Maniac Clifford Olson always dreamed of writing a scientific work on the problems of crime, and he sure did it, though not in the way he originally expected.
“...The current level of development of criminology seems to us to correspond to the outdated realities of the early twentieth century. In particular, expert judgments that sexual maniacs give preference to victims of one gender have long been in need of revision, as not corresponding to the truth. Perhaps events in the near future will force criminologists to reconsider their views on the psychology of sex offenders.
Maniac wrote a bestseller
Having made this entry in his diary, a frail man in a prison uniform called a guard and asked to be escorted to the cell of Gary Marko, who was imprisoned for corruption of a minor. Seeing him accompanied by the warden, Gary rose from his bunk: “Sit down, brother, now I’ll tell you how it happened with the girl”...
By the age of 40, Olson, a petty swindler, thief and robber, had spent most of his life behind bars, becoming “insider” both for prisoners and for guards at the Central Prison in Vancouver, Canada. Having landed here again in 1978 for 5 years for the armed robbery of a pensioner, Cliff promised himself to spend this time usefully for society and, if possible, be released early. The “benefit for society” was that Olson, an inconspicuous person who always felt reverence for the elite of the criminal world, began to write a doctoral dissertation right in his cell, debunking the misconceptions of contemporary criminology. The prison authorities favorably watched the criminal’s scientific efforts and even allowed the “future doctor” to interview the murderers and maniacs sitting next to him. This unexpected collaboration brought an even more unexpected result: the maniac Gary Marco, a pedophile convicted of mere indecent assault on a 13-year-old girl, gained confidence in his interviewer and secretly promised to tell him about his true exploits - the rape and murder of four children, which the police had never suspected before. Olson felt he had struck a gold mine. He immediately negotiated early release from the police and $100,000 for help in solving the crimes committed by the bloody maniac. Clifford, with tacit permission, almost moved into the cell of a new friend and spent hours asking him about all the details of the atrocities committed. Having heard plenty of how Marco raped and dismembered children, Olson, finishing his dissertation, made a trump card by inviting Gary to become a co-author of the scientific work. Flattered, Marco made a fatal mistake: he wrote a chapter with his own hand in which he spoke in detail about the children he killed, and also indicated the places of their burials. All!
The game was played! Olson, as they say, passionately delivered the written chapter, essentially a confession, to the warden and 12 days later he was released with the $100,000 he had earned in his pocket. Gary, of course, got his sentence revised - only 9 months in prison, and became a lifelong inmate of Vancouver Prison - the death penalty was abolished in Canada in 1976. Saying goodbye to his boss, the future maniac Olson inquired about the fate of his scientific “monograph” and heard in response something like the following: “Go to God, you snitch. It’s not for you, a small pawn, to lecture the detectives. You got money and freedom - and be happy.”
To freedom with a “clear conscience”
After struggling, being free for a couple of months, and receiving a refusal from several institutions to publish his “revolutionary” work, Olson vowed to become the most “atypical maniac” in Canadian history. For this, the criminal had every opportunity: the money received for betraying Gary Marco allowed Olson not to work and have as much free time as he wanted, and thanks to Marco’s stories, he knew thoroughly how to make initial contact with children and how to subsequently hide them corpses.
It was the spring of 1981, and Cliff, remembering the lessons of his teacher, found the best reason to contact the victims. Knowing that during the holiday season many schoolchildren like to earn extra money, the future maniac Olson pretended to be a respectable employer: he bought a good car, a decent suit and ordered business cards, with which he introduced himself as an “entrepreneur in the field of construction.” What happened next was a matter of technique. Having noticed a lonely child in the city, Cliff would roll up to him, hand him a business card with a fictitious name and offer him a job that wasn’t dusty: for girls, washing windows in an office for $10 an hour, for boys, for the same money, recycling sawdust.
