Murderers, maniacs, cannibals - all these are criminals guilty of terrible crimes. Among them there are also representatives of the weaker sex, distinguished by no less cruelty than men.
The most brutal killer maniacs
There are many killer maniacs in the world. They are responsible for the death of several thousand people. According to psychologists, maniacs are people with serious mental disorders caused by mental trauma or congenital diseases received in childhood.killer clown
In 1994, the Killer Clown died after a lethal injection. His real name is John Wayne Gacy. The maniac worked as a clown at children's parties, for which he received his nickname. 33 boys were raped and killed by him. The police found 27 of them in the basement of a maniac, the rest, according to Gacy, he drowned in the river.Maniac nicknamed "Clown" was euthanized
Serial maniac Sergey Tkach
Another cruel maniac killer is Sergey Tkach. He himself claims that he has about a hundred lives of teenage girls on his account. Law enforcement agencies were able to prove the rape and murder of only twenty-seven girls. The most surprising thing is that Tkach himself worked as an investigator in law enforcement agencies. The killer was detained in his house in the town of Pologi, Zaporozhye region in August 2005. 
Indonesian maniac Ahmad Suraji
Ahmad Suraji is an Indonesian maniac who killed forty-two women. He killed in a very original way. Ahmad buried the victim up to the throat in the ground, after which he strangled with a piece of cable and drank the saliva that appeared. In 2008, he was shot. 
"Red Ripper" Andrei Chikatilo
Andrei Chikatilo is recognized as the most cruel maniac in the post-Soviet space. Fifty-two people have become its victims in more than twelve years. This maniac received several nicknames - "Red Ripper", "Rostov Ripper", "Rostov Butcher". Maniac was shot in 1994. 
"Doctor Death"
In 2004, a maniac nicknamed "Doctor Death" hanged himself in his cell. On his account at least two hundred and fifty deaths. He gave his victims lethal injections. The killer's name is Harold Frederick "Fred" Shipman. 
The most terrible killer-cannibals
Among the maniacs there are those who kill in order to then eat their victim.Cannibal Nikolai Dzhumagaliev
One of the most famous cannibal killers is Nikolai Dzhumagaliev. This cannibal lived in Alma-Ata in 1980, where he worked as a laborer. He was charged with 47 murders, but guilt was proven only in 10 cases. Dzhumagaliev himself claimed to have killed and ate about 50 prostitutes. From the meat of the murdered girls, he prepared various dishes and treated them to his friends. Sentenced to eight years in a closed clinic. 
Indian cannibals
Cannibals from the Indian village of Nithari are a well-known local businessman and his servant named Kohli. Together they lured and ate at least thirty-eight children. After the killing, acts of a violent nature were committed over the bodies.Japanese ogre Issei Sagawa
Issei Sagawa is a cannibal who wrote the memoirs that made him famous. He grew up as a shy child with a developed inferiority complex. While studying at the Sorbonne, he invited a classmate to his literary conversation, choosing her because she was beautiful. Issei Sagawa killed a girl by shooting her in the neck and then ate her flesh for 2 days to "absorb her energy". After the arrest, a Japanese student was imprisoned for two years. Sagawa was later transferred to a psychiatric clinic. In Japan, after Sagawa was deported there, he was recognized as sane and released. 
Issei Sagawa has become a well-known restaurant critic, he writes books, often gives interviews, he is invited as a guest on many television shows. We can say that this tragedy, like most high-profile crimes, brought fame to the killer. It is amazing that fate was pleased not only to keep the cannibal alive, but also to open doors for him that he could never have opened before.
The most terrible female killers
Speaking of homicidal maniacs, they usually imagine men. The image of a maniac is least of all associated with the image of a woman. Forensic science knows many examples of bloody killers - women who are not inferior to strong men in cruelty."Black Widow"
The Black Widow is considered the most brutal female killer of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her name is Belle Sorenson Gunness. With her help, about forty people were sent to another world. More than half of all those killed are relatives or close friends of the "widow". The woman did not work, she existed at the expense of insurance, which she received after the death of her relatives. She killed her husband, children and several potential suitors. Her death is not known for certain. The headless and charred body of a woman who could be Belle Sorenson Gunness did not give one hundred percent guarantee that this was the Black Widow. 
Sister of Mercy Jane Toppan
Nurse Jane Toppan attacked infirm patients. It is known that her father was crazy, so Jane was brought up in an orphanage. The girl was adopted, but the adoptive parents turned out to be poor, because of which the anger of the future killer towards others only intensified. At first, Nurse Toppan administered drugs to her patients, observing their condition between life and death. From this she received the strongest sexual pleasure. 
Later, the woman transformed her experiments into murders. After her arrest, the police were able to prove eleven murders. While under arrest, the nurse confessed to thirty-one more murders. The examination proved that Jane is insane. She spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric clinic.
"Bloody Countess"
That was the name of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. The exact number of her victims is unknown, it ranges from thirty to six hundred and fifty people. According to the legends, the countess preferred to take baths filled with the blood of young girls. The woman believed that in this way she could prolong her youth. 
Bathory lured girls to her castle, under the pretext of a job offer, locked them in a dungeon, and then killed them. Her own husband, Ferenc Nadashi, helped her in this. To avoid publicity and a high-profile trial of the countess, her noble relatives closed Elizabeth in her own dungeon, where she died three years later.
The worst killer in human history
In the entire history of mankind, the most terrible killer was recognized as the Indian Tugh Behram, who was the leader of fanatic thugs (tugs), stranglers and poisoners who believed that every murder committed prevents the coming of the goddess of chaos and death (Kali). Behram lived from 1765 to 1840. They killed about a thousand people. In general, the members of his sect killed no less than eighty thousand people. Often the killings were carried out en masse. 
Around the twentieth year of the nineteenth century, Behram was captured, but he was given life and freedom for betraying all his accomplices. The terrible serial killer was hanged by his own brother in 1840.
Sometimes it is not only cruelty that surprises, but also the age of the criminals. The site has a site about an 11-year-old boy who was imprisoned for life.
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Last Friday on NTV at 19.30 Moscow time there was another program from the series “The investigation was conducted ... with Leonid Kanevsky”. The next issue told about another sexual maniac of the Soviet years. I have been coming across data on this problem for a long time and very regularly, forming a very sad picture. With which I decided to acquaint dear readers. I must say right away that the notorious Chikatilo was far not the only and perhaps not even the most colorful of the villains, whose deeds can be found below. The post is specific, “I will ask pregnant women, children and women to leave,” but you need to know about this side of Soviet life.
First of all, about the release - it was called "Kungur Monster". Kungur is a city in the Perm region, and in it 1982 there was a series of attacks on women: robberies, rapes, murders. The attacker, inspired by the film "The Hound of the Baskervilles", made a luminous mask and went out on a "hunt" in the late evenings, attacking single women. For some reason, the exact number of victims was not named: there was definitely one murder with rape, they told about four episodes of attacks, but even after them the attacks continued. Panic began in the city, masses of women refused to leave their homes, skipped work ... They tied up one suspicious person - an employee of private security - but it turned out that he himself, on his own initiative, was hunting for a maniac. They dressed policemen in women's clothes so that they would attract the villain.
It is interesting that street thieves attacked the strolling "girls" - they tried to snatch handbags from their hands. This is to the thesis that it was absolutely safe to walk in the evenings in Soviet times. It seems that if the chance of being killed or raped remained relatively small, then you could lose your purse in no time.
They caught the “monster” by pure chance: a policeman noticed a mushroom picker with field glasses and decided to inquire about what the hell, in fact, and that one - tear. But still, the bastard was caught, it turned out to be a loader Nikolai Gridyagin. Standard story: an exemplary family man, all positive characteristics from work. In general, he began to rape girls earlier, one must think, since 1980 - they did not specify in the program. At first I wanted to pretend to be a photographer, I even lured one fool and outraged, but on the whole things somehow did not go well, until with the named film about Comrade. Holmes did not get acquainted. By the way, to the question of the influence of television on the brains of citizens.
