strangled her with jacket sleeves, then took her wallet, earrings, gold cross and a ring from her hand, fleeing afterwards. Two weeks later, on September 22, 2005, Balakin got acquainted with one more student - Yulia Lanchina, with whom he spent several hours visiting the café and the club, raping and then strangling her with her own sneakers' laces a few meters from her house. He then took her earrings and two rings and left the crime scene, later giving them to his wife Elena. On September 24, 2005, Balakin stole a car from the autoshop he worked at, in order to "ride", but failed to manage it and hit a pole at high speed. He suffered a lot of fractures and had to spend the next 6 months in hospital, which temporarily stopped the attacks. At the end of March 2006, Balakin left the hospital with a disability - he began to limp heavily with his left leg. Despite this, in April 2006 he went on "hunting" again. This time, Elena Sosnina, the victim of choice, resisted Balakin, who attempted to rape her, but she managed to escape. The limping Balakin, unable to catch up with her, took her wallet and mobile phone from the bag she dropped and disappeared. Sosnina appealed to the police, and also managed to find the criminal's phone, inserting the SIM card into her phone and making a call. Calculating from where the call occurred from, police arrived at Arkhipova's apartment. Initially, Arkhipova tried to lie to the investigators, claiming that she bought the phone from an unknown man for 3,000 rubles, but soon admitted that her 21-year-old cohabitant, Dmitry Balakin, had brought the phone. However, she did not know his location. Arrest Balakin was declared in the federal wanted list on suspicion of committing a series of murders. Ambushes were arranged at his mother's apartment and his cohabitant's, however, Balakin sensed something was off and stopped going there. Despite knowing that he was sought after, a few weeks after the attack on Elena Sosnina, Balakin attacked Elena Toropova walking with her child. Having raped her, he decided not to kill her in front of the child, and only took her purse. After some time in the elevator of an apartment, Balakin attacked Maria Perminova, but her husband struck the maniac in the groin, forcing him to run away from the scene. On July