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The most bloodthirsty killers of all time, terrified law-abiding citizens with their monstrous atrocities. No sane person is capable of comprehending the actions of these monsters. Fortunately, most of these maniacs have already been executed or are serving life sentences.

In this ranking of the most terrible maniacs in history, we will talk about killers from various countries on the planet - Brazil, China, Russia, Afghanistan, Colombia, the USA, Ukraine and India. Multinational list of notorious thugs.

10. Anatoly Onoprienko

Anatoly Onoprienko received the well-deserved nickname "The Beast from Ukraine". When he was arrested in 1996, he confessed to killing 52 people. Onoprienko began his bloody campaign in 1989, when he shot 4 people from a sawn-off shotgun in the Zaporozhye region, whose car broke down on the road, as well as a random passerby and a policeman on duty.

One of the most horrifying massacres, this beast in human form committed on December 31, 1995. On this day, when people set the tables in anticipation of the holiday, preparing for the New Year, the maniac broke into the house of the Kryuchkov family and staged a bloody massacre.

He shot a married couple and their two twin daughters. One of the dead girls was so frightened that she bit her hand to the bone, and the killer cut off her mother's finger, because he could not rip off the wedding ring. Then he profited from a few inexpensive things and set fire to the house along with the dead owners.

In 1998, the maniac was sentenced to death, but due to the fact that in 2000 a moratorium on the death penalty was announced in Ukraine, Onoprienko received life imprisonment. In 2013, the worst maniac in Ukraine died in prison.

9. Andrei Chikatilo

One of the most elusive maniac killers in history modern Russia became Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the "Red Ripper" and "The Butcher from Rostov." He committed murders for a long 12 years, from 1978 to the 1990s!

Once he was even detained on orientation by police officers, but after checking the data, they released him. Then no one could even imagine that an exemplary family man, an ideologically savvy communist with many letters of honor, could turn out to be a murderous psychopath.

He basically killed young girls and women, committing violent acts over them, cut off the breasts and genitals of many, the maniac committed all his murders on sexual grounds.

The search for the killer was so extensive that it was included in forensic books. Thousands of police officers, the best investigators of the prosecutor's office and KGB officers were looking for an elusive maniac, and on November 20, 1990, the psychopath was detained. He had a briefcase with him, in which the policemen found a can of vaseline, a long piece of rope and a knife.

The trial of this monster began on April 14, 1992, and the sentence was fair - the death penalty. On February 14, 1994, the life of one of the most terrible maniacs in Russia was interrupted by a bullet in the back of the head.

8. Abul Jabar

Abul Jabar is the most bloodthirsty maniac from Afghanistan, he was suspected of killing 300 men and young guys, although at the time of execution only 65 murders could be proven. He was an active homosexual, and very strong. His favorite way of dealing with his victims was, of course, very unusual.

Jabar raped the poor fellows who fell into his hands and during the climax, strangled the victim with his own turban.

The killer was arrested in 1970 and shot the same year. Unfortunately, due to an error in the judicial system, before the real maniac was executed, the Afghan authorities shot two innocent people.

7. Yang Xinhai

Maniac Yang Xinhai from China is considered the most terrible villain in the country in terms of the number of murders he committed. Xinhai confessed to 65 murders and 23 rapes between 1999 and 2003.

Usually the killer committed his crimes at night, he entered the homes of the victims in clothes and shoes of large size to throw the police off the trail and calmly cracked down on the victims with the help of household equipment. He cut the unfortunate owners with a shovel, an ax, but his favorite weapon was an octagonal hammer.

There were cases when Xinhai massacred entire families. In 2002, a maniac killed his father and his six-year-old daughter with a shovel, and then raped his pregnant wife, whom he then also tried to kill, but fortunately the woman was able to survive.
Xinhai was arrested in 2003 and executed in 2004, exactly on Valentine's Day.

6. Kampatimar Shankaria

When it comes to finding out the reasons why people become maniacs and commit bloody crimes, psychiatrists try to identify the old childhood psychological trauma of the criminal, because of which he turned into a monster.
But in the case of the maniac from India, Kampatimar Shankaria, everything was different. He killed because it gave him incomparable pleasure.

The maniac was detained in 1979 and the investigation managed to prove 70 murders committed by Shankaria in just two years. He was sentenced to death penalty by hanging, and before the executioner knocked the stool from under his feet, the murderer said: “I killed all these people in vain. No one should be a monster like me."

5. Gary Ridgway

America is famous for the number of serial killers, but Gary Ridgway ranks first among the bloody maniacs. This man has killed more people than any other American. The criminal committed his crimes in the period from the 1980s to the 1990s, his victims were young women, to whom he showed a photograph of his son and told a sentimental story about his disappearance.

Then he lured the unfortunate to a secluded place and, after being raped, strangled them with his bare hands. The maniac drowned the first 5 victims in the Green River, for which he received the nickname "Green River Maniac." Ridgway preferred to kill prostitutes, as he thought that no one would be looking for them, and he hid the bodies in an overgrown, forested area. This is the only killer in history who has never returned to the place where the victims were hidden in order to rape them again.