In general, the tied man was tried, sentenced to 15 years in the strictureman, but a stream of indignant letters went to the Supreme Court, the case was reviewed and they gave the same “tower”.
But comrade Gridyagin is only one, far from the first, and quite the most interesting of a whole series of monsters of the Soviet era. They appeared almost simultaneously with the beginning of that time, but they really went massively since the 1960s. The listing usually starts with Vladimir Ionesyan, known as "Mosgaz" (since he pretended to be an employee of this glorious organization). Twice convicted, he moved from Orenburg to Moscow in the autumn 1963 with a cohabitant, and since December he began to rob apartments in the capital and the city of Ivanovo in order to earn his livelihood. Until the moment of detention at the end of January 1964, he killed six people, mostly women and children; one girl was raped before the murder. The court sentenced to death, the cohabitant received 15 years in prison (served eight).
Around the same period, he began a series of his attacks on people Boris Gusakov, who worked as a photographer in the children's reception center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow City Executive Committee. His victims were mainly girls (schoolgirls, applicants and students), whom he lured to a secluded place, stunned with a blow from a blunt object, undressed, raped and killed. On account of his 10 attempts, 5 murders. The last two victims of the maniac managed to escape and turned to the police, in the spring of 1968 Gusakov was arrested. The court found him sane and sentenced him to death.
In the “prosperous” era of the glorious “stagnation”, comrades shifted on the basis of sexual problems began to appear already throughout the country of the Soviets. AT 1965 in the Stavropol Territory, perhaps the most titled of the Soviet maniacs began his "activities" - Anatoly Slivko. He was a member of the CPSU, in 1977 he received the title of "Honored Teacher of the RSFSR", was listed as a "shock worker of communist labor", was elected a deputy of the Nevinnomyssk City Council, and was generally a local celebrity. And he found his victims among the members of the Chergid youth tourist club, which he led. Over children - boys - he conducted "scientific experiments": he tied them to trees by the arms and by the neck, and pulled the rope tied to the legs towards himself; hung in a noose until he lost consciousness, etc. All this was filmed. For 20 years, 42 children passed through the “experiments”, he killed 7 more boys, subtly mocked the corpses. Arrested at the end of December 1985, convicted and shot in the Novocherkassk prison in 1989.
To 1967 refers to the first criminal episode Boris Serebryakov from Kuibyshev: he tried to rape the duty officer of the control station who was at the workplace. Since 1969, he began to carry out systematic attacks: he killed 9 people, of which two families were entire, attacked a woman and her daughter. Mothers - killed or stunned - were raped. Captured in 1970, at trial he was recognized as a psychopathic person with perverted sexual desires, but mentally healthy and sane, sentenced to death (1971).
AT 1968 in Perm, a maniac rapist committed a series of attacks Vladimir Sulima, previously convicted of rape (13 episodes) truck driver. After serving half of the prescribed eight years, he returned to Perm, where during the year he killed three women (he beat them on the head with a hammer after rape) and severely injured seven more. One of those whom he unsuccessfully attacked was identified in the city clinic and arrested. The court sentenced him to death (1969).
And in the Ulyanovsk and Penza regions, the driver began to operate Anatoly Utkin. His "career" lasted intermittently until the spring of 1973. he beat girls and young women: sometimes he robbed, sometimes he raped. The victims of the first stage of his "activities" were 5, another girl managed to fight off the attack. In 1969-72, Utkin, in order to divert suspicions from himself, was imprisoned for robbery, but when he was freed, he turned to the old: the first attack on a woman failed, but then he killed a man and another girl. He got burned while robbing the cash desk of one Ulyanovsk enterprise: he killed the cashier, but could not open the safe and set fire to the building in order to cover his tracks, but in a hurry he forgot the bucket with his last name, in which he brought diesel fuel. Based on the totality of all crimes, he was sentenced to VMN and shot in 1975.
AT 1969 in the vicinity of the village of Shostka, Sumy region of the Ukrainian SSR, a maniac acted Pavel Danilov, who came from the Moldavian SSR according to the organizational recruitment of Khimstroy. In the six months leading up to the summer of 1970, he committed six assaults (one murder and five rapes with attempted murder). Being caught, he was declared insane by a psychiatric examination, in 1971 he was sentenced to 10 years in a mental hospital. After his release, he left for Moldova, his further fate is unknown.
AT 1970 maniac, soldier Zaven Almazyan, originated in Lugansk, Ukraine. He attacked single women returning home from work in the evenings, threatened with a knife, took away money and personal belongings, strangled, raped. For six months, he attacked 10 women, of whom he killed two, but in October he was caught and sentenced to death.
AT 1971 committed the first crime Gennady Mikhasevich. He acted in Belarus, in the area between the cities of Vitebsk and Polotsk, which is why he was called the “Vitebsk strangler” (the “Investigation conducted ...” talked about him a week earlier). For 12 years, he killed 36 women, and the peak of murders fell on the last year, 1984: as many as 12 cases. He strangled all the victims, either with a scarf, or with a scarf, or with a bunch of grass. At the same time, he worked as the head of repair shops, had a family, and was a combatant! As in the case of Chikatilo (see below), the valiant Soviet police messed up in full: 14 innocent people were convicted of murders, “knocking out” confessions with the help of torture. One of these 14 was shot, another tried to commit suicide, the third served 10 years, the fourth went blind after 6 years of imprisonment ... According to the verdict of the court, Mikhasevich was shot in 1987.
In the same year, in Kaunas (Lithuanian SSR) began to operate Augustinas Dustars(?), an electrician at a house-building plant, an exemplary husband and father. In broad daylight, in a black mask, he attacked single women in a forest, threatening with a knife, took away money and valuables, and raped. During 1971-75 he committed over 20 rapes and robberies.
In the autumn of the same year, a “Vnukovo maniac” operated in Moscow Yuri Raevsky, the youngest criminal of this kind at that time (19 years old), a classic serial killer. He hunted girls in miniskirts, choosing a victim in a deserted place, attacked, subtly raped, strangled, and then took away valuables. So three women were killed, after which the killer left for Kharkov, where he raped and killed a fourth woman, and tried to sell her demi-season coat in the market, where he was detained. During the investigation, it turned out that in the summer of 1971 Raevsky fled from the colony (where he ended up, having been convicted a year earlier for beating and attempting to rape a woman), raped a woman in Mordovia (the victim survived and testified), raped and killed two more women (in the Caucasus and in the Baltic States), and only after that he came to Moscow. In 1973 he was convicted and shot.
AT 1972 , again in Moscow, made several attacks by a maniac Alexander Stolyarov- Posing as an employee of the Technical Supervision, he entered the apartments of pensioners, robbed and killed them. As a result, before his arrest, he managed to kill three women. Sentenced to be shot.
AT 1973 first acts recorded Andrey Chikatilo: working as a teacher in a boarding school in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, he began to molest his students. These cases reached the director of the boarding school, who fired the depraved teacher. In 1978, Chikatilo and his family moved to the city of Shakhty, Rostov Region, where he got a job as an educator at the GPTU, and from December he began to commit murders of adolescents of both sexes. For 12 years throughout the region, as well as on business trips (Tashkent, Leningrad, Moscow, Zaporozhye), he killed 53 people (the most in 1984 - 15), although the investigation could not prove three more cases of murder. As a rule, he lured teenagers into the forest belt, where he attacked with a knife, inflicted numerous wounds, mocked the corpses, ate body parts. Among his victims were many prostitutes, vagabonds, alcoholics and the mentally retarded. To catch the maniac, the operation "Forest belt" was organized, in which Chikatilo himself, who was in good standing, participated in the role of a combatant, was on duty at the stations. Several people were arrested on suspicion of committing crimes, one of whom, under pressure from the investigation, confessed to the murder and was shot by a court verdict. In November 1990, Chikatilo was arrested, sentenced to death in 1992 and executed in February 1994.
