Back Michail Popkof Afrikaans ميخائيل بوبكوف Arabic Michail Viktorovič Popkov Czech Michail Wiktorowitsch Popkow German Mijaíl Popkov Spanish Mihhail Popkov Estonian میخاییل پوپکوف Persian Mihail Popkov Finnish מיכאיל פופקוב HE 미하일 폽코프 Korean
Mikhail Popkov | |
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| Born | Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov 7 March 1964 |
| Other names | The Werewolf The Angarsk Maniac The Wednesday Murderer |
| Motive | Hatred of prostitutes Misogyny Sexual sadism |
| Conviction(s) | Aggravated murder (x78) Attempted aggravated murder (x2) |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Details | |
| Victims | 78 convictions; 83 confessed[1] |
Span of crimes | 1992 – 2010 (confirmed) 1992 – 2012 (possible) |
| Country | Russia |
| State(s) | Irkutsk Oblast Primorsky Krai |
Date apprehended | June 23, 2012 |
Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov (Russian: Михаи́л Ви́кторович Попко́в; born 7 March 1964) is a Russian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who committed the sexual assault and murder of seventy-eight girls and women between 1992 and 2010 in Angarsk, Irkutsk, in Siberia, and Vladivostok in Far East, although he has confessed to and is suspected of at least eighty-three in total. He is known as "The Werewolf" and the "Angarsk Maniac" for the particularly brutal nature of his crimes; he would extensively mutilate the bodies of his victims and perform sexual acts on them. Popkov was also known as the "Wednesday Murderer"[3] due to bodies of his victims usually being found on Wednesdays. He is the single most prolific serial killer in Russian history.[3][4]
Popkov, a former police officer and security guard, was convicted of 22 murders in 2015 and sentenced to life imprisonment, and confessed to an additional 59 three years later; on December 10, 2018, he was convicted for 56 of the 59 additional killings, three of which the police could not find sufficient evidence with which to be proven, and given a second life sentence.[5][6] There were calls for Popkov to be executed, but this was unavailable as capital punishment in Russia is subject to a formal moratorium.[7]
- ^ Russian serial killer convicted of 56 more murdersThe Guardian
- ^ "Mikhail Popkov. Biography". 24SMI.
- ^ a b Brown, Richard, ed. (2022). The World's Most Evil Serial Killers: Crimes that Shocked the World. Sirius Publishing. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-3988-0737-2.
- ^ "Siberian Court Hands Additional 10 Years To Russia's Most-Prolific Serial Killer". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. 2023-11-22. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
- ^ "'Werewolf' killer Mikhail Popkov convicted of 56 more murders". Sky News. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ "Mikhail Popkov: Russian ex-cop jailed for 56 more murders". BBC News. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ "Russian serial killer convicted of 56 more murders". TheGuardian.com. 10 December 2018.
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