”Russia has established a reputation for bizarre serial killings...”

You don’t say:

After persuading the student to come into his garage, Dmitry K overpowered his victim and then wrapped his body with copper wire connected to a generator. The suspect told police he hit a button on his computer which triggered a surge of current through the student's body, killing him almost instantly.

And as if that wasn’t enough...

According to police, the suspect also claimed to have designed a doormat that would electrocute anyone who stood on it, but had yet to test it.

He also asked detectives to return a camera he had invented which used an electro-magnetic ray to erase the memory of anyone he photographed with it.

Hmm, someone’s been reading too many comics/watching too many James Bond movies/playing too much ‘Mousetrap’...