Maniacs, cannibals, murderers, rapists. The most terrible maniacs-cannibals of our time ← Hodor. Serial maniac Sergey Tkach

number of victims: 13–14
Richard Ramirez, also known as the Night Stalker, is a convicted American serial killer who was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. At one time he opened a real campaign of terror against the population of California. At night, he broke into houses, robbed, raped and killed. He often left images of a pentagram at crime scenes, and also forced his victims to say "I love Satan." He died of liver failure at the age of 53 on June 7, 2013 in a hospital, California, USA.

victims: 17
American serial killer, known by the nicknames "Milwaukee Monster", "Milwaukee Cannibal". It killed at least 17 young men and women between 1978 and 1991. All but one of the crimes took place in Milwaukee. His murders were extremely brutal. The corpses of their victims "Milwaukee Monster" raped and ate. After his arrest on July 22, 1991, the court found Dahmer sane and sentenced him to 957 years in prison. In 1994, a serial killer was beaten to death by his cellmate.

victims: 33
On the eighth line in the ranking of the most famous serial killers in the world is John Wayne Gacy, also known as the "Clown Killer" - an American serial killer who raped and killed 33 young people, including several teenagers. He was arrested in 1978 and sentenced to death. While on death row, Gacy wrote a book where he claimed that the Lord had returned his heterosexual orientation to him, and also painted pictures and sold them to collectors. He was executed on May 10, 1994 by lethal injection.

victims: 36
Gennady Mikhasevich, known by the nicknames "Vitebsk Strangler" and "Patriot of Vitebsk", was a Soviet serial killer who between 1971-1985 killed 36 women in the city of Vitebsk, Belarus. Almost all of his crimes were accompanied by rape. He did not attack his victims, but, on the contrary, voluntarily lured them into a car (a red Zaporozhets), where he tempted them, or forcibly brought them to a deserted place and strangled them at the moment of orgasm. He did not carry the murder weapon with him, he preferred to use improvised objects for strangulation. "Vitebsk Strangler" was arrested on December 9, 1985 and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on September 25, 1987.

the number of victims ranges from 5 to 37
Serial killer active in Northern California and San Francisco in the late 1960s. The identity of the offender has not yet been established. He called himself the Zodiac himself in a series of scathing letters sent by him to the editors of the district newspapers. The letters also contained cryptograms in which the killer allegedly encrypted information about himself. Three of the four cryptograms are still undeciphered.

victims: 53–65
Andrei Chikatilo is also known by the nicknames "Mad Beast", "Rostov Ripper", "Red Ripper", "Killer from the forest belt", "Citizen X", "Satan", "Soviet Jack the Ripper" - one of the most famous Soviet serial killers, who from 1978 to 1990 committed 53 proven murders (according to operational information, more than 65 murders were committed by a maniac). He was arrested on November 20, 1990 and sentenced to death on October 15 of the same year.
While on death row, Chikatilo wrote numerous complaints and requests for pardon, took care of his own health - did exercises, ate with appetite. On January 4, 1994, the last request for pardon addressed to Russian President Boris Yeltsin was rejected, and on February 14, Chikatilo was shot in the Novocherkassk prison. Interestingly, the murderer Alexander Kravchenko was mistakenly shot for the crimes committed by Andrei Chikatilo.

number of victims: 19–82
Alexander Spesivtsev is a Russian serial killer, a maniac and a cannibal who, from February to September 1996 in Novokuznetsk, together with his mother (brought the girls to her son, and then buried their remains), killed and ate 19 women and children. Suspected of over 82 murders. Spesivtsev was sentenced to compulsory treatment and, as of 2015, continues to undergo rehabilitation at the Volgograd Special Type Psychiatric Hospital with intensive supervision.

victims: 30–100
In third place on the list of the most brutal serial killers in the world is Theodore Robert Bundy, known by the nickname "Nylon Killer" - one of the worst serial killers in US history, operating in seven states in the 70s of the last century (mostly between 1974- 1978). He was convicted of the murders of 30 young women and executed in the electric chair on January 24, 1989. However, the exact number of his victims is unknown. Estimates range from 30 to over 100.

victims: 49–90
Gary Leon Ridgway, known as the "Green River Killer", is one of America's most notorious serial killers, having committed at least 49 murders of women in Washington State between 1982 and 2001. Most of his victims were prostitutes or underage runaways. Ridgway began to be suspected in 1983, but his guilt was proved only in 1997 thanks to the results of DNA analysis. On December 18, 2003, the Green River Killer was sentenced to 48 terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole. At the trial, Ridgway wept and asked for forgiveness from the relatives of his victims. He is currently serving his sentence in the maximum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado, USA.