Later, he began to strangle his victims with a noose, as many women left him severe cuts and scratches on his hands during the struggle, and the killer was afraid that the police would be able to expose him in these footsteps.
At the time of his arrest, Ridgway confessed to killing 71 women, although the investigation was able to prove only 48 murders committed by a maniac.
His propensity for violence manifested itself at the age of 16, when he stabbed a 6-year-old boy in the chest and in the liver area. Luckily, the kid survived.

The police detained the maniac on November 30, 2001. On charges of 48 murders in the 1st degree, Ridgway was threatened with the death penalty, but he made a deal with the investigation. He showed all the burial sites of his victims that the police could not find, and as a result, America's worst maniac received 48 life sentences without parole and an additional 480 years in prison for hiding evidence.

4. Pedro Rodriguez Filho

Pedro Rodriguez Filho was born in Brazil. Doctors discovered that he had skull fractures, which may have been caused when a drunken father punched his pregnant wife in the stomach. Maybe this trauma played a major role in the development of the future psychopath. The boy's propensity for violence manifested itself at the age of 13, due to a petty quarrel, he pushed his cousin under a cane press, the boy was seriously injured, but survived.

At the age of 14, he shot dead with a rifle near the city hall, the vice-mayor of the town, because he fired his father, who worked as a security guard and stole food.

By the age of 18, he already had 8 murders and 16 attempted murders. Some time later, Pedro's father kills his mother with a machete. The enraged young man in response kills his father with the same machete, opens his chest and eats his heart.
He was sent to prison, where during his imprisonment he killed 47 cellmates, and a total of 71 murders are attributed to him, although Filho himself claimed that he "sent more than 100 people to the next world."

Laws in Brazil prohibit keeping a person in prison for more than 30 years, and in 2007, the most scary killer released in the country. In 2011, he was again detained in his own house and sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric clinic, where he is still being held.

3. Daniel Camargo Barbosa

Daniel Camargo Barbosa brutally murdered and raped from 72 to 150 young girls and women, the exact number of victims could not be established. He committed his crimes in Colombia and Ecuador. The maniac lured gullible girls into the forest, and then brutally dealt with them with a machete, then took jewelry and personal belongings from the dead, and sold them in the market.

He especially liked to deal with girls aged 9-11, as they squeal the most before death and this gave the maniac real pleasure. The police detained the killer on February 26, 1986, just a few minutes after he dealt with another 9-year-old girl. According to the laws of Ecuador, a prisoner cannot be in prison for more than 16 years. He was due to be released in 2002.

But on November 14, 1994, real justice prevailed. Before him one of the relatives of the victims was able to get to prison and killed the maniac.

2. Pedro Lopez

A bloodthirsty maniac from Colombia, he killed more than 300 girls and women in Peru and Ecuador, for which he received the nickname "Monster from the Andes", which he was very proud of. His childhood was difficult, his mother was a prostitute, in whose care there were 13 children.
And unable to bear constant hunger, Pedro ran away from home, but soon fell into the hands of an elderly pedophile, who for several months raped a teenager with friends.

When the future maniac managed to get free, he took revenge on the offender and his friend in a very cruel way: he gathered a group of his friends and broke into the old man's house, and then skinned everyone present alive. Pedro was sent to prison for 8 years, where he was raped by fellow inmates, but after he killed three prisoners with a sharpener, the harassment stopped.

The maniac came out of prison embittered at the whole world, fiercely hating all people, after which a series of brutal murders of girls and women began. Law enforcement officers detained the killer in 1980, when one of his victims managed to get out alive and report to the police. He boasted that he “slaughtered more than 300 whores with pleasure,” the investigators did not believe him until the maniac led them to the mass grave of his victims, where the half-decomposed remains of 53 women were found.

Pedro López was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Peru. His further fate is unknown, they say, after his release, he fled to Ecuador, according to other rumors, he emigrated to America, and some claim that relatives of the dead killed him.

1. Luis Garavito

Luis Garavito, a Colombian serial killer nicknamed "The Beast", committed 138 murders, proven by the investigation, although he himself boasted that he sent more than 300 people to the next world. The maniac basically dealt with homeless children, whom he brutally raped before his death. His tactics were very simple, Garavito approached children on the street and lured them to a deserted place with candy or toys, where he killed them.

When journalists asked him why he became one of the worst maniacs in history, Garavito replied that his father abused him as a child, and in this way he took revenge on him.

In 1999, he was arrested in Colombia and sentenced to 22 years in prison. And in 2001, he gave an interview to one of the popular TV channels that he plans to soon go on parole, and then go into politics to protect the rights of homeless children. This report stirred up the whole country, causing a wave of indignation among the inhabitants. The authorities had to find a loophole in the legislation in order to solder another term to the thug. And now this beast will be released very soon.

Most people remember the names of notorious serial killers. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy - these names and many others have involuntarily entrenched themselves in our collective psyche, their crimes too horrific to ignore. However, very few remember the names of the victims of these vicious faces, perhaps because most of them did not survive to tell their story.

However, in some cases there are those who are lucky enough to escape the clutches of madness. Their stories serve as survival lessons we can all learn from. useful information lessons that could very well save a life.

