Everyone knows that in the Soviet Union there was no sex, religion and democracy, and if something scandalous happened, the authorities preferred to keep silent about it. Nevertheless, it was difficult to hide the bloody details of the most terrible crimes from society. Some of the maniacs listed in this selection could not be caught for a long time even after the collapse of the USSR, and some people were even accused by accident.
1. Anatoly Biryukov - "Baby Hunter"
Maniac Biryukov seemed like an exemplary family man and a respectable citizen: no one suspected that a decent husband and father was leading a double life.
Biryukov committed his first murder in 1977. He kidnapped the baby from the stroller, took it to a deserted place and tried to commit violent acts of a known nature against him. However, onlookers frightened off the maniac, and he killed the baby with a knife. In the same year, Biryukov committed several more rapes and murders of abducted babies, but by the sixth case, witnesses began to pursue him. Fortunately for the investigation, they were able to examine the rapist and make an identikit.
After the arrest, investigators and psychiatrists concluded that Biryukov suffered from a severe form of non-pyophilia - a passion for babies. In his defense, the offender said that he committed his atrocities because his wife refused to support him intimate relationship. In 1979, Biryukov, who killed a total of five babies, was shot.
2. Alexey Sukletin - "Alligator"
Sukletin has seven girls and women on his account, whom he killed and ate with his accomplices Shakirova and Nikitin. The first victim was a woman named Yekaterina Osetrova in 1981. Sukletin insisted that his mistress Shakirova help him kill, butcher and cook the dead. In love and tamed, Madina Shakirova was ready to do anything for her lover, so she agreed to take on the duties of a cook.
The cannibal idyll did not last long - after the murder of a little girl, Sukletin and Shakirova parted ways. The maniac did not grieve for long and immediately found a replacement - his relative Anatoly Nikitin often visited, with whom they eventually killed and dismembered a new victim.
Rumors began to circulate in the village that Sukletin was selling high-quality meat and tenderloin, and in the meantime the gang began to engage in extortion, on which they were caught. 4 bags of human bones were found in the garden of Sukletin. Maniac was shot in 1994, and Shakirov and Nikitin were sentenced to 15 years in prison. On account of the cannibals - at least seven victims.
3. Anatoly Onoprienko - "Citizen O"
By 1996, when Onoprienko was taken into custody, he had already killed about 52 people. The exact number of deaths to this day remains unknown, but according to the investigation, there were much more victims.
Onoprienko began his activity in 1989 together with his partner Sergey Rogozin. The "death duo" killed couples and even groups of young people, and they also broke into houses and shot all family members, including children. Often Onoprienko shot random passers-by.
The motives behind Citizen O's crimes are still unknown. According to him, he killed people because some forces and voices ordered him to do it. The crimes included three waves: against communism, nationalism and the plague of the 21st century. After a long search, the investigation finally got on the trail of Onoprienko. True, before that, an innocent person who died during torture was detained. After the trial, Anatoly Onoprienko was sentenced to death, but the sentence was never executed due to the abolition of the death penalty in Ukraine.
4. Sergei Golovkin - "Fisher"
Sergei was considered a young attractive man, but despite the fact that girls always curled around, he did not show interest in them. Fisher was more interested in teenage boys.
The first attempted rape and murder was an incident in 1984 (many years later, the surviving victim was able to identify Golovkin). The first murder that took place was the strangulation in 1984 of 16-year-old Andrei: threatening with reprisal, Golovkin dragged the boy into the forest, raped, strangled and abused the body. Then the killings continued and caused a public outcry, because of which Fischer decided to go underground for a while.
In 1989, Golovkin got into business, but changed his style a little. He built a basement in his garage where he tortured, raped and killed boys. Due to the fact that the killer became careless and inaccurately buried the last bodies, he was quickly identified and found. In 1992, Fischer was finally arrested. He was sentenced to death, the sentence was executed in 1996. On account of the maniac 11 killed teenagers.
5. Anatoly Utkin - "Ulyanovsk maniac"
Anatoly Utkin, born in 1942, was a driver by profession. In 1968, his car was stopped by a 14-year-old girl, Liza Makarova, who urgently needed to go to the hospital with her mother. Taking advantage of the moment, Utkin raped and killed the poor thing, leaving himself a few of her personal belongings "as a keepsake".
The victims of the rampant maniac turned out to be both young girls and middle-aged women. After the disappearances of the girls and the finds of corpses, the public started up: a serial killer appeared in calm Ulyanovsk! Over time, Utkin began to take a more prudent approach to the choice of victims - he was guided by careful planning.
In 1972, the maniac's motives changed: now his goal was not violence and murder, but profit. In the same year, Utkin killed a man for the sake of robbery, and in 1973 he was taken into custody. After the investigation and the evidence found in the house of the suspect, the police had no doubts about his guilt. In 1975, Utkin was shot; in total, nine murders of his "authorship" were established.
Oddly enough, his family and acquaintances spoke extremely favorably about Anatoly Utkin. He was married twice and had two children.
6. Sergey Tkach - "Pavlograd Maniac"
Weaver has been operating since 1980, the motives of his crimes have always been sexy character. The killer began to commit crimes after moving to Ukraine; he chose girls from 9 to 17 years old. The weaver carefully concealed the evidence, leaving no traces of sperm, prints and tissues on the bodies, however, he did not refuse the memorabilia of his victims, which he carefully kept.
In 2005, Tkach dealt with another victim - a nine-year-old girl - after which he was detained. During his search, 14 people were innocently convicted of crimes, which Tkach later confessed to.
Today Sergei Tkach is serving a life sentence. For some time in custody he had access to the Internet and communicated with interested people. On account of this cruel maniac from 30 to 150 victims.
7. Vladimir Mukhankin - "Lenin"
Vladimir was born into an incomplete family as an unwanted child (his father left his mother before the birth of his son), as a result of which he suffered constant bullying and a bad attitude at home. Hardened by the environment, Mukhankin periodically wandered, stole, attacked people and tortured and mocked animals. His nature did not prevent him from marrying at the age of 18, he had a son, who later died.
In 1995, "Lenin" begins to kill and commits eight murders in a few months. Mukhankin mocked his dying victims, performing horrific actions on the agonizing body. The maniac's real passion was human organs, with which he often went to bed.
After being caught, the criminal behaved obscenely and declared that he was the second Chikatilo. Mukhankin described his crimes in detail with pleasure, but at the trial he retracted all his testimony. He was found guilty of 22 crimes, eight of which were murders. Now Mukhankin is serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin colony.
8. Vladimir Ionesyan - Mosgaz
During the Khrushchev thaw, it was hard to imagine that an intruder would get into your apartment, posing as an employee, for example, of Mosgaz or the housing office, which gave the criminal the opportunity to use this simple method. The authorities were furious, all forces were thrown into the capture of a maniac.
