Tuakovskygrad Torturer

Rusya Baltabev, more commonly known as the Tuakovskygrad Torturer or the Smirnova Slaughterer, was a Yarovan who is estimated to have murdered more than 65 people, predominantly women, in Smirnova Oblast beginning in 1978 and lasting until 1996, when he was finally arrested by authorities. Arguably, Baltabev has earned the most infamy for the brutal way in which he subjected his victims to torture and the appalling conditions they were forced to endure. A by profession, his isolated farm in the Karbykan mountains provided the ideal surroundings to commit criminal acts without a reasonable likelihood of district law enforcement finding out. Baltabev would habitually scout out potential victims in the nearby town of Tuakovskygrad, usually by picking up women at night clubs or by offering lifts to hitchhikers.

Baltabev has, controversially, garnered a cult following in the United Federated Districts and elsewhere in Eastern Artemia, with the award-winning horror film Monster accounting his life. The criminal investigation that was pursued subsequent to his arrest uncovered an unprecedented level of collusion with local police officers. Some of whom, such as Sergeant Artem Karchutskiy, were directly involved in torturing and raping victims. Then-Chancellor of Smirnova Boris Ryzhkin described the findings as “some of the most abhorrent things I have ever heard”. Ryzhkin later led a challenge to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the federal abolition of the, citing Baltabev’s crimes.

Background
Rusya Dmitriy Baltabev was born on 3 March, 1951 on the same poultry farm in Basdevstk where he would go on to commit criminal acts in his adulthood. While not a lot is known about Baltabev’s early life and childhood, according to locals in the Basdevstk area, for quite some time, he was regarded with disdain owing to his unruly behaviour as a juvenile. The grandmother of Natasha Ishilska, one of Baltabev’s many victims, recalls a neighbour remarking to her how Rusya, when he was about ten years old, was killing people’s cats in the village for amusement and, when he was thirteen, got in an altercation with a young girl and fractured her nose. It was alleged that Baltabev’s parents, Nikita Baltabev and Svetlana Baltabeva, were brother and sister, however, following his incarceration, s were acquired which determined that his parents were, in fact, first cousins. Baltabev was one of eleven children, although only five survived past infancy. Rusya’s younger brothers Yuriy and Vlad assisted him in multiple kidnappings and murders.