After strangling her to death, the murderers stole 30,000 rubles and jewelry before fleeing. For reasons unknown, the criminals would wait for almost two months before striking again. Steblyakov informed the brothers that he had chatted up 46-year-old Khamzat Abdulrazakov, an openly gay Chechen man who held the rank of colonel in the FSB and had a construction business in Moscow. After meeting him through his boyfriend, Roman Shamatov, who was an acquaintance of Steblyakov, he convinced Abdulrazakov that he had a good business offer and arranged for them to meet on April 30 in Izmaylovsky Park. When he arrived, Abdulrazakov was lured deep into the park and then strangled with his own tie. Steblyakov and the Kardanovs then dug a shallow grave, threw the body inside and covered it with brushwood and old leaves. In total, they stole 18,000 rubles and an old Nokia phone. Possibly fearing that Shamatov might become suspicious of his boyfriend's disappearance, the trio decided to kill him as well. On the night between May 3 and 4, they broke into Shamatov's house on Novokuzminskaya Street and strangled him to death. They then stole whatever they could find, stealing a total of 30,000 rubles in cash, jewelry and electronic equipment, but also small items such as gold chains, men's perfume bottles, a bottle of eau de toilette, a cigarette lighter, nail clippers and a Gillette razor case. On May 11, Steblyakov and the Kardanovs, on the pretense of finishing up some construction work they had been assigned to do, entered an apartment on 35 Kakhovka Street belonging to 81-year-old Zinaida Solovieva, a WWII veteran who had recently gone blind. After all three entered, Solovieva was bound and gagged with adhesive tape, allowing the intruders to steal 10,000 rubles and a gold chain from her apartment. Once they were finished, they dragged Solovieva to the bathroom and drowned her in her bathtub. Apparently unsatisfied with their haul, the trio then entered the adjacent apartment occupied by 92-year-old Evdokia Artemkina, who was bedridden and unable to move. Due to her condition, her apartment was often left unlocked by her son - who was not home at the time - allowing Steblyakov and the Kardanovs to go inside without any issues. After noticing the elderly woman, the killers strangled her to death, then proceeded to steal 4,000 rubles in cash, two golden wedding rings and a bottle of