Zokhid Otaboev

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Zokhid Otaboev
Born1988 (age 35–36)
Akkurgan District, Uzbek SSR
Conviction(s) Murder x3
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment
Details
Victims3
Span of crimes
2010–2017
CountryUzbekistan
State(s) Tashkent
Date apprehended
November 2017

Zokhid Otaboev (born 1988) is an Uzbekistani serial killer who murdered three of his neighbors' children between 2010 and 2017 in order to take revenge on them. After admitting his guilt to the crimes, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. [1]

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Background

Zokhid Otaboev was born in 1988 in the Akkurgan District, near Tashkent, where he lived in the Khonobad mahallah, a mostly rural region populated by factory workers. He had no prior criminal convictions and by 2010, the 23-year-old worked at a local textile factory like most of his fellow villagers. While working there, he was teased by three neighbors (Abbos Otamurzayev, Shodiyor Aliboev and Zufar Azimboev) whom constantly joked about the fact that Zokhid was still unmarried. [1] According to his later confessions, Otaboev took these insults personally, feeling that his manhood was mocked, and as a result, he decided that he would take revenge upon his neighbors by killing their children, making them feel even more humiliated than he himself felt. [1]

Murders

On June 12, 2010, Otaboev saw 7-year-old Shahboz Otamurzayev walking on the street near his house. He lured the boy into his house, where he proceeded to hit him on the head several times, causing Shahboz to pass out. After this, he proceeded to strangle the boy. After killing Otamurzayev, he threw the corpse into a cesspool, which he later covered up so the body couldn't be found. A search was initiated to locate the boy, with Otaboev himself taking part, but after several months, Shahboz couldn't be located and the whole operation was called off. [1]

Four years passed before Otaboev struck again. On August 10, 2014, he lured the 9-year-old deaf boy Yorkinbek Aliboev into his house after seeing him riding a bicycle near his home. After the boy got inside, Otaboev struck him on the head several times, killing him on the spot. In order to get rid of the evidence, he threw the body into a cesspool which he later buried, and disposed of the bicycle in a nearby river. A week later, investigators located the bike, but were unable to trace it either back to the boy's location or to his abductor. [1]

After having two children disappearing mysteriously from the tightly knit community, a rumor spread around the area that a maniac was abducting and killing children, causing panicked locals to move out of the mahalla together with their families. In 2017, Otaboev would finally marry a woman, a girl named Nargiza, but this failed to prevent him from committing one final murder. [1] In November of that same year, the 3-year-old Oybek Azimboev accidentally walked onto his private property, angering Zokhid. He got out of the house and hit the boy on the head with a kettle, causing him serious injuries. Before he could finish the boy off, Otaboev heard that the boy's mother Mukhlis, frightened by his long absence, had started looking for him. He then dragged Azimboev to his barn, where he repeatedly hit the boy before finally strangling him with a rope. Eventually, Mukhlis knocked on Otaboev's door and asked him if he had seen her son, but he replied that he had been asleep and was unaware that the boy was missing. After she left, Otaboev returned to the body, which he dragged to a nearby cesspool and subsequently buried it there. [1]

Arrest, trial and imprisonment

Three days after killing Oybek, Otaboev was detained by local law enforcement as a suspect in the child murders that had been plaguing the area. [2] During interrogations, Otaboev fully admitted his guilt, and then proceeded to show the burial sites to the authorities, who recorded the excavations. After a several-month long trial, Zokhid Otaboev was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The killer of three children "wanted to take revenge on the neighbors"" (in Russian). Gazeta.uz. August 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Suspect in three child murders arrested" (in Russian). Gazeta.uz. February 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ "The man who killed his neighbors' children was sentenced to life in prison" (in Russian). Kun.uz. August 4, 2018.
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