Nicolai Bonner

Nicolai Bonner (; born 1972), known as The Haifa Homeless Killer , is a Moldovan-born Israeli serial killer who killed four people in Haifa between February and May 2005. For these crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Early life Nicolai Bonner was born in a village in the Moldavian SSR in 1972, the third of four children. His mother was busy working at a factory, while his father was an alcoholic who paid little attention to his children. At the age of 9, Bonner's mother died, and he was sent to a boarding school to complete his education.

While at the boarding school, Bonner began to drink vodka to ease his feelings of loneliness. After graduating, he returned to live in his parental home and began working as a shepherd on a local farm, but quit after some time, opting to work menial jobs in Ukraine and Russia to earn an income. Enraged, he slapped her twice, before Rita retaliated and slapped him back. At that point, Bonner hit her on the head and knocked Wolman unconscious, before he proceeded to rape her. After he finished, he noticed that she had stopped breathing, and in order to dispose of the evidence, he set her bed on fire with a lighter. A few weeks into the proceedings, he recanted his confessions, claiming that the police officers had pressured him into signing them while he was drunk, and when he refused, they threatened to kill his daughter and girlfriend.

As of 2021, Bonner is still alive and remains behind bars.