AT 1974 a new maniac appears in Moscow - Andrey Evseev, who attacked single women in the evenings in the city and region. The handwriting of the criminal remained unchanged: he tracked down a well-dressed woman, followed her to the entrance and brutally killed, having previously taken away everything of value. For three years, Evseev committed 32 armed crimes in Moscow and the region. He brutally killed 9 people, while he raped two dying women. 18 victims miraculously survived, some of them received disabilities. The offender acted deliberately and deliberately in order to make it difficult to search and bring down the trail, but nevertheless he was detained and sentenced to capital punishment.
AT 1975 the adventures of a sexual maniac and a murderer began Anatoly Nagiyev: in the village of Ivnitsy, Kursk region, he raped the laboratory assistant of the local SGPTU, then two more girls became his victims, but he was soon captured and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1979, for good behavior, he was transferred to a free settlement, from where he began to travel to the city of Pechora (Komi ASSR), where he committed 2 murders on the basis of robbery with rape, which the police could not solve then. In November, he was released and went to Moscow to “hunt” for Alla Pugacheva (unsuccessfully). Nagiyev committed his last and most terrible (in a sense, unprecedented) crime on the night of July 3-4, 1980, on train No. 129 Kharkov-Moscow. An hour after the train left, he burst into the conductor's compartment, severely beat her, raped and strangled her. After 20 minutes, he repeated the same thing with the conductor in the next car. In less than half an hour, the third conductor of the train died at his hands, an hour later - the fourth. Nagiyev raped all women in a perverted form, disposed of the corpses by throwing them out the window. The mutilated bodies of the murdered women were found on the railroad tracks in different places the next day. In hot pursuit, the operatives managed to solve the crime, in 1981 Nagiyev appeared in court, was found guilty of 6 murders and 10 rapes and sentenced to death.
At the same time, a unique case took place in the Moscow region - a duo of maniacs “worked”: Andrey Shuvalov and Nikolai Shestakov. During 1975-76 they attacked young women, robbed and raped them, and then killed them. Having started in the Lyubertsy region, they soon began to appear in other regions of the Moscow region. A total of 20 people were attacked, 14 of them were killed. As a result, the captured criminals were tried, Shestakov was sentenced to death, the minor Shuvalov - to 15 years in prison.
To 1976 refers to the first offense Zinovia Stecika from the city of Rogatin, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukrainian SSR: then he raped an 8-year-old neighbor girl, but was caught red-handed and imprisoned. Having been released, he moved to the village of Kamenka, Ochakovsky district, Nikolaev region, where in 1984 he raped first a neighbor's girl, and then his adopted daughter, after which he sat down for 12 years. In the late 1990s, already in the Cherkasy region, he raped two girls, but was caught, sentenced to life imprisonment, and in 2000 died of a massive stroke.
In the same year, the path of another maniac began in Moscow - Vladimir Churlyaev. After serving time for robbery, he got a job in the fire department of Yasnogorsk, and in his free time he went “to fish” in the capital. In the late evenings, he tracked down single women returning home, attacked them in the porches and robbed them. Then he started robbing store cashiers. He was detained in 1978, given the large number of victims of the robber, his audacity and danger to society, the court sentenced him to death.
And again, from the “Investigations led ...” it is known about a taxi driver from Moscow Egor Kukovkina(?). Being ill with schizophrenia, he attacked girls: robbed, raped, and then strangled with improvised means. We talked about three episodes. Quite quickly, the killer was identified and arrested.
With 1977 the murders were committed by a necrophile Mikhail Novoselov, repeatedly previously convicted. On the territory of Russia, he committed 22 murders, followed by abuse of the corpses of the victims (among whom were both children of both sexes and adult women). In the south of Tajikistan, where Novoselov was hiding from the all-Russian wanted list, in 1995 the maniac committed four murders and nine attempts to rape underage girls. Having a broad outlook, he presented himself to the victims as a professional photographer, artist, painter, geologist, etc., gained confidence, after which he killed in a secluded place (by hitting something heavy on the head, on the back of the head, strangling, stabbing). The offender was arrested while trying to sell an air rifle. Most recently, he worked in a mental hospital on the outskirts of Dushanbe.
The same year dates back to the art of the “baby hunter” Anatoly Biryukov(an exemplary family man, father of two daughters), who within two months in Moscow raped and killed (!) Five babies under the age of six months: four girls and a boy. Children were stolen from strollers left by unlucky mothers near shops. In October, having tried to commit a kidnapping, a new kidnapping in the city of Chekhov near Moscow, he was noticed and, although he managed to escape that time, he was soon arrested in Moscow. A psychiatric examination did not reveal any deviations, in 1979 the pedophile was shot.
March 1977 officially begins a series of crimes Sergei Grigoriev, a previously convicted truck driver. Unlike most maniacs, he did not kill his victims (schoolgirls), although he cynically raped him. Under the guise of an employee of the Criminal Investigation Department, Grigoriev entered the victim’s apartment during the daytime and, if there were no adults at home, raped her, in addition, he took money and gold jewelry from the apartment. The series began in Leningrad, but after the Central Internal Affairs Directorate turned to colleagues in other cities and regions of the USSR, it turned out that similar crimes were committed in Orel, and in Moscow, and in Penza, and in Vitebsk, and in Krasnoyarsk, and in Zelenograd near Moscow. An inspection of motor transport workers began and in the spring of 1983 Grigoriev was detained. The investigation did not dare to "dig" the past of the rapist too deeply, since his release in 1972, and only investigated episodes from 1977 - however, even so, there were about 40 proven episodes! In 1984, he was convicted as a particularly dangerous recidivist for 15 years in prison, which he served in full and returned to St. Petersburg, where he died under unclear circumstances in 2000.
In December of the same year, the first crime was committed by a railway fitter. Vladimir Tretyakov. A shock worker of communist labor, a member of a voluntary people's squad, he decided to fight female drunkenness and started with his own concubine: he strangled her, and dismembered the corpse and scattered it in a wasteland. In the same way, he further killed 6 more girls and women. Panic began in the city, there were rumors that the maniac was selling the meat of the victims he had killed in the market. Tretyakov was detained in the spring of 1978, recognized at trial as sane, and executed a year later.
AT 1979 in the city of Uzunagach, Alma-Ata region of the Kazakh SSR, a rapist, murderer and cannibal appeared - a firefighter Nikolay Dzhumagaliev, known by the nickname "Iron Fang". In two years, he killed eight women: he brought random acquaintances to his home, raped them in a perverted form and killed them (sometimes this happened in the reverse order - Dzhumagaliev was also a necrophile), then he drank fresh blood, ate brains. He dismembered the bodies of the dead with an ax, made dumplings from them, and kept the meat in his refrigerator. He took particular pleasure in watching the next victim eat dumplings from the meat of his predecessor. In addition, in 1979 he accidentally killed his work colleague with a gun while drinking, for which he was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, but released in 1980. The killer was declared insane (the usual diagnosis in such cases is schizophrenia) and was placed in a closed-type Tashkent psychiatric hospital. In 1994, he was released, returned to Uzunagach, but because of the persecution by local residents, he fled and disappeared in an unknown direction. Now he is kept in a special hospital for criminals declared insane in the village of Aktas near Alma-Ata.
