Outed Serial Killer Assures Neighbors He Isn’t Planning New Murders

Residents of an apartment building in Russia’s Yekaterinburg have just learned they’re living next door to a serial killer who was locked up in a mental hospital after he was convicted of electrocuting his victims to death.

Yegor Khabarov gained notoriety in 2009, when he was first detained on suspicion of up to six murders. Ultimately, he was found guilty in only two killings, with investigators citing a lack of evidence in the others, but he avoided prison time by being declared insane and sent for treatment at a psychiatric facility.

Now, however, Khabarov has been released—and no one was reportedly aware of it until a retired police officer working as a mall security guard realized the killer who’d been dubbed “The Electrician” was now his co-worker.

Read more at The Daily Beast.