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Anatoly Moskvin - a Russian former linguist was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of 26 girls and women between the ages of 3 and 29 were discovered in his apartment (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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Anatoly Moskvin is a Russian former linguist, philologist, and historian who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of twenty-six girls and women between the ages of 3 and 29 were discovered in his apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. After exhuming the bodies from local cemeteries, Moskvin mummified the bodies himself before dressing and posing them around his home. Moskvin's parents, who shared the apartment with him, knew of the mummies but mistook them for large dolls.

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[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ughh.... Well, at least he didn't kill them himself, I suppose.

[–] LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

That is exactly what I thought. Especially when he had a 3yo.