If you believe they are evil, heartless, or simply mentally ill, then you are still part of a society that is both alienated and attracted by the lives and minds of serial killers.

Who are they and what drives them ?

Below are some of the most terrifying serial killers of the 20th century.


25.David Berkowitz



Known as the Son of Sam or the 44-gauge assassin, David Berkowitz carried out a string of assassinations in the summer of 1976. Using a 44 caliber Bulldog revolver, he killed 6 people and wounded 7 more. Berkowitz also sent a number of letters to the police and the press with stories of his further murders. for the purpose of teasing.

He terrorized New Yorkers for almost a year. He was eventually captured in August 1977. Berkowitz confessed to all the murders and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for each of them.

24. Edmund Kemper



Edmund Kemper is an American serial killer and necrophiliac who led a series of brutal serial murders in California in the 1970s. At the age of 15, he killed his grandparents, and later killed and dismembered six women hitchhiking in the Santa Cruz area.

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He later killed his mother and one of her friends, and a few days later surrendered to the police. In November 1973, he was found guilty of 8 murders. He asked for the death penalty for himself, but instead received a life sentence without parole.

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23. Larry Bittaker and Roy Norris



These two American serial killers took the lives of five young women together in California in 1979. They lured victims into their van they drove off to secluded places and then both raped and tortured the unfortunates with a number of tools.

In 1981, the maniacs were charged with murder, kidnapping and rape. Bittaker was sentenced to death and remains on death row to this day. Norris, however, was spared in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

22. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley



These men killed five children in 1963-1965 in Greater Manchester, England. Their victims were between 10 and 17 years old. Before being brutally murdered, the unfortunates were sexually abused.

Three of those killed were found in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor, the body of the last victim was found at Brady's home. The whereabouts of the fourth child, Keith Bennett, are still unknown.

Both Brady and Hindley were later sentenced to life in prison. Hindley died in prison in 2002. Brady has since been relocated to Maximum Security Ashworth Hospital, where he remains to this day, periodically going on hunger strikes.

21. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono



Between late 1977 and early 1978, cousins ​​Kenneth and Angelo held all of California at bay by kidnapping, raping and murdering 10 girls aged 12 to 28. Each of their victims ended their lives in the mountains above Los Angeles, where they strangled them.

Bianchi tried to declare his innocence, citing insanity, but it was later found that the documents confirming his mental illness were fake. He pleaded guilty and began to testify against Buono.

Both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Buono died of a heart attack in his cell in 2002.

20. Dennis Rader



Dennis Rader killed 10 people in Sedgwick County, Kansas between 1974 and 1991. Obsessed with popularity, Raider sent tantalizing letters to the police, signing "SPU", which stands for "Bondage, torture, murder."

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The raider stalked his victims before invading their homes, tying them up and torturing them. Disappearing in 1988, Rader reappeared in 2005, sending a floppy disk to the media that helped expose him. He was arrested and charged with murders, to which he immediately confessed.

He is serving 10 life sentences with the earliest possible release date on February 26, 2180.

19. Donald Henry Gaskins



In 1969, Gaskins begins killing the hitchhikers he picked up while driving around the southern United States, torturing and maiming his victims. He claimed to have killed 80 to 90 people.

He was arrested in 1975 when a well-known crime boss confessed to the police that he had witnessed the murder of two young men by Gaskinson. He was found guilty of murdering 8 people and sentenced to death, however, the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment without parole.

Remarkably, Gaskins continued to commit murders while in a maximum security prison, killing a cellmate. He is the only person to have killed a cellmate on death row.

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18. Peter Manuel



An American-born Scottish serial killer is known to have killed 9 people in Southern Scotland between 1956-1958. Suspected of killing 18 people.

The police could not prove his guilt until it was confirmed that some of the bills with which Manuel paid for drinks in Glasgow pubs belonged to one of his victims.

He confessed to the crime in front of his mother while at the police station where he was detained. In July 1958, Manuel was hanged for his crimes at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison. He was one of the last prisoners in Scotland to be hanged before the death penalty was abolished.

