According to news.com.au, Anatoly Moskvin (52) was a well-known academic living with his parents in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fifth largest city.
A man locked up for digging up dead kids, mummifying them and turning their dead bodies into dolls may soon be released. In 2011, his parents’ belief that their son was a clean living genius was shattered when he was arrested for digging up 26 bodies of children who died between the ages of three and 15.
He then personally mummified them, which involves taking out all the internal organs, draining any body fluids, and then pumping in chemicals that stop the body from rotting.
He then pushed music boxes inside their rib cages before dressing them up in clothes and putting makeup on their faces.
He also celebrated each one’s birthday. He had been doing this for nine years by the time he was bust. Anatoly’s mum Elvira, then 76, told cops after he was arrested: “We saw these dolls but we did not suspect there were dead bodies inside.
“We thought it was his hobby to make such big dolls and did not see anything wrong with it.” Anatoly, who has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for years, told the parents of the dead kids in court: “You abandoned your girls, I brought them home and warmed them up.”
Now some of these parents are in a state of shock as authorities decide this week whether Anatoly should be given back his freedom. Natalia Chardymova (46) had no idea when she visited the grave of her daughter, Olga, who was murdered aged 10, that it was empty.
Speaking about Anatoly’s possible release, Natalia said: “This creature brought fear, terror and panic into my life.
“I shudder to think that he will have the freedom to go where he wants. “Neither my family nor the families of the other victims will be able to sleep peacefully. “He needs to be kept under surveillance.”
Source: Daily Sun
