Nikita Lytkin, also known as the Akademovsky maniac, committed suicide in a colony in the Irkutsk region. This was announced on Wednesday, December 1, by a law enforcement source to Lente.ru.
“Early in the morning on December 1, the body of 28-year-old Nikita Lytkin was found in a special regime penal colony in the city of Angarsk,” the source said. He clarified that the cause of Lytkin’s death was suicide. Law enforcement agencies have not yet officially commented on this information.
Academic maniacs are two serial killers, Nikita Lytkin and Artem Anufriev, who, between December 2010 and April 2011, committed nine murders and at least 15 attacks on passers-by using hammers and edged weapons. At the same time, they recorded some of the crimes on video.
Lytkin and Anufriev were detained in April 2011. They were charged with creating an extremist community, murder and attempted murder, as well as mockery of the bodies of the dead. Lytkin and Anufriev were recognized as sane, but at the time of the crimes Lytkin was not yet 18 years old. The law prohibits sentencing minors to life imprisonment, so the youngest of the “hammer maniacs” was sentenced to 24 years in prison. Later, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reduced the term to 20 years.
Artem Anufriev was sentenced to life imprisonment.
For one of the crimes committed by Anufriev and Lytkin, a homeless resident of Irkutsk was convicted, and even before the results of the genetic examination were received. This episode was not included in the initial charge, and investigator Yevgeny Karchevsky almost accidentally discovered it after the verdict was announced. Due to the newly discovered circumstances, the man was acquitted and rehabilitated.
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