17.John George Haigh



This man was a 1940s British serial killer. He was confessed to the murder of 6 people, although he claimed to have killed 9. John was a professional swindler, met rich people and made them believe that he was a successful businessman.

He lured his victims to an abandoned warehouse, where he shot them. After that, he dissolved their bodies in sulfuric acid, then forged documents in order to get his hands on all their property and savings.

He was calculated from human remains, and the police were able to collect enough evidence to convict Haig. In 1949 he was sentenced to death and hanged at Wandsworth Prison.

16. Fred & Rose West



Between 1967 and 1987, Fred West and his wife Rose tortured, raped and murdered at least 10 young women and girls, most at their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, which was later called the home of horror.

The couple were finally detained and charged with murder in 1994 after police received a search warrant. They found human bones buried in the garden and hidden under the floorboards.

Arrested in the courtroom, Fred hanged himself in his jail cell even before he was convicted. In 1995, Rose was jailed for life after being convicted of 10 murders.

Their house on Cromwell Street was demolished in 1996 to discourage souvenir hunters.

15. Arthur Shawcross



Known as the Genesee River Killer, Shawcross committed his first murder in 1972 by raping and brutally murdering a 10-year-old boy he lured into a woodland in Watertown, New York.

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He then raped and killed an 8-year-old girl, for which he was captured and charged with manslaughter. After serving 14 years in prison, in 1988 he was released and brutally persecutes 12 prostitutes between the ages of 22 and 59.

In the end, he was caught at the scene of the latest crime. He confessed to all 12 murders and was sentenced to 250 years in prison, but died in prison of a heart attack in 2008.

14. Peter Sutcliffe



Peter William Sutcliffe is a British serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper. In 1981, Sutcliffe was convicted of the murder of 13 women and attempted murder of 7 others.

He killed prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford, creating an atmosphere of fear throughout northern England. During his arrest in 1981 for driving a car with fake license plates, the police began questioning him about these killings, and he confessed.

At the trial, he pleaded not guilty to murder due to insanity, but the reason for self-defense was also rejected by the jury. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and remains in Broadmoor Maximum Security Mental Hospital to this day.

13. Richard Ramirez



Ricardo Ramirez Leyva Muñoz was an American serial killer who worshiped Satan and terrorized Los Angeles from 1984-1985. Nicknamed "Night Stalker", Ramirez broke into the homes of his victims, shot, beat, maimed, raped and killed.

He did not select his victims for any special parameters, they ranged from a 9-year-old girl to an elderly couple in their 60s. Ramirez was distinguished by painting pentagrams on the walls in the houses of his victims.

He was captured in 1985 and sentenced to life imprisonment. For 23 years he was on death row in a California prison, and in June 2013 Ramirez died.

12. Jeffrey Dahmer



Known as "Milwaukee Canibal," Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer who raped, murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He was also a necrophiliac and ate his last victims, preparing them for food in the backyard of his house.

Damer was caught after his potential victims were able to overcome him and turned to the police. In 1992, Dahmer was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to 15 life sentences.

However, just two years after being in a Colombian prison, he was beaten to death by a cellmate.

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11. Dennis Nilsen



Jeffrey Dahmer's British equivalent, Dennis Nielsen was a gay murderer who massacred 15 gay men at his London home between 1978 and 1983.

He kept the bodies of his victims for some time, then the decomposing remains were burned or flushed down the toilet. This helped to catch him when human flesh was found in his sewers.

Nielsen was convicted in 1983 on six counts of murder and two attempted murders. The verdict is life imprisonment. He is to this day serving his sentence in Yorkshire, England, with no chance of an early release.

10. Ted Bundy



This is one of the most famous assassins of the 20th century. He abducted, raped and killed young women and girls in the 1970s. Bundy usually approached his victims in public places, took them to secluded corners, raped and killed them.

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He decapitated at least 12 victims and he kept the severed heads in his apartment as trophies. He was repeatedly detained by the police, but he managed to escape twice. He was charged with numerous murders and sentenced to death. Bundy was electrocuted in 1989.