victims: 11–600
Henry Lee Lucas is the most famous and "prolific" American serial killer and cannibal. He has 11 proven murders on his account, although during the investigation he confessed to more than 300, of which only 213 can be regarded as more or less plausible. He was sentenced to death, but in 1998, the Texas Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, at the request of Governor George W. Bush, commuted Lucas's death sentence to life imprisonment. On March 13, 2001, he died of heart failure at the age of 64. Henry Lee Lucas was the subject of a 1986 psychological horror film based on a true story called Henry Lee Lucas.

A small introduction. I will not name the real names of the characters, and I will not name the city where the events took place. This is not the point, the point is the story itself. When I heard it, I was horrified. The narration on behalf of a law enforcement officer is more convenient.

We have an area that is not very prosperous. You know, those where the old people in Khrushchev apartments stayed to live, and the rest of the apartments were occupied by “marginal” people.

A family settled there, where and how they were formed there, it is not really known, whether it was an inheritance, or some other luck. Family of three - mother, father, son. My son is 7-8 years old. Parents from the family of “bukharans”, the son is a beggar, he always ran by himself, but he behaved politely with neighbors, greeted, helped the grandmothers carry bags to the apartment.

I will tell from the words of a girl I know a case that occurred several years ago in the Krasnodar Territory.

My friend (let's call her Natalya) was on the train in a compartment car. Sitting, bored, then a twenty-seven-year-old guy, hefty, pumped up, asks for her in the compartment. We talked - it turned out that he was either a contract soldier or a former marine (the girl said, but I did not remember).
The guy went to the same city as my friend, in order to relax and see the world. Natalya immediately liked his tattoos, especially the blue anchor on a strong male forearm.

When a person is preparing for a vacation, few people know what awaits him. The end of the story fell on the year 84, and neither the investigators nor the journalists could establish the beginning exactly. The story itself made a lot of noise, but the authorities did everything to forget about it, and as soon as possible. Everything happened in one former region - now the North Caucasian Republic, not far from one city in the restaurant "Old Fortress".
The local police department began to regularly receive requests from the police department from other cities, and from the most remote areas, with a request to inform them about the whereabouts of their missing citizens. And all would be nothing if they had not accumulated an impressive pack.

The specificity of the profession is such that we work in remote places, up to 10 hours by all-terrain vehicle, helicopter, boat or raft, adventure, romance, but it is also work. North, taiga and forests. We have small hut stations where equipment is stored, especially if long-term research is underway, foresters look after them, but there is firewood, sometimes some food, but we bring everything with us or on boats. There are such huts deep in the forest, on rivers and so on, there are no people at all. We almost never have guns, and if there is, then not everyone, usually zoologists.

Imagine, botanist girls and one ornithologist boy enter such a hut, and it is open and warm, which is amazing in itself.

It was during the winter holidays. My brother and I were brought to the village to visit our grandparents. There are more snowdrifts and cleaner air. But in winter it gets dark early, so the evenings had to be spent sitting at home. And the old people just at that time began work in the yard: feed the cattle, clean the manure and other delights. Our neighbor grandmother Matryona came to keep an eye on us with one eye. She was an ancient dry old woman, she seemed very wise and all-knowing to us. We gave her tea, and she told us stories from her life. I will tell you one now.
The time was post-war: famine, devastation, despair. How many men did not return home from the war!

My grandfather lived a long and eventful life. He has seen and experienced a lot, as they say, in "his own skin." He died a few years ago, but his image will not be erased from my memory, no matter how hard time tries to turn all the past into dust and let the memories go to the wind. Life stories, of which grandfather was a participant or witness, and which he told me casually, return to him the outlines of a living person in my imagination every time I turn to them and reread them. It seems to come off the pages covered in my uneven, clumsy handwriting. All his stories are recorded and kept very carefully. So, one of these stories I want to tell you now, dear readers.

Murderers, maniacs, cannibals - all these are criminals guilty of terrible crimes. Among them there are also representatives of the weaker sex, distinguished by no less cruelty than men.

