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Mikhail Popkov is a Russian serial killer, active between 1992 and 2000, who
murdered more than 20 women between the ages of 19 and 28, and 4 between the
ages of 35 and 40. He is nicknamed the “werewolf” and the “Wednesday Murderer”, and
confessed to only 24 of his suspected 29 murders.
Mikhail Popkov was born on March 7, 1964 in Russia. He worked as a
policeman, then became a security guard for Angarsk Oil and Chemical Company, then
later for a private security agency. His wife was also in the police, and their daughter
was a schoolteacher. They often thought of him as the “perfect husband and father”. His
wife supposedly gave at least two alibis for him when suspicion fell his way.
Popkov’s method was to pick up slightly drunk, full figured
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and short women outside of bars and parties, dressed as a cop in a patrol car, with the intention of driving them home.
Then, he would drive them to a forest where he forced them to strip naked,
raped, and then brutally murdered them. His various weapons of choice include a
screwdriver, a slipknife, a rope, and an axe. One victim was beheaded and another’s
heart was torn out. After the victim was deceased, Popkov would then again rape the
body. He only left one survivor: Svetlana M. She claimed that a policeman took her into
the woods and forced her to undress. Then he smashed her head against a tree. She
was found alive and unconscious near the village of Baikalsk, even though she was
naked in sub-zero temperatures. The police never acted on Svetlana’s evidence,
because the force never suspected an officer, and thus believed the alibi told by
Popkov’s wife. The murders came to an end when Popkov contracted syphilis from one
of his victims, becoming “impotent”, and lost the will to kill anymore. This contraction of
an STD led the police force to track down Popkov via a DNA test and later, to his arrest.
Popkov was not captured until 2012, and was sentenced for life in prison in October of
that year. He is nicknamed the “Wednesday Murderer” because Wednesday
was generally when the victims were found and the “werewolf” because he turned so quickly on women and was difficult to fight off. It is said that Popkov’s main motivation for killing was simply that he was seeking revenge on his mother, who was an abusive alcoholic and his victims are said to somewhat resemble her. Popkov obviously had a bad relationship with his mother, and possibly an absent father figure. He was also married, for 28 years at the time, with a daughter, and was a decent one by the reports of his family. He is quoted in that “I just felt I wanted to kill a woman I was giving a lift to in my car”, suggesting that he spontaneously decided to start killing women. A psychiatrist, Alexander Grishin, said that perhaps other women had abused him, and later affected his adult life. His family claims to back him, and his wife says that she doesn’t believe he is guilty. I think that Popkov is guilty, because DNA tests cannot lie. If he was truly killing for revenge on his abusive mother, it is a fair motive
According to a grand jury indictment, the two men gave alcohol to an 18 year old female in August of 2015. The victim got so intoxicated she became helpless; that's when authorities say the two men raped and sexually assaulted her. The teen was found face down, unresponsive later that morning, partially undressed in a grassy area next to a parking lot in Horseheads.
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Richard Speck is without a doubt what is considered a chronic offender having been arrested over 40 times prior to committing the crime for which he is best known; the 1966 murder, rape, and robbery of eight student nurses. His victims were female students between the ages of 19 and 24 who lived together on Chicago's South Side. Speck forced his way into their dorm at gunpoint, rounded the women up, and ordered them to empty their purses before tying them up. He then proceeded to brutalize them. The women were robbed, raped, beaten, and then strangled or stabbed to death (BIO, 2013). Cooper and Smith (2011), tell us that crimes of this nature involving 3 or more victims represent less than 1% of all homicides committed each year (p. 24) and crimes of this nature are more likely to be carried out by use of a gun (p. 27). Additionally, young adults aged 18-24 continue to experience the highest homicide rates, but homicides across the spectrum have fallen since the early 1990s (Cooper & Smith, 2011). Fang, French & McCollister (2010) estimated the cost to process a murder for our court systems was $390,352, the crime victim costs were $737,517, and the criminal’s activities other than the homici...
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her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and
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her if she wanted to have sex in the woods, and, to his delight, she
A murderer might have advanced like that, one confident in his consummate mastery of the art of killing. But he soon lost his grace in the low stoop which the dead weight of years of habitual bending cast on him. …After he had mounted the first two steps, he stood completely demoralized with fear and retreated…(Anand 58)
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