In the same year, a maniac-rapist appears in Odessa Vladimir Chernega, twice convicted unemployed and homeless subject, who from the end of 1979 to the end of 1980 committed 11 rapes, accompanied by robbery. He attacked lonely girls at night, often stunned them with an iron pipe on the head (one case ended in the death of the victim). The efforts of the police to capture the criminal did not yield results, but Chernega himself turned himself in - which did not save him from being sentenced to death (1981).
With 1980 “operated” on one of the most “long-playing” maniacs on the territory of the former USSR - the “Pavlograd maniac” Sergey Tkach. He started a series of murders in Ukraine, in Simferopol, from 1982 he lived permanently in Ukraine. Killed until 2005 the territory of the Crimea, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions. The victims were girls and girls aged 9 to 17 years old: he tracked down the victims near highways and railways, in the forest belts adjacent to them, attacked, killed, pinching the carotid artery, then raped. All things on which his fingerprints could remain, he removed from the corpse of the victim and carried away. He left the scene of the murder along the sleepers so that the service dogs could not pick up the trail. For 25 years, the Weaver committed dozens of murders: he himself took on at least a hundred, but less than 50 became fully proven. According to his cases, at least a dozen people were innocently convicted during this period, one of whom served 10 years, the other two received 15 each, and Vladimir Svetlichny, who was detained for the “murder” of his daughter, hanged himself in a cell in the Dnepropetrovsk pre-trial detention center. The Weaver himself was sentenced to life imprisonment.
At the same time, a serial killer entered the bloody path in Smolensk and the region Vladimir Storozhenko, previously convicted several times. He worked as a truck driver and with his help he committed crimes: usually, having noticed the victim in the dark, he caught up on foot or put him in a car. The dead were robbed. In total, he made 20 attacks on schoolgirls, girls, women, of which he killed 12 (including nine in 1980). In 1981 he was caught and sentenced to death (1984).
The start of the series of the bloodiest maniac of Soviet Latvia belongs to the same year. Stanislav Rogolev. Previously, he had already been convicted four times, and once on charges of rape. After serving his sentence, he began working as an informant for the criminal investigation department, which helped him a lot later - he received information from the leadership of the criminal investigation about the progress of the investigation. He committed crimes in the vicinity of railway stations and in cities at night throughout the republic (which led to panic among the population): he robbed, raped and killed. Not all attacks ended in success, sometimes the victims managed to fight back, yet the statistics are impressive: during 1980-81, alone or together with an accomplice, a Latvian Aldis Svare, attacked 22 people (girls, women and, once, a young man), of which he killed 7 The police accused three other men of one of the murders (one of them was sentenced to death), only after Rogolev's confession were they acquitted. The maniac was captured at the end of 1981, declared sane and shot in 1984.
With 1981 cannibal acted in Tatarstan Alexey Sukletin, a native of Kazan. Since 1979, he has been engaged in extortion, since 1981, while living in the caretaker’s house of the Kaenlyk gardening partnership near the village of Vasilyevo, together with his cohabitant Madina Shakirova, who actively helped him, he began to kill and managed to tear and eat seven women in four years. The youngest victim of the cannibal was only 11 years old. Together, the lovers butchered the bodies of those killed with a kitchen knife, put the meat into meatballs and stews, and drank their blood. They got burned, however, on extortion, for which they were detained. During the search, the police found things of missing women and bones buried in the garden at the house. Sukletin was sentenced to death (the sentence was carried out in 1994), Shakirova - to 15 years in prison.
That year was the beginning of the "career" of the rapist Valeria Hasratyan, known by the nickname "Director". He began to commit depraved acts against young girls, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison in 1982 and 1985. Since 1988, having settled down as a teacher in a boarding school in Moscow, he committed crimes, attracted his 40-year-old cohabitant and her 14-year-old daughter, with whom he lived in a civil marriage, to help. He acted according to the following scheme: he met a girl, introducing himself as a film director, brought him to his home, where he pumped him up with tranquilizers, raped him (often for several days), after which, having robbed him and drugged him again, he took him out of the house. Thus, 17 rapes and three murders were committed (with a knife, through poisoning or drowning). In the end, one of the victims identified the area and the street where the maniac lived, in 1990 he was hunted down and arrested, sentenced to death at the trial.
AT 1982 "Irkutsk monster", an ambulance doctor began his journey Vasily Kulik. He started as an ordinary sex maniac, and he specialized exclusively in young girls, whom he raped, but did not kill. From the end of 1984, Kulik changed his "orientation" and switched to older women, usually over 70 years old, who called an ambulance. In four years, Kulik accounted for 27 rapes and 13 murders. Six girls and boys and seven elderly women died at his hands: the youngest victim was 2 years 7 months old, the oldest was 75 years old. The maniac was caught by accident, on his birthday, while trying to commit another rape. During the investigation, he tried to imitate madness, but with the help of examinations he was exposed. The court sentenced him to death, which was carried out in 1988.
At the same time, the printer of the Ural Worker printing house, the Verkh-Iset strangler, began to commit murders. Nikolai Fefilov, exemplary family man. He acted with a strange seasonality: the crime was usually committed once a year, in April-May. Victims almost always lay in wait in the city park of Sverdlovsk, attacked from an ambush, strangled, dragged into the bushes and already raped the dead. Then he took things, jewelry and left. He has at least six rapes and murders to his credit. For the murders, the investigating authorities brought to justice two innocent people, one of whom was sentenced to death in 1984, and the other a year later died from beatings by fellow inmates in the prison hospital. For this, the head of the pre-trial detention center was removed, but two crimes were “closed”. Fefilov was seized after another murder, but he did not live to see the trial, being strangled by a cellmate in a pre-trial detention center in August 1988.
The same year dates back to the first attacks of a sexual maniac and a murderer. Sergei Ryakhovsky from the city of Balashikha, Moscow Region: for older women. Soon he was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. Since 1987, he resumed committing crimes already on the territory of Moscow, and began to rape, maim and kill his victims. Among them were both elderly women and teenage children, the elderly. A total of 19 premeditated murders, most of which were committed with particular cruelty, and five miraculously survived victims who were maimed and wounded. The maniac was detained in the spring of 1993, sentenced to death.
In Minsk, in the summer, an unusual killer acted - poisoner Valery Nekhaev, a stage worker at the Minsk Opera and Ballet Theater. Outraged by the neglect of his own person, he began to poison alcoholic beverages with highly toxic substances, from which three died and several more people ended up in hospitals. Being detained by the police, he immediately confessed to everything and was sentenced to death (his brother, who bought chemical reagents, received 5 years).
AT 1983 appeared in Yaroslavl Alexander Lukashov. In 1974, he was convicted of raping a minor, but released from prison a few years later with a fatal diagnosis of "advanced spinal tuberculosis." Nevertheless, he managed to recover and began, armed with a hammer, to attack women: he stunned, robbed (took away jewelry, personal belongings). Five women became his victims. In addition, he raped little girls. At the end of the year he was captured, in prison he feigned insanity, tried to escape. Convicted and shot in 1984.
With 1984 in the Moscow region, a worker of a stud farm attacked teenagers (located not far from the government dacha zone) Sergei Golovkin, known by the nicknames "Boa" and "Fisher". For 8 years, he killed 11 boys aged 12 to 15 years. First, he attacked teenagers in the forest: he blindfolded the victims, and then raped and killed, mocked the corpses. In 1988, he bought a car, equipped a torture chamber in the basement of the garage and changed his "handwriting": he offered teenagers a ride, drove them to his garage, and, threatening with a knife, led him into the basement, where he mocked the victims for several hours. The dismembered corpses were buried in the forest. Golovkin was arrested in 1992, he is also notable for the fact that he was the last to be executed by a court sentence by the time a moratorium on the death penalty was introduced in Russia (1996).
