A contract soldier from Yakutia is suspected of the fourth murder.

38-year-old Viktor Savvinov detained the day before, Ekho Stolitsy reports without citing a source. According to a local journalist Ekaterina Chemezova, the SVEO officer is suspected of the fourth murder.

Savvinov has multiple convictions for theft, carjacking, robbery, and other serious crimes. In 2020, he was found guilty of the brutal murder of a woman. Savvinov was supposed to serve 11 years in a maximum-security prison colony, but in 2023, he enlisted in the army and was pardoned.

In February 2024, Savvinov returned from Ukraine. He was walking around the village drunk. Suntara Local journalists reported that he complained that he was not being honored as a military man. Afterward, Savvinov beat a drinking acquaintance to death with a crowbar, and then attacked 64-year-old teacher Valentina Fedorova, the widow of his uncle, with an axe.

For two murders, Savvinov was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum-security penal colony. But in July 2025, he again signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense and left for the war in Ukraine.

Savvinov deserted from the front and was wanted.