Roman Zamulin

Roman Zamulin
Born Roman Alexandrovich Zamulin
1984
RSFSR
Other names "The FSO Maniac"
"The Night Carrier"
Conviction(s) Murder
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment
Details
Victims 6
Span of crimes
 September 2006–November 2006
Country Russia
State(s) Yekaterinburg
Date apprehended
 November 7, 2006

Roman Alexandrovich Zamulin (born 1984 in RSFSR), known as the "Night Carrier", is a Russian serial killer and rapist who was active in Yekaterinburg in the autumn of 2006.

Biography

Zamulin was born and grew up in a prosperous, working family. His service was held in the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Pervouralsk. During his dismissal he had the opportunity to come home to Yekaterinburg. After serving in the military, he got a job in the Special Communications Service, under the Federal Protective Service, gaining the rank of praporshchik. Since December 2005, he worked as a driver in the FSO Department, and was characterized positively. Two years later, he met with a girl, but then they broke up, and Zamulin began to feel hatred towards women.

From September 16 to November 4, 2016, Zamulin raped and killed six women and girls, all of them in the evening. To achieve this, he used the VAZ-2106 company car with tinted windows. A convenient working schedule - a five-day week or a day through three - allowed the maniac to go searching for victims. Using his certificate of a FSO officer, he successfully passed police cordons. Driving along Yekaterinburg under the guise of a private driver, he selected female hitchhikers, brought them to uninhabited places, where he raped and strangled his victims. He then took money, mobile phones and other valuables from the dead. The bodies were thrown out in wastelands near garages or on roads. One victim of Zamulin survived his attacks.[1]

The sixth victim's mobile phone was traced by police, and as a result went to Zamulin's cousin, who had received the phone. On November 7, 2006, Zamulin was arrested. At the time of his arrest, he had changed the inner lining of the car, on which the blood of the victims remained. When they searched his apartment, items belonging to the victims were found. The only surviving victim identified the maniac. When checking the records of outdoor nightclub cameras, where the sixth victim had been on the night of the attack, Zamulin's car was fixed, and he was filmed approaching her. The records of the external surveillance cameras were also checked for the victim's address: Zamulin's car was into the courtyard, but the woman did not leave it. Under pressure, he confessed to the seven murders associated with rape, not knowing that one of the victims was still alive, although he initially was suspected of committing only four murders. Earlier, in connection with two cases to which the criminal confessed, the examination could not prove his guilt and the institution refused any further criminal proceedings. With the second examination, the murders were proven and the previous results were regarded as erroneuos.

The forensic psychiatric examination found Zamulin sane. On December 24, 2007, the Ural Oblast Military Court sentenced him to life imprisonment in a special regime correctional colony. At the trial Zamulin refuted all his testimonies, except for the last murder,[2] and stated that he would appeal the court's decision.[3] The Supreme Court of Russia, after reviewing the cassation appeal, left the verdict unchanged.

In the media

References

  1. ↑ "На Урале вынесен приговор маньяку из спецслужб: 7 жертв".
  2. ↑ "Бывший прапорщик получил пожизненный срок за убийства и изнасилования".
  3. ↑ "Екатеринбургского маньяка приговорили к пожизненному заключению".
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