Elena Lobacheva said she was inspired by Bride of Chucky (Picture: East2West News)

A woman has been jailed for 13 years after she took part in some of the murders of 14 people with a gang of four men.

Elena Lobacheva, 27, said she got sexual pleasure from stabbing her victims to death in a bid to wipe out homeless people.

She also said she had been inspired by horror movie Bride of Chucky and saw serial killer Alexander Picushkin as her hero.

She was jailed along with gang leader Pavel Voitov, 23, who tried to do a Nazi salute when he was sentenced despite being handcuffed, wearing a shirt that said ‘only hatred’.


The court heard Lobacheva ‘laughed’ during killings wore a mask covering her face.



One of the murders was so violent that parts of his brain were found 16ft away from his body.

Elena Lobacheva, 27, Pavel Voitov, 23, Vladislav Karatayev, 21; Artur Nartsissov, 25; Maxim Pavlov, 19 have all been jailed (Picture: East2West News)

After her arrest she told police that ‘randomly stabbing the body of a dying human brought her pleasure compared to sexual pleasure’.

The court was told she ‘loved’ killing, and she confessed to involvement in half the gang’s murders.

A drunk carpenter killed by the gang was knifed 171 times, while others were repeatedly struck with hammers, the court was told.

Two women were among their 14 victims. One, called Tatyana, was stabbed 40 times near Belarussky Station.

Gang member Vladislav Karatayev, 21, was jailed for 16 years by the Moscow court, Artur Nartsissov, 25, and Maxim Pavlov, 19, both received nine and a half year sentences.

Voitov said of Lobacheva: ‘It was clear that she loved murders and enjoyed watching them. She always spoke about torture and the dismembering of bodies.

Lobacheva said she got sexual pleasure from stabbing homeless people to death (Picture: East2West News)

‘She laughed as we killed, it was clear as day that she loved it.’

Karatayev said of her: ‘It was clear for me that committing murder was pleasant for her.

‘Both of them, Lobacheva and Voitov were absolutely calm and found pleasure in horrific murders.’

When her flat was searched, police found five knives and on her computer a ‘step-by-step instruction to killing people and photos of all of her victims with their stomachs cut open and body parts cut off’.

Folders titled ‘Tenderness’ and ‘Need this’ contained hundreds pictures and video recordings of torture and executions.

In a notebook she had recorded the number of knife wounds on the gang’s victims’ bodies.

Prosecutor Yaroslav Myts gave a chilling assessment of the five killers.

‘Members of this gang don’t find anything strange in what they were doing,’ he said. ‘Look at the number of stabs they were inflicting on helpless people. This shows they were enjoying it. It’s not just hatred, they are maniacs.’

He warned: ‘The worst thing is that these people have followers. After the gang was detained, one neo-Nazi online community was renamed to “Support Pavel Voitov”.’

Lobacheva was an ardent follower of serial killer Pichushkin, nicknamed the Chess Board Maniac, who murdered 49.

He was stopped with his arrest in 2006 before reaching his target of one victim for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard.



Earlier this year from his cell in an Arctic penal colony he made a similar claim to Lobacheva, saying that killing ‘brought me colossal pleasure.

‘It is comparable to an orgasm.’

A female friend of Lobacheva, called Anastasia Soldatova, said: ‘We often discussed the beauty of death with Elena.

‘Voitov and Lobacheva were keen on serial killers, they spoke a lot about maniac (Pichushkin) who was like an icon for them.

‘They wanted to be like him.’

Lobacheva’s flat was ‘messy and filthy’, reported Life, even though her neighbours had described her as ‘polite and nice’.

‘There were horrible smells and personal belongings all over the flat’ which she shared with a pet rabbit,’ it was reported.

She was nicknamed ‘Chucky’s Bride’ after admitting being obsessed since childhood with the 1998 movie, starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, and Katherine Heigl.

Lobacheva had a tattoo linked to the movie on her arm.

A female friend said: ‘They wore military style clothes: trousers, boots, all were armed.

‘At first I even liked it, but later I got concerned that Pavel [Voitov] constantly had energy drinks and talked about murder all the time.

‘Later Elena told me that she discussed the philosophy of murder with Pavel, and studied maniac Pichushkin from a practical point of view.’

The gang formed after meeting at a forum of ‘ultra radicals’.

They kept in contact using nicknames via sinister social media groups like one – now banned – called Time to Hate.

Here chilling messages were posted such as ‘Everything happens for the first time, like first love, first kiss, first sex, first kill’; ‘When you are near, the world becomes better. Love you, your Knife’; ‘I am not killing, I am cleaning up the world’; ‘Every moment of the day you can pick up a knife, go out and make the world better’; and ‘Love is finding the one and only who will go killing with you.’


They murdered their victims in less than a year between 1am and 4am in derelict areas away from CCTV cameras.

The killings were conducted with ‘ultra cruelty’, said prosecutors.

A body found near Belarussky railway station had 44 knife wounds; a victim killed in the Moscow Hippodrome was stabbed 51 times and suffered 18 hammer blows; another close to Begovaya metro station had 35 knife wounds; one more, near Workers village had two wounds inflicted by stones, and 46 knife wounds.

Pavlov told investigators: ‘Voitov was our authority. He was extremely cruel in day-to-day life, and very calm and composed during the murders. He often spoke about arranging a terrorist attack.

‘Once when we walked past a station, he said it would have been so good to blow an explosive so that it hits as many people as possible, and how ‘their bodies would fly in the air’.

‘It was only Voitov who used a hammer to kill. He enjoyed killing.’

Voitov – who has an earlier conviction for defiling Jewish graves – said of his perverted motivation: ‘I despise drunk people, this is why I killed them. I consider them to be biological waste.’

Other victims were named as Alyona Shitik, Gennady Danilov, Nikolay Babin, Oleg Daikun and Stanislav Yevseev.