Editing Alexander Spesivtsev (section)

==Crimes==
Though in official databases, he was, at the time, still listed as undergoing treatment, in 1991, he was discharged. Once out, he began associating with transients and beggars and developed a deep-seated hatred of street children, whom he viewed as a byproduct of Russia's emerging democracy. Spesivstev was likewise particularly embittered by an episode during his commitment at the [[Oryol]] Hospital, in which he asked another patient to insert a metal ball into his urethra to make him more virile. This had the opposite effect, causing erectile dysfunction and genital pains.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Alexander and then Lyudmila began to lure victims into their apartment, chosen at random, where Alexander would torture and eventually kill them. Unaccompanied street children attending discothèques and playing in construction sites had become commonplace in the impoverished city of Novokuznetsk since the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]], and they became his main target.<ref name=hall/> The bodies of victims would sometimes be cannibalized.<ref name=hall/><ref name=kommersant/> Lyudmila would dispose of unwanted remains by throwing them from buckets into the [[Aba River (Russia)|Aba River]], late at night.<ref name=hall/>