AT 1985 a rapist and a murderer appeared in the Leningrad region Igor Chernat, the driver of an infantry fighting vehicle of one of the military units. For six months (from November 1985 to May 1986) he killed four women, one of whom was pregnant. Women were relatives of the soldiers of the military unit, which facilitated the implementation of atrocities: Chernat took women to the forest zone, where he raped and killed, and masked the corpses. Being interrogated during the investigation, he went on the run and got to Odessa, but soon, left without money, he turned himself in. He was sentenced to death by a military tribunal (1987).
Simultaneously with him, in the fall, he began to "operate" Sergey Kashintsev, released from prison, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for the murder of a woman. He began to wander around the country (Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Izhevsk, Kirov, Tyumen, Tambov region), met women (alcoholics, beggars), invited them to drink alcohol in basements, attics, in the forest, in wastelands. Drunk, raped and strangled. He also killed single women who let him in to stay. From the initial testimony of Kashintsev, it followed that he had visited more than 150 cities and towns of the country, where he committed the murders of 58 women (he was detained drunk next to another victim in the spring of 1987). Subsequently, he stated that he slandered himself, and confirmed only a little over 10 episodes. Found sane and sentenced to death.
AT 1986 Serial killer - Mikhail Makarov("Executioner") - appeared in Leningrad. He committed four attacks: three on children (the boy survived, and two girls were killed) and one on a pensioner. He stole inexpensive things and money from apartments. He was caught trying to sell a stolen book to a second-hand book store, during the investigation he immediately confessed to everything, was convicted and shot in 1988.
At the end 1987 a serial killer from Crimea began to attack Alexander Varlagin. Driving around the island, he attacked taxi drivers, killed with firearms and robbed. He has four episodes to his credit, three of which ended in murder. Arrested by the police in mid-1988 and sentenced to death.
In the second half of the 1980s, in parallel with Chikatilo, a “batai killer” “worked” in the Rostov region Konstantin Cheremukhin, previously convicted twice. He drove around the neighborhood in a Zhiguli car, choosing a victim, offering a ride to the house or a ride, bringing him to a desert area, strangling and raping him, after which he mocked the corpse. His victims were four girls aged 9-14 years. Arrested in 1989 in the city of residence of Bataysk, shot by a court verdict.
AT 1988 a serial killer hunted on the territory of Leningrad Andrey Sibiryakov, twice convicted unemployed. Under the guise of the controller of Lenenergo, he penetrated into previously explored apartments, which he selected on the basis of the absence of a man in the house, and robbed them. He killed the women who were in the apartment with a knife, but did not rape. In total, he made five attacks, during which he killed five people. Having learned about the search operation that had begun, he tried to blackmail the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, with whom he came into contact through the 600 Seconds TV show. He introduced himself as “an acquaintance of a real killer” and demanded 50 thousand rubles for his “exposing” (in the end, they managed to bring down the price to 15 thousand). During the transfer of a bag with counterfeit money, he was detained by a capture group and sentenced to death.
With 1989 operated one of the most bloodthirsty maniacs of the former Soviet Union, "Ukrainian Satan" Anatoly Onoprienko. Working in the fire department of Zaporozhye, he had access to small arms, and with his partner Rogozin, he hunted for the murder of motorists parked on the side of the road. During 1989, he killed nine people, after which, until the end of 1995, he illegally, without a visa, traveled around Europe, and from December 1995 he again took up murders and took the lives of 43 people, incl. several whole families. In 1999, he was sentenced to death, in connection with the moratorium on the death penalty introduced in Ukraine, replaced by life imprisonment.
Then another maniac acted - Fedor Kozlov, on account of which 10 attacks on women, he killed five of them, and two young girls were among those killed.
In the same year, for several months, a certain Gridin, student of the Mining and Metallurgical Institute, Komsomol activist. He got the nickname "Lifter": he watched for his victims - girls and girls - at the entrances, entered the elevator with them, attacked and dragged him to the attic or to the basement, where he choked. However, he did not rape the victims. As it turned out later, he received satisfaction from contemplating the naked body of a bound, gagged girl and from her death agony. In total, Gridin committed four murders and several more attacks until he was neutralized as a result of an operation, for the organization of which a team of investigators had to be sent from Moscow. He tried to explain his wild deeds by quarrels with his wife, who "deprived him of affection for a long time." The court sentenced him to death, commuted to life imprisonment.
Since 1990, in his hometown of Svetlogorsk (Belarus), he has attacked children Igor Mirenkov. Being a homosexual, he attacked boys aged 9-14, raped and killed. Over the next four years, he killed 6 children, with the main number of victims occurring in 1993, which caused panic and unrest among the inhabitants of the city. Being arrested on charges of stealing gasoline and fraud, he was exposed as a pedophile maniac. The investigation was carried out in the strictest secrecy, its materials were declassified only in 2007. Mirenkov himself was shot in 1996.
Perhaps the last one who showed his criminal inclinations in the formally still Soviet period was Oleg Kuznetsov. The first crimes - the murder and rape of girls - he committed in his native Balashikha (Moscow region), then he left for Kyiv, where he committed 4 murders, after which he moved to Moscow and killed 5 more girls and women in the Izmailovsky Park area. Arrested in March 1992, confessed to all the murders and sentenced to CMN, but they did not have time to shoot him, he is serving a life sentence.
This, I am sure, is far from a complete list of serial killers of the Soviet Union, however, it seems to me, it quite clearly demonstrates that the “advanced socialist system” practically did not lag behind the “decaying capitalist West” in terms of crime.
number of victims: 13–14
Richard Ramirez, also known as the Night Stalker, is a convicted American serial killer who was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. At one time he opened a real campaign of terror against the population of California. At night, he broke into houses, robbed, raped and killed. He often left images of a pentagram at crime scenes, and also forced his victims to say "I love Satan." He died of liver failure at the age of 53 on June 7, 2013 in a hospital, California, USA.
victims: 17
American serial killer, known by the nicknames "Milwaukee Monster", "Milwaukee Cannibal". It killed at least 17 young men and women between 1978 and 1991. All but one of the crimes took place in Milwaukee. His murders were extremely brutal. The corpses of their victims "Milwaukee Monster" raped and ate. After his arrest on July 22, 1991, the court found Dahmer sane and sentenced him to 957 years in prison. In 1994, a serial killer was beaten to death by his cellmate.
victims: 33
On the eighth line in the ranking of the most famous serial killers in the world is John Wayne Gacy, also known as the "Clown Killer" - an American serial killer who raped and killed 33 young people, including several teenagers. He was arrested in 1978 and sentenced to death. While on death row, Gacy wrote a book where he claimed that the Lord had returned his heterosexual orientation to him, and also painted pictures and sold them to collectors. He was executed on May 10, 1994 by lethal injection.
victims: 36
Gennady Mikhasevich, known by the nicknames "Vitebsk Strangler" and "Patriot of Vitebsk", was a Soviet serial killer who killed 36 women between 1971-1985 in the city of Vitebsk, Belarus. Almost all of his crimes were accompanied by rape. He did not attack his victims, but, on the contrary, voluntarily lured them into a car (a red Zaporozhets), where he tempted them, or forcibly brought them to a deserted place and strangled them at the moment of orgasm. He did not carry the murder weapon with him, he preferred to use improvised objects for strangulation. "Vitebsk Strangler" was arrested on December 9, 1985 and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on September 25, 1987.
the number of victims ranges from 5 to 37
Serial killer active in Northern California and San Francisco in the late 1960s. The identity of the offender has not yet been established. He called himself the Zodiac himself in a series of scathing letters sent by him to the editors of the district newspapers. The letters also contained cryptograms in which the killer allegedly encrypted information about himself. Three of the four cryptograms are still undeciphered.
victims: 53–65
Andrei Chikatilo is also known by the nicknames "Mad Beast", "Rostov Ripper", "Red Ripper", "Killer from the forest belt", "Citizen X", "Satan", "Soviet Jack the Ripper" - one of the most famous Soviet serial killers, who from 1978 to 1990 committed 53 proven murders (according to operational information, more than 65 murders were committed by a maniac). He was arrested on November 20, 1990 and sentenced to death on October 15 of the same year.
