Alexander Maslich

Alexander Valerievich Maslich (; 1972–2015), also referred to as Andrei Maslich in earlier American reports, was a Russian serial killer who murdered five people, including four fellow inmates.

Early life Alexander Maslich was born in Aleysk in 1972 in the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast. He had a troubled childhood, as his parents were alcoholics who neglected him, and his frequent misbehaviour and vagrancy led to him being arrested and placed in a boarding school for difficult teenagers. At the boarding school, he experienced beatings and sexual violence from teachers and peers. After his release, Maslich decided to punish paedophiles and rapists due to what he had experienced.

Murders and imprisonment Although he began with petty thefts and robberies, Maslich eventually killed a man. For this, he was placed in a maximum-security prison colony in the Barnaul village of Kueta. While serving his sentence in 1991, he murdered a fellow inmate, in line with his desire to punish people who committed sex crimes. For this, he was sentenced to an additional 12 years in prison.

While imprisoned in Moscow, Maslich murdered another cellmate who refused to pay his gambling debt. In December 1996, Maslich was sentenced to death. After a moratorium on the death penalty in Russia was announced shortly after, Maslich's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He was then sent to Black Dolphin Prison, where he died in 2015 of undisclosed causes.