Fyodor Prodan

Fyodor Fyodorovich Prodan (; born 14 October 1976) is a Moldovan-born Russian serial killer who murdered four people from 1997 to 2017 in three regions. For his last crimes, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Early life and crimes Fyodor Prodan was born on 14 October 1976, in the village of Sărata Veche, in the Moldovan SSR. Little is known about his early life, aside from the fact a majority of his relatives were engaged in criminal activities - including his uncle Ion, who would gain infamy for a series of murders committed in the 1990s. This greatly influenced the young man, and in 1993, Fyodor was prosecuted for theft.

A few years later, in 1997, Prodan stabbed his cohabitant to death after she decided to leave him for another man.

In April 2014, Prodan was released from prison and moved back to Mordovia to live with a woman named Natalia Vinogradova and her daughter, Anastasia, who suffered from a neurological disease. Not long after, they bought a dacha in the villages of Maklets in Tula Oblast. While local villagers described Prodan as a thrifty man, he was also known for being violent towards Vinogradova, whom he would often violently berate and beat, in addition to strictly controlling the family budget and prohibiting the purchase of anything above 5,000 rubles. Reportedly, most of the quarrels concerned his disabled stepdaughter. He then lied to 32-year-old Anastasia that he had already taken her mother to Oryol Oblast, and was now going to drive her there. From there, he drove to the village of Vasyutino in the Pokrovsky District, where he strangled Anastasia with a cord and hid her corpse in a ravine, which he covered with leaves and dirt. In August of that year, he wrote a petition to join the Storm-Z unit and participate in the invasion of Ukraine. Due to the severity of his crimes, this petition was denied and he remains behind bars.