Deranged stalker's history of grooming underage girls takes gruesome twist after rent dispute boils over
Long before he committed one of the most gruesome cannibal murders Russia has seen, Arkady Zverev already had a troubling pattern of preying on vulnerable underage girls.
An obsessed stalker, he allegedly groomed and seduced his teenage girlfriend, only for her to mysteriously fall to her death from a window. Craving ever younger victims, the 22-year-old then set his sights on 12-year-old Valeria online. Despite the 1,500 mile distance between them, Zverev manipulated the girl's mind to the point she ran away from home to be with him.
Screams pierce apartment building as axe-wielding maniac hacks up helpless landlord and boils organs on stove
When Valeria arrived to her stalker's home, she entered a makeshift house of horrors. There Zverev had just committed a brutal axe murder against his 21-year-old landlord Alexander Popovich over the mundane issue of a rent increase.
With Valeria's young mind still firmly under his warped control, Zverev included her in violating Popovich's remains in unthinkable ways.
Wielding sharp knives in the tiny apartment kitchen, the pair ruthlessly chopped apart the body and cut out organs to cook on the stove and eat.
Among the body parts the cannibal predator and his manipulated child accomplice consumed were the victim's eye, heart, and brains.
Girl who ate human flesh is free to mingle among orphans as officials claim 'no deviations', while her cannibal mentor never faces full justice
In the aftermath of the barbaric crime, justice never seemed to fully run its course. Despite participating in dismemberment and cannibalism of the victim, Valeria was cleared as an innocent party. She spent merely a month in psychiatric evaluation before being transferred to an orphanage, shocking local parents by interacting freely with their children.
Even as she described the taste of human flesh and organs to her youthful classmates, the institution director declared Valeria "an absolutely normal child with no deviations." Meanwhile, though Zverev confessed exhaustive details about his sadistic cannibal acts in court, he died mysteriously in police custody before ever receiving a sentence.
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