The most brutal killer maniacs

There are many killer maniacs in the world. They are responsible for the death of several thousand people. According to psychologists, maniacs are people with serious mental disorders caused by mental trauma or congenital diseases received in childhood.

killer clown

In 1994, the Killer Clown died after a lethal injection. His real name is John Wayne Gacy. The maniac worked as a clown at children's parties, for which he received his nickname. 33 boys were raped and killed by him. The police found 27 of them in the basement of a maniac, the rest, according to Gacy, he drowned in the river.

Maniac nicknamed "Clown" was euthanized

Serial maniac Sergey Tkach

Another cruel maniac killer is Sergey Tkach. He himself claims that he has about a hundred lives of teenage girls on his account. Law enforcement agencies were able to prove the rape and murder of only twenty-seven girls. The most surprising thing is that Tkach himself worked as an investigator in law enforcement agencies. The killer was detained in his house in the town of Pologi, Zaporozhye region in August 2005.

Indonesian maniac Ahmad Suraji

Ahmad Suraji is an Indonesian maniac who killed forty-two women. He killed in a very original way. Ahmad buried the victim up to the throat in the ground, after which he strangled with a piece of cable and drank the saliva that appeared. In 2008, he was shot.

"Red Ripper" Andrei Chikatilo

Andrei Chikatilo is recognized as the most cruel maniac in the post-Soviet space. Fifty-two people have become its victims in more than twelve years. This maniac received several nicknames - "Red Ripper", "Rostov Ripper", "Rostov Butcher". Maniac was shot in 1994.

"Doctor Death"

In 2004, a maniac nicknamed "Doctor Death" hanged himself in his cell. On his account at least two hundred and fifty deaths. He gave his victims lethal injections. The killer's name is Harold Frederick "Fred" Shipman.

The most terrible killer-cannibals

Among the maniacs there are those who kill in order to then eat their victim.

Cannibal Nikolai Dzhumagaliev

One of the most famous cannibal killers is Nikolai Dzhumagaliev. This cannibal lived in Alma-Ata in 1980, where he worked as a laborer. He was charged with 47 murders, but guilt was proven only in 10 cases. Dzhumagaliev himself claimed to have killed and ate about 50 prostitutes. From the meat of the murdered girls, he prepared various dishes and treated them to his friends. Sentenced to eight years in a closed clinic.

Indian cannibals

Cannibals from the Indian village of Nithari are a well-known local businessman and his servant named Kohli. Together they lured and ate at least thirty-eight children. After the killing, acts of a violent nature were committed over the bodies.

Japanese ogre Issei Sagawa

Issei Sagawa is a cannibal who wrote the memoirs that made him famous. He grew up as a shy child with a developed inferiority complex. While studying at the Sorbonne, he invited a classmate to his literary conversation, choosing her because she was beautiful. Issei Sagawa killed a girl by shooting her in the neck and then ate her flesh for 2 days to "absorb her energy". After the arrest, a Japanese student was imprisoned for two years. Sagawa was later transferred to a psychiatric clinic. In Japan, after Sagawa was deported there, he was recognized as sane and released.

Issei Sagawa has become a well-known restaurant critic, he writes books, often gives interviews, he is invited as a guest on many television shows. We can say that this tragedy, like most high-profile crimes, brought fame to the killer. It is amazing that fate was pleased not only to keep the cannibal alive, but also to open doors for him that he could never have opened before.

The most terrible female killers

Speaking of homicidal maniacs, they usually imagine men. The image of a maniac is least of all associated with the image of a woman. Forensic science knows many examples of bloody killers - women who are not inferior to strong men in cruelty.

"Black Widow"

The Black Widow is considered the most brutal female killer of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her name is Belle Sorenson Gunness. With her help, about forty people were sent to another world. More than half of all those killed are relatives or close friends of the "widow". The woman did not work, she existed at the expense of insurance, which she received after the death of her relatives. She killed her husband, children and several potential suitors. Her death is not known for certain. The headless and charred body of a woman who could be Belle Sorenson Gunness did not give one hundred percent guarantee that this was the Black Widow.

Sister of Mercy Jane Toppan

Nurse Jane Toppan attacked infirm patients. It is known that her father was crazy, so Jane was brought up in an orphanage. The girl was adopted, but the adoptive parents turned out to be poor, because of which the anger of the future killer towards others only intensified. At first, Nurse Toppan administered drugs to her patients, observing their condition between life and death. From this she received the strongest sexual pleasure.

Later, the woman transformed her experiments into murders. After her arrest, the police were able to prove eleven murders. While under arrest, the nurse confessed to thirty-one more murders. The examination proved that Jane is insane. She spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric clinic.