Due to the quick investigation and the quick reprisal against Ionesyan, his motives remained unclear. Most likely, he killed for the purpose of robbery. There is also a version that after leaving his wife for the ballerina Alevtina Dmitrieva, the criminal entered the apartments to find gifts for the woman. According to the third version, the murders helped Ionesyan to assert himself.
Mosgaz committed the first murder in 1963: having entered the apartment, he hacked to death a 12-year-old boy who was alone at home with an ax and took a few things. The last murder of a 46-year-old woman took place in 1964, the same year the criminal was taken into custody and shot.
There is an unproven version that Khrushchev himself spoke with Ionesyan. The killer has five victims, four of whom are children.
9. Roman Burtsev - "Kamensky Chikatilo"
Burtsev's parents were alcoholics, which probably influenced the formation of his personality. He began his bloody "career" as a pedophile in 1993 with the murder of his brother and sister Churilov - First he got rid of the boy, and then raped and killed the girl. The bodies were buried in a hole.
Burtsev was always distinguished by accuracy: he hid the bodies of the victims so carefully that almost all of them were found only when the killer himself showed the burial places. However, the thoroughness of the burial of the corpses let Burtsev down - after another murder, he asked for a shovel from one of the residents of his village, after which he threw away the gun. The woman described the appearance of a strange man, and a little later he was also identified by one of the victims who managed to escape.
In 1996, Roman Burtsev was caught and sentenced to death, but then the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. "Kamensky Chikatilo" managed to kill six people.
10. Vasily Kulik - "Irkutsk Monster"
As a child, Vasily Kulik was a sickly child, but in the family he was always looked after and taken care of. Due to constant illnesses, almost everything was forgiven him, so Vasily grew up quite selfish and cruel, in adolescence poisoned and hung cats.
With age, Kulik got stronger and began to play sports. After an attack and a blow to the head in 1980, he began to have sexual desires for children, in 1982 Kulik committed the first rape, and two years later the first murder of a nine-year-old girl. The maniac did not shun the murders of pensioners: by his own admission, he compiled a list of old women of interest to him.
Panic began in Irkutsk, and the killer tried to be more careful, however, during another assassination attempt in 1986, passers-by managed to stop him. The “Irkutsk monster” confessed everything, but at the trial he suddenly began to deny his involvement, stating that he was framed by the Chibis gang. After a thorough investigation, Vasily Kulik was shot in 1989. On his account there were 13 murders.
Ekaterina Snyatovskaya
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The bloodiest maniacs of the USSR 31.10.2016 18:35
Among the numerous crimes with which the criminal chronicle is rich, there are those from which the blood freezes. Committed with particular cruelty, they do not even fit into the framework of criminal morality, make outcasts not only of the ordinary, but also of the criminal environment of those who have crossed the line.
Their bloody glory does not subside over the years: people are interested in them, films are made about them and books are written, scientists from all over the world study their phenomenon. They left an indelible mark on our history: homicidal maniacs Soviet Union.
Vasily Ivanovich Komarov ("Shabolovsky murderer")
The first reliable Soviet serial killer maniac. His victims were 33 men.
The future maniac, then Petrov Vasily Terentyevich, was born in the Vitebsk region in large family worker. His whole family suffered from alcoholism, and Vasily also began to drink from the age of 15.
Komarov started killing in February 1921, when Lenin announced the New Economic Policy and thereby allowed private enterprise. Komarov committed all the crimes according to one scenario: he met a client who wanted to buy this or that product, 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.
In the winter of 1922, Komarov's wife found out about the murders, but she reacted calmly to this, moreover, she participated in the latest murders.
At the trial, Komarov spoke about the murders with particular cynicism and pleasure. 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.
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo ("Mad Beast", "Rostov Ripper", "Red Ripper", "Killer from the forest belt", "Citizen X", "Satan", "Soviet Jack the Ripper")
The most famous Soviet serial killer. His name over the past couple of decades has become a household name: a maniac, a sadist, a pervert, according to some sources, a cannibal. He has 53 proven murders (the criminal himself confessed to 56, according to operational information, he committed more than 65 murders): 21 boys aged 7 to 16 years, 14 girls aged 9 to 17 years, 18 girls and women.
Andrei Chikatilo was the son of a "traitor, traitor and coward", since his father was captured at the front. The childhood of the future killer of the twentieth century passed in poverty and constant humiliation.
Chikatilo talked about his childhood like this: “... In September 1944, he went to school. He was too shy, timid, shy, was the object of ridicule and could not defend himself. The teachers marveled at my helplessness: if I didn't have a pen or ink, I would sit and cry. Due to congenital myopia, I could not see what was written on the board and was afraid to ask. There were no glasses at all then, besides, I was afraid of the nickname Bespectacled, I began to wear them only at the age of 30, when I got married ... Tears of resentment choked me all my life. In the spring of 1954, when I was already in the tenth grade, I once lost my temper. A thirteen-year-old girl came into our yard, blue trousers peeking out from under her dress ... I said that my sister was not at home, she did not leave. Then I pushed her, knocked her down and lay down on her. I didn't undress her and I didn't undress myself. But I immediately ejaculated. I was very worried about this weakness of mine, although no one saw it. After this misfortune of mine, I decided to tame my flesh, my base impulses, and vowed to myself not to touch anyone except my future wife.
Chikatilo graduated from the philological faculty of the Russian State University and became a teacher of the Russian language and literature, an educator at a boarding school. Former students of Chikatilo, already adults, recalled in court how the teacher, under the guise of helping them, sat down to them and “touched different parts of the body”, unexpectedly entered the girls’ room when they were changing clothes, Chikatilo was constantly masturbating through the pockets of his trousers, for which he students openly teased.
In 1982, in the Rostov region, mutilated bodies began to be found, battered police officers were horrified. The search for the Rostov Ripper began: hundreds of policemen and ten years of searching.
In 1982, Chikatilo killed seven children between the ages of 9 and 16. Most often, he met future victims at bus stops and train stations, under some plausible pretext (show a shortcut, puppies, stamps, a VCR, etc.) lured them into a forest belt or other secluded place (sometimes the victims walked with the killer several kilometers - Chikatilo always walked in front), unexpectedly pounced with a knife. On the mutilated bodies of the dead, up to sixty stab wounds were found, many had their noses, tongues, genitals, breasts cut off and bitten off, and their eyes gouged out.
In December 1985, the operation "Forest Belt" under the control of the Central Committee of the CPSU began - perhaps the largest operational event ever carried out by Soviet and Russian law enforcement agencies. Over the entire period of the operation, more than 200 thousand people were checked for involvement in a series of murders, 1062 crimes were solved along the way, information was accumulated on 48 thousand people with sexual deviations, 5845 people were put on special records, 163 thousand drivers of vehicles were checked. Military helicopters were even used to patrol the railroad tracks and adjacent forest belts. The search for the killer cost the state about 10 million rubles in 1990 prices.
The development of the investigation was complicated by the fact that the police did not have any testimonies. And yet there was one clue - on the body of a 9-year-old boy who died in the summer of 1982, the sperm of the fourth group was found. And this, according to all the classical laws of forensic science, meant that the blood of the criminal was also of the fourth group.