For that kind of money - Olson inflated the prices at least three times, the children were ready to get to work immediately, and without fear they sat in the car of a generous businessman! The road to the Fraser River, where the ill-fated office was supposedly located, was going to be long, the interior of the car was stuffy, and therefore the guys gratefully accepted Cliff’s offer to refresh themselves with a drink. This drink contained clonidine in lethal doses, so that the children arrived at the Fraser River already in an unconscious state. And here the worst thing began. The victims came to their senses, naturally, not in the office, but in a deep forest, after the maniac had undressed them and tied them hand and foot. Each time the criminal raped the victim not only for pleasure, but also with the aim of debunking modern criminology. What modern scientists write there is that every maniac prefers a certain method of rape and torture, but this is not so. Now we will prove the opposite: 13-year-old Colleen Marian Daigneault – anal rape and burning of the genitals, 16-year-old Judy Kozma – vaginal rape and insertion, insertion of foreign objects into the genitals. 12-year-old Christine Weller - all types of rape followed by cutting off her breasts. You say that a maniac loves victims of a certain gender, this is also not true. Here are the rapes and murders of boys - 11-year-old Simon Partington, 13-year-old Darren Johnsrude, 14-year-old Raymond King.
Hey, police, are you sure that an atypical maniac always kills in a characteristic way, this is also a myth. Well, get the corpses of 14-year-old Ada Court - strangulation of the victim with a bra, 16-year-old Terry Lyn Carson - murder by inserting a metal pin into the genitals and the same Ray King - crushing the skull with a cobblestone. Well, as police officers, you still believe in science, here's your answer. You still don't regret breaking up with Olson after giving him money but never reading his dissertation!
Scientist "Homicidal Maniac"
During the spring and summer of 1981, Cliff Olson churned out 10 corpses and, frankly, would have churned them out further if the “scientist-maniac” had not finally gotten tired of the inactivity of the police. There is a lot of fiction surrounding the special operations to arrest the criminal and the secret measures to detain Olson, even in specialized literature. Because telling the truth is difficult. But the truth is that the maniac Olson, reading reports in newspapers about his own crimes, became increasingly enraged. The maniac was outraged that the police safely classified many of his victims as “those who ran away from home” and ended the investigation there. Olson was angry when he learned that in his case the police were tracking down as many as three elusive criminals, each of whom was prone to a certain way of abusing children. Clifford was offended when his crimes were attributed to arrested tramps and hooligans. The maniac was caught by accident on August 12, 1981, while trying to kidnap two girls. As a result, realizing that his “acts” would apparently remain unappreciated, and the dispute with official criminologists over the psychology of maniacs would not go beyond the limits of absenteeism, Olson decided to confess to all the crimes he had committed to law enforcement agencies.
In the fall of 1982, the maniac managed to do something that none of his colleagues could do, either before or after. Cliff Olson successfully blackmailed the police and demanded from the state $100,000 for his own confessions and for showing the burial sites of the victims. Additionally, the scoundrel maniac demanded “a revision of official views on the psychology of maniacs.” All of Olson's demands were met after the criminal threatened otherwise to give an interview to the press and talk about the helplessness of the police. In December 1982, Olson’s money was placed in a special savings account in one of the banks, and the professor himself was sentenced to life imprisonment for “pedophilia” in his native Vancouver prison!
In conclusion of the story about this truly unusual maniac, we note that many of Olson’s ideas about “atypical maniacs” were adopted by criminology already in the mid-80s. Well, Olson’s account from which he periodically transfers money in favor of his fellow prisoners, as of January 2005, amounted to 464,376 dollars and 12 cents. On September 30, 2011, Clifford Olson died of cancer in the Laval prison in Quebec.
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label ,Why do people kill each other? The reasons can be explainable from the point of view of natural selection or cruel necessity - when it comes to the struggle for resources or self-defense (ultimately, both are about survival). Another thing is that millennia of development of civilization have led humanity to the conclusion that killing is bad, immoral and destructive.
Why does the program sometimes break down and a person begins to kill for the sake of killing? Where do cruel people obsessed with death come from? Let's try to tell you about the ten most brutal maniacs in history.
John Wayne Gacy
This man is known as the “killer clown” (it was his story that prompted Stephen King to create one of the most terrible horror films - “It”). His life was, so to speak, quite typical for a maniac - Gacy experienced rape as a child, his father was an alcoholic who abused his family.John Wayne Gacy first went to jail at age 26 for raping a teenage boy. Instead of 10 years, he served a year and a half: he was released for good behavior. The failure of the penitentiary system has cost America dearly. Once free, Gacy bought a Pogo the clown costume and began working part-time at city festivals in the suburbs of Chicago.
