Sergey Yarovoy

Sergey Alekseevich Yarovoy (; born 1963), known as The Bloody Paramedic , is a Kazakhstani serial killer and rapist. Initially convicted of the rape-murder of a woman in 1994 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, he was paroled in 2004 and resumed killing two years later, murdering six children, teenage girls and women in Ust-Kamenogorsk and the village of Opytnoye Pole.

For the latter crimes, Yarovoy was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Early life Sergey Yarovoy was born in 1963, with different sources giving his birthplace either as Kaskelen or Balkhash. He was raised in a seemingly normal family, and after finishing the 8th grade, he moved to Almaty in the late 1970s and enrolled into medical school. In 1981, he was drafted into the Soviet Army, and after demobilization, he resumed his studies and graduated with the certification of a paramedic.

Soon after this, Yarovoy started working at a hospital in Almaty, where he was regarded positively by co-workers and his direct supervisors alike. He also married to a woman named Elena and had two children with her sometime in the mid-1980s.

Yarovoy was quickly arrested, tried and convicted for this, receiving a 15-year sentence. He was then transferred to serve it in a penal colony near Ust-Kamenogorsk, in East Kazakhstan.

Serial murders Between August 2006 and 2008, Yarovoy committed a series of at least 9 rapes and 6 murders against children and women in Ust-Kamenogorsk and Opytnoye Pole. His modus operandi consisted of attacking victims in deserted areas such as vacant lots or near railroad tracks, sneaking up on them and hitting them on the back of the head with a blunt object such as a steel pipe. If the victim was knocked out successfully, he would then rape and sometimes beat them to death. He had no definitive victim type, as he killed both children, teenagers and women with age ranges from 8 to 50, with differing physical features and ethnicities. According to Yarovoy, they only thing that mattered was if there were no possible witnesses to an attack.

A few months later, he came across a woman late at night who was in a hurry to catch a train on the "Zashchita" railway station. Yarovoy caught up with her and threw her to the ground, but the victim fiercely resisted him, causing them both to roll down an embankment.

In subsequent interrogations, Yarovoy stated that he only killed victims who resisted his rapes, leaving the compliant ones alive. Supposedly, the real killer was an Asian man wearing a medical mask and a black cap that was the true culprit, with Yarovoy claiming that the police falsely charged him and put him in prison, where he was beaten and raped by other inmates.

His claims were disregarded due to the amount of exhaustive evidence that indicated his guilt. As a result, on 4 April 2011, Sergey Yarovoy was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was then transferred to serve out his sentence at the Black Berkut Prison in Jitiqara, where he remains to this day.