But as it turned out, the unshakable "classical laws of criminology" played a cruel joke with the investigation. Even at the beginning of operations, in 1984, one of the operational groups detained Chikatilo at the station, drawing attention to his suspicious behavior and hard-to-disguise interest in teenagers. At the same time, a blood sample was taken from him, but since the group turned out to be the second, the criminal was quietly released. Subsequently, it turned out that Chikatilo's physiology was abnormal - he had different group sperm and blood group. The holy faith of those who conducted the investigation in forensic dogmas gave the sadist the opportunity to rape and kill people for another six years.
Having reached a dead end, members of the task force went to consult with the same maniac and pedophile Anatoly Slivko, who at that time was awaiting the death penalty in the Stavropol prison, but the maniac's advice did not help the investigation, Slivko said that not one person was operating, but a whole gang.
On November 17, outside surveillance was established for Chikatilo. He behaved suspiciously: he tried to get acquainted with boys and girls, appeared in places where corpses were found.
The killer was represented as a monster, but he turned out to be a very peculiar person: he valued his family, was attached to his wife and children, modest and even shy, timid. It was downright hard to believe that this meek creature was capable of gouging out the eyes of its victims. But just this, as it turned out, is quite understandable: a maniac cannot withstand someone else's gaze.
In the trial, which began on April 14, 1992, Chikatilo tried to portray insanity, but a forensic psychiatric examination showed his full sanity.
While on death row, Chikatilo wrote numerous complaints and requests for clemency. On January 4, 1994, the last request for pardon addressed to Russian President Boris Yeltsin was rejected. On February 14, Chikatilo was executed in the Novocherkassk prison.
But the “Chikatilo case” did not end there. A sequel followed in 1996.
Some scientists believe that there is no non-inherited trait and the "crime trait" is passed on by the gene. Perhaps it was this gene that played a role in the son of the "killer of the century" - Yuri Andreevich. He was charged with unlawful imprisonment of a person whom he tortured, forgery of documents, and rape.
The Chikatilo family, after his arrest, changed their surname so that the children would not carry their father's affairs like a cross. However, in 1991, Yuri regained his father's surname. According to some reports, he is very proud to be the son of Andrei Chikatilo and would like to follow in his footsteps. Yuri, just like his father once, requires a psychiatric examination. And he does it in the same pre-trial detention center where his father was before.
Anatoly Yurievich Onoprienko ("Citizen O")
Ukrainian serial and mass killer. Between 1989 and 1996, he killed 52 people. Sometimes Onoprienko is called the most cruel maniac of the 20th century. The question of the exact motives for his crimes still remains unanswered.
Onoprienko's mother died when he was only 3 years old and, left an orphan, with a living father and older brother, the boy ended up in an orphanage. Already in the orphanage, he began to beat his peers and stabbed them with sharp objects, he liked to make fires in the forest.
Onoprienko committed his first murder on June 14, 1989. He shot and robbed a married couple. In 1995 there was a second wave of murders, from October to December 1995 he killed 7 people.
Soon, murders became commonplace for Onoprienko. At short intervals, he went to rob and kill. As a rule, he killed several people at once, after which he took their property. During one of these robberies, he slaughtered a family of 4 people (the Zaichenko family), including a 3-month-old baby.
Many years later, Onoprienko was still unable to answer why he killed the baby (later, however, he will say that he killed children so that they would not remain orphans). In addition, sometimes Onoprienko raped his victims (there was even an episode when he had sexual intercourse with the corpse of a murdered woman).
Onoprienko committed his last murder on March 22, 1996. He killed a married couple, their little daughter, and the deaf sister of the murdered woman. He robbed them, and leaving, he killed their dog.
April 14, 1996 Anatoly Onoprienko was arrested in the city of Yavoriv. At first he was silent. When asked about the motive, he answered that he was ordered to kill "from above", that he was led by "intergalactic forces". He demanded to be studied as a "natural phenomenon". Doctors believe that by killing others, he was avenging his own destroyed family.
The reading of the indictment lasted 3 days. The court sentenced Onoprienko to death by firing squad. The verdict was met with applause from the audience. Onoprienko, while reading the verdict, showed the middle finger to the judge, after listening to the verdict, he drew a cross on his forehead.
On August 27, 2013, Onoprienko died of heart failure in Zhytomyr Prison No. 8.
Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin ("Bitsevsky maniac", "The killer with a chessboard")
Alexander was raised by his mother, because his father left the family when the child was only 9 months old. Pichushkin was very modest and quiet, he did not hooligan, he liked to play chess.
Soon, according to Pichushkin's mother, an accident happens to him - he falls from a swing and receives a head injury, after which he ends up in the hospital. As a result of the injury, Pichushkin had complications with speech - he confused "sh" and "s", and also made mistakes in writing these letters, which is why his mother transferred him to a speech therapy boarding school.
Alexander committed the first murder on July 27, 1992, he killed his classmate and threw the body into the well. After 14 years, he admitted during interrogation that "the first murder is like the first love, it is impossible to forget."
Pichushkin thought about the first murder for a long time and finally realized that he wanted to kill more. He finally understood this after the trial of Andrei Chikatilo and began to carefully prepare for the next murders: he trained, pumped muscles, gained weight on steroids and proteins.
Maniac has been unfolding since 2001. He hid the bodies in manholes, skillfully covered his tracks, so the disappeared people until 2006 were considered missing. In 2005, the press started talking about the increasing number of murders in Bitsevsky Park, explaining this by the fact that the maniac stopped hiding the bodies, thus wanting to make himself known.
Alexander Pichushkin was detained on June 16. After some time, the arrested person declared that it was he who was the "Bitsevsky maniac", but the search activities continued, as the investigators did not exclude the possibility of self-incrimination.
After the arrest, Pichushkin stated that he wanted to kill at least 64 people so that the number of victims was equal to the number of cells on the chessboard. After each murder, he pasted a number and closed the box with some object. However, during one of the interrogations, he stated that after filling all the cells he would buy a new board. At first, Pichushkin tried to kill alcoholics, homeless people and other asocial individuals who, in his opinion, had no right to life, but soon he switched to his acquaintances, arguing that "it is especially pleasant to kill someone you know."
The exact number of victims of the "Bitsevsky maniac" is still unknown. According to various sources, Pichushkin claimed to have killed 60, 61, 62, or 63 people.
“...If they hadn't been caught, I would never have stopped, never. They saved the lives of many by catching me ... ”- said the maniac. On October 29, 2007, Pichushkin was sentenced to life imprisonment; he is serving his sentence in the polar owl colony.
Sergei Fedorovich Tkach ("Pavlograd Maniac", "Pologiv Maniac", "Artem")
The bloodiest maniac of the USSR. He left Chikatilo, Pichushkin and Onoprienko far behind, breaking all records for the number of victims in the territory of the former Soviet Union. In total, Tkach wrote 107 confessions.
