Man steals bodies to make 'dolls'

Man steals bodies to make 'dolls'

Anatoly Moskvina

Russian police arrested a man following the gruesome discovery of 29 mummified bodies at his apartment.

The 45-year-old Anatoly Moskvina had apparently dressed them up like dolls.

Russia's Interior Ministry spokesman Valery Gribakin said that the suspect from the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod dug up the bodies at several cemeteries in the region.

He dressed them in clothes, also dug up from the graves, Gribakin said.

One of the

Gribakin said that the suspect is a historian who has authored several books.

He said the arrest followed a police probe into the desecration of graves in the region, which was initially blamed on extremist groups.

Nizhny Novgorod is located about 400 km east of Moscow.

Russian media reports quoted police as saying that the man only had selected the remains of young women, aged between 15 and 26, for his grisly collection.
Source: AP / Agencies

Published Nov 7 2011