"Bloody Countess"

That was the name of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. The exact number of her victims is unknown, it ranges from thirty to six hundred and fifty people. According to the legends, the countess preferred to take baths filled with the blood of young girls. The woman believed that in this way she could prolong her youth.

Bathory lured girls to her castle, under the pretext of a job offer, locked them in a dungeon, and then killed them. Her own husband, Ferenc Nadashi, helped her in this. To avoid publicity and a high-profile trial of the countess, her noble relatives closed Elizabeth in her own dungeon, where she died three years later.

The worst killer in human history

In the entire history of mankind, the most terrible killer was recognized as the Indian Tugh Behram, who was the leader of fanatic thugs (tugs), stranglers and poisoners who believed that every murder committed prevents the coming of the goddess of chaos and death (Kali). Behram lived from 1765 to 1840. They killed about a thousand people. In general, the members of his sect killed no less than eighty thousand people. Often the killings were carried out en masse.

Around the twentieth year of the nineteenth century, Behram was captured, but he was given life and freedom for betraying all his accomplices. The terrible serial killer was hanged by his own brother in 1840.

Sometimes it is not only cruelty that surprises, but also the age of the criminals. The site has a site about an 11-year-old boy who was imprisoned for life.
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Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov (born March 7, 1964) is a Russian serial killer and rapist who committed at least 22 murders of young women between 1994 and 2000 near the city of Angarsk, Irkutsk Region. Former junior lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Prior to his dismissal from the police in 1998, he committed some crimes in the form of a policeman and in a company car. He was arrested after the resumption of the criminal case and comparison in March 2012 of his genotype and the results of a molecular genetic examination of the remains of the victims, conducted back in 2003. Sentenced to life imprisonment. In total, he confessed to 81 murders.

Biography
Mikhail Popkov was born on March 7, 1964. In the mid 1990s. worked as an operational duty officer in the police department No. 1 of the city of Angarsk, Irkutsk region. He retired in 1998 as soon as he received the rank of junior lieutenant, which caused great bewilderment of his colleagues. Was married. As colleagues from a professional point of view, and just acquaintances, he was characterized positively. After his dismissal from the authorities, he worked in a private security company, where, in turn, he was characterized by employees negatively and from where he quit in 2011. He worked as a hauler and digger of graves.

"Angara Maniac"
From November 1994 to 2000, 29 brutal murders of young women were committed in Angarsk, which, due to the similarity in the criminal style and the type of victim, the investigators combined into one series.

According to medical experts, the offender used various murder weapons: an ax, a knife, an awl, a screwdriver, a noose, in some episodes using several different weapons in a row. For example, he inflicted multiple blows to the head with a metal object, 8 stab wounds with a screwdriver, and stab wounds to the face and neck on one of the victims. In nine cases, the death of the victim came from multiple blows of an ax.

Most of the victims were between 19 and 28 years of age at the time of the murder. One victim was fifteen, four more from 35 to 40 years old. All women were of average height (155-170 cm) and inclined to be overweight. All but one were under the influence of moderate to severe alcohol at the time of the murder and had been raped prior to their deaths. The only victim who was sober at the time of the attack was not raped. The perpetrator strangled her with a scarf and stabbed her already dead body with a knife. Popkov burned one of the victims after the murder. Another cut out the heart.

The killer left the victims in the vicinity of Angarsk, in the forests adjacent to country roads branching off from major highways (Sibirsky Trakt, Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk bypass highway). 26 women were dead at the time of discovery, three more were mortally wounded and died in the hospital.

Investigation
The similarity of the type of the victim and the behavior of the victims at the time of the murder led the investigation to the conclusion that the murders were committed by one person. In 1998, a rumor appeared in Angarsk about a maniac operating in the city, and in December of this year an investigative-operational group was formed, consisting of employees of the prosecutor's office, the Internal Affairs Directorate and the RUBOP. At that time, 24 victims were attributed to the killer.

Over the next year and a half, the investigation into cases of unsolved murders did not advance at all, and in June 2000 a new investigative and operational group was created with the participation of the senior assistant of the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor for Supervision of the Implementation of the Law of the Russian Federation "On Operative-Investigative Activities" and the investigation of cases of special the importance of N. N. Kitaev, known for the case of the serial killer Vasily Kulik. Kitaev, after analyzing 15 cases of unsolved murders in Angarsk, concluded that the investigative measures in these cases were of poor quality.

