Alexander Kiselev (serial killer)

Alexander Vasilyevich Kiselev (; born 1978), known as The Tie Maniac , is a Russian serial killer who murdered a woman in Chusovoy, Perm Krai, in 2022, shortly after being released for two similar murders he committed in 2003. Kiselev committed these crimes to satisfy an unusual fetish for strangling women with a tie that matched the color of their shoes.

For the latter crimes, Kiselev was convicted and sentenced to 13.5 years imprisonment.

Early life Alexander Kiselev was born in 1978 in Perm, Perm Oblast, the only son of two employees working for the FSIN. Despite the lack of any negative behavior present in the family, Kiselev started to show signs of a mental illness during his teenage years and suddenly withdrew from interacting with his peers, leading to arguments with his father. In reality, Kiselev had no such connections and was not known to be involved in any criminal activity prior to the murders.

Murders 2003 crimes On 29 and 30 October, 2003, Kiselev strangled two young female acquaintances in his apartment. The victims were 18-year-old Lilia Tarutina and 20-year-old Olesya Danutsa, both being university students whom he befriended the previous month when he met them at the Perm II railway station. At the time, the pair were returning to university after spending their summer vacation at their parents' homes in Kogalym, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

In late October, Kiselev confessed his love to Danutsa and offered to have sex with her, but she refused, revealing that she had a fiancé back in Kogalym. He filed an appeal against the sentence at the Court of Appeals, which accepted it on the grounds that the prosecutors had made a number of procedural errors during the investigation. As a result, his sentence was reduced by two years.

After receiving parole in late August 2022, Kiselev left the colony and rented an apartment in Chusovoy.

Trial and imprisonment Shortly after his arrest, Kiselev was charged with murder without aggravating circumstances, for which he faced a possible punishment ranging from 6 to 15 years imprisonment. The mother expressed her anger following the court hearing, telling reporters that she had constant dreams about her daughter and that she would appeal to central television to raise awareness about the case in hopes of gathering enough support and find ways to increase the length of Kiselev's sentence.