From 1972 to 1978, he raped and murdered more than 30 people. These were young guys whom Gacy brought to his home, tortured and killed. He was detained in 1978. The remains of 29 victims were found in the basement of his house. The jury sentenced John Wayne Gacy to 12 death sentences, the only one of which was carried out on May 10, 1994.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Cannibal and murderer Jeffrey Dahmer was also sexually abused and bullied as a child. However, for the time being he was an ordinary teenager - until he developed a strange habit of collecting animal corpses, which he placed in jars of formaldehyde. 
Dahmer killed for the first time at the age of 18 - his victim was a young man, a casual acquaintance. The killer stunned him with dumbbells, strangled him, and then cut his body into pieces and buried them under the house. Life after that went on as usual, as if nothing had happened. Damer got married, studied, was expelled for drunkenness, served in the army, worked...
In 1987, he killed again and could no longer stop. Over four years, he raped and killed 17 people. One day he brought home another victim, but a young man named Tracy Edwards managed to get out and call the police. Later, during a search of Dahmer's house, photographs of corpses, the bodies themselves, and body parts with which the refrigerator was stuffed were discovered. There was a skeleton in the closet, and three male torsos in the barrel of acid.
Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to fifteen life sentences, but lived in prison for only three years - in 1994 he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate.
Ted Bundy
Theodore Bundy showed great promise - he was smart and talented, an excellent student and was in good standing with his professors. It is unknown what went wrong. But in 1974, in the middle of the academic year at the university, Bundy began to skip classes and was soon expelled. Around the same time, women began disappearing without a trace on the West Coast. 
The exact number of Ted Bundy's victims is unknown. During the investigation, he confessed to 30 murders of women, but there could be more. Bundy met young girls, smiled charmingly and asked for help - he often used the fake cast trick to make it look like he couldn't handle it on his own. The girl willingly helped him, for example, carry his suitcase to the car, got into it to continue the acquaintance - and after that she was already doomed.
Bundy was arrested in 1975 after attempting to kidnap Carol DaRonch. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Bundy managed to escape that time. He was unable to lead a normal life for long and in January 1978 - two weeks after the escape - he broke into a women's dormitory and there, in 20 minutes, killed two women and severely maimed another.
Ted Bundy was arrested almost by accident, but the police quickly realized that they were facing the most terrible person in America. He was charged with the murders - the court sentenced Bundy to death. Over the next few years, he told the FBI more and more details about the brutal crimes he committed, hoping that the execution would be postponed for a while longer. He was eventually executed in 1989 by electric chair.
Gary Ridgway
It is noteworthy that Ted Bundy, having already been sentenced to death, in a conversation with an FBI agent, drew up a fairly clear psychological portrait of the alleged maniac who operated in the early 80s in the United States. The editors of the site note that according to this description it was possible to catch Ridgway even then, but Bundy did not listen, and Ridgway was free for another 17 years. 
Gary Ridgway, nicknamed the “Green River Killer,” killed at least 70 women over two decades and is considered one of the bloodiest and most brutal maniacs in the world. He was arrested after one of the victims managed to break free and run. Ridgway began confessing to the murders and the number of his victims grew from 42 (who were known to the police) to 71. In 2003, he was sentenced to 48 life sentences without parole.
Andrey Chikatilo
An inconspicuous engineer named Chikatilo lived in the city of Shakhty and did not attract the attention of the police for years. It never occurred to anyone that this little man could be guilty of the brutal murders of young women and children. From 1978 to 1984, 32 people disappeared or were found brutally murdered in the Rostov region.Chikatilo was arrested for the first time in 1984 - he molested young girls at a bus station in Rostov. At the same time, a completely different person was already executed for the murder of one of his victims, a certain Anatoly Kravchenko, who in 1983 incriminated himself under torture by the police.
The first arrest ended in nothing for Andrei Chikatilo - due to a mismatch of blood and sperm groups, there was no evidence against him. The maniac remained free for another six years and was arrested in 1990. On the tenth day, he began to confess and spoke about dozens of tortured victims. Chikatilo is responsible for at least 52 murders. He was shot on February 14, 1994.
