Farit Gabidullin

Farit Gabdulkhayevich Gabidullin (; born 5 December 1972) and Timur Gabdulkhayevich Gabidullin (; born 5 December 1972) are Soviet-Russian twin brothers and serial killers who were responsible for at least 14 murders and rapes of young girls and women around Chelyabinsk Oblast from 1989 to 2000. Both were convicted and sentenced for their respective roles in the crimes, but some suspect that they might have killed many more people than the amount they were convicted of.

Early life The Gabidullin brothers were born on 5 December 1972, in Chelyabinsk. They came from a disadvantaged background, as both of their parents were alcoholics and their father – a repeat criminal offender – was incarcerated shortly after they were born. At only three years old, both brothers were abandoned by their mother and left in the care of their grandmother, while she left her home and began to live on the streets. During their interrogations, the twins confessed to raping and brutally killing the victim on the train tracks, but to the investigators' shock, they also admitted to committing a total of 30 such crimes in the region. According to Farit, their very first victim was their own mother, whom they killed during a quarrel in 1989. He claimed that both of them dismembered her body and then buried the remains somewhere in the woods on the outskirts of Chelyabinsk, as authorities were unable to find the supposed location, she is officially still listed as a missing person. Farit Gabidullin was found guilty of 10 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment, while Timur was found guilty of four and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. The reason for Timur's more lenient sentence was due to the fact that the court judges determined that his actual role in the organization and planning of the murders was minimal, and he just acted on his twin brother's orders. In May 2021, he contacted the Chelyabinsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office and confessed to another murder – he claimed that in 2002, he had attacked a man in the lavatory of a railway station in Zlatoust and stabbed him in the abdomen and chest, killing him. His testimony was almost instantaneously dismissed, as the alleged crime had occurred two years after he and his brother were arrested. Following this incident, additional medical examinations were ordered for Farit, and he is presumably undergoing treatment.