Gennady Laletin

Gennady Vladimirovich Laletin (; born 13 June 1957), known as Gena the Worm , is a Russian serial killer and rapist. Originally indicted in 1998 for the rape of his stepdaughter in Buryatia, Laletin became a fugitive and committed additional crimes from 2004 to 2010, including five murders.

Arrested in 2015, he later confessed to all respective crimes, for which he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Early life and first crime Gennady Vladimirovich Laletin was born on 13 June 1957, in the village of Khasurta, Buryat ASSR. Little is known about his early life, but at one point during his adulthood, he married a woman who had one daughter from a previous marriage. By profession, he worked as a repairman for refrigeration equipment.

On 12 October 1998, while engaged in a drunken quarrel with his wife, an intoxicated Laletin raped his 14-year-old stepdaughter at knifepoint in front of her mother. He then fled the house and was designated a wanted fugitive by local authorities. In an attempt to evade arrest, Laletin began living on the streets of Ulan-Ude, sometimes moving to different regions of the republic.

Murders Most of Laletin's victims were either his employers or acquaintances and all of them were killed during drunken quarrels. The crimes took place all across Buryatia, including the villages of Taltsy, Mostovaya, Petukhovka, Klyuyevka, Sagan-Nur, and the regional capital of Ulan-Ude. In most of the crimes, Laletin did not steal anything from his victims, except for two occasions on which he stole household items and sold them for alcohol.

His next two victims were killed in 2009 in the Mukhorshibirsky District, with one being a young man who was stabbed to death with a shiv while collecting food left on tombstones from the local cemetery.