Vladimir Mirgorod

Vladimir Viktorovich Mirgorod (; born 1 November 1979), known as The Strangler , is a Russian serial killer who killed 33 people from 2000 to 2004. He was detained in 2010 when his fingerprints matched with those found at the crime scenes. In 2012, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Biography Mirgorod was born in Moscow in 1979. He lived in the Timiryazevsky District, in the metro area Petrovsko-Razumovskaya. After finishing school, he entered MISiS, but left soon after finding a good job. His friends spoke only positively of him. The first of these occurred on 6 April 2003, when he met a 16-year-old teenager named Irina at Vodny Stadion and accompanied her to her apartment, where he raped and tortured her with an unidentified object before strangling her and setting the apartment on fire. The other murder occurred in April 2004, when he raped and strangled 33-year-old Larisa with a belt in a house on Lavochkin Street.