A former police office who brutally murdered six homeless men because he wanted to see if they would turn into zombies has been jailed.
Arsen Bayrambekov abducted victims from the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast region before slaying them and trying to resurrect them during occult rituals.
The 35-year-old worked as a policeman in his daytime job before carrying out his crimes at night in a bid to create 'zomby slaves'.
Arsen Bayrambekov (pictured) brutally murdered six homeless men because he wanted to see if they would turn into zombies
Arsen Bayrambekov (pictured) abducted victims from the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast region before slaying them and trying to resurrect them during occult rituals
The self-confessed Satanist, who reportedly advertised himself online as an expert in black magic, took them to 'Ganya's Pit' - a spot close to the nearby village of Koptyaki, where the Bolsheviks threw the bodies of Tsar Nicholas ll and his family in 1918.
It is believed he then killed them with a knife before performing rituals with their blood.
He then buried the bodies in a particular way before trying to resurrect them to create zombies.
Police were alerted to the crimes after an anonymous tip-off after the killer boasted to other Satanists about what he had done.
Arsen Bairambekov lured the vagrants with free alcohol to a makeshift altar and bonfire in woodlands in Verkhnyaya Pyshma at night-time
The 35-year-old worked as a policeman in his daytime job before carrying out his crimes at night in a bid to create 'zomby slaves'
They completed a search of the area and found the evidence and bodies of the sickening slayings.
Bayrambekov admitted the killings and many feared he would escape a prison sentence because he had tried to make a deal with the prosecution, claiming he was not in his right mind.
But judges sent him for a psychiatric evaluation with experts eventually ruling that Bayrambekov was sane enough to be able to answer for his actions.
He was sentenced to 13 years and 2 months behind bars and ordered to pay 900,000 RUB (£12,510) to the families of the murdered men.
