An electric chair – not your usual weekend DIY project

Steampunk can be fun, renovating a bathroom can be an enjoyable challenge but all this type of do-it-yourself projects pales in comparison to this psychotic Russian who built his own electric chair. Not only that but he then preceded to test it out by killing 5 people.

The man has pled guilty to killing one man, after being arrested recently, who he had lured to his garage slash death chamber by claiming on the Internet that he wanted to buy some computer parts. Once in the garage the victim was tied and electrocuted the Russian took the body to the outskirts of Yekaterinburg and burned the body in a fire made of old tires.

Amazingly some of the murders were witnessed by friends the case was only solved when the police found and identified the burnt body. Investigators believe that in 2008 and 2009 the sociopath had killed at least 5 people using the computer parts for sale ruse. when his home was searched the police found a small power plant installed in the garage and linked to a computer.

The detained killer said that he had designed a device with which he planned to kill people who passed by in their cars – one part of the machine would remotely stop the car engine and the other part, resembling a door mat – would electrocute and kill the exiting driver.

While staying in the pre-trial detention center, the criminal said that he also planned to make a device that would erase people’s memory with an electro-magnetic ray.

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