Sergey Sergeev (spree killer)
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Sergey Sergeev | |
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| Born | Sergey Aleksandrovich Sergeev June 21, 1964 |
| Died | August 25, 1988 (aged 24) |
| Cause of death | Executed by firing squad |
| Other names | "The Zaporizhia Maniac" |
| Conviction(s) | Murder |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4 |
Span of crimes | 1987–1988 |
| Country | Ukraine |
| State(s) | Zaporizhia Oblast Yalta |
Date apprehended | July 17, 1987 |
Sergey Aleksandrovich Sergeev (June 21, 1964 – August 25, 1988), known as the "Zaporizhia Maniac", was a Soviet spree killer who killed 4 people in Zaporizhia and Yalta in 1987–1988.
Biography
Sergeev was born on June 21, 1964. He studied at Zaporozhye Boarding School No. 2. While still a minor, he was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for hooliganism. After his release, he worked as a photographer at the Zaporozhia mining company. He often clashed with his mother, who once wrote a statement to the police about him, and Sergey was detained at the Zhovtevy ROVD. He was diagnosed with a psychoneurological disorder. According to different versions, he either fled from there, or managed to convince the staff that he was not insane.[1]
Murders
His committed his first murder on June 27, 1987 in Yalta. He met student Tatyana Novik from Leningrad, and asked for marriage only a few days later. When she refused, Sergeev strangled her in a fit of rage and then fled, leaving a note on the corpse:
Goodbye my love, I'll be with you soon!
Sergeev often left notes on the places of his crimes, and once even left an audio cassette containing various threats and bullying directed at the officers:
People are dying like flies! <...> Where are you looking, eh? I am near you! Always going near you, and no one will stop me! <...> I will try show you on TV, because every day I will kill people! Who will be the next victim, eh? Only I know this!!!... <...> ...I jumped on the tram, the people were looking there, so I turned away. <...> Now there will be children! To be continued!!! <...> I will kill, kill, kill so that people are afraid of me in this neighborhood!
On the site of another murder (that of Alla Boyko), he left a note drenched in the victim's blood saying: "People are dying like flies."
On June 29, Sergeev he broke into a factory on Dzerzhinsky Street in Zaporozhia, stole several ushankas (Russian fur hats with ear flaps) and gold ornaments, and then killed cleaning woman Natalia Yurchenko. On the same day, Sergeev broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment and stabbed her new boyfriend several times with a knife.[1]
Sergeev then moved to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. He wounded a farm manager in the Synelnykove Raion and stole 650 rubles from the farm's collective fund, then hid out in the steppe and local villages. On July 9, 1987, Sergeev returned to Zaporozhia, bursting into an apartment on Paramanov Street, and inflicting heavy wounds on 9-year-old Lena Novikova. On July 10th he broke into an apartment on Gorky Street and killed 84-year-old Alla Boyko. On July 12, he attacked two teenagers with a knife while they were bathing in a pond near a village in the Prymorsk Raion, but both of them survived.[1]
Arrest
Residents of Zaporizhia began to panic. To catch the killer, servicemen, troops, fire brigade workers, aviation crews, and volunteers were organized in the 587 settlements of Zaporizhia Oblast. The head of the search operations was Alexander Polyak, who would later become mayor of Zaporizhia. On July 17, 1987, Sergeev was found near the state-run farm Mokryanka, and was finally detained near the village of Krinichka. The killer attempted to resist arrest by throwing a knife at police officers, but an officer wounded him in the leg and he was taken into custody.[1]
Trial and execution
Sergeev attempted an insanity plea, bolstering his case by killing another prisoner. Despite this attempt, Sergey Sergeev was sentenced to death, and subsequently executed by firing squad on August 25, 1988.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e 9.11.2011. "Кровавый июль в Запорожье 1987" (in Russian). Газета «Правда». Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
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External links
- Akbash: "The killer Sergey Sergeev: how it was". Retro Zaporozhye. Accessed on March 15, 2013
- "The investigationed was conducted... with Leonid Kanevsky" - episode "Notes of the Obsessed" (2013)