While on death row, Chikatilo wrote numerous complaints and requests for pardon, took care of his own health - did exercises, ate with appetite. On January 4, 1994, the last request for pardon addressed to Russian President Boris Yeltsin was rejected, and on February 14, Chikatilo was shot in the Novocherkassk prison. Interestingly, the murderer Alexander Kravchenko was mistakenly shot for the crimes committed by Andrei Chikatilo.
number of victims: 19–82
Alexander Spesivtsev is a Russian serial killer, a maniac and a cannibal who, from February to September 1996 in Novokuznetsk, together with his mother (brought the girls to her son, and then buried their remains), killed and ate 19 women and children. Suspected of over 82 murders. Spesivtsev was sentenced to compulsory treatment and, as of 2015, continues to undergo rehabilitation at the Volgograd Special Type Psychiatric Hospital with intensive supervision.
victims: 30–100
In third place on the list of the most brutal serial killers in the world is Theodore Robert Bundy, known by the nickname "Nylon Killer" - one of the worst serial killers in US history, operating in seven states in the 70s of the last century (mostly between 1974- 1978). He was convicted of the murders of 30 young women and executed in the electric chair on January 24, 1989. However, the exact number of his victims is unknown. Estimates range from 30 to over 100.
victims: 49–90
Gary Leon Ridgway, known as the "Green River Killer", is one of America's most notorious serial killers, having committed at least 49 murders of women in Washington State between 1982 and 2001. Most of his victims were prostitutes or underage runaways. Ridgway began to be suspected in 1983, but his guilt was proved only in 1997 thanks to the results of DNA analysis. On December 18, 2003, the Green River Killer was sentenced to 48 terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole. At the trial, Ridgway wept and asked for forgiveness from the relatives of his victims. He is currently serving his sentence in the maximum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado, USA.
victims: 11–600
Henry Lee Lucas is the most famous and "prolific" American serial killer and cannibal. He has 11 proven murders on his account, although during the investigation he confessed to more than 300, of which only 213 can be regarded as more or less plausible. He was sentenced to death, but in 1998 the Texas Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, at the request of Governor George W. Bush, commuted Lucas's death sentence to life imprisonment. On March 13, 2001, he died of heart failure at the age of 64. Henry Lee Lucas was the subject of a 1986 psychological horror film based on a true story called Henry Lee Lucas.
Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov (born March 7, 1964) is a Russian serial killer and rapist who committed at least 22 murders of young women between 1994 and 2000 near the city of Angarsk, Irkutsk Region. Former junior lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Prior to his dismissal from the police in 1998, he committed some crimes in the form of a policeman and in a company car. He was arrested after the resumption of the criminal case and comparison in March 2012 of his genotype and the results of a molecular genetic examination of the remains of the victims, conducted back in 2003. Sentenced to life imprisonment. In total, he confessed to 81 murders.
Biography
Mikhail Popkov was born on March 7, 1964. In the mid 1990s. worked as an operational duty officer in the police department No. 1 of the city of Angarsk, Irkutsk region. He retired in 1998 as soon as he received the rank of junior lieutenant, which caused great bewilderment of his colleagues. Was married. As colleagues from a professional point of view, and just acquaintances, he was characterized positively. After his dismissal from the authorities, he worked in a private security company, where, in turn, he was characterized by employees negatively and from where he quit in 2011. He worked as a hauler and digger of graves.
"Angara Maniac"
From November 1994 to 2000, 29 brutal murders of young women were committed in Angarsk, which, due to the similarity in the criminal style and the type of victim, the investigators combined into one series.
According to medical experts, the offender used various murder weapons: an ax, a knife, an awl, a screwdriver, a noose, in some episodes using several different weapons in a row. For example, he inflicted multiple blows to the head with a metal object, 8 stab wounds with a screwdriver, and stab wounds to the face and neck on one of the victims. In nine cases, the death of the victim came from multiple blows of an ax.
Most of the victims were between 19 and 28 years of age at the time of the murder. One victim was fifteen, four more from 35 to 40 years old. All women were of average height (155-170 cm) and inclined to be overweight. All but one were under the influence of moderate to severe alcohol at the time of the murder and had been raped prior to their deaths. The only victim who was sober at the time of the attack was not raped. The perpetrator strangled her with a scarf and stabbed her already dead body with a knife. Popkov burned one of the victims after the murder. Another cut out the heart.
The killer left the victims in the vicinity of Angarsk, in the forests adjacent to country roads branching off from major highways (Sibirsky Trakt, Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk bypass highway). 26 women were dead at the time of discovery, three more were mortally wounded and died in the hospital.
Investigation
The similarity of the type of the victim and the behavior of the victims at the time of the murder led the investigation to the conclusion that the murders were committed by one person. In 1998, a rumor appeared in Angarsk about a maniac operating in the city, and in December of this year an investigative-operational group was formed, consisting of employees of the prosecutor's office, the Internal Affairs Directorate and the RUBOP. At that time, 24 victims were attributed to the killer.
Over the next year and a half, the investigation into cases of unsolved murders did not advance at all, and in June 2000 a new investigative and operational group was created with the participation of the senior assistant of the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor for Supervision of the Implementation of the Law of the Russian Federation "On Operative-Investigative Activities" and the investigation of cases of special the importance of N. N. Kitaev, known for the case of the serial killer Vasily Kulik. Kitaev, after analyzing 15 cases of unsolved murders in Angarsk, concluded that the investigative measures in these cases were of poor quality.
In particular, on January 28, 1998, in the snow near the village of Baikalsk (the territory of the city of Angarsk), a naked girl was found unconscious due to severe head injuries. The juvenile victim was raped. Only after almost six months, after numerous complaints from the mother of the victim, a criminal case was opened on the fact of the attack. In June, a description of the perpetrator was received from the victim. As it turned out, on the evening of January 27, the driver of a police car, dressed in service uniform, offered a girl who was walking home to give her a lift. The girl agreed. The rapist brought her into the forest, where, forcing her to undress, he beat her head against a tree until she lost consciousness. The girl woke up in the hospital. During the investigation, the victim identified the senior sergeant of the Angarsk Department of Internal Affairs. The case, however, remained unsolved. According to this episode, Kitaev, in his conclusion, pointed out the absence of a forensic medical examination of the victim and the formality of checking the alibi of the sergeant, who led a dissolute life and infected his cohabitant with syphilis.
In March 2001, investigator Nikolai Kitaev was dismissed from the authorities in connection with the disbandment of the regional transport prosecutor's offices.
Popkov's arrest, investigation and trial.
In 2012, the previously closed, allegedly hopeless, criminal case was resumed by the Investigative Committee. Already in March 2012, the results of a molecular genetic examination of traces of rape in 2003 made it possible to identify the culprit, who turned out to be Mikhail Popkov, who participated in the previous investigation. On June 23 of the same year, Popkov, when he was trying to overtake a newly bought car from Vladivostok, was arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering three women committed in March, June and December 1997. The suspect surrendered without resistance and, already in the police department, confessed to dozens of murders. He also admitted that he stopped killing because of impotence, which he received as a result of a neglected venereal disease.
