The grave robber who dug up 29 girls and dressed them for birthday parties
Creepy footage filmed by a self-described Russian “historian,” Anatoly Moskvin, shows several bodies he exhumed after visiting more than 700 cemeteries, sitting around his house in bizarre costumes.
Moskvin is rumored to have dug up approximately 150 graves so he could dress the corpses of dozens of young girls for birthday parties. He also compiled up-to-date information about the lives of each girl he had dug up.
His macabre obsession with the dead was discovered when his parents visited him after returning from holiday.
A reputed genius who speaks 13 languages, the 46-year-old from the city of Nizhni Novgorod in central Russia was arrested in 2011, but he will not stand trial for his appalling crimes. A judge has ruled that he is not mentally fit enough to stand trial and should remain in a psychiatric clinic.
A prosecution spokesman said: “After three years of monitoring him in a psychiatric clinic it is clear that Moskvin is not mentally fit for trial. He will, therefore, be kept for psychiatric treatment at the clinic.”
Moskvin claims his fascination with the dead began when he was 12 when he came across a funeral procession whose participants forced him to kiss the face of a dead 11-year-old girl. (Source)
The Phantom Killer
16 year old Paul Martin and 15 year old Betty Jo Booker were killed 69 years ago at the entrance to Spring Lake Park. Although they were not the first victims of the “Phantom Killer” their attack was when people started realizing there was a serial killer on the loose in Texarkana.
On February 22, 1946 Jimmy Hollis and his girlfriend Mary Jeanne Larey were attacked and beaten while parked on a secluded road known as “lovers’ lane.” The attack happened near where Cowhorn Creek intersects Richmond Rd. today. Mary Jeanne Larey ran to a house at 805 Blanton Street and the homeowner called police. Both Jimmy and Mary Jeanne survived the ordeal.
Richard L. Griffin and Polly Ann Moore were the next victims of the killer and the first to be killed. The two were found dead on March 24, 1946 in Griffin’s car parked on what is now S. Robison Rd. 100 yards south of Highway 67. Both had been shot in the back of the head and were fully clothed. In the March 27 edition of Texarkana Gazette, an announcement was made that told readers “You Can Help Solve Murders”
The next attack was the killing of Martin and Booker on the night of April 13 or early morning of April 14. “Martin’s body was found at about 6:30 a.m. Martin’s body was found lying on its left side by the northern side of North Park Road. Blood was found further down on the other side of the road by a fence. He had been shot four times—once through the nose, again through the left fourth rib from behind, a third time in the right hand, and finally through the back of the neck. Booker’s body was not found until approximately 11:30 a.m., almost 2 miles (3.2 km) away from Martin’s body.”
On May 3 Virgil and Katie Starks were attacked in their farm house. Virgil was sitting reading the Texarkana Gazette when he was shot twice in the back of the head from a closed window 3 feet away. Katie was also shot but managed to run to to a neighbors house for help and survived.
No one was ever charged as the Phantom Killer although throughout the investigation almost 400 suspects were arrested. (Source)
On Google Maps Street View, if you go to the scene of the Zodiac Killer’s first crime, you can see the Zodiac Symbol spray painted on a sign. Location: 38°5′41.61″N 122°8′38.24″W.
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