Pedro Alonso Lopez - the most brutal maniac in history
This man has been “flaunting” in the Guinness Book of Records for several decades as the most cruel maniac in the world. The editors of uznayvsyo.rf sincerely hope that no one else will take this place.It is believed that this man is responsible for more than three hundred murders that were committed in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Pedro Alonso Lopez, who is called the “monster of the Andes,” lived as a child with an over-aged pervert who sheltered him - after the boy was thrown out onto the street by his own mother, a prostitute.
At the age of 18, Lopez brutally took revenge on his “benefactor” by raping and killing him and a gang of friends. For this crime, Lopez received 8 years in prison. After his release, he went to Peru and began killing and raping there. His victims were mainly teenage girls. From 1975 to 1978, according to some sources, he killed at least a hundred people.
Police in poor Latin American countries have little influence. According to rumors, Lopez was ordered to leave the country by a Peruvian crime boss. The killer left the country but continued his atrocities in neighboring Ecuador. One day, the girl he grabbed broke free and ran away, and Lopez was detained. The authorities could not believe their ears when the maniac began to paint his crimes.
Psychopath and murderer Pedro Lopez decided to prove to the police that he really killed many people. He showed the burial place of his victims - an examination showed that there were the remains of at least fifty girls and women there. Lopez was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Ecuador. According to rumors, he was either transferred to compulsory treatment or even released.
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Psychology Professor James St. James
A newspaper reporter in the small town of Georgetown, Texas, uncovered the true identity of one of its former residents and now a respected psychology professor at a university in Illinois - 61-year-old James St. James.
The head of the psychology department, Dr. St. James, who worked at the school for 30 years, turned out to be a homicidal maniac who shot his entire family on August 4, 1967, when he was only 15 years old.
A journalistic investigation revealed that the elderly man who had a brilliant scientific career was actually named Jim Wolcott.
Respected scientist killed his entire family at age 15
46 years ago, he murdered his father Gordon, 17-year-old sister Libby and his mother Elizabeth in cold blood.
When the police raided the Wolcott family's home, they managed to arrest the teenager, who immediately confessed to his crime.
During interrogations, Jim claimed that he suffered from a mental disorder, which was further aggravated by his habit of sniffing glue.
The killer told investigators that he hated his loved ones and was sure that they were deliberately trying to drive him crazy.
To support his words, the younger Wolcott cited his mother's habit of "chewing too loudly" and his sister's bad reprimand. All this, in his opinion, was part of their plan to “destroy” him.
The teenager's victims were his mother, father and sister.
Jim also admitted to his classmates that he was incredibly angry that his father was forbidding him to let his hair grow and take part in the pacifist parade. Also, according to him, Gordon Wolcott forbade him to wear buttons with symbols against the Vietnam War.
The trial of the accused mass murderer lasted six months. Forensic doctors diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia. And as a result, Jim was found not guilty due to his insanity and was sentenced to treatment in a psychiatric clinic.
After six years in a mental institution, Wolcott's case was reviewed. The new jury found him sane and released him.
Jim shot his loved ones with a .22 caliber shotgun
Jim Wolcott, who changed his name to James St. James, received his Ph.D. in 1988 and later began teaching at Millikin University.
We only recently learned about Dr. St. James' past. We think that because of what he went through as a teenager, his efforts to live a normal life are incredible. We expect that he will continue to teach at our university,” said representatives of the educational institution.
Numerous students who had been taught by St. James over the years also came to his defense.
I was shocked to learn about this. But he's a really good person. I have only wonderful memories of him. “I feel very sorry for him, because now his whole life has been turned upside down,” said former college student Lana Hinshaw Klan.
St James' teacher's students don't want him to leave university
However, Gerry Dawson, a member of the city council of the city of Daker, where Millikin University is located, spoke out categorically against the idea of a person with such a background being engaged in teaching.
He should have immediately informed the university management. I look at this from the point of view of a representative of the authorities; such information cannot be hidden. Besides, if I were a parent of students, I would be very concerned about the fact that they are being taught by a convicted murderer,” Dawson said.
