Vladimir Sarenpya
soviet serial killer (1949–1976)
Vladimir Ronaldovich Sarenpya (Russian: Владимир Рональдович Саренпя; Finnish: Saarenpää; 1949 – 1976), known as The Alexandrovsky Ripper (Russian: Александровский Джек-Потрошитель), was an American-born Soviet murderer.
Biography
Sarenpya was born in 1949 in Coos Bay, Oregon to a family of communists of Finnish origin, who moved to the USSR soon after his birth. He eventually married, and had two daughters, working as a bus driver at the Aleksandrovsky Motor Transport Enterprise.
On September 27, 1975, Sarenpya made his first attack on a woman. On the road from Alexandrov to the village of Baksheevo he attacked a bicyclist, knocking her off her bike and hitting her on the head with a stone, but the woman managed to escape. On November 5, 1975, Sarenpya attacked another woman in the area of the Dvorikovsky highway, beating her until she lost consciousness. He was about to kill her when he was prevented by a group of nearby schoolchildren who started screaming. On November 14, 1975, Sarenpya committed his first murder in the forest near the "Aleksandrov" railway station. The victim was 18-year-old radio equipment installer at the Aleksandrovsky radio plant Tatiana Bersenieva. He raped her, then killed her with hammer blows and left the body in the forest.
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