Nikita Vakhtangovich Lytkin, March 24, 1993
Disclaimer: I do not idolize their murders in any way shape or form, nor am I in any community relating to the True Crime Community. I saw a gif of Nikita reenacting to the feds the way he murdered his victims, and I assumed it was some college skit or something, he's the only one I care/know so much about.
Summary
Nikita Vakhtangovich Lytkin was a serial killer from Irkutsk, Russia. Nikita and his serial partner, Artyom Alexandrovich Anoufriev, committed six murders and injured nine others in a series of attacks that took place in Irkutsk Academgorodok between December 2010 and April 2011, while still teenagers. Nikita died by suicide on November 30, 2021, he was 28 years old.
I feel sick when I think about what I have done. Sometimes I see myself as if from the outside and don't believe it was me. If it were possible to change everything and start living again, I would never repeat these crimes.
His mother worked in a shoe store, and his father was not present. Lytkin also had a younger half-brother, who shot himself after the death of his mother.
Nikita was always uncommunicative and introverted, when guests came he hid out in his room. Nikita was a good student until 5th grade, participating in creative contests and receiving commendable letters.
2004, Lytkin enrolled in the mathematics class, due to high test scores, however, his mother later stated the other children didn't accept him.
Lytkin met Anoufriev at a party and started closing himself off to everyone but his new friend. Since the other boys did not like Anoufriev for his unfriendly behaviour which Nikita started to adopt. Nikita did not worry about it, as he considered his relationships with previous friends as "fake children's friendships."
According to some irrelevant dude who was questioned in this case, Nikita was just jealous of wealthier classmates and the lack of socialization of the teenager resulted in his classmates bullying him; Lysenko said at the trial that there would be no conflict if Lytkin had learned to fight back, but instead he answered "die" to the bullies
Because of which for 5 years Lytkin's school name was "Jimbo" (referring to Jimbo Jones from Simpsons).
In the 8th grade he began to skip school then was expelled.
Applied to college twice afterwards, first in energy, then in construction in 2009.
In the first case, he was expelled for academic failure, after he failed to pass the first session; in the second, one of his classmates patronized him, so in return he burglarized his house and stole money and belongings. Lytkin's mother filed a police report but later withdrew it, not wanting him to be imprisoned. After this, Lytkin stopped attending classes.
Psychologists had advised his mother to give him more freedom and not to restrict his personal space; however, as time passed, Lytkin's state of mind began to deteriorate.
Several years before the killings he began to be ashamed of his mother, trying to avoid her at all costs.
On November 30, 2021, Lytkin (28) slashed his wrists at the Correctional Colony No. 7 in Angarsk. He was found dead in the early morning of December 1, 2021 having served ten years of his sentence.
But it is also rumored by TCC he was getting into fights to be contained where Anoufriev was held, and was beaten to death.
After his arrest, he claimed that it was the communication with the skinheads that led him to commit murder. Anoufriev was a member of a white power skinhead group, but not for long, his reasoning was that their ideology was too passive and soft.
According to Boomer, Anoufriev simply felt hatred towards everyone, and did not care about whom he killed. Another motive, confirmed by both Anoufriev and Lytkin, was the desire to imitate other well-known serial killers.
They made edgy groups in support of certain killers, "Pichushkin, Our President" and one day before the anniversary of the execution of Andrei Chikatilo, they posted his portrait on the internet with the signature "Andrei Romanovich. We grieve." Lytkin even created a group in one social network called "Irkutsk anti-bom gang: Blood Magic".
They were interested in the so-called "Dnepropetrovsk maniacs" Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk, as well as the Irkutsk "Blood Magic Gang", and created an album (their band is called "Dismembered PugachOva") for them under the name "Blood Magic Gang".
"I have always told him that there are many good people in the world and that there are more good people than bad people to learn and forgive. I tried to protect him from trouble while I could, and thus broke his life. I have ceased to be an authority for him, because I myself am just a weak woman who has not achieved anything in life, who has only worked from morning till night in order to somehow survive." - Nikita's mother, Marina
Anoufriev blamed the murders on Lytkin, that it was just his idea, Anoufriev got no satisfaction out of the crimes. But he stated in the testimony that he planned to move to St. Petersburg in the future, where he wanted to commit more crimes, but later refuted his claims.
All the knife wounds were made by Lytkin, and it's on record when the skinhead's were attacking another group, Anoufriev was a pussy and ran away LOL
"These teenagers are locked on each other, because they fit together perfectly. Anoufriev is a leader who wanted to be understood at a glance. Lytkin is a performer who dreamed of approval and recognition - investigator Maxim Khomyak
Someone is overdosing on copium and anax