stranger was slightly hunchbacked, although his Caucasian appearance was not pronounced) played a big role in the work of criminalist Sophia Feinstein, who made a facial composite. To recreate the criminal's appearance, they also sought help from the artist Naum Karpovsky and famous sculptor and anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov. At some point, while Feinstein was working with Teplov, one of MUR's officers glanced into her office, who coincidentally turned out to be very similar to Ionesyan, which allowed to make a more accurate portrait of the murderer. It was Teplov who first said about the hat of the stranger and how it was tied on the back of the head, which was then not typical for Muscovites and betrayed him as an outsider. Subsequently, Teplov identified the criminal during the investigative experiment and gave a testimony at a closed trial in the Supreme Court of the RSFSR. Murders in Ivanovo On December 25, 1963, Ionesyan, together with Dmitrieva, came to Ivanovo, where he committed two murders. Continuing to pretend to be a gas worker, he entered apartments and looked for suitable victims. In an apartment on Kalinin Street he killed a 12-year-old boy named Mikhail Kuleshov with an axe, then stole his jacket, a pullover, two pens and several bonds. In another apartment, on Oktyabrskaya Street, he killed a 74-year-old woman, but only took a pocket flashlight and 70 kopeks from her apartment. Returning to Kalinin Street, he again began to walk around the apartments. In one of them he attacked 15-year-old Galina Petropavlovskaya, who was raped and then struck nine times to the head with the axe. Ionesyan then took a sweater, a jacket, a fluffy shawl and 90 rubles. Despite her injuries, Petropavlovskaya survived and was able to describe her attacker's appearance. In the evening Ionesyan told Dmitrieva that because of the "government task" he carried out, both of them could be killed, and said it was urgent to leave Ivanovo. They left on foot, walked 10 kilometers towards Moscow and only then took a bus. After the murders in Ivanovo, the case of the "Mosgaz Murderer" was given special status, and was taken under the personal control by the Minister of Public Order Protection (as it was then called the Ministry of Internal Affairs) Vadim Tikunov and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin. Nikita Khrushchev was also interested in the matter. The fourth murder On