10. Maria Viricheva


19-year-old unmarried Maria Viricheva, who was three months pregnant, was working as a saleswoman when she met one of Russia's most infamous serial killers, Alexander Pichushkin, also known as the "Chessboard Killer" or "Bitsevsky Maniac." She was new to this job, where she was placed by her boyfriend, who was also the father of her child. Earlier that day, they had an argument, and then she stood in a frustrated mood at a metro station in Moscow. Pichushkin spied on Maria and, noticing her apparent state of despair, struck up a conversation with her. Feeling hopeless and alone, Maria was glad to have company.

Upon hearing of her plight, Pichushkin offered her a chance to earn some extra money, telling her that he had hidden several stolen cameras in a well in nearby Bitsevsky Park, and that he would give her some of them to sell. Even though it was late in the evening, Maria, not knowing if she would still have work waiting for her when she arrived at the store the next morning, agreed to go with him to get the cameras.

When they arrived, Pichushkin lifted the lid off the well and told her to look inside. When she did, he quickly picked her up and threw her inside. She clung to the walls of the well to avoid falling, but Pichushkin grabbed her by the head and hit her several times against the wall of the well. She had to remove her hands and fall. The last thing she heard was her killer shouting "take a bath there!", then she fell into the darkness.

She flew down more than 9 meters before landing in knee-deep sewage, which quickly drained into the sewer. She was caught in the current, and only by quickly removing her jacket and boots did she manage to place her hands and feet on the sides of the sewer and stop her further descent. Had she not done so, she would have reached the end of the drainpipe in a section that was completely filled with water and would have drowned.

Luckily, she stopped next to another well that had a drainpipe and managed to climb to the top, only to find that she was too weak to flip the well cover over her. Luckily, a woman passing by heard her cries for help and saw the lid of the well rise slightly as Maria tried to open it, and the woman ran to inform the two guards. They lifted the lid of the well and dragged Maria to safety.

Incredibly, the police refused to investigate the incident and forced Maria to sign a statement that she had fallen into the well herself. She was invited to the identification of the man who attacked her much later, when he was finally detained on suspicion of 48 murders. If the police had done their job the first time, many lives could have been saved.

9 Whitney Bennett


Young Whitney Bennett could not have known that leaving her bedroom windows open before going to bed on the night of July 4, 1985 would result in her being viciously attacked. This innocent mistake led her to a night of utter terror and suffering throughout her life.

That night, Richard Ramirez, also known as the Night Stalker, crawled through her bedroom window and brutally beat her with a tire iron before vandalizing her room and taking all her valuables. The only thing the young girl could be grateful for was that the first few blows quickly rendered her unconscious, although the strangulation marks found on her neck after the attack indicated that luck was indeed on her side in that night. Two nights later, Ramirez carried out an almost identical attack on another woman, Joyce L. Nelson, at her home. This time the attack was fatal.

The crime scene Ramirez left behind was covered in Whitney's blood, and his bloody shoe print was found on her blanket. He also casually left a tire iron on the floor of her bedroom. As for Whitney Bennet, she was left with a permanent scar from the attack and had to undergo extensive cosmetic surgery. It was her testimony that helped convict Ramirez of the crimes he committed during his trial and ensured that he received the death sentence. He eventually died in prison of natural causes at the age of 53 before his death sentence could be carried out.

8. Rhonda Williams


After 40 years of silence, Rhonda Williams decided enough was enough and finally mustered up the courage to open up about her horrific encounter with one of Houston's most infamous serial killers. Dean Corll and his younger accomplice, Elmer Wayne Henley, were responsible for the murders of 29 young boys who were lured into the clutches of Corll in order to satisfy his sadistic sexual needs. Rhonda Williams became friends with Henley as a teenager and thought Henley was someone she could trust. Raised in an atmosphere of severe beatings and neglect, she often endured beatings from her alcoholic father and was even repeatedly raped as an infant.

In August 1973, she once again confided in Henley when he sneaked in through her bedroom window to help her avoid another episode of abuse at the hands of her father. Together they crawled out of the house. Another boy, Tim Kerley, was waiting for them in the car and the three of them drove to where Williams thought she would be safe. Had she known Henley's true motives, she certainly would not have let him "save" her.

The trio arrived at Corll's house, where they had fun until they passed out. Williams woke up and saw a picture of unimaginable horror. She and two other boys were tied hand and foot. Corll started kicking her and yelling at her to wake up, then he and Henley took the other two captives to another room and attached them both to what can only be described as "torture blocks". Naively, she still believed that Henley would not allow her to be harmed, even when she heard the screams of her captive comrades.

Her trust was finally broken when Henley told her that he would have to shoot her before the test was over. However, something inside Henley finally snapped and instead, he turned his gun on Corll and shot him, saving the lives of all the prisoners. Henley then reached for the phone and called the police.

Williams survived her night of horrors thanks to her friend's conscience, and although he was imprisoned for a short time, she has since made him a promise to remain silent about her ordeal, and did not dare to speak about it publicly until four decades later. Henley is still in jail for his role in luring Corll's victims, but he keeps in touch with Williams to this day.

7. Teresa Thornhill


Robert Black was a convicted child killer and pedophile who murdered four young victims in Scotland between 1970 and 1990. Teresa Thornhill was one of the few famous people who remained alive after his attacks.