In particular, on January 28, 1998, in the snow near the village of Baikalsk (the territory of the city of Angarsk), a naked girl was found unconscious due to severe head injuries. The juvenile victim was raped. Only after almost six months, after numerous complaints from the mother of the victim, a criminal case was opened on the fact of the attack. In June, a description of the perpetrator was received from the victim. As it turned out, on the evening of January 27, the driver of a police car, dressed in service uniform, offered a girl who was walking home to give her a lift. The girl agreed. The rapist brought her into the forest, where, forcing her to undress, he beat her head against a tree until she lost consciousness. The girl woke up in the hospital. During the investigation, the victim identified the senior sergeant of the Angarsk Department of Internal Affairs. The case, however, remained unsolved. According to this episode, Kitaev, in his conclusion, pointed out the absence of a forensic medical examination of the victim and the formality of checking the alibi of the sergeant, who led a dissolute life and infected his cohabitant with syphilis.
In March 2001, investigator Nikolai Kitaev was dismissed from the authorities in connection with the disbandment of the regional transport prosecutor's offices.

Popkov's arrest, investigation and trial.
In 2012, the previously closed, allegedly hopeless, criminal case was resumed by the Investigative Committee. Already in March 2012, the results of a molecular genetic examination of traces of rape in 2003 made it possible to identify the culprit, who turned out to be Mikhail Popkov, who participated in the previous investigation. On June 23 of the same year, Popkov, when he was trying to overtake a newly bought car from Vladivostok, was arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering three women committed in March, June and December 1997. The suspect surrendered without resistance and, already in the police department, confessed to dozens of murders. He also admitted that he stopped killing because of impotence, which he received as a result of a neglected venereal disease.

In August 2012, information appeared in the media that the person under investigation had tried to hang himself in the SIZO cell. Soon this information was refuted by the employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

On October 31, 2013, Popkov was charged with 22 murders and two attempted murders. In May 2014, the case went to trial. The materials of the criminal case amounted to 195 volumes. More than 300 forensic and forensic examinations, more than 2.5 thousand genomic studies were carried out in the case, more than two thousand witnesses were interrogated. On January 14, 2015, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Mikhail Popkov to life imprisonment in a special regime colony. After the verdict, Popkov confessed to another 59 murders, while new charges have been brought against Popkov for only 47 episodes. Presumably, the final number of Popkov's victims is 83 people (among them 1 man, police captain Yevgeny Shkurikhin, who was killed in 1999).

On March 27, 2017, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region brought a final charge against Popkov for the murder of another 60 women. During the investigation of the second case, it was revealed that the suspect had no mental abnormalities.

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A huge number of different people live in our country, and not all of them are good. In the criminal history of Russia, there were many ruthless monsters who were noted as serial killers and bloodthirsty maniacs. Many of them you have never heard of, but, nevertheless, they committed truly terrible murders and each of them became a serial maniac. About maniacs, their murders and their fate, read on .. Not for the faint of heart! We tried to write about little-known maniacs and serial killers, so we specifically did not include Chikatilo and the Bitsa maniac in this list.

Valery Hasratyan

Valery Asratyan, also known as "The Director", was aspiring actresses' worst nightmare. From 1988 to 1990, the Moscow maniac posed as a powerful director (hence the nickname), luring unsuspecting girls to him with empty promises of wealth and fame.

Asratyan's primary target was sexual crimes, eventually becoming a serial killer in an attempt to cover his tracks. During his criminal activities, he raped dozens of victims, killing at least three of them. Not wanting to draw attention to himself, the perpetrator used different methods of killing each time, so the police did not suspect that the murders were the work of one person.

Asratyan was very smart and had a background in psychology. His favorite method of luring a victim to his home was to pose as a director (complete with forged documents), after the victim entered the lair, he would beat the victim unconscious, then drug him and keep him at home as a sex toy for many days. Units of surviving captives, after liberation, testified against the maniac.

Some of the victims were able to indicate the place where Asratyan kept them. During the investigation, the police managed to find and arrest the maniac, thereby ending his terror. He was shot dead in 1992, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Alexander Bychkov

Alexander Bychkov did not like alcoholics and homeless people. In fact, he hated them so much that he dreamed of exterminating them all. Bychkov began to call himself "Rambo", as the hero of the famous character Sylvester Stallone, armed with a large knife and hammer, he began to roam the streets in search of victims.

