• Born - 1st January 1871

• Died - 18th June 1923

• Death - Firing squad

• Country - Russia

• Classification - Serial Killer

• Characteristics - Robberies

• Body count - 33

• Method - Bludgeoning with a hammer and strangulation

• Victims profile - Men

Murders

Komaroff began to commit his first murders in February 1921, when Vladimir Lenin declared the New Economic Policy which allowed private enterprise, Komaroff’s killings followed a single pattern. Komaroff would meet with a client who wanted to buy a horse. He then brought them to his home and served them vodka. Komaroff would bludgeon the client to death with hammer or sometimes he would slit their throat. Afterwards he would place their corpse inside a bag then either hide it around the house, bury it underground or dump it in the Moscow River. After about a year of silting throats and bludgeoning people to death, Komarov’s wife Sophia found out about the killings, She reacted to it calmly, and even began participating in the killings.

Investigation and arrest

Police began to suspect that there was a killer on the loose, when the bodies of men were being discovered, inside sacks of garbage, trussed like chickens ready for roasting, every Thursday or Saturday, leading the police to a two-year murder investigation. Komaroff was known as a happily married man, except by those close to the family, They knew that he was extremely abusive, and even tried to kill his eight-year-old son once.  Komaroff was arrested in early 1923 after police officer came to his property after it was reported that he was in possession of illegal alcohol. While the officers were searching his stable, they discovered the body of his latest victim under a stack of hay. Komaroff then jumped out of a nearby window to evade the police, but on March 18th he was arrested in Moscow Oblast. He admitted to having killed 33 men, “as far as he could remember”  When he was interviewed about his crimes, he described murder as "an awfully easy job." Robbery was cited as the motive, though he averaged barely eighty cents per man, a miserable $26.40 for the entire series of crimes.    While he was in prison, he attempted to commit suicide three times. His wife Sophia was also found guilty of murder. Komaroff and Sophia were both sentenced to death and were executed by firing squad.