liliya was a second-year law student.
(In the second picture Olesya who's on the right appears with a friend named Yulia back on vacation in July 2003.)
Over the following months, Kiselev met the girls' grandmothers and began spending a lot of time with the women, but their interactions were strictly friendly. During this period, both women described Alexander very positively to their relatives and friends. In late October, Kiselev professed his love to Olesya Danutsa and proposed intimacy, but she declined because she had a fiancé in Kogalym.
On the afternoon of October 29, 2003, Kiselev visited Liliya Tarutina and asked her out for a walk. During their walk, he invited her back to his apartment. After drinking coffee, Kiselev invited her to play cards, and after the game ended, he assaulted her and strangled her with his tie. That evening, he bought a bouquet of roses and went to see Olesya Danutsa. She was ill, so she only agreed to go with him to the pharmacy and then returned home.
The following day, October 30, Kiselev visited Olesya again. This time, he persuaded her to go for a walk with him and then invited her back to his apartment for a cup of coffee. A few minutes after Olesya arrived at Kiselev's apartment, he attacked her, strangling her.
Kiselev decided to bury both bodies in a single grave in a vacant lot next to his home on Penzenskaya Street. Kiselev left the murder weapons—men's ties, the color of which matched the shoes of the murdered women—around the necks of his victims.
After the disappearance, their parents contacted the police. The investigation revealed that Kiselev was one of the last people to see the women alive. He was placed on the wanted list but managed to escape, but was later arrested in early December 2003 in Perm after he arranged a date with a female acquaintance named Olga. Olga was questioned by law enforcement during the investigation into the disappearance of the victims, and after Kiselev contacted her, she called the police. During his arrest, a razor and a men's tie were found in Kiselev's pocket. He did not explain the purpose of these items to the officers. According to investigators, Kiselev planned to kill Olga during his meeting.
During his initial interrogations, Kiselev admitted his guilt in the murders. A forensic examination established that the girls had engaged in sexual intercourse before their deaths. Kiselev claimed that the sexual acts between him and his victims were voluntary. The investigation assumed that the girls had in fact been raped by Kiselev, but ultimately the fact of rape could not be confirmed.
A motive for the murders was never established during the investigation. Kiselev stated that he had no motive for killing Liliya and Olesya. According to Kiselev's confession, he killed them because he was unable to cope with his pathological urge to commit murder. On December 11, 2003, Kiselev was escorted to the burial site, where, during an investigative experiment, he pointed out the grave to investigators, after which the girls' bodies were recovered.
(Pictures of the recovery and Kiselev the same day it happened):
On June 16, 2004, Alexander Kiselev was found guilty on all counts, after which the court sentenced him to 22 years in prison. After the trial, Kiselev filed a cassation appeal with the appellate court , which was upheld. After reviewing it, the court identified several procedural errors in the criminal case, leading to a reduced sentence and a final sentence of 20 years in prison.
While serving his sentence, Kiselev received positive reviews from prison administration. He received several commendations during his time in prison, leading him to apply for parole in November 2018, but his request was denied. Having served 17 years in prison since his arrest, in 2020, Alexander Kiselev filed a petition to have his remaining sentence commuted to community service, which was granted. In 2020, he left the territory of the penal colony and was transferred to a penal colony-settlement, which was located near the city of Gornozavodsk.
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After being sent to the penal colony, Kiselev worked at a woodworking plant in Gornozavodsk. He soon became a foreman and met 43-year-old Natalya, a mother of three children living in Chusovoy. She was Kiselev's subordinate, so they interacted frequently, and he soon began to show her various advances.
Kiselev claimed to have been convicted of hooliganism and had a family, but his wife allegedly left him with their child after the birth. After his parole in late August 2022, Kiselev left the penal colony and rented an apartment in Chusovoy. In the fall of 2022, he and Natalya began an intimate relationship, despite the fact that on October 21, 2022, Natalya officially married her common-law husband, with whom she had children but who had refused to marry her for 13 years.
On November 13, 2022, Natalya went to church with her children and her mother, after which she went on a date with Kiselov. That evening, the body of 45-year-old Natalya was discovered on the evening of November 14, 2022, on the floor of an apartment in a building on 50th Anniversary of the Komsomol Street in Chusovoy.
She was naked from the waist down. As the investigation later established, on the day of the murder, Natalya had taken out a three-month personal injury warrant for Kiselev's health in church. The investigators discovered that the apartment was rented by the own Alexander Kiselev, who was subsequently placed on the wanted list.
After the murder, he packed his things and went to Perm to be with his parents. During this period, he acted with extreme caution. He spent two nights at a time in rented apartments and changed the SIM cards on his mobile phone every day, but he never made it to his parents in Perm.
Alexander Kiselev was finally arrested on November 20, 2022, in a rented apartment on Gagarin Boulevard in the Motovilikha District of Perm. He was identified by the apartment's owner, who contacted the police. That evening, criminal investigation officers arrived at the apartment with her. The woman attempted to enter the apartment, but Kiselev refused to let her in. She told him that he needed to move out immediately or extend his rent, after which Kiselev opened the door and was arrested.
After his arrest, he fully admitted his guilt, stating that he strangled Natalya during an argument. According to himself, he tried to convince her to divorce her husband and marry him, but she refused him, after which he became enraged and in a state of affect due to jealousy. He attacked her, choking her, then punched her twice in the face, threw her to the floor, sat on top of her, and continued to strangle her, first with his belt, then with plastic garbage bags, a bag belt, and an antenna cable.
The strangulation process was lengthy. A forensic examination also established that the victim and Kiselev had sexual intercourse shortly before the murder, but Kiselev insisted during interrogation that their intimate encounter was consensual and that there was no rape. Natalia's mother insisted that Kiselev had indeed raped her daughter.
From the commentary of the mother of Natalya:
The criminal case for Natalia's murder was opened under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code, as murder without aggravating circumstances, which carries a prison sentence of 6 to 15 years. At the trial, Alexander Kiselev was found guilty of murder, after which the court, on September 29, 2023, sentenced him to 13 years and 6 months in prison. He avoided a life sentence because the court, when sentencing, took into account mitigating circumstances, specifically his active assistance in solving his own crime and the confession too.
Natalya's relatives believed that Kiselev received a lenient sentence and filed an appeal with the Perm Regional Court demanding a harsher sentence for the killer. However, on October 26 of that year, the court rejected the appeal. After the hearing, Natalia's mother expressed outrage, telling reporters that she was dreaming of her daughter and that she would appeal to central television to increase publicity for the case and have Kiselev's sentence harsher.
