Eduard Seleznev Wiki – Eduard Seleznev Biography
Eduard Seleznev from Arkhangelsk, Russia, was convicted of killing his friends after a court heard how he stabbed the men to death after they passed out from drinking too much booze. He admitted during his trial that he boiled his friends’ bodies and used their cooked remains as food.
He is also known as ‘Arkhangelsk Cannibal’, who killed and ate the body parts of three of his friends, was found guilty of all the charges and sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony in Russia. As part of Seleznev’s sentence, he has also been asked to pay over one million rubles (roughly $14,000) in restitution to the victims’ family members.
Seleznev was born in 1969 in the north-west part of Russia. Since his young age, he was described as a slow student and a habitual smoker who reportedly got engaged in thefts. On several occasions, he was convicted of embezzlement and after his release in 2000, he started living in basements where he survived by killing cats, dogs, and birds – whose corpses he would later eat. As per the reports from his trial, Seleznev killed his first victim in 2016.
The victim is said to be a fellow homeless man he had met at a homeless shelter with whom he shared a room. He killed the homeless man with a knife and dismembered his body with an ax. He even boiled some of the remains as he had trouble gulping down the hard body flesh. As for the rest of the body parts, he packaged them in plastic bags and threw them into a nearby river. Seleznev’s first cannibalistic crime reportedly went unnoticed for two years.
Eduard Seleznev Age
Eduard Seleznev is 51 years old.
Victim
His victims – aged 59, 43, and 34 – were sliced up to remove the body parts he wanted to feast on before the rest of the remains were dumped in a local river. The bloodthirsty serial killer admitted to storing the choice cuts of human flesh in plastic bags.
Charges
He even moved into the apartment belonging to one of his victims and told the man’s parents that their son had gone to work in another city. Seleznev told the same story to police officers who started a missing person investigation.
When the bodies were eventually discovered, police said the advanced state of decay and the condition after they had been partially cut up made them difficult to identify.
Reports said the serial killer had previously been charged with a double murder in the past – however, he was released after serving 13 years in jail.
The Russian criminal code does not include cannibalism so the defendant was on trial for murder and misusing the victims’ body parts. He was ordered to stand trial after psychiatrists declared him sane and fully responsible for his actions.
The Russian Supreme Court, after re-evaluating all the evidence, has sentenced Seleznev to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.