Police appeal for more victims of evil pensioner who 'raped at least 108'

An evil pensioner accused of raping not less than 108 ladies over 40 years is probably going to have had many extra victims, police say. 

Valery Makarenkov, 69, who's believed to be Russia's most prolific serial rapist, has confessed to raping 90 ladies however investigators imagine the tally is greater.

He attacked his targets, who had been primarily 'slim brunettes with lengthy hair' aged 20 to 30, from behind, investigators mentioned. 

Valery Makarenkov, 69, who's believed to be Russia's most prolific serial rapist, has confessed to raping 90 ladies however investigators imagine the tally is greater

He was jailed in October after being convicted for 31 violent intercourse assaults, however police have now revealed fuller particulars of his sinister and merciless assaults as they urge extra suspected victims to contact them.

His youngest sufferer in 1987 was solely 9, whereas the oldest was 55. 

Makarenkov has been branded the 'birthday rapist' as a result of a few of his assaults befell close to his birthday.

Most reported that they 'misplaced consciousness' throughout the assaults as he strangled them - however to not dying - throughout the rapes. Many victims had been discovered later bare.

Deeply disturbing footage of the twice married serial rapist present him reenacting his assaults on a model as a part of the investigation with armed police current.

Makarenkov mentioned: 'I'd normally put my left hand over the girl's throat, and if she resisted me, I'd press like this.

He added: 'I used to be within the course of. To discover a sufferer, to comply with her, to hunt, to catch, to rape.'

Makarenkov (pictured along with his second household) lived a double life, telling his household he rode his bike to treatment 'complications' when going out to commit his sickening crimes 

Makarenkov, who labored in a manufacturing facility in Moscow, took 'souvenirs' from every sufferer, together with a bracelet, a single shoe, , a tin of peas, a badge, or within the case of the younger schoolgirl, a doll.

His first recognized assault was in 1973, when the Kremlin chief was Soviet strongman Leonid Brezhnev, nearly 20 years earlier than the collapse of communism.

In his ultimate phrases to the courtroom, the ruthless rapist - who wept uncontrollably when he was lastly detained by police after a reign of terror lasting not less than 41 years - predicted he could be killed in jail by different inmates.

Makarenkov instructed the choose: 'I cannot see the sunshine of day by the top of this sentence.

'The longest I will reside in jail will probably be three years. That is if I'm extraordinarily fortunate.'

Talking about Makarenkov's youngest sufferer state investigator Ivan Semenov mentioned: 'She was badly affected by the assault. Bodily, her non-public elements had been all torn, her womb tissue was badly broken.

He wept uncontrollably when he was lastly detained by police after a reign of terror lasting not less than 41 years 

'Psychologically, the trauma was so robust that it took her years of psychiatric assist to attempt to overcome the results of the rape. Nevertheless it was her who gave the investigation what it did not have earlier than.

'She obtained a glimpse of his face which helped police to get an identikit picture, and a hair of the maniac was discovered on her garments.'

Semenov mentioned police had been shocked that he remained so lively into his retirement years. 

For greater than 4 a long time, he 'went looking' for ladies and carried out his assaults both at round 5 to 6am, or quickly after midnight.

Telling his household he rode his bike to treatment 'complications', he lived a double life which fooled two wives and his youngsters.

Makarenkov was jailed in October after being convicted for 31 violent intercourse assaults 

Nicknamed the 'biking rapist', he usually used his Soviet-era bicycle to creep up on victims from behind.

Chilling CCTV footage launched by police exhibits him stalking a sufferer on his bike. 

Russian police needed to wait till that they had refined know-how to hold comparative DNA evaluation earlier than they snared the rapist.

Mikhail Ignashkin, head of medical and organic analysis on the Russian Investigative Committee, equal of the FBI, mentioned: 'Again in 1987, discovering a hair of the attacker did not assist the investigation.