Sergey Tkach is a "classic maniac" - an outcast, married three times in the past, has four children, an exemplary worker. Former forensic expert. His testimony was included in the latest Ukrainian textbooks on practical psychology, published for a narrow circle of readers by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Born on September 15, 1952 in the city of Kiselevsk (Kemerovo Region, RSFSR). After serving in the army, he was sent to work in the police, and was also recommended for admission to the Novosibirsk School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Tkach committed his first crime in 1980: he strangled a completely unfamiliar girl and abused her body, after which he himself called the police, allegedly wanting to confess.
At the same time, a new incentive arose for brutal murders. As the killer himself said, he passionately wanted to prove to the top leadership of the police the complete unsuitability of its operational staff. The goal was partially achieved: the man was caught for 25 years. During this time, the number of his victims exceeded 70.
Being familiar with the operational practice of the police, Sergei Tkach masterfully learned to “cover up his tracks”: he removed from the victims all items of clothing and shoes that could leave his fingerprints, carefully destroyed the evidence, leaving no cigarette butts and scraps at the crime scene, trampled down the traces, wiped away the traces of semen.
The girls were usually tracked down in forest plantations near the railroad tracks and highways, believing that suspicion would fall on some trucker or visitor. Before the start of the "hunt" he drank a glass of "mixture No. 3": vodka with diphenhydramine.
Weaver had a trademark handwriting: he squeezed the girl's carotid artery and took something as a keepsake: gold jewelry, lipstick, mirror, handbag and underwear of the victim. He left the crime scene along the sleepers, because in this case, service dogs are not able to take the trail.
The last victim of Sergei Tkach was a nine-year-old girl Katya, the daughter of a neighbor friend. The weaver came to the girl's funeral and was recognized by the children with whom Katya played shortly before her death. The kids told the adults: they say, this uncle somehow looked at them in a wrong way, and then began to tell something funny to Katya.
“It was necessary to drown them, too,” the maniac lamented during interrogations. "I'm really sorry..."
All three of Tkach's wives said that he had no abnormalities; neighbors and friends spoke of him as a positive person, wondered why he killed women, because he never had problems with them, on the contrary, "he could chat anyone, if not in 13 seconds, then in a minute for sure."
Why did he so want to kill the opposite sex? Tkach himself explained this by the influence of vodka: “... As soon as after the reception I saw some girl, it was like a demon awakened in me ...”
"Why did you abuse the dead?" the investigators asked him. The maniac replied: they say, the living could scratch him, and any scratch on his face or arm could become evidence. Yes, and my wife would have unnecessary questions ...
The weaver is one of the most cunning maniacs. The following incident speaks of his cunning: when the Weaver was walking from another murder, he had the victim’s belongings in his pocket. A police patrol came across him, then Tkach turned into a village toilet and began to pretend that he was engaged in masturbation. The policemen, thinking that an ordinary onanist cannot be a maniac, left.
Chikatilo substituted a lot of people in his place: they hurried to shoot two. Anatoliy Onoprienko helped put six fellow Ukrainians behind bars. With the help of the valiant police, Sergei Tkach surpassed both ghouls in this sense: at least ten were blamed for the murders he committed:
The youngest of them was eighth-grader Yakov Popovich. He was taken right at the lesson at school and accused of rape and murder of his cousin, 10-year-old Yana, condemned to 15 years.
Vladimir Svetlichny, the father of Olya Svetlichnaya, who was killed by a maniac, hanged himself in his cell in 2000 after severe torture in the Dnepropetrovsk pre-trial detention center. Svetlichny was charged with the massacre of his own daughter.
Igor Ryzhkov in 1997 received 10 years for the murder committed by Tkach and was released from prison after serving his term.
Sergei Tkach was detained in his house on the outskirts of the village of Pologi in August 2005. On December 23, 2008, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. In conclusion, he had access to the Internet and even created his own primitive website on which he communicated with the interested public. Sergei Tkach continues to serve a life sentence.
Alexander Nikolaevich Spesivtsev ("Novokuznetsk Monster", "Siberian Ripper")
Russian serial killer, cannibal, whose victims were 19 women and children. In total, Spesivtsev is suspected of 80 murders. A feature of his crimes is the circumstances of their commission: being in the room (not being afraid to be caught), his mother helped him in terrible crimes.
Alexander grew up as a weak and sickly child, was withdrawn and unsociable. He was often offended by his peers, and he dreamed of someday taking cruel revenge on them.
Matushka Spesivtseva worked in court as an assistant to a lawyer, and soon their favorite entertainment with her son was looking at photographs that Lyudmila Yakovlevna brought home from work. Photos of crime victims, criminals and corpses already gave Sasha a strange pleasure, as he later admitted. The moment when her son began to show a tendency to sadism, the mother did not notice.
In 1991, Spetsivtsev began dating a girl, Evgenia. Once he beat her and she decided to leave him, to which Alexander reacted in his own way - he locked Evgenia in his apartment and began torturing her. Later, the girl died of sepsis, her whole body was covered with purulent abscesses, so the experts could not find out the real cause of death.
Alexander was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he was forcibly taken to a psychiatric clinic, where he stayed for 3 years. After discharge, in addition to resentment at classmates, resentment and anger at the hospital were added. Among other things, by that time Spesivtsev had some problems with his genitals - in the hospital, at his request, a neighbor in the ward sewed a pellet into his genitals, which caused inflammation.
When he returned, he began to communicate with drunkards and homeless people who lived at the station. There he met the next two victims (both Elenas), whom he killed in the same way as he once killed Eugenia.
Soon the maniac got bored of killing women and he switched to children. He found the first victims at a construction site, treated the boys to cigarettes and offered to rob his own apartment. On that day, 5 children's corpses turned out to be in Spesivtsev's bedroom. It’s scary, but when Spesivtsev’s mother discovered the corpses a few days later, she didn’t tear her hair out of horror, didn’t run to the police - on the contrary, she helped her beloved son and carried the dismembered bodies out of the house in buckets and threw them into the river. So the maniac got his own personal "cleaning lady" and he could calmly continue his work.
However, Lyudmila Yakovlevna was not only a cleaner - she brought the last three victims herself. The corpses of children went to the household - the maniac cooked soups, ate himself, forced children who had not yet been killed to eat, and the dog gnawed the bones.
It is not known how long the murders would have continued if it were not for the plumbers who needed to get into the Spesivtsevs' apartment. Alexander refused to open the door for them, shouted that he was mentally ill, in response to this, the workers brought a district police officer. What they saw shocked them: in the bath lay the torso of a girl without arms and legs, a severed head was removed from the tank and chest; an exhausted half-dead girl was found in the bedroom, who later died in the hospital.
From the testimony of the girl: “When Andrei (as Alexander Spesivtsev introduced himself to the girls) killed Nastya, at night he ordered us to cut the corpse into pieces so that it would be easier to hide. He gave us a hacksaw, with which we cut the corpse, cut off the meat from the bones with a knife. He did not do it himself, he only commanded.