On a warm April day in 1988, Teresa, then 15 years old, was walking home when she caught the eye of Black, who was sitting in a van parked near her house. Pretending to have a problem with the car, he got out of the back of his van and asked a young girl if she knew about engines. As she approached, he grabbed her and covered her mouth with one hand, pinned her arms to her sides, and tried to drag her into his van through the back door. She screamed and bit his hand, causing him to drop it, while her friend who lived next door ran to help, scaring Black off. After this frightening incident, she ran to her home and her parents called the police. But it was too late - Black had already disappeared.

Two years passed and the young girl remained traumatized by what had happened, she almost never went outside. She was one of the witnesses who testified against him at his trial, where he was found guilty of three murders and her kidnapping, receiving a life sentence for his crimes. While he was still in prison, he was convicted of the murder of his fourth victim, a nine-year-old girl. To this day, the police continue to investigate his case and suspect him of many other murders.

6. Tali Shapiro


Eleven-year-old Tali Shapiro did not like to ride the bus, so almost every day she went to school from her home in West Hollywood (West Hollywood). One September morning in 1969, a little girl's decision to walk the short distance to her school turned out to be a terrible mistake.

Driving down Sunset Boulevard that morning, Rodney Alcala drove up to her in his car and asked her if she wanted to ride. She refused, saying that she was not allowed to talk to strangers. He assured her that he knew her family and told her that he had a beautiful photograph that he wanted to show her. Although she was wary, she approached his car. This is the last thing she remembers about that day. Luckily, another person saw the kidnapping happen and called the police.

When the police arrived at his door, Alcala tried to keep them from entering his house, claiming he was in the shower, forcing them to break down the door. Alcala escaped through the back door, and police officers found little Tali on the floor of his apartment in a semi-dead state with a metal bar wrapped around her neck, as if Alcala had just pinned her to the floor when they arrived. It was also found that the little girl had been sexually abused. She was taken to the hospital and thankfully survived the attack.

Like many of the brave victims who testified on this list, Tali Shapiro later testified against her attacker, helping to convict him. He was sentenced to death for this and many other crimes, including the murders of four other victims.

5. Rose Steward


Although Rose Steward has every reason to hate Dean Carter, in an incredible act of forgiveness, she actively campaigns to save him from the death penalty for raping her and killing five others. of people.

On March 29, 1984, Steward was awakened by an intruder who held a knife to her neck. Over the next five hours, she was repeatedly raped and beaten by him, passing out twice during the attack. She managed to survive this attack by pretending to "like" her attacker. She even went so far as to kiss him, causing him to leave without taking her life. When her nightmare finally ended, she immediately turned to a neighbor for help, who contacted the police. Carter raped and strangled five other women in California over the next 18 days, and it was Steward's testimony that helped prosecutors ensure he received the death penalty for his crimes.

While he currently sits on death row awaiting his fate, Steward herself is an active participant in the anti-death penalty movement, supporting what is known in California as Proposition 34, which is to commute all death sentences to life terms without the right to early release. Some of the families of his other victims were understandably shocked by her decision. This leaves Steward torn between his belief that the death penalty is the wrong decision anyway and his personal understanding of the pain of the man's other victims. Only time will tell if Rose Steward will attend. last day Carter's life.

4. Bryan Hartnell


While Brian Hartnell attended classes at Pacific Union College in San Francisco in the late 1960s, he had no idea that his bright future would forever be traumatized by one horrifying day. After a trip to a picturesque lake in a remote part of town with their girlfriend, Cecilia Shephard, the couple parked their car and planned to enjoy their day in seclusion. Unbeknownst to them, an unknown person who was later dubbed "Zodiac" (Zodiac Killer) had other plans for them.

While they were in the car, a man wearing a black hood and a shirt with white crosses on the front approached the couple and forced them out of the car at gunpoint. After he forced them to the ground, he began stabbing them repeatedly. Then he simply disappeared, leaving them to die. Cecilia was then able to provide a description of the killer before she died in the hospital. However, Brian did not see his face and thus remained annoyed, not knowing who the man was who took the life of the one he loved.

Fortunately, the passage of time healed his wounds not only physically but also emotionally, and Brian became an official lawyer, married and started his own family. The Zodiac Killer remains unidentified to this day, and the crimes he committed remain one of the longest-running crime mysteries of the 20th century.

3. Corazon Atienza


Corazon Atienza opened the door to her apartment on the night of July 13, 1966, and unknowingly let the brutal serial killer Richard Speck into her life, and the lives of her roommates. She was also the only one who managed to survive that terrible night.

Gun in hand, Speck burst into the house and herded the girls into the common room. He cut several sheets into makeshift ropes and tied them all tightly. At first, he did not harm the women, telling them that he just wanted to take some money and that he would leave them alone. However, after a while, Speck proceeded to rape, stab, and mutilate one girl after another until Corazon, overcome with fear, hid under the beds in the room. At one point, he raped one of her friends on the bed right above her.

The attacks went on for nearly six hours, and Corazon didn't even dare to utter a single word the whole time. Finally, at about five o'clock in the morning, it was all over. Due to Speck being heavily intoxicated at the time of the attack, he apparently forgot about her and left the apartment after thinking his job was done. She fled the scene of the massacre through the bedroom window after he left and began calling for help. Her screams were heard by the neighbors and her nightmare came to an end.