St. James himself refuses to give any comments about his exposure. He plans to continue to engage in scientific activities.
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A newspaper reporter in the small town of Georgetown, Texas, uncovered the true identity of one of its former residents and now a respected psychology professor at a university in Illinois - 61-year-old James St. James.
The head of the psychology department, Dr. St. James, who worked at the school for 30 years, turned out to be a homicidal maniac who shot his entire family on August 4, 1967, when he was only 15 years old.
A journalistic investigation revealed that the elderly man who had a brilliant scientific career was actually named Jim Wolcott.
46 years ago, he murdered his father Gordon, 17-year-old sister Libby and his mother Elizabeth in cold blood.
When the police raided the Wolcott family's home, they managed to arrest the teenager, who immediately confessed to his crime.
During interrogations, Jim claimed that he suffered from a mental disorder, which was further aggravated by his habit of sniffing glue.
The killer told investigators that he hated his loved ones and was sure that they were deliberately trying to drive him crazy.
To support his words, the younger Wolcott cited his mother's habit of "chewing too loudly" and his sister's bad reprimand. All this, in his opinion, was part of their plan to “destroy” him.
Jim also admitted to his classmates that he was incredibly angry that his father was forbidding him to let his hair grow and take part in the pacifist parade. Also, according to him, Gordon Wolcott forbade him to wear buttons with symbols against the Vietnam War.
The trial of the accused mass murderer lasted six months. Forensic doctors diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia. And as a result, Jim was found not guilty due to his insanity and was sentenced to treatment in a psychiatric clinic.
After six years in a mental institution, Wolcott's case was reviewed. The new jury found him sane and released him.
Jim Wolcott, who changed his name to James St. James, received his Ph.D. in 1988 and later began teaching at Millikin University.
We only recently learned about Dr. St. James' past. We believe that, given his experiences as a teenager, his efforts to live a normal life are incredible. We expect that he will continue to teach at our university,” said representatives of the educational institution.
Numerous students who had been taught by St. James over the years also came to his defense.
I was shocked to learn about this. But he's a really good person. I have only wonderful memories of him. “I feel very sorry for him, because now his whole life has been turned upside down,” said former college student Lana Hinshaw Klan.
However, Gerry Dawson, a member of the city council of the city of Daker, where Millikin University is located, spoke out categorically against the idea of a person with such a background being engaged in teaching.
He should have immediately informed the university management. I look at this from the point of view of a government official; such information cannot be hidden. Besides, if I were a parent of students, I would be very concerned about the fact that they are being taught by a convicted murderer,” Dawson said.
St. James himself refuses to give any comments about his exposure. He plans to continue to engage in scientific activities.
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There are a huge number of different people living 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 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 specifically did not include Chikatilo and the Bitsa maniac in this list.
Valery Asratyan
Valery Hasratyan, also known as "The Director", was the worst nightmare of aspiring actresses. From 1988 to 1990, the Moscow maniac posed as an influential director (hence the nickname), luring unsuspecting girls to him with empty promises of wealth and fame.
Asratyan's main goal was sexual crimes, and he eventually took the path of a serial killer in an attempt to cover his tracks. During his crime spree, he raped dozens of victims, killing at least three of them. Not wanting to attract attention to himself, the criminal used different methods of murder each time, so the police did not suspect that the murders 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 pose as a director (complete with fake documents), once the victim was in the lair, he would beat the victim until he lost consciousness, and then drug him and keep him in his home as a sex toy. for many days. A few surviving prisoners, after release, testified against the maniac.
Some victims were able to indicate the place where Hasratyan kept them. During the investigation, the police managed to find and arrest the maniac, thereby ending his reign of 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”, like the hero of the famous character Sylvester Stallone, armed with a large knife and a hammer, he began to wander the streets in search of victims.
Between 2009 and 2012, "Rambo" lured at least nine hapless victims to desert areas, where he attacked, killed them, and then dismembered the bodies and hid them. Each of these attacks was carefully 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 was ever 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 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 in fear. Little boys began to disappear from the city, whom no one ever saw again. The police did their best to investigate the abductions, but no serious evidence was discovered.