9. Charles Ng and Leonard Lake



Chinese-American serial killer Charles Ng is believed to have raped, tortured and killed 11-25 people along with his accomplice Leonard Lake at the latter's ranch in Calaveras County, California.

They filmed how they raped and tortured their victims. Their crimes went public in 1985 after Lake committed suicide, when he found out that Ng had been caught stealing from a hardware store.

Police searched Lake's ranch and found human remains. Ng was identified as Lake's accomplice in the crimes, but he tried to evade charges by fleeing to Canada. After a lengthy extradition to the United States, he stood trial in 1998 and was found guilty of 12 murders.

Ng is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

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8. John Wayne Gacy



Gacy raped and murdered 33 teenagers and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. He lured the victim to his home, promising money or work, then strangled with a tourniquet. He buried 26 people in his yard, the bodies of the next killed he disposed of, dumping them into the river Des Plains.

Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death. He spent 14 years on death row before being lethal injection on May 10, 1994.

7.Andrey Chikatilo



Andrei Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed "the Rostov butcher." Between 1978 and 1990, he raped and killed at least 52 people, including women and children.

Suspecting Chikatilo in the murders, the police followed him, the results of which provided sufficient grounds for his arrest. He confessed to a total of 56 murders, and in April 1992 was convicted of 53 of them.

The relatives of the victims demanded his release from custody for lynching. Chikatilo was sentenced to death and shot in February 1994.

6. Tommy Lynn Sells



Claiming to have killed at least 70 people, Tommy Lynn Sals was considered one of the most dangerous criminals in the United States. He was found guilty of several brutal murders between 1985 and 1999. Among his victims was also a 13-year-old girl, whom he stabbed 16 times.

They managed to capture him after The 10-year-old victim of the maniac, whom he left for dead, was able to scramble out and warn the neighbors. She described the perpetrator in detail, which ultimately contributed to his arrest.

Sals is sentenced to death. To this day, he is on death row at the maximum security prison in Livingston, Texas.

5. Gary Ridgway



One of the most prolific serial killers, Gary Ridgway was arrested in 2001 for four murders, although he confessed to at least 70 murders of women in Washington state in the 1980s and 1990s.

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He escaped the death penalty by informing the police in detail about the killings and leading the authorities to the burial sites. He threw five women into the Green River, for which he was nicknamed in the press "the murderer of the Green River." He was found guilty of 49 murders and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

4. Pedro Rodrigues Filho



Filho is a Brazilian serial killer arrested in 1973, convicted in 2003 of murdering at least 71 people. Sentenced to 128 years in prison.

He committed his first murder at the age of 14. He went against the local drug dealers who killed his girlfriend while he was in prison for a series of thefts. At the age of 18, he already had 10 murders on his account.

While in prison, he killed his father, who was also serving time for murder. While in jail he killed 47 prisoners. Originally sentenced to 30 years in prison, Pedro extended his sentence with his own hands, as his sentence was increased to 400 years in prison against the background of constant murders.

3. Daniel Camargo Barbosa



The man was a Colombian serial killer believed to have raped and murdered over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador in the 1970s and 1980s. He is calm confessed to killing 71 girls in Ecuador after escaping from Columbia prison.

He took the police to the place where he collected the bodies of the victims. After raping the girls, he killed them with a machete. Barbosa was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to 16 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Ecuador. In November 1994, he was killed in prison by a cousin of one of the girls who died.



Harold Shipman was an English physician as well as the most prolific serial killer in human history and has been proven to be 250 kills.

As a professional, he was respected in his community, however, colleagues and local residents began to express concerns about the high mortality rate in the area, as well as the large number of signed forms for cremation of older women.

Some of the bodies were later exhumed and examination of the corpses revealed the presence of diamorphine. Later it was established that Shipman deliberately administered lethal doses of the drug to a huge number of patients.

Then he forged documents by will, thereby inheriting large sums of money. He also falsified cremation documents to completely cover his tracks. The judge sentenced him to 15 life sentences without parole.

In January 2004, Shipman hanged himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison.

1. Pedro Alonso Lopez



Lopez is a Colombian serial killer accused of raping and killing over 300 girls in South America. He was believed to have hunted young and vulnerable teenage girls in Peru. He lured them into secluded places, raped them, and then killed them, most often through suffocation.

