Russian graverobber kept 29 mummified women as 'life-sized dolls’
A Russian historian gruesomely decorated his home with 29 mummified female bodies he dug up from local graveyards and dressed as life-sized dolls, according to Russian authorities.
Local historian and cemetery explorer Anatoly Moskvin, 45, was arrested last week by police investigating a spate of grave desecrations in the area.
The brightly dressed dolls, their faces and limbs covered in cloth, were found in his flat and garage, police said.
This is one of those stories that just keeps getting weirder and according to reports from today by the BBC Moskvin had detailed graveyard photos and maps in his apartment, and instructions for making the dolls. Shoes in his apartment also matched footprints in cemeteries.
Examiners have not determined whether each mummy doll contains a "full set of remains," or whether Moskvin mixed and matched. Lovely. 
Perhaps not so surprisingly Moskvin has long been obsessed with graveyards. In a 2007 interview with the newspaper Nizhegorodsky Rabochy, Moskvin said he had begun wandering through cemeteries when still a schoolboy. He claimed to have inspected 752 cemeteries across the region from 2005 to 2007, often walking up to 30km (20 miles) a day. He said he had drunk from puddles, spent nights in haystacks or at abandoned farms and had once even slept in a coffin readied for a funeral.
Ok.
But why is no one asking the question we all want the answer to - 'was this man playing doctor with his dolls or not?'
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