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 image 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 that he had once seen of a terrible incident. But soon it was not enough for him to simply look at these scenes. Ultimately, Slivko began killing children, dismembering and burning the remains.
He used a frightening method to coax boys into participating in gruesome scenes. He told the boys that they could become the main characters in a film about how the Nazis abused children, which was a popular topic at the time. The maniac dressed the boys in pioneer uniforms, stretched them on ropes, hung them on a tree, observed the agony 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 still told everything.
Even after he was captured and sentenced to death, Slivko's demeanor remained strangely benevolent. He was very helpful and courteous with the authorities until the very end. When police were hunting another serial killer, he even gave a Hannibal Lecter-style interview to investigators hours before his execution.
Sergei Golovkin
Sergey Golovkin was a quiet outsider who barely interacted with other people. Although he was quite reserved and shy, he could make people nervous just by looking at him. No one could have imagined that the guy would become a serial killer. He was a serial killer known as "Boa" or "Fisher".
During my school years I suffered from enuresis. He was afraid that others could smell his urine. When masturbating, he often fantasized about torturing and killing his classmates. At the age of thirteen, sadistic tendencies first appeared. Golovkin caught a cat on the street and brought it home, where he hanged it and severed its head, causing a release to occur and the tension in which he was constantly living to subside. I also fried 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 the bodies in a gruesome manner reminiscent of horror films. He cut his victims, cut off the genitals, the head, cut the abdominal cavity, and removed 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, whom Golovkin invited to take part in the robbery, refused to participate in the proposed case and later identified him. The three other boys were never seen again.
Golovkin was under surveillance. On October 19, 1992 he was detained. This was a surprise for Golovkin, but during interrogation he behaved calmly and denied guilt. At night in the isolation ward, Golovkin tried to open his veins. On October 21, 1992, his garage was searched and, going down into the cellar, they found evidence: a baby bath with burnt layers of skin and blood, clothes, belongings of the dead, etc.
Golovkin confessed to 11 episodes and showed investigators in detail the places of murders and burials. During the investigation, he behaved calmly, talked monotonously 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 he is 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 went to work. Petrov measured blood pressure and informed the patient that it was necessary to give an injection. 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 stealing. He hit the woman with a screwdriver and strangled the patient. After this episode, Petrov’s operating principle changed. He injected victims with a variety of lethal drugs so that the police would not think that the criminal was a doctor. Petrov set fire to the houses of his victims to hide traces of the crime. The stolen items were later found in his apartment, some of which he had already sold on the market.
More than 50 people died at the hands of Petrov. One survivor remembers how they woke up in their burning house, others after waking up were in an apartment filled with gas. Petrov mercilessly killed witnesses.
He eventually put on a constant stream of murders using lethal injections and destroying apartments by fire, but he was too greedy. Investigators soon noticed a consistent 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. Others say it's just a place where they pass the time between crimes. These people often return to their criminal activities after release. 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 within him. Shortly after his release, he began traveling 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 murders and rapes in his wake. His victims were mainly women and girls, in whose murders he used gruesome methods.
Martynov's bloody journey ended when he was finally caught in 2010. He was accused of at least eight murders and numerous rapes in 2012. Serving a life sentence.
"The Hammermen from Irkutsk" - Academian Maniacs
Morally unstable murderers are one of the most dangerous types of criminals. They are so unpredictable, how cruel and it is very difficult to immediately recognize them as serial killers
Nikita Lytkin and Artem Anufriev were two young men who decided to try their hand at neo-Nazism, or rather, they were skinheads. Dressed all in black, they were active members of various communities dedicated to fascism. They were known online by names such as "Peoplehater" and moderated social groups such as "We are gods, we alone decide who lives and who dies."
Lytkin and Anufriev became notorious as “Academy maniacs.” Between December 2010 and April 2011, they killed between six and eight people. Luckily, the two were pretty bad at hiding their murder 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 his sock when he was being 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 guard room.
On April 2, 2013, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Anufriev to life imprisonment to be served 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 maximum security colony.