Meat and bones fed the dog. The cut off parts Zhenya and I carried to the bathroom, where they put them in the bathtub, the tank. Both the grandmother and the woman saw all this, were present in the apartment. That's for sure. All other days he beat Zhenya and me. He broke Zhenya's arm, smashed her head, sewed her head up several times with a simple needle and thread.
After his arrest, Spesivtsev testified at the very first interrogation, his mother also did, who immediately confessed to complicity. The killer could have been caught much earlier if the neighbors had reported that they constantly heard screams from the Spesivtsevs' apartment, but they thought that the mentally ill Alexander himself was screaming.
The exact number of victims of the maniac has not been established. During the search, operatives found 82 sets of bloody clothing, as well as photographs of unknown children in the nude.
The court sentenced Lyudmila Yakovlevna to 15 years in prison. Spesivtsev was declared insane and sent for compulsory treatment to a high-security psychiatric hospital in the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region. Spesivtsev is still under compulsory treatment at the Volgograd Special Type Psychiatric Hospital with intensive supervision.
Everyone knows that in the Soviet Union there was no sex, religion and democracy, and if something scandalous happened, the authorities preferred to keep silent about it. Nevertheless, it was difficult to hide the bloody details of the most terrible crimes from society. Some of the maniacs listed in this selection could not be caught for a long time even after the collapse of the USSR, and some people were even accused by accident.
1. Anatoly Biryukov - "Baby Hunter"
Maniac Biryukov seemed like an exemplary family man and a respectable citizen: no one suspected that a decent husband and father was leading a double life.
Biryukov committed his first murder in 1977. He kidnapped the baby from the stroller, took it to a deserted place and tried to commit violent acts of a known nature against him. However, onlookers frightened off the maniac, and he killed the baby with a knife. In the same year, Biryukov committed several more rapes and murders of abducted babies, but by the sixth case, witnesses began to pursue him. Fortunately for the investigation, they were able to examine the rapist and make an identikit.
After the arrest, investigators and psychiatrists concluded that Biryukov suffered from a severe form of non-pyophilia - a passion for babies. In his defense, the offender said that he committed his atrocities because his wife refused to maintain intimate relations with him. In 1979, Biryukov, who killed a total of five babies, was shot.
2. Alexey Sukletin - "Alligator"
Sukletin has seven girls and women on his account, whom he killed and ate with his accomplices Shakirova and Nikitin. The first victim was a woman named Yekaterina Osetrova in 1981. Sukletin insisted that his mistress Shakirova help him kill, butcher and cook the dead. In love and tamed, Madina Shakirova was ready to do anything for her lover, so she agreed to take on the duties of a cook.
The cannibal idyll did not last long - after the murder of a little girl, Sukletin and Shakirova parted ways. The maniac did not grieve for long and immediately found a replacement - his relative Anatoly Nikitin often visited, with whom they eventually killed and dismembered a new victim.
Rumors began to circulate in the village that Sukletin was selling high-quality meat and tenderloin, and in the meantime the gang began to engage in extortion, on which they were caught. 4 bags of human bones were found in the garden of Sukletin. Maniac was shot in 1994, and Shakirov and Nikitin were sentenced to 15 years in prison. On account of the cannibals - at least seven victims.
3. Anatoly Onoprienko - "Citizen O"
By 1996, when Onoprienko was taken into custody, he had already killed about 52 people. The exact number of deaths to this day remains unknown, but according to the investigation, there were much more victims.
Onoprienko began his activity in 1989 together with his partner Sergey Rogozin. The "death duo" killed couples and even groups of young people, and they also broke into houses and shot all family members, including children. Often Onoprienko shot random passers-by.
The motives behind Citizen O's crimes are still unknown. According to him, he killed people because some forces and voices ordered him to do it. The crimes included three waves: against communism, nationalism and the plague of the 21st century. After a long search, the investigation finally got on the trail of Onoprienko. True, before that, an innocent person who died during torture was detained. After the trial, Anatoly Onoprienko was sentenced to death, but the sentence was never executed due to the abolition of the death penalty in Ukraine.
4. Sergei Golovkin - "Fisher"
Sergei was considered a young attractive man, but despite the fact that girls always curled around, he did not show interest in them. Fisher was more interested in teenage boys.
The first attempted rape and murder was an incident in 1984 (many years later, the surviving victim was able to identify Golovkin). The first murder that took place was the strangulation in 1984 of 16-year-old Andrei: threatening with reprisal, Golovkin dragged the boy into the forest, raped, strangled and abused the body. Then the killings continued and caused a public outcry, because of which Fischer decided to go underground for a while.
In 1989, Golovkin got into business, but changed his style a little. He built a basement in his garage where he tortured, raped and killed boys. Due to the fact that the killer became careless and inaccurately buried the last bodies, he was quickly identified and found. In 1992, Fischer was finally arrested. He was sentenced to death, the sentence was executed in 1996. On account of the maniac 11 killed teenagers.
5. Anatoly Utkin - "Ulyanovsk maniac"
Anatoly Utkin, born in 1942, was a driver by profession. In 1968, his car was stopped by a 14-year-old girl, Liza Makarova, who urgently needed to go to the hospital with her mother. Taking advantage of the moment, Utkin raped and killed the poor thing, leaving himself a few of her personal belongings "as a keepsake".
The victims of the rampant maniac turned out to be both young girls and middle-aged women. After the disappearances of the girls and the finds of corpses, the public started up: a serial killer appeared in calm Ulyanovsk! Over time, Utkin began to take a more prudent approach to the choice of victims - he was guided by careful planning.
In 1972, the maniac's motives changed: now his goal was not violence and murder, but profit. In the same year, Utkin killed a man for the sake of robbery, and in 1973 he was taken into custody. After the investigation and the evidence found in the house of the suspect, the police had no doubts about his guilt. In 1975, Utkin was shot; in total, nine murders of his "authorship" were established.
Oddly enough, his family and acquaintances spoke extremely favorably about Anatoly Utkin. He was married twice and had two children.
6. Sergey Tkach - "Pavlograd Maniac"
Weaver has been operating since 1980, the motives for his crimes have always been of a sexual nature. The killer began to commit crimes after moving to Ukraine; he chose girls from 9 to 17 years old. The weaver carefully concealed the evidence, leaving no traces of sperm, prints and tissues on the bodies, however, he did not refuse the memorabilia of his victims, which he carefully kept.
In 2005, Tkach dealt with another victim - a nine-year-old girl - after which he was detained. During his search, 14 people were innocently convicted of crimes, which Tkach later confessed to.
Today Sergei Tkach is serving a life sentence. For some time in custody he had access to the Internet and communicated with interested people. On account of this cruel maniac from 30 to 150 victims.
