Mikhail Dorogavtsev

Mikhail Mikhailovich Dorogavtsev (; born 4 May 1984), known as The Livensky Maniac , is a Russian murderer and self-confessed serial killer who was convicted of murdering two women in Oryol Oblast between April and May 2012. He additionally confessed to another murder he supposedly committed in 2001, but was never tried for it due to a lack of evidence.

For his confirmed crimes, he was sentenced to 21 years in prison on 23 May 2013.

Early life Mikhail Dorogavtsev was born on 4 May 1984 in the village of Kalinets, Oryol Oblast, the older of two children. His father was an aggressive alcoholic who physically abused and even threatened to kill young Mikhail and his mother, leading to the boy becoming withdrawn and showing signs of a personality disorder at an early age.

Eventually, his mother divorced her husband and remarried, after which she took the children and moved to the neighboring village of Norovka, where Dorogavtsev graduated from high school.

Life after demobilization After demobilization, Dorogavtsev returned to Livny, where he soon found employment and worked briefly as a warden at a penal colony. Not long after, the prison authorities discovered that he was abusing the inmates in his designated cell block by subjecting them to cruel treatments, leading to his dismissal. Dorogavtsev struggled with finding another job for a long time after this. After drinking alcohol together, he parted ways with them and started wandering around the city. He eventually arrived at a bus stop and approached a middle-aged woman to propose her for sex. After she refused, Dorogavtsev alleged that he grabbed a nearby rock and hit her on the head as hard as he could, killing her on the spot.

Oksana Chechetkina On 5 May, Dorogavtsev was driving around the Livensky District when he came across 35-year-old Oksana Chechetkina, a post office employee who was out delivering pensions and welfare, near an unpaved road in Kazanskoye. After slowing down his car, he offered to give her a ride, to which Chechetkina agreed and sat in the front seat. This time, Dorogavtsev asked her outright to have sex with him, but was refused yet again.

Arrest, investigation and confessions After Chechetkina did not return home and it became known that nobody had seen her since two o'clock in the afternoon, her husband Sergey turned to the police. During an inspection of the area, officers found puddles of blood along the road, leading them to initially believe that Chechetkina might have been killed in an automobile accident and that the driver hid the body out of fear of being imprisoned. At the same time, Dorogavtsev participated in the search party looking for the woman.

While interviewing locals, a witness appeared who stated that on 5 May, he almost got into a high-speed collision with a blue-colored car. While he did not remember the license plate, he remembered the regional number - 44, which belonged to Kostroma Oblast. On 26 April, another shallow grave was located nearby containing the decomposing remains of Bakurova. He soon filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, but it was rejected on 7 August, finalizing his sentence.