In August 2012, information appeared in the media that the person under investigation had tried to hang himself in the SIZO cell. Soon this information was refuted by the employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
On October 31, 2013, Popkov was charged with 22 murders and two attempted murders. In May 2014, the case went to trial. The materials of the criminal case amounted to 195 volumes. More than 300 forensic and forensic examinations, more than 2.5 thousand genomic studies were carried out in the case, more than two thousand witnesses were interrogated. On January 14, 2015, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Mikhail Popkov to life imprisonment in a special regime colony. After the verdict, Popkov confessed to another 59 murders, while new charges have been brought against Popkov for only 47 episodes. Presumably, the final number of Popkov's victims is 83 people (among them 1 man, police captain Yevgeny Shkurikhin, who was killed in 1999).
On March 27, 2017, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region brought a final charge against Popkov for the murder of another 60 women. During the investigation of the second case, it was revealed that the suspect had no mental abnormalities.
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A huge number of different people live in our country, and not all of them are good. In the criminal history of Russia, there were many ruthless monsters who were noted as serial killers and bloodthirsty maniacs. Many of them you have never heard of, but, nevertheless, they committed truly terrible murders and each of them became a serial maniac. About maniacs, their murders and their fate, read on .. Not for the faint of heart! We tried to write about little-known maniacs and serial killers, so we specifically did not include Chikatilo and the Bitsa maniac in this list.
Valery Hasratyan
Valery Asratyan, also known as "The Director", was aspiring actresses' worst nightmare. From 1988 to 1990, the Moscow maniac posed as a powerful director (hence the nickname), luring unsuspecting girls to him with empty promises of wealth and fame.
Asratyan's primary target was sexual crimes, eventually becoming a serial killer in an attempt to cover his tracks. During his criminal activities, he raped dozens of victims, killing at least three of them. Not wanting to draw attention to himself, the perpetrator used different methods of murder each time, so the police did not suspect that the murders were the work of one person.
Asratyan was very smart and had a background in psychology. His favorite method of luring a victim to his home was to pose as a director (complete with forged documents), after the victim entered the lair, he would beat the victim unconscious, then drug him and keep him at home as a sex toy for many days. Units of surviving captives, after liberation, testified against the maniac.
Some of the victims were able to indicate the place where Asratyan kept them. During the investigation, the police managed to find and arrest the maniac, thereby ending his terror. He was shot dead in 1992, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Alexander Bychkov
Alexander Bychkov did not like alcoholics and homeless people. In fact, he hated them so much that he dreamed of exterminating them all. Bychkov began to call himself "Rambo", as the hero of the famous character Sylvester Stallone, armed with a large knife and hammer, he began to roam the streets in search of victims.
Between 2009 and 2012, "Rambo" lured at least nine unfortunate victims into desert areas, where he attacked by killing them before dismembering the bodies and hiding them. Each of these attacks were meticulously recorded in a journal, which he called "the bloody hunt of a predator born in the year of the dragon." He also claimed to have eaten at least two of his victims' hearts, although no evidence of this has been found.
Bychkov was only 24 years old when he was caught. His only explanation for his actions was to impress his girlfriend, for which he tried to act like a lone wolf.
Anatoly Slivko
Anatoly Slivko is a Soviet serial killer, sadist and pedophile. For many years, this monster kept the city of Nevinnomyssk at bay. Little boys began to disappear from the city, whom no one ever saw later. The police did their best to investigate the kidnappings, but no serious evidence was found.
In 1985, the criminal was finally caught. Anatoly Slivko was the leader of the local tourist club "Chergid", he successfully used his position to win the trust of young tourists. In his youth, Slivko witnessed a terrible accident, during which a motorcyclist crashed into a column of pioneers and one of them died in the inferno of burning gasoline. He experienced sexual arousal, and this picture haunted him all his adult life. After he became the head of "Chergid", he tried to recreate this terrible scenario. He forced the boys to play roles and take poses, he saw once a terrible incident. But soon it was not enough for him just to look at these scenes. Ultimately, Slivko began to kill children, dismember and burn the remains.
To persuade the boys to participate in terrible scenes, he used a frightening method. He told the boys that they could become the main characters in a film about how the Nazis abused children, at that time it was a popular topic. The maniac dressed the boys in pioneer uniforms, stretched them on ropes, hung them on a tree, observed torment and convulsions, after which he carried out resuscitation. The surviving victims either did not remember what happened to them, or were afraid to talk about the "secret experiment". Nobody believed the children, who nevertheless told about everything.
Even after he was captured and sentenced to death, Slivko's demeanor remained strangely benevolent. He was very helpful and courteous to the authorities to the very end. When the police were hunting for another serial killer, he even gave an interview to investigators, in the style of Hannibal Lecter, a few hours before the execution.
Sergei Golovkin
Sergei Golovkin was a quiet outsider who barely interacted with other people. Although he was rather reserved and shy, he could make people nervous with just his gaze. No one could have imagined that the guy would become a serial killer. He was a serial killer known as "Boa" or "Fischer".
During his school years he suffered from enuresis. He was afraid that those around him could smell his urine. While masturbating, he often fantasized about torturing and killing classmates. At the age of thirteen, sadistic tendencies first appeared. Golovkin caught a cat on the street and brought it home, where he hung it and cut off its head, which caused a relaxation, the tension in which he constantly stayed subsided. I also fried aquarium fish on the stove.
Between 1986 and 1992, Golovkin killed and raped 11 people. He was notorious for first strangling his victims and then dismembering the bodies in a horrific, horror-movie fashion. He cut his victims, cut off the genitals, head, cut open the abdominal cavity, removed the internal organs. He took "souvenirs" from the remains of his victims. He even experimented with cannibalism, but it turned out that he did not like the taste of human flesh.
One of the 4 boys that Golovkin offered to take part in the robbery refused to participate in the proposed case and later identified him. The other three boys were never seen again.
Golovkin was put under surveillance. October 19, 1992 he was detained. For Golovkin, this was a surprise, but during interrogation he behaved calmly and denied guilt. At night in the isolation ward, Golovkin tried to open the veins. On October 21, 1992, his garage was searched and, going down to the cellar, they found evidence: a baby bath with burnt layers of skin and blood, clothes, belongings of the dead, and so on.
Golovkin confessed in 11 episodes and showed the investigators in detail the places of murders and burials. During the investigation, he behaved calmly, monotonously talked about the murders, and sometimes joked. He was executed in 1996.
Maxim Petrov
Dr. Maxim Petrov is not the only person known as "Doctor Death", but certainly one of the most feared. A ruthless killer who specialized in stalking his elderly patients. He came to pensioners' homes, without warning, usually in the morning, when their relatives left for work. Petrov measured blood pressure and informed the patient that an injection was needed. After the injection, the victims lost consciousness, and Petrov left, taking valuables with him. He even removed rings and earrings from patients. The first victims did not die. Petrov committed his first murder in 1999. The patient was already unconscious after the injection, when his daughter unexpectedly returned home and saw the doctor commit the theft. He hit the woman with a screwdriver and strangled the patient. After this episode, the principle of Petrov's work changed. He injected victims with a variety of lethal drugs so that the police would not think that the perpetrator was a doctor. Petrov set fire to the houses of his victims to cover up the traces of the crime. The stolen items were later found in his apartment, some he had already managed to sell on the market.
More than 50 people died at the hands of Petrov. One survivor recalls waking up in their house on fire, while others wake up in an apartment filled with gas. Witnesses Petrov ruthlessly killed.
In the end, he put on a constant stream of murders with lethal injections and destruction of apartments with the help of fires, but he was too greedy. Investigators soon noticed a natural connection between the illnesses of those killed and the crimes committed and compiled a list of 72 potential future victims. They soon arrested Petrov while he was "visiting" one of his patients in 2002. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison.
Sergey Martynov
For some people, prison is a correctional facility. According to others, this is just a place where they while away the time between crimes. These people often return to their criminal activities after being released. Sergei Martynov was from the second group of people.
