Vladimir Kolebin

Vladimir Alekseevich Kolebin (Владимир Алексеевич Колебин; born 1957), known as The Rybinsky Maniac (Рыбинский маньяк), is a Russian serial killer who committed six murders in the village of Rybnoye, Krasnoyarsk Krai from 1999 to 2014.

Arrested after his final murder, he would later be convicted and sentenced to 19 years imprisonment.

Very little is known about Kolebin's early life.

Born in 1957 in Krasnoyarsk Krai, he grew up in a poor family with his several brothers and sisters.

Throughout his childhood, the young Kolebin spent most of his time on the street and started committing small-time crimes at age 14.

In the mid-1990s, after being released from another prison stint, Kolebin moved to Rybnoye, where his sister and brother lived.

Soon afterwards, he got a job at a watchman at a local Agricultural Technical School and began living in the home of a local woman named Nina Reshetnikova.

On July 15, 1999, Kolebin was on night duty when he was attacked by a group of robbers and shot in the right shoulder, for which he had to be treated in a hospital.

After being discharged, he learned that the attack was carried out by a local gang led by a man surnamed Masyutin, almost all of whom were later arrested and convicted.

However, the man who organized the robbery - a local businessman surnamed Gruzdev - remained at large and soon began threatening Kolebin.

Because of this, Kolebin decided that he would kill him.

In order to do so, he planned to set fire to the summer kitchen in Gruzdev's, lure him out, and shoot him.

At around 3 AM on October 15, Kolebin armed himself with a shotgun loaded with homemade buckshot and a can of gasoline, then woke up Reshetnikova and demanded that she come with him.

On the way to Gruzdev's house, he ordedered for her to hide under a bridge over the river and wait for him to come back.

Upon reaching the summer kitchen, Kolebin poured the gasoline and lubricants on one of the walls, but did not set fire to it - instead, he threw a stone in direction of Gruzdev's dog, which started barking.

About three or four minutes later, Gruzdev came out on the porch and turned on the light.

Kolebin - who had positioned himself outside a fence about 2.5 meters away - shot him once and killed him on the spot.

Upon doing so, Kolebin returned to Reshetnikova and then the pair fled the area, leaving the gasoline can and lubricant behind.

He later burned the clothes he was wearing in the oven.

Kolebin's next murder occurred in February 2000, with his victim being his nephew, Sergey Godunov.

Godunov was a schizophrenic who was periodically treated at psychiatric hospitals and supposedly improved his mental health, but after some time, he started to attack people with an axe.

Among the people he attacked was his own mother, Alexandra Godunova - Kolebin's sister.

Angered by his nephew's actions, Kolebin lured Sergey to his house under the pretense of drinking alcohol, where he hacked him to death with an axe and then buried the corpse in a cattle pen.

Reshetnikova was present at the murder, and later helped Kolebin with the burial.

A few months later, in May, Kolebin murdered Reshetnikova's brother Andrei Ivashchenko, a homeless alcoholic who periodically sold his sister's belongings to pay for booze.

Suspecting Ivashchenko of stealing and then selling something that belonged to him, Kolebin had an argument with the man, after which he decided to kill him.

He eventually lured Ivashchenko into the forest under the guise of picking ramsons and drinking alcohol, with Reshetnikova accompanying both.

The day before the murder, Kolebin prepared a shotgun with homemade buckshot, a shovel and an inflatable boat, then traveled by motorcycle to the riverbank, where he inflated the boat and crossed to the opposite bank, where he placed the items in a cache.

In the early morning, he, together with Reshetnikova and Ivashchenko, went to the riverbank with the hidden cache and started picking ramsons there.

After waiting long enough for Ivashchenko to become very drunk, Kolebin went to the cache, picked up the shotgun, and then shot Ivashchenko in the head from 8-10 meters way.

Kolebin then buried Ivashchenko's body in a nearby shallow grave, placing a bag with ramson on his head and then filling the rest with dirt.

Like with the previous victim, Reshetnikova was present at the crime scene.

In the late 2000s, Kolebin began having problems with self-control and exhibited signs of a mental illness.

Due to his increased impulsivity, conflicts soon arose between him and Reshetnikova, who eventually left him.

Kolebin then moved in with another woman in Rybnoye, Elena Nikitina, through whom he became acquainted with a prostitute surnamed Silina.

Sometime in 2009, Kolebin began suspecting that Silina had stolen a tape recorder from his house, and on December 31, while the trio were drinking together, an argument emerged in which he and Nikitina brought up the tape recorder.

Silina denied stealing it, upon which an angered Kolebin went to the yard to get a rope.

He then returned, snuck up behind Silina while she was still arguing with Nikitina, and then strangled her.

Kolebin later claimed that the whole ordeal took at least five minutes, and in order to cover up their traces, he and Nikitina undressed Silina, burned her clothes in the stove and then dragged the body to the vegetable garden, where they buried it.

A few days later, Kolebin dug up the corpse and took it on a sled to a field outside Rybnoye, where he dismembered it with an axe and the buried the scattered remains in the snow.