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Meet the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
Meet the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
I was watching a documentary called The Dark Side of Porn and it was mainly talking about snuff movies. Snuff movies are movies that show real murders happening and being video taped. I started doing some research about snuff movies so I share the information on my blog. But what I have found is much more interesting than the snuff that's already out there. Snuff is an easy word to explain the story of those maniacs. I don't understand what has happened to the world and to the living ethics in the world. This is by far the most disgusting story I have ever known about and I would love to share it with my fellow readers.
The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July 2007. The case gained additional notoriety due to the fact that the killers made video recordings of some of the murders, with one of the videos leaking to the Internet. Two 19-year-old locals, Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuck, were arrested and charged with 21 murders. A third co-conspirator, Alexander Hanzha, was charged with two armed robberies that took place before the murder spree. On February 11, 2009, all three defendants were found guilty. Suprunyuck and Sayenko were sentenced to life imprisonment, while Hanzha received nine years in prison.
Murders
The first two murders took place late at night on June 25, 2007. The first victim was a 33-year-old local woman named Ekaterina Ilchenko, who was walking home after having tea at her female friend's apartment. According to Sayenko's confession, he and Suprunyuck were "out for a walk". Suprunyuck had a hammer. As Ilchenko walked past, Suprunyuck "spun around" and struck her in the side of the head. Ilchenko's body was found by her mother at 5 AM.
Within an hour of the first murder, the two men attacked their next victim, Roman Tatarevich. He was sleeping on a bench a short walk away from the first murder scene. Tatarevich's head was smashed with blunt objects numerous times, rendering him unrecognizable. The bench he was discovered on was located across the street from the local Public Prosecutor's office.
On July 1, two more victims, Evgeniya Grischenko and Nikolai Serchuk, were found murdered in the nearby town of Novomoskovsk.
On the night of July 6, three more people were murdered in Dnepropetrovsk. The first was Egor Nechvoloda, a recently discharged army recruit, who was bludgeoned while walking home from a night club. His mother found the body in the morning by their apartment building on Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street. Elena Shram, a 28-year-old night guard, was then murdered around the corner on Kosiora Street. According to Sayenko's taped confession, as Shram walked towards them, Suprunyuck struck her with the hammer he had been hiding under his shirt and struck her several more times after she fell down. She had been carrying a bag filled with clothes. The men picked up the bag, used the clothes to clean the hammer, and threw the bag out. Later the same night, the men murdered a woman named Valentina Hanzha (no apparent relation to co-defendant Alexander Hanzha), a mother of three married to a disabled husband.
The next day, July 7, two 14-year-old boys from Podgorodnoye, a nearby village, were attacked in the broad daylight as they went fishing. One of the two friends, Andrei Sidyuck, was killed, but the other, Vadim Lyakhov, managed to escape.
On July 12, a 48-year-old man named Sergei Yatzenko, disabled by a recent bout with cancer, went missing while riding his Dnepr motorcycle. His body was found four days later, with signs of a savage attack clearly visible even after four days in the summer heat.
Thirteen more murders followed, often with multiple bodies found in the same day. In addition to the earlier sprees, two victims were found every day from July 14 through 16. Victims were seemingly selected at random. Many were vulnerable to attack, including women, children, elderly, vagrants, or people under the influence of alcohol.
Most of the victims were killed using blunt objects, including hammers and steel construction bars. Blows were often directed at the victims' faces, leaving them unrecognizable. Many victims were also mutilated and tortured, and some had their eyes gouged out while they were still alive. One of the victims was a pregnant woman, whose fetus was cut out of her womb. No sexual assaults on any victims were reported.
Some of the victims were also robbed of their cell phones and other valuables, with their possessions pawned to a large network of second-hand shops in the area. However, most victims had their possessions intact.
The murders spanned a large geographical area. In addition to the city of Dnepropetrovsk itself, many took place in the outlying areas of the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.
