NSFW: 3 People, 21 Murders, Less Then A Month

[Blackmagik]

Old news... just found this... Crazy Shit

The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of 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. The lawyers for Suprunyuck and Sayenko launched an appeal, which was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Ukraine in November 2009.

Murders

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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 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.

Arrest and Trail

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The three suspects were arrested on July 23, 2007. Suprunyuck attempted to sell a mobile phone stolen from one of the victims in a local pawn shop, asking for 150 hryvnia (about US $20). When the phone was turned on to show that it worked, its location was traced by law enforcement agents. Suprunyuck and Sayenko were arrested near the cash register of the shop. Hanzha was arrested at home, reportedly managing to flush other stolen mobile phones down the toilet. The phones were recovered, but all information on them was lost.

The three men were charged with involvement in 29 separate incidents, including 21 murders and 8 more attacks where the victims survived. Suprunyuck was charged with 27 of the cases, including 21 counts of capital murder, 8 armed robberies, and 1 count of animal cruelty. Sayenko was charged with 25 instances, including 18 murders, 5 robberies and 1 count of animal cruelty. Hanzha was charged with two counts of armed robbery, stemming from a March 1, 2007 incident in Dniprodzerzhynsk.

All three confessed quickly, although Suprunyuck later withdrew his confession. Their trial began in June 2008. Suprunyuck pleaded not guilty, while the other two suspects pleaded guilty to all charges. Viktor Chevguz, Suprunyuck's original defense lawyer, dropped out of the case after reportedly being disappointed at failing to have a plea of insanity for his client accepted. Lawyers for the victims' families argued that the level of care taken by the killers during their crime spree meant that they were fully aware of their actions.

Prosecution evidence included bloodstains on the suspects' clothing and video recordings of the murders. The defense denied that the people in the videos were the suspects, claiming serious problems with the investigation, including at least 10 more murders covered up by the prosecution, supposed cover-ups of additional arrests of people with powerful connections who were released without being charged, even naming some of the additional people supposedly involved with the murders. The case was heard by a panel of judges chaired by Judge Ivan Senchenko.The prosecution asked for life imprisonment for Sayenko and Suprunyuck, and 15 years of hard labor for Hanzha. Ukraine has no capital punishment.

Video of one of the killings bottom of the page on the link. SO NSFW OR EVEN NSFL
http://www.ohlookaforum.com/sick-vid...mmer-t102.html

[wipers]

I can't even begin to pronounce that name. lol

[ZarakiKujata]

white people be crazy.

[ZarakiKujata]

I can't even begin to pronounce that name. lol

D/n are kind of merged in sound, its common in slavic languages

[Lyn]

Crazy sad vid, I don't know how anyone could do that.

[wipers]

Living in the Ukraine doesn't help.

[Pirian]

I hate people so much sometimes. I don't know what disgusts me more: the fact that they killed 21, or that people watch the murder video. It's a pretty distinct line between watching slasher-films and watching an actual recorded murder willingly.

[BerenTebogo]

I have no idea how that guy was still alive 5 minutes into the video.

[wipers]

There is a weird sense of detachment people get when watching something violent in real life. Not that it is a good thing but I don't think their minds can comprehend how fucked up what is going on at the time.

[Pirian]

I have no idea how that guy was still alive 5 minutes into the video.

Real people don't die as quickly as they do in movies. At least, not without a shot to the head

[Seanr]

meh.. not disturbed by that in the least...

[BerenTebogo]

Real people don't die as quickly as they do in movies. At least, not without a shot to the head

No but they do go unconscious after being struck repeatedly in the head with a hammer.

[Jicent]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ilsrejects.jpg
Anyone else think of this?

[Cyn]

Couldn't finish the video. Shit is fucking disturbing to say the least.

[TaruMortis]

I saw this video when it first came out, and I have to say, I couldn't sleep for a while. The fucking screw driver to the stomach and eye ball is just... bleh.

[Seanr]

O yea.. it's fucked up btw.. don't get me wrong. But I'll sleep the same as I do any other night.

[chapstick]

Fucking disgusting. Watched it for about 10 seconds and ugh.

[Lucavi]

Can't pronounce any of it without spitting all over the floor. Jesus. So much tongue flapping going on trying to pronounce all of it.

[EternalSnow]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ilsrejects.jpg
Anyone else think of this?

That movie seriously freaked me out

[Weltall]

This is like the only shit on the net I can't and won't watch.