Serhiy Tkach

Serhiy Tkach
Background information
Also known as	"Pologovsky Maniac"
Born	September 12, 1952 (1952-09-12) Kiselyovsk Russian SFSR
Sentence	Life imprisonment
Killings
Number of victims	29 confirmed, 70-130 + claimed
Span of killings	1984 (possibly 1980)–2005
Country	Ukrainian SSR Ukraine
Date apprehended	August 2005

Serhiy Tkach (Russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ткач, born 12 September 1952 in Kiselyovsk, RSFSR) is a former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, originally from Russia, and a convicted serial killer who claimed to have killed 100 people. He suffocated girls aged between eight and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead. Although Tkach admitted his crimes and demanded the death penalty, after a one year trial, a tribunal in Dnipropetrovsk sentenced him to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of 36 women over more than two decades. Over the years, nine people had been wrongly jailed for some of the murders of which Tkach was found guilty. One of the men wrongly accused killed himself.

See also

• Anatoly Onoprienko