Eduard Seleznev

Eduard Valerievich Seleznev (; born 1969), known as The Arkhangelsk Cannibal , is a Russian serial killer who murdered three drinking companions in Arkhangelsk, whose bodies he later dismembered and liquified for consumption. Previously convicted of a double murder in 2002, he was found guilty of these new killings and sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony.

Early life Seleznev was born in Arkhangelsk in 1969. From an early age, he was sent to a boarding school and never got to know his parents. He studied until the 8th grade and was characterized as slow, uninitiated and a habitual smoker who engaged in thefts. In 1984, he graduated from a vocational school as a bricklayer, working odd jobs to make ends meet, and he lived in a run-down hostel. On several occasions, he was convicted of embezzlement, and after one of his releases in 2000, the now-jobless Seleznev alternated between living in unlocked basements and homeless shelters. He was back to living on the streets, where he survived by killings stray cats and dogs, sometimes birds as well, whose corpses he would eat.

Murders In March 2016, Seleznev killed his first victim, a fellow homeless man he had shared a room with at a shelter. He stabbed the man with a knife, then used an axe to dismember his corpse. Rather than eating the remains as is, he liquefied and drank them; he had trouble eating hard foods due to his lack of teeth. Seleznev wrapped the remaining body parts in garbage bags and threw them into the Volokhnitsa River, in the Isagorsk District.

Two years later, in March 2018, Seleznev moved into the apartment of another man, whom he promptly killed and cannibalized in a similar manner to the first. He disposed of the corpse in Lake Butygino in the Mayskaya Gorksa District. He decided to remain in the victim's flat and began work at a local meat processing plant.