Between 2009 and 2012, "Rambo" lured at least nine unfortunate victims into desert areas, where he attacked by killing them before dismembering the bodies and hiding them. Each of these attacks were meticulously recorded in a journal, which he called "the bloody hunt of a predator born in the year of the dragon." He also claimed to have eaten at least two of his victims' hearts, although no evidence of this has been found.

Bychkov was only 24 years old when he was caught. His only explanation for his actions was to impress his girlfriend, for which he tried to act like a lone wolf.

Anatoly Slivko

Anatoly Slivko is a Soviet serial killer, sadist and pedophile. For many years, this monster kept the city of Nevinnomyssk at bay. Little boys began to disappear from the city, whom no one ever saw later. The police did their best to investigate the kidnappings, but no serious evidence was found.

In 1985, the criminal was finally caught. Anatoly Slivko was the leader of the local tourist club "Chergid", he successfully used his position to win the trust of young tourists. In his youth, Slivko witnessed a terrible accident, during which a motorcyclist crashed into a column of pioneers and one of them died in the inferno of burning gasoline. He experienced sexual arousal, and this picture haunted him all his adult life. After he became the head of "Chergid", he tried to recreate this terrible scenario. He forced the boys to play roles and take poses, he saw once a terrible incident. But soon it was not enough for him just to look at these scenes. Ultimately, Slivko began to kill children, dismember and burn the remains.

To persuade the boys to participate in terrible scenes, he used a frightening method. He told the boys that they could become the main characters in a film about how the Nazis abused children, at that time it was a popular topic. The maniac dressed the boys in pioneer uniforms, stretched them on ropes, hung them on a tree, observed torment and convulsions, after which he carried out resuscitation. The surviving victims either did not remember what happened to them, or were afraid to talk about the "secret experiment". Nobody believed the children, who nevertheless told about everything.

Even after he was captured and sentenced to death, Slivko's demeanor remained strangely benevolent. He was very helpful and courteous to the authorities to the very end. When the police were hunting for another serial killer, he even gave an interview to investigators, in the style of Hannibal Lecter, a few hours before the execution.

Sergei Golovkin

Sergei Golovkin was a quiet outsider who barely interacted with other people. Although he was rather reserved and shy, he could make people nervous with just his gaze. No one could have imagined that the guy would become a serial killer. He was a serial killer known as "Boa" or "Fischer".

During his school years he suffered from enuresis. He was afraid that those around him could smell his urine. While masturbating, he often fantasized about torturing and killing classmates. At the age of thirteen, sadistic tendencies first appeared. Golovkin caught a cat on the street and brought it home, where he hung it and cut off its head, which caused a relaxation, the tension in which he constantly stayed subsided. I also fried aquarium fish on the stove.

Between 1986 and 1992, Golovkin killed and raped 11 people. He was notorious for first strangling his victims and then dismembering the bodies in a horrific, horror-movie fashion. He cut his victims, cut off the genitals, head, cut open the abdominal cavity, removed the internal organs. He took "souvenirs" from the remains of his victims. He even experimented with cannibalism, but it turned out that he did not like the taste of human flesh.

One of the 4 boys that Golovkin offered to take part in the robbery refused to participate in the proposed case and later identified him. The other three boys were never seen again.

Golovkin was put under surveillance. October 19, 1992 he was detained. For Golovkin, this was a surprise, but during interrogation he behaved calmly and denied guilt. At night in the isolation ward, Golovkin tried to open the veins. On October 21, 1992, his garage was searched and, going down to the cellar, they found evidence: a baby bath with burnt layers of skin and blood, clothes, belongings of the dead, and so on.

Golovkin confessed in 11 episodes and showed the investigators in detail the places of murders and burials. During the investigation, he behaved calmly, monotonously talked about the murders, and sometimes joked. He was executed in 1996.

Maxim Petrov

Dr. Maxim Petrov is not the only person known as "Doctor Death", but certainly one of the most feared. A ruthless killer who specialized in stalking his elderly patients. He came to pensioners' homes, without warning, usually in the morning, when their relatives left for work. Petrov measured blood pressure and informed the patient that an injection was needed. After the injection, the victims lost consciousness, and Petrov left, taking valuables with him. He even removed rings and earrings from patients. The first victims did not die. Petrov committed his first murder in 1999. The patient was already unconscious after the injection when his daughter unexpectedly returned home and saw the doctor commit the theft. He hit the woman with a screwdriver and strangled the patient. After this episode, the principle of Petrov's work changed. He injected victims with a variety of lethal drugs so that the police would not think that the perpetrator was a doctor. Petrov set fire to the houses of his victims to cover up the traces of the crime. The stolen items were later found in his apartment, some he had already managed to sell on the market.

