Moskvin was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and deemed unfit to stand trial, instead being sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment. He was a brilliant academic who reportedly spoke 13 languages and wrote scholarly works on funeral rites and children's folklore — which he used as a cover to dig graves unnoticed under the pretext of conducting "research."

His name was Nikita Moskvin. And for nearly a decade, he was the internet’s most prolific—and most tragic—editor.