Due to the overwhelming amount of physical evidence that Speck left at the scene, as well as the fact that he already had an extensive criminal record, he was soon caught checking into a local hospital after attempting suicide. He cut his wrists after learning that he had let Corazon live, and the doctor at the hospital recognized him from newspaper reports and contacted the police. Nine months later, it took the jury only 49 minutes of deliberation to sentence him to the electric chair. Their sentence was later overturned by the Supreme Court in 1972 and he was given eight consecutive terms ranging from 50 to 150 years. He died in prison, never showing any remorse for his crimes.

2. Larry Flynt


Larry Flynt is known as the outspoken and flamboyant publisher of Hustler magazine and business empire builder. He is also notable for the fact that he was nearly killed by a man named Joseph Paul Franklin in an assassination attempt that left Flint paralyzed from the waist down when he was hit by two bullets from Franklin's powerful rifle.

What many don't know, however, is that Flint's attacker was a serial killer who was tried and convicted of eight murders across the United States between 1977 and 1980, although he claimed to have killed a dozen more in an attempt to start a "War of the Races" in the country. Franklin, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi movement, spoke of being "at war." Flint was in direct violation of Franklin's religious beliefs and his moral stance against pornography, in particular interracial images, which featured in Hustler magazine at the time. Therefore, on March 6, 1978, Flint and his lawyer were shot by Franklin, who confessed to assault in prison after being sentenced for another murder for which he received a death sentence.

Although Larry Flynt, who was in constant pain, could understandably wish his attacker dead, he actually lobbied for Franklin's sentence to be commuted to life in prison due to his stance on the death penalty itself. To quote him: “In all the years since the shooting, I have never come face to face with Franklin. I would really like to spend an hour in a room with him and a couple of wire cutters and pliers so that I can inflict the same injuries on him as the ones he inflicted on me. But I don't want to kill him, and I don't want to see him die. . . I just don't think the government should kill people. And I think the punishment of locking someone up in a three-by-six cage is much worse than if you just took his life in a few seconds with a lethal injection.”

Despite Flint's best efforts, Joseph Franklin was executed in November 2013.

1. Rebecca Garde


Rebecca Garde worked as a TV saleswoman in Seattle in 1982. She left work and was tired of waiting for her bus in the rain, so she decided to hitchhike home on that cold night in November. The man who ended up offering her the ride seemed as ordinary as the Dodge pickup he was driving, so she happily accepted his offer. If she had known that he would eventually be found guilty of killing 48 women like her, then she might have refused his offer.

While riding in his car, she offered him sex in exchange for $20, believing that she would use the money to buy weed when she got home. It was at this point that she had a strange feeling about the man she was traveling with and so, as a precaution, she asked to see his passport, to which he agreed. This calmed her down a bit, since at least he wasn't a cop. They parked in a trailer park and the man suggested that they go into the woods for some privacy.

After they reached the area, which was relatively secluded, Gary Ridgway attacked her and attempted to strangle her from behind. She pushed Gary away, who hit a tree, allowing her to run to a nearby trailer for help. The man who attacked her immediately fled the scene.

Due to her lifestyle and general fear of the police, Garde waited nearly two years after her attack before she contacted the authorities, and while her testimony did not directly lead to his capture, it did help law enforcement build a more detailed case against the most prolific serial killer in the US. Ridgway picked up from the road and killed at least 15 other women in the same area along the Pacific Highway South where he attacked Garda, and her description of him at least gave them something to move on.

In 2001, Ridgway was finally arrested and sentenced to life in prison. Rebecca Garde remains the only known victim to survive his attack.

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 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. Last kill A 46-year-old woman happened 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.

Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda, the period of detention was extended several times. This is due primarily to the fact that Popkov, while in the SIZO-6 cell, scribbles one after another the confession, talking about previously unknown corpses.

All the victims were drunk

The maniac was searched for as long as 18 years! In 1994-2000, in the evening and at night in Angarsk, a city with a population of only 250 thousand people, women aged 17-38 began to disappear. Their disfigured bodies with traces of sexual violence were found in the forest, in cemeteries, along roadsides. As a rule, the former policeman offered women a ride in a car, took them outside the city, where he killed and then raped them. Popkov's murder weapons were an ax, a knife, a screwdriver, and an awl; from time to time he used several tools at once, leaving numerous wounds, at other times he strangled; cut out the heart of one of the victims. All women are short (155-170 cm), prone to fullness. And all of them (with one exception) at the time of the murder were in a strong or moderate degree of intoxication. Women disappeared from the streets of Angarsk at night, returning home from guests or from bars, as well as leaving the house to buy alcohol.

The police were inactive

The local police actually ignored the series of murders until 1998 - only then was an operational-investigative group formed to catch the maniac, and the murders (at that time 24) were combined into one case. In 2000, at the request of Anatoly Merzlyakov, the prosecutor of the Irkutsk region, criminologist Nikolai Kitaev, a well-known specialist in the capture of serial killers, was involved in the investigation.

He came to the conclusion that operational work on the disclosure was not carried out or was carried out formally, "many evidence was lost. Kitaev suggested: if he was given the appropriate authority, he would detain the killer for six months. Merzlyakov refused, fearing to lose his position, the investigation was de - actually suspended.

Everything that was said here should not go beyond this office. Otherwise, Moscow will kick us all out,” Merzlyakov said.