Motive
The prosecution did not establish a specific motive behind the killings. Local media reported that the killers had a plan to get rich from the murder videos that they recorded although they come from very rich and powerful families. One of the suspects' girlfriends reported that they were planning to make forty videos of separate murders. This was corroborated by the suspects' former classmate, who claimed that he often heard Suprunyuck was in contact with an unknown "rich foreign website operator" who ordered forty snuff videos, and would pay a large sum of money once they were made. Regional security chief Ivan Stupak rejected the claim that the murders had been committed to make Internet snuff videos, saying that no evidence had come to light during the investigation that supported the claim. Detective Bogdan Vlasenko stated: "We think they were doing it as a hobby, to have a collection of memories when they get old." Deputy interior minister Nikolay Kupyanskiy commented "For these young men, murder was like entertainment or hunting."
At the trial, it emerged that Suprunyuck had collected newspaper cuttings about the case. Some of the photographs of the crimes had captions added, including "The weak must die. The strongest will conquer."
So obviously they were just having fun.
The Story in Brief:
This is the only video out of many that was leaked into the internet and it couldn't be controlled by any authorities saying that controlling the footage is virtually impossible. The victim in the video cheated death twice before the murder took place, one with a terrible accident when he survived and the other with throat cancer and he was treated. A while after he got murdered, but still, even in the video you're about to see, they split his face in half with a hammer, they poke his stomach and his intestines with a screwdriver and he tries to get up. Then they poke his eye out with a screwdriver and insert it all the way deep inside his brain and move it inside, still he felt the pain and surprisingly put his hand on the eye socket where the screw driver was literally inside his brain crushing it. They they hit him with a hammer on the side of his face several times and still he was moving and breathing heavily feeling every bit of the pain. He had his face split in half literally, eyes poked out, intestines played with and brain messed with and he was still moving on the ground. Then they run and wash their hands and start laughing at him. They were even laughing at him while making him and his face completely unrecognizable.
Read the translation/subtitles of the video below before viewing the video as it may help understand what you're about to see.
The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July 2007. The case gained additional notoriety due to the fact that the killers made video recordings of some of the murders, with one of the videos leaking to the Internet. Two 19-year-old locals, Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuck, were arrested and charged with 21 murders. A third co-conspirator, Alexander Hanzha, was charged with two armed robberies that took place before the murder spree. On February 11, 2009, all three defendants were found guilty. Suprunyuck and Sayenko were sentenced to life imprisonment, while Hanzha received nine years in prison.
Murders
The first two murders took place late at night on June 25, 2007. The first victim was a 33-year-old local woman named Ekaterina Ilchenko, who was walking home after having tea at her female friend's apartment. According to Sayenko's confession, he and Suprunyuck were "out for a walk". Suprunyuck had a hammer. As Ilchenko walked past, Suprunyuck "spun around" and struck her in the side of the head. Ilchenko's body was found by her mother at 5 AM.
Within an hour of the first murder, the two men attacked their next victim, Roman Tatarevich. He was sleeping on a bench a short walk away from the first murder scene. Tatarevich's head was smashed with blunt objects numerous times, rendering him unrecognizable. The bench he was discovered on was located across the street from the local Public Prosecutor's office.
On July 1, two more victims, Evgeniya Grischenko and Nikolai Serchuk, were found murdered in the nearby town of Novomoskovsk.
On the night of July 6, three more people were murdered in Dnepropetrovsk. The first was Egor Nechvoloda, a recently discharged army recruit, who was bludgeoned while walking home from a night club. His mother found the body in the morning by their apartment building on Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street. Elena Shram, a 28-year-old night guard, was then murdered around the corner on Kosiora Street. According to Sayenko's taped confession, as Shram walked towards them, Suprunyuck struck her with the hammer he had been hiding under his shirt and struck her several more times after she fell down. She had been carrying a bag filled with clothes. The men picked up the bag, used the clothes to clean the hammer, and threw the bag out. Later the same night, the men murdered a woman named Valentina Hanzha (no apparent relation to co-defendant Alexander Hanzha), a mother of three married to a disabled husband.
The next day, July 7, two 14-year-old boys from Podgorodnoye, a nearby village, were attacked in the broad daylight as they went fishing. One of the two friends, Andrei Sidyuck, was killed, but the other, Vadim Lyakhov, managed to escape.
On July 12, a 48-year-old man named Sergei Yatzenko, disabled by a recent bout with cancer, went missing while riding his Dnepr motorcycle. His body was found four days later, with signs of a savage attack clearly visible even after four days in the summer heat.
