Andrei MASLICH

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Cannibalism (killed/cannibalized cellmates in two separate incidents)
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: 1990's
Date of birth: 1972
Victims profile: Men (two cellmates)
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Siberia, Russia
Status: Sentenced to death in 1995 and 1996

A death row inmate in Siberia, Andrei has received two death sentences for strangling and cooking his cell mates in prison. Maslich, a four-time convicted murderer, received his first death penalty in 1995 when he and another inmate strangled, cooked and ate a prisoner because they were bored.

He was sentenced to death again on December 26, 1996 for strangling his new cell mate after an argument and boiling his liver in a metal mug on a makeshift fire.

Allegedly he cooked his cell mate in hopes of being declared insane and escaping execution for his first act of cannibalism. Maslich told the Altai regional court he cooked his cellmate, a double murderer, in hopes of being declared insane and escaping execution for his first act of cannibalism.

The crime was not discovered until the next morning, when a warder looked through the spy hole and Maslich nodded to his lifeless cellmate: "He will not be getting up today." The prison director assured the court that the food provided was good and plentiful: "Hunger was not the cause of this crime."

Whatever his reasons were, we pity Andrei's next cell mate.

Andrei Maslich

December 26, 1996

Andrei, a death row inmate in Siberia, received a second death sentence for strangling and then cooking his cellmate's liver. The crafty cannibal claimed he cooked his cellmate in hopes of being declared insane so to escape the first death sentence he received for a previous act of cannibalism.

'Cannibal' Gets Death

The Moscow Times

December 27, 1996

BARNAUL, Western Siberia () -- A Siberian prison convict has been given the death sentence for the second time for killing and trying to eat a cellmate, Interfax reported Thursday.

Andrei Maslich, 24, was on death row in the city of Barnaul last May when he strangled his cellmate, cut out his liver and tried to boil it in a metal mug over a makeshift fire, according to Interfax.

Maslich was initially given the death penalty last year after he and another inmate strangled, cooked and ate a fellow prisoner.

They told authorities they were bored and wanted to visit Moscow, where they thought they would be sent for psychiatric examinations.

Andrei Maslich

Offering no other explanation than not wanting to share his cell, Andrei Maslich, 24, strangled his fellow prisoner and then cut out his liver with a shard of broken glass. He put the organ in a mug with water and boiled it up on a makeshift fire made from his bedding. Standing in the defendant's cage in the court room, Maslich admitted to drinking up his homemade stew. The next mornign, part of the shrunken organ was found in the mug.

Maslich, a four-time convicted murderer, was initially given his first death penalty last year after he and another inmate strangled, cooked and ate another prisoner. Then they told authorities they were bored and wanted to visit Moscow, where they thought they would be sent for psychiatric examinations.

Mayhem.net

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

MO: Imprisoned for two murders; killed/cannibalized cellmates in two separate incidents.

DISPOSITION: Condemned 1995 for killing one cellmate; condemned on second count, 1996.

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