Arrested after 18 years

The case was resumed only in 2002, and the maniac was searched for another 10 years. In 2009, investigators examined swabs of semen found in the bodies of several victims and narrowed down the list of suspects to 589 people, including Popkov. In March 2012, he was called in for questioning as a witness and asked to give saliva for DNA analysis; examination showed that Popkov was the murderer.

Police officers detained Popkov on June 23, 2012 in Vladivostok in a train compartment. From Vladivostok, he planned to move to China. While in the pre-trial detention center, when the case of the murder of 22 women was already being considered in court, Popkov wrote more than 20 confessions. He also informed his cellmates that he had almost as many victims as Chikatilo. Popkov also admitted that he stopped killing because of impotence, which he received as a result of a neglected venereal disease.

survivor

Evgenia Protasova from Angarsk is a miraculously surviving victim of an Angarsk maniac.

Evgenia Protasova:

I was 18 years old. I had a fight with the guy who saw me off, and he left me right in the middle of the night on the road. Immediately, a man drove up to me in a foreign car. He smiled, began to offer to take me, they say, it's too late, it's scary. He showed me a police officer's ID. I believed him and got into the car. I began to say to him: "Why did you pass my house?" Then I don't remember anything. Apparently he hit me on the head. I lost consciousness. I woke up only at the place where he brought me, it was a forest near the village of Malaya Elan.

Evgenia woke up only in the hospital with a broken head. She was lucky. A mushroom picker found her in the forest. And then there were years of rehabilitation after a severe head injury. Then the police did not thoroughly investigate the case of Evgenia, although the girl stated that the maniac was in a police uniform.

And in 2012, Evgenia accidentally saw a photo of Popkov on the Internet in the news. And she immediately recognized him. At a confrontation, she met him for the first time: Popkov was frightened and extremely surprised that she remained alive.

It's a pity that there is no death penalty, - says Svetlana. Such a person cannot live. Then I was constantly in the hospital, my parents took me to hospitals to raise me to my feet.

Cleaner

The former policeman called himself a cleaner and claimed that he killed only women leading a wild lifestyle. This is not true, since he lured all the girls and women who returned home late into his car. At the same time, he committed at least three crimes while on duty and using a company car.

Experts revealed that Popkov had homocidomania with sadistic elements, that is, an attraction to killing people. After severe violence, a law enforcement officer was relieved, his mood, sleep and appetite improved.

Interestingly, the neighbors spoke positively about the maniac. Popkov worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs until 1998. The characterization from the District Department of Internal Affairs noted that Popkov enjoyed authority in the team, he was known as a good family man, a calm, balanced person.

Before the verdict was announced, Popkov's wife and adult daughter supported him, went on dates, and carried parcels. In the television show "Let them talk" on Channel One, they claimed that they believed in his innocence and continued to love. After the verdict was announced, the now ex-wife moved to another region, she now has a different family. Left Angarsk and daughter Popkova, who worked as a school teacher. They no longer provide support to a relative.

• Andrey Chikatilo was accused of 53 sexual murders. The defendant did not “take on” six of them, but the remaining ones were more than enough. The serial killer was sentenced to death.
• On January 4, 2015, the Irkutsk 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.

But last time it was about the most famous criminals. In addition to them, in the history of Russia there were many other bloodthirsty killers that you may not even have heard of. It is about them that will be discussed below.

Vasily Komarov

Vasily Ivanovich Komarov was born in 1877 and is the first Soviet serial killer. The maniac operated in Moscow from 1921 - 1923. He committed all his crimes according to one scenario: he met people who wanted to buy this or that product, after which he brought him to his house and gave him vodka to drink. When the victim got tipsy, he killed her with a hammer, and sometimes strangled her. The bodies were packed in a bag and hidden. Already in 1921, he committed at least seventeen murders, and over the next two years, twelve more. Although later Komarov claimed that he had killed 33 people. Most of the victims of the first serial killer were discovered only after he was caught. In the winter of 1922, his wife Sofya found out about the murders, but did not inform on her husband, but rather began to take part in the murders. The court sentenced Komarov and his wife to capital punishment - execution. The sentence was carried out in 1923.

Valery Asratyan ("Director")

Valery Georgievich Asratyan was born in 1958. He committed his first murder in 1982 by raping an underage girl. But almost immediately he was caught and sentenced to two years. After his release, he again commits rape and again falls into the hands of law enforcement agencies. After serving his second term behind bars, his wife leaves him, but he almost immediately finds himself another woman (who had a minor daughter). With the help of threats, the pedophile persuades his stepdaughter to intimacy and forces her, along with her mother, to participate in his crimes. In 1988, he comes up with a new scheme to lure victims. To do this, he introduces himself as a famous film director and invites the girls to his house to audition for the role. In his apartment, he added drugs to drinks, after which he beat and raped his victims for several days. When a new “toy” bothered him, he let it go. Later, fearing that he would be caught, he began to kill. In order to confuse the police, the “director” killed women in different ways, which is why law enforcement agencies for a long time believed that the murders were handiwork different people. In the process of investigating a series of murders and rapes, the police were able to track down the maniac and arrest him in 1990. Fearing reprisals in the colony at the hands of other prisoners, the "director" asked the court for capital punishment. His request was granted and in 1992 the maniac was shot by a court verdict.