7. Vladimir Mukhankin - "Lenin"
Vladimir was born into an incomplete family as an unwanted child (his father left his mother before the birth of his son), as a result of which he suffered constant bullying and a bad attitude at home. Hardened by the environment, Mukhankin periodically wandered, stole, attacked people and tortured and mocked animals. His nature did not prevent him from marrying at the age of 18, he had a son, who later died.
In 1995, "Lenin" begins to kill and commits eight murders in a few months. Mukhankin mocked his dying victims, performing horrific actions on the agonizing body. The maniac's real passion was human organs, with which he often went to bed.
After being caught, the criminal behaved obscenely and declared that he was the second Chikatilo. Mukhankin described his crimes in detail with pleasure, but at the trial he retracted all his testimony. He was found guilty of 22 crimes, eight of which were murders. Now Mukhankin is serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin colony.
8. Vladimir Ionesyan - Mosgaz
During the Khrushchev thaw, it was hard to imagine that an intruder would get into your apartment, posing as an employee, for example, of Mosgaz or the housing office, which gave the criminal the opportunity to use this simple method. The authorities were furious, all forces were thrown into the capture of a maniac.
Due to the quick investigation and the quick reprisal against Ionesyan, his motives remained unclear. Most likely, he killed for the purpose of robbery. There is also a version that after leaving his wife for the ballerina Alevtina Dmitrieva, the criminal entered the apartments to find gifts for the woman. According to the third version, the murders helped Ionesyan to assert himself.
Mosgaz committed the first murder in 1963: having entered the apartment, he hacked to death a 12-year-old boy who was alone at home with an ax and took a few things. The last murder of a 46-year-old woman took place in 1964, the same year the criminal was taken into custody and shot.
There is an unproven version that Khrushchev himself spoke with Ionesyan. The killer has five victims, four of whom are children.
9. Roman Burtsev - "Kamensky Chikatilo"
Burtsev's parents were alcoholics, which probably influenced the formation of his personality. He began his bloody "career" as a pedophile in 1993 with the murder of his brother and sister Churilov - First he got rid of the boy, and then raped and killed the girl. The bodies were buried in a hole.
Burtsev was always distinguished by accuracy: he hid the bodies of the victims so carefully that almost all of them were found only when the killer himself showed the burial places. However, the thoroughness of the burial of the corpses let Burtsev down - after another murder, he asked for a shovel from one of the residents of his village, after which he threw away the gun. The woman described the appearance of a strange man, and a little later he was also identified by one of the victims who managed to escape.
In 1996, Roman Burtsev was caught and sentenced to death, but then the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. "Kamensky Chikatilo" managed to kill six people.
10. Vasily Kulik - "Irkutsk Monster"
As a child, Vasily Kulik was a sickly child, but in the family he was always looked after and taken care of. Due to constant illnesses, almost everything was forgiven him, so Vasily grew up rather selfish and cruel, in his teens he poisoned and hung cats.
With age, Kulik got stronger and began to play sports. After an attack and a blow to the head in 1980, he began to have sexual desires for children, in 1982 Kulik committed the first rape, and two years later the first murder of a nine-year-old girl. The maniac did not shun the murders of pensioners: by his own admission, he compiled a list of old women of interest to him.
Panic began in Irkutsk, and the killer tried to be more careful, however, during another assassination attempt in 1986, passers-by managed to stop him. The “Irkutsk monster” confessed everything, but at the trial he suddenly began to deny his involvement, stating that he was framed by the Chibis gang. After a thorough investigation, Vasily Kulik was shot in 1989. On his account there were 13 murders.
Ekaterina Snyatovskaya
An important indicator of the state of law and order is the structure and quantity of Soviet period more than forty people were arrested, who committed repeated murders with inhuman cruelty. After 1991, the number increased. However, the most terrible crimes were committed in the second half of the last century. Maniacs of Russia and the USSR - this person, most of which went down in the history of Russian forensic science and psychiatry. How does a person become a serial killer? And how does he manage to commit an unthinkable number of crimes and not be caught?
Who is a serial maniac?
This term is understood as a person with specific mental anomalies. These disorders entail the emergence and development of non-standard behavior, unnatural and unreasonable aggression. But, having such mental deviations, a person remains sane. His mental state is somewhere on the verge of health and disease.
Most of the people included in the list of “Serial maniacs and murderers of the USSR and Russia” were people who were quite normal in appearance. They did not belong to the asocial elements. These people had a family, a job, an education. It is noteworthy that it is the most terrible and famous maniacs of Russia and the USSR in their public and personal life made such a favorable impression on those around them that neither relatives, nor work colleagues, nor just acquaintances could believe in their guilt.
The worst killer of the 20th century
When it comes to such a criminal phenomenon as the maniacs of Russia and the USSR, the first name that comes to mind is Chikatilo. This serial killer has been active for twelve years. On his account, only according to official information, fifty-three victims. His name has become almost a household name.
Andrei Chikatilo was an exemplary family man, had a prestigious job and two higher educations. In his personal life, he was a gentle and harmless man. Had a wife, children. But this man kept the entire Rostov region in fear for many years. The actions performed by him on the victims were particularly cruel compared to other similar crimes committed by other maniacs in Russia and the USSR. Photos of tormented bodies stunned even experienced investigators.
Operation "Woodland"
In 1984, twelve mutilated bodies were discovered in the Rostov region. These were not the first and not the last victims of an unknown maniac. The handwriting of the crimes was the same: many traces of sexual violence. Everything indicated that the dead were victims of the same person. But the actions that the unknown criminal took did not lend themselves to any logical explanation.
In domestic criminology at that time, one might say, there was no such thing as a "serial maniac." Investigators for a long time had no idea what the psychological portrait of a criminal is. It was customary to look for suspects among people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction. The police also believed that the killer could be a person registered in a psychiatric dispensary or having a criminal record. Several such citizens were arrested. One of them was even sentenced to death. But the matter still did not move forward. The number of victims grew.
The maniacs of Russia and the USSR are people who committed serious bloody crimes in different periods. The search for each of them took years, and sometimes decades. Andrei Chikotilo is the first in whose case psychiatrists took part. For the first time that the author of unthinkable deeds is a completely successful representative of social society, said Alexander Bukhanovsky. His version seemed implausible to the investigator. But it was precisely thanks to the psychological portrait created by the Soviet and Russian psychiatrist that in 1990 Chikatilo was not only detained, but also confessed.
Bukhanovsky's theory
Based on the case of a terrible serial killer, the psychiatrist was able to unravel one of the most complex and deepest secrets of the human psyche. Where do manic tendencies come from? How to recognize a serial killer in a huge mass of people? Alexander Bukhanovsky dealt with these issues most of the time during which Chikatilo was operating. Thanks to the research of a psychiatrist, the criminal heading the list called "The Most Terrible Maniacs and Serial Killers of Russia" was arrested.
Based on the geography of the crimes and the behavior of the victims, Bukhanovsky stated that the maniac is neither a marginal nor a patient in a psychiatric hospital. He is completely ordinary. The perpetrator looks successful person, intelligent manners, which inspires confidence in his future victims. He was made a maniac by an innate tendency to violence, an inability to dominate his personal life, and the cruelty that he experienced as a child.