Thirteen more murders followed, often with multiple bodies found in the same day. In addition to the earlier sprees, two victims were found every day from July 14 through 16. Victims were seemingly selected at random. Many were vulnerable to attack, including women, children, elderly, vagrants, or people under the influence of alcohol.
Most of the victims were killed using blunt objects, including hammers and steel construction bars. Blows were often directed at the victims' faces, leaving them unrecognizable. Many victims were also mutilated and tortured, and some had their eyes gouged out while they were still alive. One of the victims was a pregnant woman, whose fetus was cut out of her womb. No sexual assaults on any victims were reported.
Some of the victims were also robbed of their cell phones and other valuables, with their possessions pawned to a large network of second-hand shops in the area. However, most victims had their possessions intact.
The murders spanned a large geographical area. In addition to the city of Dnepropetrovsk itself, many took place in the outlying areas of the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.
Motive
The prosecution did not establish a specific motive behind the killings. Local media reported that the killers had a plan to get rich from the murder videos that they recorded although they come from very rich and powerful families. One of the suspects' girlfriends reported that they were planning to make forty videos of separate murders. This was corroborated by the suspects' former classmate, who claimed that he often heard Suprunyuck was in contact with an unknown "rich foreign website operator" who ordered forty snuff videos, and would pay a large sum of money once they were made. Regional security chief Ivan Stupak rejected the claim that the murders had been committed to make Internet snuff videos, saying that no evidence had come to light during the investigation that supported the claim. Detective Bogdan Vlasenko stated: "We think they were doing it as a hobby, to have a collection of memories when they get old." Deputy interior minister Nikolay Kupyanskiy commented "For these young men, murder was like entertainment or hunting."
At the trial, it emerged that Suprunyuck had collected newspaper cuttings about the case. Some of the photographs of the crimes had captions added, including "The weak must die. The strongest will conquer."
So obviously they were just having fun.
The Story in Brief:
- Killed 21 people, they started with small animals and moved to humans
- One of the victims was a pregnant woman; her fetus was cut out of her womb. No sexual assaults on any victims were reported
- Later on one of the suspects quit and 2 guys continued to murder. Also they attended funerals of their victims, and took pics
- They are thought to have used iron pipes and hammers on their victims. Mobile phone footage also suggests they practiced on cats, dogs and other animals first
- They all come from rich families and have allegedly admitted they committed the crimes just for fun
- Detectives say that the killers weren’t targeting anyone in particular. They just picked up people who looked like they wouldn’t fight back
- 12 murders were filmed, over 300 photos were presented in court. First victim was killed with metal rods, but it took some time so they moved to hammers
This is the only video out of many that was leaked into the internet and it couldn't be controlled by any authorities saying that controlling the footage is virtually impossible. The victim in the video cheated death twice before the murder took place, one with a terrible accident when he survived and the other with throat cancer and he was treated. A while after he got murdered, but still, even in the video you're about to see, they split his face in half with a hammer, they poke his stomach and his intestines with a screwdriver and he tries to get up. Then they poke his eye out with a screwdriver and insert it all the way deep inside his brain and move it inside, still he felt the pain and surprisingly put his hand on the eye socket where the screw driver was literally inside his brain crushing it. They they hit him with a hammer on the side of his face several times and still he was moving and breathing heavily feeling every bit of the pain. He had his face split in half literally, eyes poked out, intestines played with and brain messed with and he was still moving on the ground. Then they run and wash their hands and start laughing at him. They were even laughing at him while making him and his face completely unrecognizable.
Read the translation/subtitles of the video below before viewing the video as it may help understand what you're about to see.
[while approaching the victim]"Hold on, hold on....Be neater, fuck!" - probably saying that to watch out for the blood.
*Laughing*
[After the Blond guy has used the hammer ]"Hold on, hold on, hold on, don't hit him, don't hit him.....Watch him *the rest is muffled*" - Psycho fuck is probably telling him to watch how he is bleeding as he zooms in the camera to his face. - Camera man
The next part has very bad audio and is very muffled by cans and such. I can make out one or two words but not enough to make out a coherent sentence.