Alexander Bychkov was born in 1988. His father and mother both abused alcohol, which led to his father hanging himself at the age of forty. From a young age, Alexander's mother forced him to hard work, forcing her to earn money for alcohol. Perhaps that is why in the future he will hate drunkards and homeless people so much that he will start killing them. The serial killer killed his first victim on September 17, 2009. It was Evgeny Zhidkov, who came to the Belinsky district for documents to apply for a pension. Bychkov met him in a drink shop, after which he invited him to his apartment, and when Zhidkov fell asleep, he killed him. He killed the rest of his victims according to a similar scenario. Later, he coined the nickname "Rambo" for himself and carefully recorded each kill in a journal, which he called "the bloody hunt of a predator born in the year of the dragon." To avert suspicion from himself, he committed all the murders from May to September. It was then that workers from other republics came to his city to work. January 21, 2012 Bychkov steals material assets and money from the store for a total of 10,000 rubles. The theft was quickly discovered and Alexander was arrested. During the investigation, he confessed to the earlier murders. During interrogation, the killer admitted that he cut out from his victims internal organs and used them for food. Evidence for this was not found. On March 22, 2013, the Penza Regional Court sentenced the serial killer to life imprisonment, with a sentence to be served in a special regime colony.

Anatoly Slivko was born on December 28, 1938. In 1961, he witnessed a horrific accident in which a motorcyclist crashed into a column of pioneers, fatally injuring one child. Later, Slivko claimed that at that moment he experienced a strong sexual arousal and the sight of a tormented child haunted him all his life. After he organized the children's tourist club "Chergid" (through rivers, mountains and valleys), he began to use his position to recreate that terrible accident. Possessing a good knowledge of child psychology, he used threats and bribery to involve them in filming films with imitation of violence. Dressing the children in a pioneer uniform, he hung them on a tree or stretched them with ropes, watching their torment with pleasure. Then he revived the children. The surviving victims either did not remember what happened, or were simply afraid to tell adults about it. Still, there were children who told about the terrible experiments, but no one believed them. He filmed all his child abuse and murders and wrote them down in his diary. In total, the murder of seven children under the age of sixteen was subsequently proven at trial. Despite the disappearance of children from the tourist club and the stories of pupils about strange filming, Slivko committed his terrible atrocities for ten years. He was arrested only on December 28, 1985. Within a year after that, he confessed to all the murders and in June 1986 he was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out in 1989 in the Novocherkassk prison. A few hours before his death, the serial killer managed to consult the investigator Issa Kostoev on the Chikatilo case.

Sergei Golovkin was born on November 26, 1958. At school, he was a quiet and inconspicuous child who practically did not communicate with anyone and was not friends. No one then imagined that in a few years he would become a serial killer known as "Fischer". As a child, Sergei suffered from enuresis and was constantly afraid that others could smell his urine. While masturbating, he imagined torturing and killing his classmates. At the age of 13, he first showed his sadistic tendencies by killing and decapitating a cat's head. He committed his first murder in April 1986, when in a forest near the Katur station he met 15-year-old Andrei Pavlov, whom he led into the forest with the help of threats, where he raped and killed him. Three months later, he rapes and kills another child near the Zvyozdny pioneer camp. After the murder, the maniac cut off the genitals and head of the victim, ripped abdominal cavity and pulled out the internal organs. Four days after this brutal murder, the dismembered corpse of a sixteen-year-old teenager was discovered in the Odintsovo district. Later, Fisher does not confess to this murder, and the investigation will never prove his guilt. During the investigation, an acquaintance of one of Golovkin's victims will tell that he met a man who introduced himself to him as Fischer, but later it turns out that it was only a child's fantasy. However, the nickname "Fisher" is firmly attached to the maniac. Rumors about a maniac near Moscow began to spread rapidly around the region, forcing Golovkin to stop killing for a while. In 1988, he buys a VAZ 2103 car and, with its help, commits his third crime in 1989. In 1990, Fisher dug out a cellar in his garage, planning to use it as a workshop, but the idea comes to his sick head to use the cellar to commit his terrible crimes. And already in August 1991, passing by a bus stop in his car, Fisher met a child, whom he fraudulently brought to his garage, where he committed acts of a violent nature on the child. After that, he hangs the child and removes the skin from him, and dismembers the corpse. The maniac fried the soft organs of the child on a blowtorch and ate it. Parts of the body (except for the head, he left it for himself as a keepsake) were taken to the nearest forest and buried. In 1992 serial maniac lures and kills three boys at once. Moreover, he told the children who and in what order he would kill. He rapes the last victim for twelve hours, after which he kills and calmly goes to work. On October 5, 1992, random mushroom pickers discover the corpses of these children in the forest. Having established the identity of the killed, the investigators went to the school where they studied. One of the classmates during the interrogation told about Sergei Golovkin, who drove him along with the murdered schoolchildren on September 14, 1992 from Zhavoronki station, offering to participate in the theft of the store along the way. The next day, the witness was unable to go with friends to Moscow for the robbery. Fischer was put under surveillance and on October 19, 1992, he was detained. During the investigation, the pedophile maniac confessed to the murder of 11 children. On October 19, 1994, the court sentenced him to capital punishment - execution. The sentence was carried out on August 2, 1996. According to some reports, Sergei Golovkin was the last person executed in Russia.