He had already served 14 years in prison for murder and rape after being released in 2005. The same thirst for blood seethed in him. Shortly after his release, he began to travel around the country in search of victims.
Over the next six years, Martynov began a series of murders. He traveled to ten different regions, leaving a trail of murder and rape in his wake. His victims were mostly women and girls, whom he used gruesome methods to kill.
Martynov's bloody journey came to an end when he was finally caught in 2010. He was charged with at least eight murders and multiple rapes in 2012. Serving a life sentence.
"Molotochniki from Irkutsk" - Akademovsky maniacs
Morally unstable killers are one of the most dangerous types of criminals. They are so unpredictable, how cruel, and it is very difficult to immediately recognize serial killers in them.
Nikita Lytkin and Artem Anufriev were two young men who decided to try their hand at neo-Nazism, or rather they were skinheads. Dressed in all black, they were active members of various communities dedicated to fascism. They were known online by names such as "Peoplehater" and moderated social groups such as "We are gods, we alone decide who lives and who dies."
Lytkin and Anufriev became infamous as "Akademovsky maniacs". Between December 2010 and April 2011, they killed between six and eight people. Luckily, the two of them were pretty bad at hiding their tracks, so their killing spree didn't last long.
On October 16, 2012, right in court, Anufriev inflicted cutting wounds on the side of his neck and scratched his stomach with a razor, which he carried in a sock when he was taken from the pre-trial detention center to court. He couldn't explain why he did it. His lawyer Svetlana Kukareva considered this the result of a strong emotional outburst, which was caused by the fact that his mother appeared in court for the first time that day. "AiF in Eastern Siberia" mentioned the case when Anufriev, before one of the meetings, cut his neck with a screw unscrewed from the sink in the escort room.
On April 2, 2013, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Anufriev to life imprisonment in a special regime colony, Lytkin to 24 years in prison, of which five years (three years, since the two-year term that he served before sentencing was taken into account) he will spend in prison, and the rest - in a strict regime colony.
Vladimir Mukhankin - a murderer from Rostov-on-Don
In 1995, Mukhankin begins to kill and committed 8 murders in 2 months. He dismembered corpses and performs manipulations with dead and agonizing bodies. He had an unhealthy passion for internal organs, repeatedly went to bed with them. There was an episode where, after the murder in the cemetery, Mukhankin left a sheet with a poem he had composed. On his last day at large, he commits 2 murders and 1 attempted murder. In addition to 8 murders, he also committed 14 more crimes: theft and robbery.
Mukhankin was caught by accident after attacking a woman with her daughter. The woman was killed, but the girl survived and later identified her assailant.
During interrogations, the maniac behaved defiantly, did not repent of his deed, called himself a student of Chikatilo, although he also said that "in comparison with him, Chikatilo is a chicken." Mukhankin described his crimes in detail, at the same time trying to persuade others to think about his insanity. However, he did not succeed - the examination recognized him as sane and fully accountable for his actions.
At the trial, Mukhankin, realizing that he was facing capital punishment, refused all the testimony he had given. The court found him guilty of 22 crimes, including 8 murders, of which three were minors. Vladimir Mukhankin was sentenced to death with confiscation of property. Subsequently, the execution was replaced by life imprisonment. Currently kept in the famous Black Dolphin colony.
Irina Gaidamachuk
When your criminal nickname is "Satan in a Skirt", chances are you are not the nicest person in the world. Irina Gaydamachuk fully deserved this nickname. For seven years, she visited senior citizens of the Sverdlovsk region as a welfare worker. After she got into the victim's apartment, she killed elderly citizens by crushing their heads with a hammer or an ax. After that, she stole money and valuables and fled the scene as if nothing had happened.
The scariest thing about Gaidamachuk is that she has never been an anti-social loner, she has been married, and is the mother of two. She liked to drink too much and didn't like to work. She decided to kill people as an alternative method of making money. However, it was not a very profitable business, none of her robberies exceeded 17,500 rubles. And she kept doing it again, and again, and again.
She killed 17 pensioners in 8 years of criminal activity. As she told the police: "I just wanted to be a normal mother, but I was addicted to alcohol. My husband Yuri would not give me money for vodka."
Gaidamachuk was detained only at the end of 2010. Gaydamachuk was charged with 17 murders and 18 robbery attacks (one of the victims after Irina's attack survived). She was declared sane.
She was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Such a lenient sentence is due to the fact that, in accordance with Article 57 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, life imprisonment is not assigned to women (and also to men under 18 or over 65). 20 years was the maximum punishment for her.
Vasily Komarov
Vasily Ivanovich Komarov - the first reliable Soviet serial killer maniac, operated in Moscow in the period 1921-1923. His victims were 33 men.
Vasily Komarov came up with an entrepreneurial scenario for his murders. He got acquainted with a client who wanted to buy this or that product, often they were horses, brought him to his house, gave him vodka to drink, then killed him with hammer blows, sometimes strangled him, and then packed the bodies in a bag and carefully hid them. In 1921, he committed at least 17 murders, in the next two years - at least 12 more murders, although he later confessed to 33 murders. The bodies were found in the Moscow River, in ruined houses buried underground. According to Komarov, the whole procedure took no more than half an hour.
Between 1921 and 1923, Moscow trembled with a ruthless killer who choked and clubbed people to death and dumped their bodies in sacks through the city's slums. It was, of course, Komarov. He was not particularly smart in his actions, however. After the authorities realized that the murders were related to sales at the horse market, they quickly listed him as a suspect. even tried to kill his eight-year-old son.
Komarov tried to escape from the hands of the law, he was soon arrested. Most of the bodies of the victims of Vasily Komarov were discovered only after his capture. Komarov spoke about the murders with particular cynicism and pleasure. He assured that the motive for his atrocities was self-interest, that he only killed speculators, but all his murders brought him about $ 30 at the then exchange rate. During the indication of burial places, angry crowds of people were hardly pushed back from Komarov.
The maniac did not repent of the crimes committed, moreover, he said that he was ready to commit at least sixty more murders. The forensic psychiatric examination recognized Komarov as sane, although they recognized him as an alcoholic degenerate and a psychopath.
The court sentenced Vasily Komarov and his wife Sofya to capital punishment - execution. In the same 1923, the sentence was carried out
Vasily Kulik
Vasily Kulik, better known as the "Irkutsk Monster" is a famous Soviet serial killer. Killed in order to hide the rape. Subsequently, he also admitted that he received stronger sexual satisfaction when strangling the victim.
Since childhood, Vasily Kulik felt the connection between violence and sexual arousal. As a teenager, he had many girlfriends who developed an unhealthy appetite for sex in him. His mental health has always been very precarious, but when the girl he loved moved to another city, his mental health took a turn for the worse.
Between 1984 and 1986, Kulik raped and killed 13 people. His victims were elderly women or small children. Kulik committed murders in various ways: he used firearms, strangulation, inflicted stab wounds and other methods of killing his victims. His oldest victim was 73 years old, the youngest victim was a two-month-old baby.
During another attack, on January 17, 1986, he was beaten and taken to the police station by passers-by. Kulik soon confessed everything, but at the trial he refused all evidence, saying that he was forced to confess to everything by a gang of a certain Chibis, who committed all the murders. The case was sent for further investigation.
However, his guilt was nevertheless proven and Kulik was arrested on the day of his 30th birthday. On August 11, 1988, the court sentenced Vasily Kulik to capital punishment - execution.
Shortly before the execution, Kulik was interviewed. Here is an excerpt from it:
"Kulik: ... The verdict is already there, the trial has passed, so ... remain only a person, there are no more thoughts ...
Interviewer: Are you afraid of death?
Kulik: I didn't think about that..."
Kulik also wrote poems about love for women and children. On June 26, 1989, in the pre-trial detention center of Irkutsk, the sentence was carried out.