Lopez was arrested when another attempt to kidnap the girl failed and was caught by market workers. He confessed to killing over 300 people.

The police believed him only when, after a flash flood, they discovered the mass grave of many of his victims. In the end, 53 bodies were found. Imprisoned in 1980, he spent only 18 years in prison, then was released from an Ecuadorian prison and deported to Colombia, where he was arrested again in 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Women are maniacs and serial killers - it would seem that this is impossible, and also women are maniacs and serial killers in the USSR - this is doubly impossible. After all, the USSR was famous for its developed system of education and upbringing, where maniacs, murderers or criminals could have come from, but they were. Little was known about them then, because the information bans were so serious that they could not print it in the newspaper Trud or Komsomolskaya Pravda.

However, thanks to or despite rumors, as well as rare information directly from law enforcement agencies, as well as recently declassified archival materials, it can be understood that maniacs and even women were maniacs in the USSR.

Women are maniacs in the history of the USSR

In the history of forensic science, women are a relatively rare phenomenon, women became victims of maniacs more often, but there were exceptions.

If there are several hundred maniacs all over the world, then there are only no more than 50 known female murderers.

And already in the USSR, it is not necessary to talk about women maniacs in the plural at all, with the exception of one family. Yes, we are talking about the notorious family of poisoners of the Oily-Ivanyutins. This is the same school worker, as well as her mother and sister, who during their horrific activities killed at least 9 people and about the same number wanted to kill more, but these people miraculously survived. Among the victims of the maniac family, which also included the head of the family, were defenseless children, husbands and even neighbors. In most cases, the poisoning was caused by revenge or self-interest. So the woman maniac murderer Tamar Maslenko killed her first husband because of the apartment, while she poisoned the schoolchildren in the cafeteria because they "behaved badly"!

Women maniacs in the history of the USSR, list

If we take into account not only the period of the USSR, but also the pre-revolutionary history of Russia, then there were only 5 such women.

"Saltychikha" aka Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova.

"" She is Antonina Makarova-Ginzburg.

"Poisoner" Tamara Ivanyutina, her sister Nina Matsibor, her mother Maria Maslenko. It is Tamara Ivanyutina who is the most famous woman maniac killer in the USSR, it is not for nothing that the materials of the investigation in her case were included in the textbooks on criminology.

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Of course, there were also women maniacs in modern Russia, but they committed their crimes a little later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, namely, women are maniacs of the Soviet Union - this is primarily the Maslenko family.

It is difficult to say whether women were still maniacs of the Soviet era, because suspicion falls less on women, while criminologists believe that women are more sophisticated in disguising their criminal activities, but if she picks up the murder weapon, then she does it with special sophistication.

By the way, this topic became popular after the recent case of a woman from St. Petersburg, pensioner Tamara Samsonova, who killed her ward whom she was caring for.

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However, if we start from the information in the diary found in her apartment, then we can assume that she is guilty of more than a dozen more deaths, including her alleged missing husband.

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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 gruesome murders and each of them became a serial killer. Read on about the maniacs, their murders and their fate .. Not for the faint of heart! We tried to write about little-known maniacs and serial killers, so we did not specifically include Chikatilo and the Bitsa maniac in this list.

Valery Hasratyan

Valery Hasratyan, also known as "The Director", was the worst nightmare of aspiring actresses. From 1988 to 1990, the Moscow maniac presented himself as an influential director (hence the nickname), luring unsuspecting girls to him with empty promises of wealth and fame.

Hasratyan's main goal was sex crimes, ultimately, he embarked on the path of a serial killer, in an attempt to cover up 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 offender used different methods of murder each time, so the police did not suspect that the killings were the work of one person.

Hasratyan was very smart and had experience in psychology. His favorite method of luring the victim to his home was to present himself as a director (complete with fake documents), after the victim got into the den, he beat the victim until he lost consciousness, and then drugged and kept it at home as a sex toy. for days. The few surviving prisoners, after their release, testified against the maniac.

