Zokhid Otaboev

Zokhid Otaboev (born 1988) is an Uzbek serial killer who murdered three of his neighbours' children between 2010 and 2017 in order to take revenge on them. After admitting his guilt to the crimes, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Background Zokhid Otaboev was born in 1988 in the Akkurgan District, near Tashkent, where he lived in the Khonobad mahallah, a mostly rural region populated by factory workers. He had no prior criminal convictions and by 2010, the 23-year-old worked at a local textile factory like most of his fellow villagers. While working there, he was teased by three neighbours (Abbos Otamurzayev, Shodiyor Aliboev and Zufar Azimboev) who constantly joked about the fact that Zokhid was still unmarried. During interrogations, Otaboev fully admitted his guilt and then proceeded to show the burial sites to the authorities, who recorded the excavations. After a several-month-long trial, Zokhid Otaboev was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.