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Nikolai Dzhumagaliev

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev
Николай Джумагалиев
Born Nikolai Dzhumagaliev
(1952-11-15) November 15, 1952 (age 64)
Uzynagash, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Other names Metal Fang, Kolya the Maneater
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment
Conviction(s) Not guilty by reason of insanity
Killings
Victims 9+
Span of killings
1979–1980
Country Soviet Union
Date apprehended
1980

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev (Russian: Николай Есполович Джумагалиев, Kazakh: Николай Жұмағалиев, born 1952) is a Soviet serial killer, also known as Metal Fang, convicted for the killing of 7 people in the Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan) between 1979 and 1980.

Dzhumagaliev killed and cannibalized at least nine people, targeting mainly women in the Almaty area, and is believed to have killed more until his arrest. He was declared insane and imprisoned in a mental hospital until escaping in 1989, but was recaptured two years later, and is currently serving his sentence.

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev was born on 15 November, 1952, in Uzynagash, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, to a Kazakh father and Belarusian mother, the third of four children and only son of his family. After completing the 9th grade of school, Dzhumagaliev entered a railway school, and following his graduation he was assigned to work in Atyrau. In 1970, at age 18 he was conscripted into the Soviet Army and served in chemical defense in Samarkand, Uzbek SSR. When his service was completed Dzhumagaliev tried to learn to be a driver and enter university, but achieved neither. As an alternative he travelled the Soviet Union, visiting the Ural Mountains, Siberia, Murmansk, where he frequently changed a number of professions, including a sailor, forwarder, electrician and bulldozer operator. In 1977, he returned to Uzynagash in Kazakhstan to take a job as a firefighter, contracting syphilis and trichomoniasis that same year.


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