Aleksey Sukletin

Aleksey Vasilyevich Sukletin (; 23 March 1943 – 29 July 1987) was a Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal. Between 1979 and 1985 along with accomplices Madina Shakirova and Anatoly Nikitin, he killed and cannibalized seven girls and women in Tatarstan.

Biography Early life and early crimes Aleksey Vasilevich Sukletin was born in 1943, in Kazan, RSFSR, Soviet Union. His mother worked as a nurse in a military field hospital (it is known that she was alive in 1985 when Sukletin was arrested on suspicion of a series of murders).

In 1964, Sukletin committed a new crime, acting together with accomplices with whom he drank alcohol. Once they had no more money left, Sukletin informed them of an elderly woman who lived nearby. They entered her apartment together, posing as gas service employees. The men then hit the woman on the head with a heavy object and took 80 rubles, but the victim survived and reported the crime to the police.

The same year, Aleksey Sukletin met 23-year-old Madina Nurgazizovnaya Shakirova, a native of Vasilyevo, He told her that he allegedly was serving a sentence at a Kazakh camp, but fled. Farid Zagidullin, Sukletin's adult victims were sex-workers, vagrants, or alcoholics.

On 4 June 1985, Aleksey Sukletin was arrested. Subsequently, Shakirova, Nikitin, and Volkov were also arrested.

Investigation, trial and execution During the first interrogations, Sukletin stated that investigators would not be able to prove his guilt in the murders. However, investigator Farid Zagidullin (afterwards, the deputy prosecutor of Tatarstan) was able to obtain a confession from Shakirova, threatening that she would be executed if she stayed silent.

For Madina Shakirova, the prosecution also requested the death penalty. However, the court took into account mitigating circumstances: the defendant's repentance of the crimes committed, as well as the fact that she participated in criminal activity under the threat of murder by Sukletin.

Aleksey Sukletin became the prototype of the hero of the third series of the Russian TV series The Method, released in 2015.

Literature Hans Askenasy. Cannibalism: From Sacrifice to Survival — Prometheus Books, 1994. — P. 208. — 292 p. — .