'The primary federal database of DNA materials was solely created 2008, which made it actually laborious, typically subsequent to not possible, for investigators who had crimes dedicated in numerous elements of Moscow however couldn't - but - be sure that they had been accomplished by the identical prison. '

Police have now revealed fuller particulars of his sinister and merciless assaults as they urge extra suspected victims to contact them 

Investigator Ivan Semenov mentioned: 'We carried plenty of DNA checks, and a number of other of the newest outcomes matched, so we went deeper prior to now.

'Initially of the 2000s, it matched once more. Then the late, mid and early 1990s additionally matched.

'We went even deeper and realised collection of crimes that no-one had ever put collectively was in truth carried by one particular person. We merely did not have the means to understand it earlier than.' 

Altogether greater than 40,000 males had been checked, and over 1,500 DNA checks made, mentioned police.

Makarenkov was ultimately detained after a failed assault on a lady known as Olga in Kuzminki Park, Moscow in 2014.

She fought again and scratched his cheek. Police believed he would return, and he did.

Chilling CCTV footage launched by police exhibits him stalking a sufferer on his bike 

Officers stopped a person on his bike in the identical park. They requested to see his ID however he sped off.

Alexander Ignashev, member of the police patrol instructed an NTV documentary on the case: 'He biked away away with all pace.

'After we stopped him he fought again. We discovered a knife, pepper spray and a pensioner's card.

'We invited him right into a police automobile, and as he sat down he fully burst into tears.

'He appeared like your unusual shy pensioner. It was laborious to imagine this was our rapist.'

One other investigator Ivan Semenov revealed: 'He sat quietly for 3 strong hours when he was dropped at the police station.

He attacked his targets, who had been primarily 'slim brunettes with lengthy hair' aged 20 to 30, from behind, investigators mentioned  

'It was me who questioned him that evening, and nearly from the primary minute of our chat I knew this was it. We had obtained him.'

DNA checks matched to dozens of victims of the rapist who usually wore a black cap, he mentioned.

Feminine investigator Yelena Sidelnikova mentioned: 'To say we had been completely happy to have discovered him is such an understatement.

'We might obtained him. We stopped him. No extra ladies would endure from him.'

After he retired, Makarenkov labored as an unregistered taxi driver.  

Now divorced, he instructed police his first rape was a teenage lady in 1973 after his spouse refused to have intercourse following childbirth.

A regulation enforcement supply mentioned: 'At evening or in early morning he adopted his victims on his bike in backyards and parks, attacked from behind, strangled them however to not dying, then raped and stole useful belongings.

Sufferer Maria, in her 30s, was attacked by the serial rapist in June 2013 as she walked residence from work 

'Often his assaults befell from Could to October when it was potential to go round on a motorcycle.

'For a very long time Makarenkov managed to cover properly from police as a result of he acted in numerous districts of Moscow. '

He 'nearly by no means dedicated two crimes in the identical space'.

A supply added: 'In Makarenkov's case there have been a number of components: hyper-sexuality, together with love of danger and hazard.

'He was usually stopped for harmful and drunk driving. He loved being a hunter.

'He needed to hint his sufferer, to comply with her, to catch. All this gave him pleasure he wanted, thrilled him, it was adrenaline.

'That is what all maniacs go looking for. And the second of the sexual act is their prize.'

Sufferer Maria, in her 30s, was attacked by the serial rapist in June 2013 as she walked residence from work.

Bravely, she returned to the scene of her rape to spotlight the phobia she felt for an earlier NTV report.

'All of the sudden I noticed a person behind my again, he was with a motorcycle,' she mentioned. 'I did not pay any consideration to him. I saved strolling and sending a textual content.

'One minute later, I circled and noticed him proper subsequent to me and with out his bike. Subsequent second he attacked me and commenced to strangle me.

'I managed solely a brief crying sound earlier than he squeezed my throat. I misplaced consciousness inside two seconds. It was like he simply switched me off.

'Then he dragged my physique by way of these bushes.'

She mentioned: 'I awoke all coated in mud, I had only one shoe on. I attempted to know what occurred; truthfully I didn't realise I used to be fully bare.

'I felt as if I used to be frozen. I understood that I had survived by a miracle.'

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