Sergey Kashfulgayanovich Martynov was born on June 2, 1962. In 1991, in the city of Abakan, he raped and killed a girl, for which he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. In 2004 he was released early. Then he began to travel around the country in search of his new victims. In the city of Kemerovo in 2005, he attempted to rape a girl by stabbing her. Two years later, in June 2007, in the city of Glazov, a killer kills a woman and cuts out her organs. A month later, a maniac rapes a child in the village of Vyazovka. A year later, in Vladimir, he kills a man and commits a theft in the Konstantin-Elinsky Church. In the same year, in August, Martynov commits the murder of a woman in the Novgorod region. And this time he cuts out organs from his victim. Three months later, another victim. This time he kills his cohabitant in the village of Znamenko. In 2010, the maniac continues his murders again. Now his victim is a seventy-year-old woman in Bashkortostan. In the same year, Martynov stabbed a woman to death in the Voronezh region. Is not full list victims of the Bashkir killer. In total, the investigation assumed that the serial killer had at least 10 victims, but only eight episodes were proved. The maniac was detained on the night of November 18-19, 2010 in the Voronezh region in a cafe where he worked and spent the night. Already in November 2012, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Nikita Lytkin was born on March 24, 1993, his accomplice Artem Anufriev on October 4, 1992. Artem and Nikita were members of the skinhead movement. Between December 2010 and April 2011, they killed approximately eight people. According to Anufriev, the idea to kill came to Lytkin. In search of a victim, they walked along the same route from the State University stop to Akademgorodok, and every day from six to ten in the evening. At the same time, they could pass by dozens of people in search of exactly the victim that, in their opinion, suited them. They used knives, baseball bats, hammers and mallets as murder weapons. They attacked their victims from the back, hitting them on the head, which is why the surviving victims of the academic maniacs could not tell the investigators the signs of the criminals. They were able to catch the milkmen from Irkutsk after the Institute of Organic Chemistry, where Lytkin's grandmother worked, handed out sketches of the criminals. Nikita Lytkin's grandmother and her son Vladislav noticed that the identikit looked like their relative. Vladislav went to Lytkin's house to talk to him. But I didn’t find him at home, but I found a video camera in which the killers accidentally forgot a flash drive with footage of the murder of one of their victims. Seeing the recording, Vladislav took it to the police. Within an hour and a half, the academic maniacs were detained. On April 2, 2013, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Lytkin to 24 years in prison and Anufriev to life imprisonment.

Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin was born on April 22, 1960. From the age of thirteen, Mukhankin began to commit robberies and thefts, stunning his victims with a metal pipe. For which he was convicted several times. In 1995, a serial killer begins to kill people and commits eight murders in two months, while performing various manipulations with dead bodies. In addition to murders, he also committed fourteen more crimes, mostly thefts and attacks on people. The offender was caught by accident when he attacked a woman and her daughter. The woman was killed, but the daughter survived and was able to identify the killer. The court found him guilty of twenty-two crimes, including eight murders, and sentenced him to capital punishment - execution. Subsequently, the sentence was changed to life imprisonment. At the moment he is kept in the Black Dolphin colony.

Irina Gaidamachuk (Satan in a skirt)

Irina Viktorovna Gaidamachuk was born on September 26, 1972. From an early age, Irina began to abuse alcohol, for which she was deprived of parental rights in relation to her eldest daughter. At the end of 1990, she moved to Krasnoufimsk, where she met a man, from whom she later gave birth to a daughter. Irina did not work anywhere, her new husband did not give her money, fearing that she would drink it away. Perhaps because of this, she decided to kill. Under the guise of a social worker, Gaidamachuk visited elderly people, whom she killed with a blow to the head with a hammer, after which she took away valuables and hid. For eight years, Satan in a skirt (as she was nicknamed) killed seventeen pensioners and committed eighteen robberies. A serial killer in a skirt was detained only in 2010. The court sentenced her to twenty years in prison.

Vasily Sergeevich Kulik was born on January 17, 1956. Since childhood, he showed sadistic inclinations by torturing and killing cats. At school, Kulik went in for sports and even became the boxing champion of Irkutsk. While studying at the medical faculty of the Irkutsk Medical Institute in 1980, he was beaten and robbed by teenagers. According to him, this event (and most likely a serious head injury) gave rise to his passion for children. In the same year, Kulik tries to seduce a fourth grade student. In 1981, Kulik marries, a year later his children are born. In 1984, Kulik commits his first murder, the body of his nine-year-old victim was found a few days later in the basement of a house in Irkutsk. Working as an ambulance doctor, he easily and freely entered the apartments of his victims. For two years of its bloody activity, the Irkutsk monster killed thirteen people (of which seven pensioners and six children). During another attack on January 17, 1986, he was seized by passers-by and taken to the police, where he confessed to his crimes. True, at the trial, he retracted his words, saying that the Chibis gang forced him to confess everything. But this lie did not help him escape punishment for his crimes, and on August 11, 1988, the court sentenced him to capital punishment - execution. On June 26, 1989, in the SIZO of the city of Irkutsk, the sentence was carried out.