As a result of many years of work, Bukhanovsky proved that the maniacs of Russia and other countries are people suffering from a severe mental disorder. This disease, like others, can and should be treated. However, this must be done, of course, when the patient has not yet had time to realize his unhealthy fantasies. The psychiatrist also developed a theory according to which it is possible to identify manic tendencies and begin treatment, thereby preventing the patient from turning into a murderer and a sadist.
First serial maniac
If you make a list of "Maniacs of Russia and the USSR" in accordance with the time chronology, Vasily Komarov will head it. More than thirty men became its victims in the twenties. The newly created police in those days did a tremendous job of finding a serial maniac. At the trial, Komarov claimed that the motive for his crimes was self-interest. But this version seemed unlikely, since the murders brought him almost no profit. It was established that he committed them due to a severe form of alcoholism, which he suffered all his life, and psychopathy, discovered during a medical examination.
The Komarov case was quite high-profile. During the trial, the suspect behaved calmly, which was especially terrifying for eyewitnesses. In addition to self-interest, according to Komarov himself, hostility towards representatives of a certain social stratum prompted him to kill. He considered it a good deed to "clear the land" from speculators and dishonest people. The personality of Komarov, like many others appearing on the list of “Serial maniacs and murderers of the USSR and Russia”, confirms the version that such criminals commit their acts, as a rule, during rampant socio-economic crimes. Such a period in national history were the twenties of the last century. The difficult situation in the social and economic life Russia took shape in the first decade after the collapse of the USSR. During this period, crime increased enormously. Considering some of the most high-profile cases, you can make an approximate list of maniacs in Russia.
Serial killers of the 90s
- Boris Bogdanov (15 victims).
- Vladimir Bychkov (9 victims).
- Irina Gaidamachuk (17 victims).
- (11 victims).
- Nikolay Dudin (13 victims).
- Oleg Kuznetsov (10 victims).
- Vladimir Mirgorod (16 victims).
- Denis Pischikov (13 victims).
- Alexander Pichushkin (49 victims).
- Mikhail Popkov (22 victims).
A terrible maniac, whose cruelty is comparable only to the atrocities of Chikotilo, is Anatoly Onoprienko. He was not included in the above list, since he began to commit his crimes back in the Soviet period. And after the collapse of the USSR, he operated on the territory of Ukraine. Onoprienko committed fifty-two murders. Among his victims were also children.
"Ukrainian Beast"
Childhood Onoprienko, like many bloodthirsty maniacs, was bleak. He spent some time in orphanage. The youth of the future maniac passed quite normally. He began his "career" with robberies and murders, which he carried out together with an accomplice. But later Onoprienko began to act independently.
The “Ukrainian beast” committed his crimes in cold blood, “working” according to an established scheme: he certainly completed all his deeds with arson. Like many other serial killers, in life he was an unremarkable person. The most bloodthirsty maniac in the history of Ukraine and one of the worst in the entire Soviet period had civil wife, who did not suspect at all that her chosen one was traveling around the country, slaughtering entire families and burning houses.
The most famous maniacs of Russia and the USSR made a positive impression in everyday life. And therein lies the main danger. However, psychiatrists believe that it is possible to calculate a person with manic and sadistic inclinations by facial expressions, facial expressions and other signs. But the inattention and indifference inherent in most people allow maniacs and sadists to hide their terrible inner world.
Maniac woman
In the list, which includes the most terrible maniacs and serial killers in Russia, the name Gaidamachuk stands out in particular. The point is that it belongs to a woman. The victims of Irina Gaidamachuk were lonely pensioners. In the eight years that law enforcement officers tried to catch the criminal, seventeen elderly women died. The amounts that Gaidamachuk took from the house of the murdered did not exceed fifty thousand. The woman never worked in her life, had two daughters and, according to her confessions, was forced to go to such extreme measures in order to feed her children.
Is a serial killer a criminal or a lunatic?
The list of maniacs in Russia and the USSR can be conditionally divided into two categories. In the first - sophisticated criminals. These killers are distinguished by a high level of intelligence, have at least one higher education. The desire to assert themselves leads to the fact that in ordinary life they make a career, create families. And in another world, hidden from relatives and friends, they realize their terrible hidden desires.
The second category of maniacs includes more primitive personalities. They also kill for the sake of killing. But they do things more calmly. Possessing a low level of intelligence and meager peace of mind, they do not suffer and do not suffer from the deeds they have committed. - it's not about them. They commit their murders not so much for the sake of satisfying unnatural desires, but because, due to moral inferiority, they do not consider these actions so terrible. Serial maniacs of the USSR and Russia are, as a rule, representatives of the second category. A striking example of the first is Andrei Chikatilo.
"Bitzevsky maniac"
The most famous maniacs of Russia and the USSR terrified normal people. For psychopaths, their terrible fame often served as an incentive to action. Hearing the high-profile case of Chikatilo inspired the aspiring murderer Alexander Pichushkin to further crimes. He considered each of them long and carefully.
The first victims of the "Bitsevsky maniac" were predominantly antisocial individuals. Later he switched to neighbors and acquaintances. During the trial, he admitted that he was especially pleased to crack down on people whom he personally knew. After his arrest, Pichushkin stated that if he had remained at large, he would never have stopped killing. In 2007, the serial killer was sentenced to life in prison.
The serial killer phenomenon
The most famous maniacs in Russia are the subject of serious study by psychiatrists and forensic scientists. How and why can a person, outwardly absolutely normal, commit cruel and, at first glance, unmotivated murders?
The concept of a serial killer appeared for the first time in foreign criminalistics. Such a criminal commits periodic murders, the breaks between which in psychiatry are called "emotional cooling". The maniac experiences some kind of addiction, similar to drugs or alcohol. He lives from murder to murder. By committing a crime, a non-human receives moral and physical satisfaction, which he cannot achieve otherwise. Then he forgets about his terrible hidden fantasies for a while and leads an absolutely normal open existence. But later comes a feeling of emptiness and a new victim is required. The offender experiences sensations similar to drug withdrawal. Only another murder can save him from such torment. The interval between crimes tends to decrease over the years, and cruelty towards victims grows.
Classification
Maniacs and murderers of Russia can be, according to foreign terminology, divided into several types:
- Sexy.
- Destroyers (such criminals can rob their victims, but in the first place in their actions is to take pleasure in torturing the victims).
- Mercantile (the main motive is material gain).
On the basis of the motive of the crime in psychiatry, another classification was created. Researchers have identified the following types:
- Hedonists (kill for pleasure).
- Power-hungry (commit crimes in order to possess the victim).
- Visiners (act according to the call of a certain voice, suffer from hallucinations).
- Missionaries (kill, seeking to "improve the world").
