Vladimir Cheskidov, 51, was arrested in the Chelyabinsk region in the remote Ural Mountains after a 33-year-old woman, identified only by her first name, Ekaterina, escaped from his home in the village of Smoleno on Monday for having confined a 19-year-old woman "for love" for 14 years in a dungeon.
The victim, who managed to escape, was allegedly beaten, tortured and raped over 1,000 times.
Her 72-year-old mother, who said the victim "lived like a queen", faces up to 15 years in prison for complicity in the kidnapping.
The 33-year-old woman said her captor killed a woman and allegedly forced her to help dismember and dispose of the body.
The woman told police that Cheskidov had kept her in captivity since 2009 and would only let her out of a padlocked bedroom with bars on the windows to perform house chores at knifepoint.
Ekaterina also claimed to have been repeatedly tortured and brutally beaten for any minor transgression.
A search of Cheskidov’s one-story house yielded a collection of sex toys, muzzles and CDs containing pornography, local media outlets reported.
In a horrific twist, Ekaterina also alleged that Cheskidov fatally stabbed a woman named Oksana, whom he referred to as his “wife,” in 2011 — and then forced her to help him dispose of Oksana’s body.
If found guilty of murder and the other charges, Cheskidov could be looking at 25 years in a penal colony.
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