manually tore apart the boy's perineum, leaving him permanently disabled. It is noteworthy that all the attacks were committed during daytime, approximately between 12 and 18 hours, but the perpetrator managed to escape unnoticed. A month later he raped two more boys, 11 and 12 years old, on the banks of the Neva River. A 15-year-old teenager almost became Irtyshov's seventh victim when he attacked the boy in an elevator. However, the boy managed to fight back and escaped. On the same day, Irtyshov, angry at his previous failure, committed his eighth and final crime. After brutally raping a 9-year-old boy, he proceeded to tear out 30 feet of the victim's intestines. Miraculously, the boy survived and was able to give a detailed description of the attacker. After that, he was treated in a hospital in the United States, with calls for financial help on television for the necessary operation, but despite the fact that the necessary amount of intestines were collected for the organ transplantation, the boy ultimately died. This crime, like the many others of Irtyshov, were committed inside the stairwells of the apartment houses where victims lived. Arrest and trial On the streets and in the newspapers, the rapist's facial composite and his verbal description were distributed. Irtyshov was frightened: the composite was very similar to him, which forced him to fly to Murmansk. A month later, having decided that everything had quieted down, Igor returned to St. Petersburg, where on November 28, 1994, he was detained by law enforcement agencies, which by that time had amassed a vast amount of evidence against him. Irtyshov was "given up" by one of his lovers. After the last rape, Irtyshov brought the boy's briefcase home and boasted about it to his roommate. He suspected something was amiss and turned to the police. Soon Irtyshov was captured, and later many victims identified him. For a long time, Irtyshov did not give any confessions. However, later he began to talk about the crimes and participated in investigative experiments. At the interrogations he behaved inadequately, and pretended to be mentally defective. Psychiatric examinations of the killer took a long time. As a result, the experts identified a number of mental abnormalities, but in general, Irtyshov was declared sane. The case was then referred to the city court of St. Petersburg. Many forensic experts were inclined to believe that soon Irtyshov would begin