Some victims were able to point out 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 wander the streets in search of victims.

Between 2009 and 2012, "Rambo" lured at least nine unfortunate victims to desert areas, where he attacked, killing them, and then dismembered the bodies and hid them. Each of these attacks were carefully recorded in a journal, which he called "the bloody hunt of the 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 the desire to impress his girlfriend, for which he tried to behave 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 had ever seen. The police did their best to investigate the abductions, but no serious evidence was found.

In 1985, the culprit was finally caught. Anatoly Slivko was the leader of the local tourist club "Chergid", he successfully used his position to gain the confidence 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 heat of burning gasoline. He experienced sexual arousal, and this picture haunted him throughout 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, which he saw once a terrible incident. But soon it became not enough for him just to look at these scenes. Ultimately, Slivko began killing children, dismembering and burning the remains.

He used a frightening method to persuade the boys to participate in gruesome scenes. He told the boys that they could be the main characters in a movie about how the Nazis abused children, which was a popular topic at the time. The maniac dressed boys in pioneer uniforms, stretched them on ropes, hung them on a tree, watched torment and convulsions, and then carried out resuscitation measures. 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 behavior remained oddly benevolent. He was very helpful and courteous to the authorities until the very end. When the police were on the hunt for another serial killer, he even gave interviews to investigators, in the style of Hannibal Lecter, a few hours before his execution.

Sergey Golovkin

Sergei Golovkin was a quiet outsider who practically did not communicate with other people. Although he was rather withdrawn and shy, he could make people nervous with just one look. No one could have guessed that the guy would become a serial killer. He was a serial killer known as "Boa constrictor" or "Fisher".

During his school years he suffered from enuresis. I was afraid that others could smell his urine. When masturbating, he often fantasized about torturing and killing classmates. At thirteen, sadistic tendencies first appeared. Golovkin caught a cat on the street and brought it home, where he hung and severed his head, which caused a release, the tension in which he constantly stayed subsided. I also roasted aquarium fish on the stove.

Between 1986 and 1992, Golovkin killed and raped 11 people. He was known for first strangling his victims and then dismembering bodies in a hideous manner, like in horror films. He cut his victims, cut off the genitals, head, cut the abdominal cavity, removed the internal organs. He took "keepsakes" from the remains of his victims. He even experimented with cannibalism, but it turned out that he didn't like the taste of human flesh.

One of the 4 boys, whom Golovkin proposed 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.

Surveillance was organized for Golovkin. He was arrested on October 19, 1992. 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 killed, and so on.

Golovkin confessed to 11 episodes and showed the investigators in detail the places of the murders and burials. During the investigation, he behaved calmly, spoke monotonously about the murders, 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 terrifying. A ruthless killer, he specialized in stalking his elderly patients. He came to retirees' 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 valuable things 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 theft. He hit the woman with a screwdriver and strangled the patient. After this episode, the principle of Petrov's work changed. He injected the victims with a variety of deadly drugs to prevent the police from thinking that the culprit was a medic. Petrov set fire to the houses of his victims to hide the traces of the crime. The stolen things were later found in his apartment, and he had already managed to sell some of them on the market.

More than 50 people died at the hands of Petrov. One survivor recalls how they woke up in their burning house, while others, after waking up, were in an apartment filled with gas. Petrov killed the witnesses mercilessly.

In the end, he put on a constant stream of lethal injection murders and apartment fires, but he was too greedy. Investigators soon noticed a logical connection between the illnesses of those killed and the crimes committed and drew up a list of 72 potential future victims. They soon arrested Petrov when he was "visiting" one of his patients in 2002. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison.

Sergey Martynov

For some people, a prison is a correctional institution. For others, it is simply 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 has already served 14 years in prison for murder and rape since his release in 2005. The same thirst for blood was seething 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, in whose murders he used terrible methods.

Martynov's bloody journey ended after he was finally caught in 2010. He was charged with at least eight murders and multiple rapes in 2012. Serves a life sentence.

"Hammers from Irkutsk" - Academovsky maniacs

Morally unstable killers are one of the most dangerous types of criminals. They are as unpredictable as they are brutal and very difficult to immediately recognize as serial killers.

