Viktor Selikhov

In November 1963, two women were attacked, but their assailant was thwarted by a group of passers-by. The crime wasn't reported to the police, and was initially considered an act of hooliganism. The following month, the naked body of a young teacher named M. Kulakovoy was found in a forest outside the village of Prigorodnoye. She had been raped, blindfolded and subsequently killed with a blunt object. On April 7, 1964, in the village of Leninsky, another young woman was brutally abused in this same way, but survived her injuries. This was followed up by another attack on May 8, when the offender attacked a young saleswoman outside her store in Alamüdün.

Selikhov's first recorded crimes occurred in 1962, when he began raping young girls in the forest park of Alamüdün. In what he would describe as "an attempt to shock his victims" he would always attack without any shoes or shirt on, wearing a wreath around his head.

Viktor Mikhailovich Selikhov (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Селихов; 1935 – 1965), known as The Naked Demon, was a Soviet serial killer and rapist who, between 1962 and 1964, attacked numerous young girls and women in the Kirghiz SSR's Chuy Region, raping at least 10 and killing 3 of his victims. Noted for his peculiar appearance while committing the crimes (barefoot, shirtless and wearing a wreath on his head), he would eventually be arrested, convicted and subsequently executed in 1965.