Kegashbek Orunbayev

Kegashbek Shamshievich Orunbayev (; born 14 July 1962), known as The Ivolginsky Ripper , is a Kyrgyzstani-Russian serial killer, rapist, necrophile and cannibal who murdered six women in Altai Krai and Buryatia between 1991 and 2012, sexually abusing their corpses afterwards. He was found guilty of these murders, and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is serving at the Black Dolphin Prison.

Biography Little information is available about Orunbayev's early life. It is known that he was born in the Kirghiz SSR in 1962, and emigrated to Russia in the early 1990s. His first known murder took place in March 1991 in Novoaltaysk, Altai Krai, where he lived in a rented home with his 76-year-old landlord. One night, while having dinner with her, Orunbayev offered to have sex with her, but she refused. Out of anger, he beat her to death with the blunt end of an axe and raped her corpse. On the following day, he doused the house in kerosene and lit it on fire, destroying most of it. The victim's body was discovered after the fire was put out and it was established that she had been murdered, but the crime remained a cold case until November 2022, when Orunbayev confessed to being the killer. After casually getting to know each other, the pair caught a taxi to the village of Myasokombinat, where they sat down to drink alcohol on the bank of the Uda River. In his drunken state, he offered to have sex with the girl, but she refused his advances. Angered, Orunbayev strangled her to death and then had sex with the body, leaving it on the riverbank. The next day, he returned to the crime scene, dismembered the remains and then discarded them into the river. They were never located, and the victim's identity remains unknown. After a short conversation, he offered to have sex with her, but was quickly shot down. Angered, Orunbayev began punching and kicking in the woman's head, beating her to death. After murdering the victim, Kegashbek dragged the body into a nearby abandoned building, where he had sex with her corpse, which he then disemboweled and partially dismembered. He additionally admitted that he had kept some of the victims' disemboweled guts, which he would then consume. He was ordered to take a psychiatric examination, from which the doctors determined that he was sane, but had pronounced psychopathic traits and suffered from sexual sadism disorder, which led to the gruesome nature of his killings. Due to the severity of his crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is serving at the Black Dolphin Prison in Orenburg.

In November 2022, Orunbayev confessed to his first known murder committed outside Buryatia and the oldest linked to him to date. After his confession was shown to match the cold case, he was convicted after a short trial and given another life sentence.