They locate in Russia thanks to DNA a serial killer who killed a farmer and an official in Alicante

Two crimes apparently unrelated to each other -except for the violence used- have ended up pointing in a single direction.

The one that has led investigators to find a serial killer in a psychiatric hospital in

.

This is

, a 26-year-old who, in the middle of the year of the pandemic, sowed terror in different parts of the province of

.

Two years later, the DNA has made it possible to find the track of the man who stabbed a farmer to death and strangled a Justice official.

The National Police and the Civil Guard consider Nikolay, therefore, the alleged perpetrator of two homicides, although a third is also blamed on an attempted degree, which led the Security Forces to even request the collaboration of citizens to identify him. .

In July 2020, the image of him was released, that of a tall and very thin young man, with a shaved head, which some witnesses had also identified by his

accent .

However, there were no more clues.

Until now.

Nikolay is directly considered a serial killer with a "psychotic character", insofar as he chose his victims at random.

Hence, at first no one thought that the crimes in

and

had the same signature.

Moreover, after the crimes committed in Alicante, he was able to flee to Russia, where he committed a new murder in December 2020.

Nikolay thus left behind a past of 15 years in Spain, where his mother was also settled as a businesswoman.

He was in charge of several real estate firms in the Torrevieja area, with a large presence of the Russian population.

His job, in fact, was to manage the sale and rental of real estate to Russian clients.

Even so, the investigators consider that he could have helped his son to flee the country after committing the murders.

Nikolay is charged, in the first place, with the attempted murder with a knife of a woman, whom he approached in a portal of a house in

in July 2020. He stabbed her several times, but ran away as soon as a neighbor came to the aid of the victim.

It was then that surveillance cameras captured the image of him for the first time, with a large knife in his hand.

A month later, in August 2020, he returned to acting.

She killed a farmer while he was working on his farm in Los Montesinos, again with a knife.

The man's body was found by another worker next to the tractor he was driving.

He had ten stab wounds.

In this case, the Civil Guard obtained DNA samples, but the profile was absolutely unknown at the time, as it did not match anyone in the police file.

His trail reappeared with the third homicide, which caused great commotion in the Elche district of La Hoya.

In November 2020, the body of a woman with obvious signs of strangulation and drowning was found in an irrigation canal.

She was a well-known Justice official and, again, several witnesses claimed to have seen a thin man with a Russian accent.

The Local Judicial Police Brigade took charge of the investigation.

It was possible to find DNA remains that, as confirmed by Científica's tests, coincided with the sample from the homicide in Los Montesinos.

INTERPOL COLLABORATION

In order to identify the author of the crimes, a joint team was created made up of agents from the Alicante Civil Guard Command, the Elche Local Judicial Police Brigade and the Homicide and Disappeared Section of the Central UDEV, but it was requested It also helps Interpol and citizen collaboration with the authorization of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Torrevieja.

The dissemination of the image of the suspect led to witness statements and photographic examinations, which finally led to the identification of Nikolay T., born in Lobnia (Moscow) in 1995. Interpol confirmed the suspect's arrival in Moscow in mid-2022 and his arrest for other crimes of murder in Russia, with which he entered preventive detention.

However, he was later released due to his mental illness, although he was referred to a psychiatric hospital where he remains today.

The Russian authorities confirmed on October 24 through Interpol that Nikolay's genetic profile coincided with that of the author of the two homicides investigated in Spain, in addition to the attempted degree of commission for which he was recognized by multiple witnesses and by the victim herself.

The Spanish authorities have issued an international arrest warrant.

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