Maxim Khrenov

Maxim Nikolayevich Khrenov , known as The Ivanovo Maniac , is a Russian serial killer and rapist who raped and murdered at least four women in Ivanovo Oblast from 2010 to 2011. He was arrested for these crimes years later, and eventually sentenced to life imprisonment.

Khrenov is best known for briefly being a suspect in the Danilovsky Maniac case.

Early life Very little is known about Khrenov's early life. Born on 11 February 1979 in Ivanovo, he began exhibiting disturbing sexual behavior in his teenage years and soon afterwards started engaging in crime. Between the mid-1990s and the late 2000s, Khrenov was repeatedly arrested on charges of theft and rape.

In 2009, Khrenov was paroled from prison, but struggled to find a job. Because of this, he started using his Lada Samara to provide unlicensend taxi services. By the early 2010s, he mastered several specialties in the construction industry, got married and had two children. Once he reached an isolated area, he would then threatened them at gunpoint to give up all their valuables. Once he stole everything he could, Khrenov would sexually assault and murder the victim, either by strangling her with an electrical wire or slitting her throat with a utility knife.

His first murder occurred in the spring of 2010, when he picked up a 32-year-old woman who was visiting her parents from Saint Petersburg. He then drove her to the woods near the village of Bunkovo, where he raped and strangled her with an electric wire. As a result, he received a sentence of life imprisonment on 3 July 2020, with the first seven years set to be served in a standard prison before being transferred to a high-security penal colony.

In his final statement to the court, Khrenov refused to apologize to his victims' family members and continued to insist that he was innocent. He is currently being investigated for any other possible crimes, as investigators believe that he might have committed further crimes in the city of Cherepovets, where he was initially arrested.

As of April 2025, he has not been charged with any other violent crimes.