Nikita Lytkin and Artem Anufriev were two young men who decided to try themselves in neo-Nazism, or rather they were skinheads. Dressed in all black, they were active members of various fascist communities. 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 notoriously famous as "Academovsky maniacs". Between December 2010 and April 2011, they killed six to eight people. Fortunately, these two were rather poor at hiding the traces of the murder, so their streak of murders did not last long.

On October 16, 2012, Anufriev, right in court, 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 could not 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 first appeared in court 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 convoy 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 he had served before sentencing was taken into account). will spend in prison, and the rest - in a strict regime colony.

Vladimir Mukhankin - killer from Rostov-on-Don

In 1995, Mukhankin begins to kill and committed 8 murders in 2 months. He dismembered corpses and manipulates 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, and the girl survived and later identified her attacker.

During interrogations, the maniac behaved defiantly, did not repent of what he had done, called himself a student of Chikatilo, although he also said that "compared to 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 in his actions.

At the trial, Mukhankin, realizing that he was facing capital punishment, retracted all his testimonies. The court found him guilty of 22 crimes, including 8 murders, of which three are minors. Vladimir Mukhankin was sentenced to death with confiscation of property. Subsequently, the shooting was replaced by life imprisonment. Currently held 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 Gaidamachuk fully deserves this nickname. For seven years, she visited senior citizens of the Sverdlovsk region as a social security worker. After entering the victim's apartment, she killed elderly citizens by smashing their heads with a hammer or ax. After that, she stole money and valuables and hid from the scene, as if nothing had happened.

The scariest thing about Gaidamachuk is that she has never been an antisocial single, she was married and is a mother of two. She liked to drink too much and did not 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 over and over and over.

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 dependent on alcohol. My husband Yuri would not give me money for vodka."

Gaidamachuk was detained only at the end of 2010. Gaidamachuk was charged with 17 murders and 18 robberies (one of the victims survived after Irina's attack). She was recognized as 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 (as well as 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 met a client who wanted to buy this or that product, often horses, brought them to his house, gave them vodka, then killed them with hammer blows, sometimes strangled them, 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 murders, although he himself later confessed to 33 murders. The bodies were found in the Moskva 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 strangled and clubbed people to death and threw 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 in the horse market, they quickly put him on the list of suspects. Although he appeared to be a kind, innocent family man, it soon became clear that he was in fact a cruel and rude person who 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 found only after his capture. Komarov talked 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 the burial places, the angry crowds of people hardly pushed aside Komarov.

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

The court sentenced Vasily Komarov and his wife Sophia 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. He 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 has felt the connection between violence and sexual arousal. As a teenager, he had many girlfriends who developed an unhealthy appetite for sex. His mental health was always very shaky, but when the girl he loved moved to another city, his mental health deteriorated dramatically ..

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

During another attack, on January 17, 1986, he was beaten and taken to the police by bystanders. Kulik soon confessed everything, but at the trial he retracted all the testimony, saying that he was forced to confess everything by the 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 of the sentence, Kulik was interviewed. Here is an excerpt from it:

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

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

Everyone knows that there was no sex, religion and democracy in the Soviet Union, 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 collection 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"

The maniac Biryukov seemed like an exemplary family man and a respectable citizen: no one suspected that a decent husband and father lead 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 over him. However, the maniac was frightened off by onlookers, 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 persecute him. Fortunately for the investigation, they were able to examine the rapist and draw up a composite sketch.

After the arrest, investigators and psychiatrists came to the conclusion that Biryukov suffered from a severe form of nonpiophilia - a passion for babies. In his defense, the criminal said that he committed his atrocities because his wife refused to maintain an intimate relationship with him. In 1979, Biryukov, who killed a total of five babies, was shot.

2. Alexey Sukletin - "Alligator"

On account of Sukletin seven girls and women, whom he killed and ate with his accomplices Shakirova and Nikitin. The first victim was a woman named Ekaterina Osetrova in 1981. Sukletin insisted that his mistress Shakirova help him kill, butcher and cook the dead. Madina Shakirova, who was in love and tamed, was ready to do anything for her lover, so she agreed to take on the duties of a cook.

