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In June 1998, the Siberian Military District Court found him guilty on all counts and sentenced him to death by firing squad. Despite the fact that in accordance with the conclusions of the expert opinion of the Serbsky Center, Ershov "suffered from a total delay in psychosexual development...with an anomaly of the sexual attraction of the sadistic circle in the form of a desire to rape and the desire to kill", the court recognized him as sane. During the reading of a multi-judge verdict (the criminal case was 43 volumes) Ershov, usually calm, lost consciousness. His lawyer filed a cassation appeal, seeking to mitigate the sentence of his client, but Ershov himself stated that he "lost the right to live." On January 28, 1999, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court upheld the verdict without changes.

In parallel, Ershov committed about 40 robberies, some of which resulted in the killing of victims. One of them was a policeman who tried to detain him. While trying to capture the criminal, the main forces of the Krasnoyarsk police were abandoned. However, he was detained by accident. On October 29, 1995, the maniac attacked a 16-year-old girl and tried to take off her gold chain. Her cries were heard by relatives, and Ershov tried to hide. From the two men he met, he managed to fight off one with a knife, but one of the local women knocked him out with a fire extinguisher. A police squad arrived and took Ershov to the Railroad Police Department of Krasnoyarsk.

Soon Ershov raped a 16-year-old vocational school student on the banks of the Yenisei River, but left her alive. Then, on November 28, 1992, he raped and hammered a 42-year-old foodservice employee with a stick. Over the next three years, he committed another 18 rapes of women, 15 of which resulted in murder. Victims of the maniac were both young girls and elderly women. One of the investigators recalled: "I got the impression that he was killing to hide traces of his crimes; in one case - rape, in another - robbery. How to erase traces...The beast. He is the beast - purely animal instincts."

Little is known about Ershov's early life. In May 1991, he was drafted into the Soviet Army, and served in the Far East. During his service, he was subjected to bullying by other soldiers. Once he attacked one of the abusers, beat him with a brick and hit him several times with a knife, then deserted and returned to Krasnoyarsk.

Vadim Nikolayevich Ershov (born 1973 in Krasnoyarsk), known as the "Krasnoyarsk Beast", is  Russian serial killer. Between 1992 and 1995, he committed more than 70 crimes in Krasnoyarsk and its environs, including 19 murders and 8 attempted murders. He is considered one of the most terrible serial killers in the history of the Krasnoyarsk Krai.