More than 50 people died at the hands of Petrov. One survivor recalls waking up in their house on fire, while others wake up in an apartment filled with gas. Witnesses Petrov ruthlessly killed.

In the end, he put on a constant stream of murders with lethal injections and destruction of apartments with the help of fires, but he was too greedy. Investigators soon noticed a natural connection between the illnesses of those killed and the crimes committed and compiled a list of 72 potential future victims. They soon arrested Petrov while he was "visiting" one of his patients in 2002. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison.

Sergey Martynov

For some people, prison is a correctional facility. According to others, this is just a place where they while away the time between crimes. These people often return to their criminal activities after being released. Sergei Martynov was from the second group of people.

He had already served 14 years in prison for murder and rape after being released in 2005. The same thirst for blood seethed in him. Shortly after his release, he began to travel around the country in search of victims.

Over the next six years, Martynov began a series of murders. He traveled to ten different regions, leaving a trail of murder and rape in his wake. His victims were mostly women and girls, whom he used gruesome methods to kill.

Martynov's bloody journey came to an end when he was finally caught in 2010. He was charged with at least eight murders and multiple rapes in 2012. Serving a life sentence.

"Molotochniki from Irkutsk" - Akademovsky maniacs

Morally unstable killers are one of the most dangerous types of criminals. They are so unpredictable, how cruel, and it is very difficult to immediately recognize serial killers in them.

Nikita Lytkin and Artem Anufriev were two young men who decided to try their hand at neo-Nazism, or rather they were skinheads. Dressed in all black, they were active members of various communities devoted to fascism. They were known online by names such as "Peoplehater" and moderated social groups such as "We are gods, we alone decide who lives and who dies."

Lytkin and Anufriev became infamous as "Akademovsky maniacs". Between December 2010 and April 2011, they killed between six and eight people. Luckily, the two of them were pretty bad at hiding their tracks, so their killing spree didn't last long.

On October 16, 2012, right in court, Anufriev inflicted cutting wounds on the side of his neck and scratched his stomach with a razor, which he carried in a sock when he was taken from the pre-trial detention center to court. He couldn't explain why he did it. His lawyer Svetlana Kukareva considered this the result of a strong emotional outburst, which was caused by the fact that his mother appeared in court for the first time that day. "AiF in Eastern Siberia" mentioned the case when Anufriev, before one of the meetings, cut his neck with a screw unscrewed from the sink in the escort room.

On April 2, 2013, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Anufriev to life imprisonment in a special regime colony, Lytkin to 24 years in prison, of which five years (three years, since the two-year term that he served before sentencing was taken into account) he will spend in prison, and the rest - in a strict regime colony.

Vladimir Mukhankin - a murderer from Rostov-on-Don

In 1995, Mukhankin begins to kill and committed 8 murders in 2 months. He dismembered corpses and performs manipulations with dead and agonizing bodies. He had an unhealthy passion for internal organs, repeatedly went to bed with them. There was an episode where, after the murder in the cemetery, Mukhankin left a sheet with a poem he had composed. On his last day at large, he commits 2 murders and 1 attempted murder. In addition to 8 murders, he also committed 14 more crimes: theft and robbery.

Mukhankin was caught by accident after attacking a woman with her daughter. The woman was killed, but the girl survived and later identified her assailant.

During interrogations, the maniac behaved defiantly, did not repent of his deed, called himself a student of Chikatilo, although he also said that "in comparison with him, Chikatilo is a chicken." Mukhankin described his crimes in detail, at the same time trying to persuade others to think about his insanity. However, he did not succeed - the examination recognized him as sane and fully accountable for his actions.

At the trial, Mukhankin, realizing that he was facing capital punishment, refused all the testimony he had given. The court found him guilty of 22 crimes, including 8 murders, of which three were minors. Vladimir Mukhankin was sentenced to death with confiscation of property. Subsequently, the execution was replaced by life imprisonment. Currently kept in the famous Black Dolphin colony.