The idyll of the cannibals did not last long - after the murder of the little girl, Sukletin and Shakirova parted. The maniac did not grieve for long and immediately found a replacement - his relative Anatoly Nikitin often visited him, with whom they eventually killed and dismembered a new victim.

In the village, rumors began to circulate that Sukletin was selling quality meat and tenderloin, and in the meantime the gang began to engage in extortion, which was what was caught. In the garden of Sukletin, 4 bags of human bones were found. The maniac was shot in 1994, and Shakirova 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 Onopriyenko was taken into custody, he had about 52 killed. 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 Sergei Rogozin. The "Deadly Duo" killed couples and even companies of young people, and they also broke into houses and shot all family members, including children. Often, Onoprienko shot bystanders.

The motives behind the crimes of citizen O still remain 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 was detained, who died during torture. After the trial, Anatoly Onopriyenko was sentenced to death, but the sentence was never carried out due to the abolition of the death penalty in Ukraine.

4. Sergei Golovkin - Fischer

Sergei was considered a young attractive man, but despite the fact that girls always curled around, he did not show interest in them. Fischer was more interested in teenage boys.

The first attempt at 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 violence, Golovkin dragged the boy into the forest, raped, strangled and abused his body. Then the killings continued and caused a public outcry, which is why Fischer decided to go underground for a while.

In 1989, Golovkin "rushed into business", but changed his handwriting somewhat. He built a basement in his garage where he tortured, raped and killed boys. Due to the fact that the killer became careless and carelessly buried the last bodies, he was quickly tracked down and found. In 1992, Fischer was finally detained. He was sentenced to death, the sentence was carried out 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 to see her mother. Taking advantage of the moment, Utkin raped and killed the poor thing, leaving himself several of her personal belongings "as a keepsake."

Both young girls and middle-aged women were victims of the roaming maniac. After the disappearances of the girls and the finds of corpses, the public got excited: a serial killer appeared in calm Ulyanovsk! Over time, Utkin began to be more careful in choosing 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 suspect's house, the police had no doubts about his guilt. In 1975, Utkin was shot; a total of nine murders of his "authorship" were established.

Oddly enough, his family and friends spoke of Anatoly Utkin extremely favorably. He was married twice and had two children.

6. Sergey Tkach - "Pavlograd maniac"

Tkach has operated since 1980, and his motives for crimes have always been sexual. 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 or tissue on the bodies, however, he did not give up 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 then 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 abandoned his mother even before his son was born), as a result of which he endured constant bullying and a bad attitude at home. Fierce to 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 real passion of the maniac was human organs, with which he often went to bed.

After the capture, the criminal behaved indecently and declared that he was the second Chikatilo. Mukhankin was happy to describe his crimes in detail, but at the trial he retracted all his testimonies. He was found guilty of 22 crimes, eight of which were murder. Now Mukhankin is serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin colony.

8. Vladimir Ionesyan - Mosgaz

During the Khrushchev thaw, it was difficult to imagine that an intruder would enter your apartment, posing as an employee, for example, of Mosgaz or ZhEK, which gave the criminal the opportunity to use this simple method. The authorities were enraged, all forces were thrown into the capture of the maniac.

Due to the quick investigation and quick reprisals 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.

The first murder was committed by Mosgaz in 1963: after entering the apartment, he hacked to death a 12-year-old boy who was alone at home with an ax and took several things. The last murder of a 46-year-old woman took place in 1964, in 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 the Churilovs' brother and sister. First, he got rid of the boy, and then raped and killed the girl. He buried the corpses 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 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 weapon. 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 cared for. Due to constant illnesses, almost everything was forgiven him, so Vasily grew up quite selfish and cruel, in adolescence he poisoned and hung cats.

With age, Kulik got stronger and began to play sports. After being attacked and hit on the head in 1980, he began to develop 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 disdain the murders of pensioners: by his own admission, he made a list of old women of interest to him.

Panic began in Irkutsk, and the killer tried to be more careful, nevertheless, 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.