Vladimir Mukhankin - killer from Rostov-on-Don
In 1995, Mukhankin began to kill and committed 8 murders in 2 months. He dismembered corpses and manipulated dead and agonizing bodies. He had an unhealthy passion for internal organs and repeatedly went to bed with them. There was an episode where, after the murder, Mukhankin left a sheet of paper with a poem he had composed in the cemetery. On his last day of freedom he commits 2 murders and 1 attempted murder. In addition to 8 murders, he also committed 14 more crimes: thefts and assaults.
Mukhankin was caught by accident after attacking a woman and her daughter. The woman was killed, but the girl survived and later identified her attacker.
During interrogations, the maniac behaved defiantly, did not repent of what he had done, called himself Chikatilo’s student, although he also said that “compared to him, Chikatilo is a chicken.” Mukhankin described his crimes in detail, while at the same time trying to persuade others to think of his insanity. However, he failed - the examination found him sane and fully aware of his actions.
At the trial, Mukhankin, realizing that he was facing capital punishment, renounced 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're not the nicest person in the world. Irina Gaydamachuk fully deserves this nickname. For seven years, she visited elderly citizens of the Sverdlovsk region as a social security worker. Once she got into the victim's apartment, she killed elderly citizens by smashing 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 Gaydamachuk is that she was never an antisocial loner, she was married, and is the mother of two children. 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 again, and again, and again.
She killed 17 pensioners over 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 Irina’s attack). 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 (as well as men under 18 or over 65 years of age). 20 years was the maximum punishment for her.
Vasily Komarov
Vasily Ivanovich Komarov, the first reliable Soviet serial killer, 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 would meet a client who wanted to buy a particular product, often horses, bring him to his house, give him vodka, then kill him with a hammer, sometimes strangle him, and then pack the bodies in a bag and carefully hide them. In 1921, he committed at least 17 murders, and in the next two years, at least 12 more, although he himself later admitted to 33 murders. The bodies were found in the Moscow River, in destroyed houses, buried underground. According to Komarov, the whole procedure took no more than half an hour.
Between 1921 and 1923, Moscow was shaken by a ruthless killer who strangled and bludgeoned people to death and dumped their bodies in bags throughout the city's slums. It was, of course, Komarov. He wasn't particularly smart in his actions, however. After authorities realized that the murders were related to sales at the horse market, they quickly listed him as a suspect. Although he appeared to be a kind, innocent family man, it soon became clear that he was in fact a cruel and rude man 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 Vasily Komarov’s victims were discovered only after his capture. Komarov spoke with particular cynicism and pleasure about the murders. He insisted that the motive for his atrocities was self-interest, that he only killed speculators, but all his murders brought him about 30 dollars at the then exchange rate. While indicating the burial places, angry crowds of people had difficulty pushing Komarov away.
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. A forensic psychiatric examination found Komarov sane, although they recognized him as an alcoholic degenerate and a psychopath.
The court sentenced Vasily Komarov and his wife Sophia to capital punishment - execution. Also in 1923, the sentence was carried out
Vasily Kulik
Vasily Kulik, better known as the "Irkutsk Monster" is a famous Soviet serial killer. He killed to cover up the rape. Subsequently, he also admitted that he received stronger sexual satisfaction from strangling the victim.
Since childhood, Vasily Kulik felt a connection between violence and sexual arousal. As a teenager, he had many girlfriends who developed an unhealthy appetite for sex. His mental health had always been very shaky, 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 murdered 13 people. His victims were elderly women or small children. Kulik committed murders in different ways: using firearms, strangulation, stabbing and other methods of killing his victims. His oldest victim was 73 years old, his youngest victim was a two-month-old child.
During the next attack, on January 17, 1986, he was beaten and taken to the police by passers-by. Kulik soon confessed to everything, but at the trial he refused all testimony, saying that he was forced to confess everything by a gang of a certain Chibis, which committed all the murders. The case was sent for further investigation.
However, his guilt was still proven and Kulik was arrested on his 30th birthday. On August 11, 1988, the court sentenced Vasily Kulik to capital punishment - execution.
Shortly before the sentence was carried out, Kulik was interviewed. Here is an excerpt from it:
"Kulik: ... There is already a verdict, the trial has passed, so ... remain only human, there are no more thoughts ...
Interviewer: Are you afraid of death?
Kulik: 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.
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