Russian criminology
Domestic psychiatrists began to use the achievements of foreign researchers relatively recently. A huge contribution to this area was made by Alexander Bukhanovsky. The Russian scientist introduced the term "Chikatilo syndrome" into world psychiatry. The psychological portrait of such a serial maniac is a description of a person who has experienced hostility and hostility from his peers since childhood, grew up in an incomplete family, was a victim or witness of cruel acts. The feeling of inferiority, combined with congenital mental disorders, turns an insecure quiet person into a cruel sadist years later.
Often a fatal accident becomes the impetus for the first murder. A similar situation is present in the biography of Anatoly Slivko - Soviet serial killer maniac. Once, having witnessed the death of a boy, he felt that such a spectacle could bring him real pleasure. And, in a desire for pleasure that he could not achieve in any other way, he brutally murdered seven teenage boys, filming his crimes on video.
Alexander Bukhanovsky believed that serial killers are, first of all, sick people. A special clinic has been set up in which adolescents and young people who show violent tendencies are treated. One of the patients was once Roman Emelyantsev, who stopped therapy at the age of twenty. The treatment was successful, the patient no longer showed sadistic inclinations. But only two years passed, and he was convicted of murdering a woman and two children. This case was unique in world criminology: a psychiatrist diagnosed a serial killer long before he committed his first crime.
"Maniacs of Russia" - a list consisting of names, the number of which could be less. The fate of his potential victims depends on the parents and close circle of a teenager showing sadistic inclinations. In many cases, the social environment and domestic violence turns a person into a serial killer. The number of victims of an accomplished maniac often increases due to the negligence of investigators. Having committed more than twenty murders, the most bloodthirsty maniac of the last century, Andrei Chikatilo, was detained, but soon released by mistake. Impunity gave strength to the murderer. The list of his victims was increased by thirty names.
On November 20, 1990, the whole country breathed a sigh of relief. Andrei Chikatilo was arrested. The things that this person did do not fit into the concept of a mental norm. Unfortunately, in his "terrible illness" he was not alone.
Chikatilo
Number of victims: 53
Probably everyone who lives in Russia has heard the name of Andrei Chikatilo, the most famous Russian serial killer. Many documentaries have been shot about him, thousands of pages of articles and books have been written, and the name has become a household name. The bloody activities of Chikatilo fell on last years communist regime - for 12 years from 1978 to 1990, he committed 53 murders (only proven ones, the maniac himself confessed to committing 65 murders), keeping the whole country in fear. November 20, 1990 Chikatilo was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death. Chikatilo asked for a pardon from the President Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, but was refused. In 1994 he was executed by a shot in the back of the head.
Saltychikha
Number of victims: found guilty in the death of 38 people.
In the days of Serfdom, cases of violence and bullying of landlords over peasants were common. And yet, what the noblewoman Daria Saltykova did on her estate does not fit into her head. According to the testimonies of people who knew Saltykov, it was difficult to suspect a tendency to violence and mental deviations in her - she was devout, donated money to the church and the poor. The death of her husband changed everything.
It all started with assault - on the peasants and servants, Saltychikha was torn off by anger for the dishonest performance of duties. Over time, the punishments of the courtyards turned into real torture - she poured boiling water over her victims, left them tied in the cold, tore out her hair, and did not shy away from torturing women and even children. The intercession of bribed officials helped her to continue her fanaticism - the landowner belonged to a well-known family and could count on indulgence. Until Catherine the Second ascended the throne. The empress personally rewrote the court verdict, as a result of which Saltychikha was sent to prison for life imprisonment without light and communication, where she died.
"Tsarskoye Selo murderer"
Number of victims: 7
Konstantin Sazonov was a minister in the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, for which he received his nickname "Tsarskoye Selo murderer." He operated in the same place - in two years (1814 -1816) he committed nine robberies and killed seven people. Neither his punishment nor his fate is known, and indeed in historical references Little is known of his last name at that time. But she settled in the lyceum folklore - the collective poem "Sazonoviada" and even in one of Pushkin's epigrams.
In the morning with a penny candle
I will appear before the holy image.
My friend! I stayed alive
But death was already under the scythe:
Sazonov was my servant,
And Peschel is my doctor.
Nikolai Radkevich
Number of victims: 3
Nikolai Radkevich, known by the nickname "Vadim Krovnyak", was the first registered serial killer in Russia, and then Russian Empire. On account of Radkevich 3 murders, while the victims of the maniac were exclusively women and of exceptionally easy virtue. This choice of the criminal is explained by his sad biography - while still studying at the cadet corps in Nizhny Novgorod, he, fourteen, was seduced by an adult woman, infecting him with syphilis in addition to everything. Since then, the reprisal against depraved women has become a mission and an obsession for him. However, the investigation quickly got on his trail - he was caught red-handed in a hotel room, where he committed his last, third murder. The court decision turned out to be surprisingly mild - eight years of hard labor. But four years before his release, he was killed by criminals.
"Shabolovsky murderer"
Number of victims: 33
Vasily Komarov was born into a family of alcoholics, he began to drink at the age of 15, he lived in poverty all his life and wandered all over Russia in search of work. And yet, despite the environment and difficult living conditions, for a long time it was not noted for something larger than robberies and petty domestic violence. Komarov began to commit murders already at a serious age - forty-four years old, when he moved to Moscow and settled in an apartment on Shabolovka Street. Everything happened in this apartment - Komarov invited speculators who wanted to buy the goods he had stolen, where he strangled or killed them with a hammer blow, after which he dumped the corpses into the river or buried them. Komarov's wife also participated in the murders, her court, after catching the criminals, together with her husband, sentenced her to death. Mikhail Bulgakov devoted a feuilleton to the investigation and crimes committed by the Komarovs.
"Poisoner"
Number of victims: 9
became one of the most high-profile criminal cases investigated in the USSR in the late 80s. Tamara Ivanyutina, who worked in the school cafeteria, was initially arrested on suspicion of poisoning students and teachers at the school where she worked. As the investigation later found out - the case at school was not the only crime - together with other members of her family (sister and parents), she repeatedly committed poisoning. The reason was the desire for profit - so she poisoned her first husband and his parents in order to get their apartment and house with a land plot - and unmotivated revenge, as in the case of school students and neighbors, whom she killed because of the remark made to her . Ivanyutina was sentenced to death. The only case of the application of the death penalty to a woman in the USSR in the post-Stalin era.
"Vitebsk strangler"
Number of victims: 36
Gennady Mikhasevich committed the first of his 36 murders after breaking off relations with his girlfriend. On that day, he was going to commit suicide himself and even prepared himself a rope for hanging, but instead he strangled a girl passing by with it. Mikheevich lured his subsequent victims (all of them were girls) into his car and killed them in deserted places. During the investigation of the case, he himself participated in the search, enrolling in a patrol team of vigilantes, and wrote letters to the regional newspaper, in which, allegedly on behalf of the fictitious organization "Patriots of Vitebsk", he took responsibility for the crimes. This betrayed him - later the investigation calculated the maniac by handwriting. The sentence is the death penalty.