Irina Gaidamachuk

When your criminal nickname is "Satan in a Skirt", chances are you are not the nicest person in the world. Irina Gaydamachuk fully deserved this nickname. For seven years, she visited senior citizens of the Sverdlovsk region as a welfare worker. After she got into the victim's apartment, she killed elderly citizens by crushing their heads with a hammer or an ax. After that, she stole money and valuables and fled the scene as if nothing had happened.

The worst thing about Gaidamachuk is that she has never been an anti-social loner, she has been married, and is the mother of two children. She liked to drink too much and didn't like to work. She decided to kill people as an alternative method of making money. However, it was not a very profitable business, none of her robberies exceeded 17,500 rubles. And she kept doing it again, and again, and again.

She killed 17 pensioners in 8 years of criminal activity. As she told the police: "I just wanted to be a normal mother, but I was addicted to alcohol. My husband Yuri would not give me money for vodka."

Gaidamachuk was detained only at the end of 2010. Gaydamachuk was charged with 17 murders and 18 robbery attacks (one of the victims after Irina's attack survived). She was declared sane.

She was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Such a lenient sentence is due to the fact that, in accordance with Article 57 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, life imprisonment is not assigned to women (and also to men under 18 or over 65). 20 years was the maximum punishment for her.

Vasily Komarov

Vasily Ivanovich Komarov - the first reliable Soviet serial killer maniac, operated in Moscow in the period 1921-1923. His victims were 33 men.

Vasily Komarov came up with an entrepreneurial scenario for his murders. He got acquainted with a client who wanted to buy this or that product, often they were horses, brought him to his house, gave him vodka to drink, then killed him with hammer blows, sometimes strangled him, and then packed the bodies in a bag and carefully hid them. In 1921, he committed at least 17 murders, in the next two years - at least 12 more murders, although he later confessed to 33 murders. The bodies were found in the Moscow River, in ruined houses buried underground. According to Komarov, the whole procedure took no more than half an hour.

Between 1921 and 1923, Moscow trembled with a ruthless killer who choked and clubbed people to death and dumped their bodies in sacks through the city's slums. It was, of course, Komarov. He was not particularly smart in his actions, however. After the authorities realized that the murders were related to sales at the horse market, they quickly listed him as a suspect. even tried to kill his eight-year-old son.

Komarov tried to escape from the hands of the law, he was soon arrested. Most of the bodies of the victims of Vasily Komarov were discovered only after his capture. Komarov spoke about the murders with particular cynicism and pleasure. He assured that the motive for his atrocities was self-interest, that he only killed speculators, but all his murders brought him about $ 30 at the then exchange rate. During the indication of burial places, angry crowds of people were hardly pushed back from Komarov.

The maniac did not repent of the crimes committed, moreover, he said that he was ready to commit at least sixty more murders. The forensic psychiatric examination recognized Komarov as sane, although they recognized him as an alcoholic degenerate and a psychopath.

The court sentenced Vasily Komarov and his wife Sofya to capital punishment - execution. In the same 1923, the sentence was carried out

Vasily Kulik

Vasily Kulik, better known as the "Irkutsk Monster" is a famous Soviet serial killer. Killed in order to hide the rape. Subsequently, he also admitted that he received stronger sexual satisfaction when strangling the victim.

Since childhood, Vasily Kulik felt the connection between violence and sexual arousal. As a teenager, he had many girlfriends who developed an unhealthy appetite for sex in him. His mental health has always been very precarious, but when the girl he loved moved to another city, his mental health took a turn for the worse.

Between 1984 and 1986, Kulik raped and killed 13 people. His victims were elderly women or small children. Kulik committed murders in various ways: he used firearms, strangulation, inflicted stab wounds and other methods of killing his victims. His oldest victim was 73 years old, the youngest victim was a two-month-old baby.

During another attack, on January 17, 1986, he was beaten and taken to the police station by passers-by. Kulik soon confessed everything, but at the trial he refused all evidence, saying that he was forced to confess to everything by a gang of a certain Chibis, who committed all the murders. The case was sent for further investigation.

However, his guilt was nevertheless proven and Kulik was arrested on the day of his 30th birthday. On August 11, 1988, the court sentenced Vasily Kulik to capital punishment - execution.

Shortly before the execution, Kulik was interviewed. Here is an excerpt from it:

"Kulik: ... The verdict is already there, the trial has passed, so ... remain only a person, there are no more thoughts ...
Interviewer: Are you afraid of death?
Kulik: I didn't think about that..."

Kulik also wrote poems about love for women and children. On June 26, 1989, in the pre-trial detention center of Irkutsk, the sentence was carried out.