The Gabidullin Twins: They Confessed to 173 Murders
October 2000. Chelyabinsk police arrest identical twins Farit and Timur Gabidullin for the rape and murder of a young woman on the railway tracks. Then the brothers start talking. They claim thirty killings. Then more. They say their first victim was their own mother. They point investigators to a cemetery pit — and officers dig up more than a hundred skulls.
Only a fraction of those claims ever stood up in court. Farit was convicted of ten murders and sent to Black Dolphin for life. Timur was convicted of four and died by suicide after sentencing. Media reports once put the body count at…
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