country death_date city conviction cause sentence victims beginyear birthname article_title endyear name apprehended
russia february 24 , 1979 moscow murder firing squad death 5 september 1977 anatoly nikolaevich biryukov anatoly biryukov
 october 1977 anatoly biryukov october 24 , 1977
anatoly biryukov

anatoly nikolaevich biryukov -lrb- russian : Анатолий Николаевич Бирюков , ca. 1939 -- 1979 -rrb- was a russian serial killer , responsible for the kidnappings and subsequent murders of five infants from moscow in the fall of 1977 .
biryukov kidnapped and murdered his first victim on 16 september 1977 , when he took off with a stroller that had been left briefly unattended in front of an infant formula store on marshal biryuzov street in moscow -lrb- Улица Маршала Бирюзова -rrb- .
later that day , the missing stroller was found empty and the baby was found dead in the hallway of an apartment building on the same street .
biryukov kidnapped his second victim -lrb- a three-month-old girl -rrb- on 19 september 1977 when he seized a stroller from in front of the `` children 's world '' store -lrb- '' Детский мир '' -rrb- on prospekt mira .
at this point the soviet authorities realized they had a possible serial perpetrator , and launched a large operation looking for the missing baby .
the body of biryukov 's second victim was found in a landfill near mamyrov -lrb- Мамыри -rrb- on october 17 , and it showed signs of having suffered sexual assault before death .
three additional infant victims are attributed to biryukov before he was foiled in an attempt he made in october in chekhov .
in the aftermath of the attempt , he was chased after by citizens who later described him to the investigators , leading to biryukov 's arrest .
biryukov was sentenced to death .
the sentence was appealed to the supreme soviet of the rsfsr in 1978 , but he was executed in 1979 .
the murders were the subject of episode 206 , titled `` empty stroller '' -lrb- russian : '' пустая коляска '' -rrb- , of the ntv show '' Следствие вели ... '' .
participants included two eyewitnesses , the mother of one of the victims , two state investigators and the perpetrator 's defense attorney .
according to the presenter of the ntv show , leonid kanevsky , the soviet regime avoided publicizing the biryukov case , in part because anatoly 's father , nikolai biryukov , was a soviet general who had been decorated a hero of the soviet union during world war ii .