[After the screwdriver stabbing]
"What?.....With what?" - As he responds to the guy who stabs him
"What, he's still alive?!?" - The guy stabbing him exclaims
The response of the camera man I can't make out perfectly because he's speaking very fast and again the quality isn't the best but I believe he says something along the lines of:
"He's still moving his arms after I ripped up his intestines"
The stabber says something along the lines of "He's having a fucked up day" as he steps on his stomach.
[More muffled talk as he proceeds to stab him in the eyes with the screwdriver]
"Get over here fast.....Kill him already."
"What?" - Stabber
"Kill him already."
He says something about his hammer which I believe to be "I already put the hammer back," followed by "He's already dead." - Stabber
"He's not dead and I already poked out his eyes" - Camera man
*Note: There are mainly two of saying the word "dead" in Russian, they're using a term that is phonetically written as "zdoh," which is a way of saying "dead" when talking about animals and things lower life value, such as criminals, if that makes sense*
"Get the knife" - Camera man
*Proceeds to bludgeon him then interrupts by saying something I can't make out*
"More more" - Camera man telling him to keep bludgeoning him to make sure he's dead, and not so much for pleasure any more.
"Hold on, hold on" - Camera man
*They start walking back to the car*
More muffled talk from the blond haired piece of shit
"Wash your hands" - Camera Man
Camera man begins telling him something that I can't make out clearly for some reason but I believe he says "Spray the *name of the chemical*" followed by "I'll hold it," as they started to clean the hammer.
*Muffled talk from the guy washing the hammer*
*More muffled talk from the guy washing his face and walking back from his car*
"I stuck the screwdriver in his brain" - Says the camera man
*Muffled talk from the guy washing his hands*
"I got him in the nose from his eye" - Says the camera man *I'm not exactly sure on this one, but I know he says something along the lines of that.
"I don't understand, how was he alive? I felt his brain" - Says the camera man
"I was holding the screw driver like this *muffled/don't understand*" - Camera man
Before the video ends the blonde says something like "Alright, let's get a picture"
*Laughing*
[After the Blond guy has used the hammer ]"Hold on, hold on, hold on, don't hit him, don't hit him.....Watch him *the rest is muffled*" - Psycho fuck is probably telling him to watch how he is bleeding as he zooms in the camera to his face. - Camera man
The next part has very bad audio and is very muffled by cans and such. I can make out one or two words but not enough to make out a coherent sentence.
[After the screwdriver stabbing]
"What?.....With what?" - As he responds to the guy who stabs him
"What, he's still alive?!?" - The guy stabbing him exclaims
The response of the camera man I can't make out perfectly because he's speaking very fast and again the quality isn't the best but I believe he says something along the lines of:
"He's still moving his arms after I ripped up his intestines"
The stabber says something along the lines of "He's having a fucked up day" as he steps on his stomach.
[More muffled talk as he proceeds to stab him in the eyes with the screwdriver]
"Get over here fast.....Kill him already."
"What?" - Stabber
"Kill him already."
He says something about his hammer which I believe to be "I already put the hammer back," followed by "He's already dead." - Stabber
"He's not dead and I already poked out his eyes" - Camera man
*Note: There are mainly two of saying the word "dead" in Russian, they're using a term that is phonetically written as "zdoh," which is a way of saying "dead" when talking about animals and things lower life value, such as criminals, if that makes sense*
"Get the knife" - Camera man
*Proceeds to bludgeon him then interrupts by saying something I can't make out*
"More more" - Camera man telling him to keep bludgeoning him to make sure he's dead, and not so much for pleasure any more.
"Hold on, hold on" - Camera man
*They start walking back to the car*
More muffled talk from the blond haired piece of shit
"Wash your hands" - Camera Man
Camera man begins telling him something that I can't make out clearly for some reason but I believe he says "Spray the *name of the chemical*" followed by "I'll hold it," as they started to clean the hammer.
*Muffled talk from the guy washing the hammer*
*More muffled talk from the guy washing his face and walking back from his car*
"I stuck the screwdriver in his brain" - Says the camera man
*Muffled talk from the guy washing his hands*
"I got him in the nose from his eye" - Says the camera man *I'm not exactly sure on this one, but I know he says something along the lines of that.
"I don't understand, how was he alive? I felt his brain" - Says the camera man
"I was holding the screw driver like this *muffled/don't understand*" - Camera man
Before the video ends the blonde says something like "Alright, let's get a picture"
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