Vladimir Sarenpya

Vladimir Ronaldovich Sarenpya (Russian: Владимир Рональдович Саренпя; Finnish: Saarenpää; 1949 – 1976), known as The Alexandrovsky Ripper , was an American-born Soviet murderer.

Biography Sarenpya was born in 1949 in Coos Bay, Oregon to a family of communists of Finnish origin, who moved to the USSR soon after his birth. He eventually married, and had two daughters, working as a bus driver at the Aleksandrovsky Motor Transport Enterprise.

On September 27, 1975, Sarenpya made his first attack on a woman. On the road from Alexandrov to the village of Baksheevo he attacked a bicyclist, knocking her off her bike and hitting her on the head with a stone, but the woman managed to escape. On March 6, 1976, Sarenpya killed the district communications center's telegraph operator, Inna Grichugin, again leaving bite marks on her body. As it later turned out, he was interested in her, but she had rejected Sarenpya because he had a wife and children.

Sarenpya became the prime suspect as he was an acquaintance of the last victim. On March 11, he testified that on the day of the murder he was in a restaurant with a friend, but that was quickly refuted. In his apartment, belongings of the victims were found. Under the weight of the evidence, Sarenpya admitted to having committed two murders and nine attempted murders. In 1976, the Vladimir Oblast Regional Court sentenced Vladimir Sarenpya to death, and he was soon executed by single executioner shooting.

In the media Sarenpya's case was covered in the documentary film series "The investigation was conducted...", under the title "Jaws".