the ministry of internal affairs and the prosecutor general 's office created a joint investigative and operational group to catch the maniac. it was headed by a young investigator from the prosecutor general's office of the soviet union operation was given the code name a boa constrictor, as the criminal strangled his victims. the crimes continued from 1986 to 1992. several more boys disappeared in the moscow region, here are their names: seryozha strochkin, seryozha zakharchenko, alyosha buryakov, roman dergachev, nikita bogdanov, and the already known to us sergei plyukhin. the disappearance of the teenagers was associated with the name of the maniac fisher, but it was not possible to track him down. in 1992 , a new employee, investigator valery kostarev, was appointed to yevgeny bakin's group. the first thing they did was shake down meat processing plants, checking all men, without exception, alas, such head-on work did not bring results, it was not possible to find the ripper's legacy, the investigative task force to catch the maniac was expanding, 10 more criminal investigation officers were added to it. in addition, the assistant of the odintsovo prosecutor, natalya smaleeva, was connected to the work. she deal