Sergey Sergeev

Sergey Aleksandrovich Sergeev (June 21, 1964 – 1989), known as The Zaporizhzhia Maniac, was a Soviet spree killer who killed four people in Zaporizhzhia and Yalta in 1987.

Biography Sergeev was born on June 21, 1964. He studied at Zaporozhye Boarding School No. 2. While still a minor, he was sentenced to a year in prison for hooliganism. After his release, he worked as a photographer at the Zaporozhia mining company. He often clashed with his mother, who once wrote a statement to the police about him, and Sergey was detained at the Zhovtevy ROVD. He was diagnosed with a psychoneurological disorder. According to different versions, he either fled from there, or managed to convince the staff that he was not insane.

Murders He committed his first murder on June 27, 1987, in Yalta. He met a student named Tatyana Novik, from Leningrad, and proposed marriage only a few days later. When she refused, he strangled her in a fit of rage and then fled, leaving a note on the corpse: Sergeev often left notes at the locations of his crimes, and once even left an audio cassette containing various threats and bullying directed at the officers: At the site of another murder (that of Alla Boyko), he left a note drenched in the victim's blood: "People are dying like flies."

On June 29 Sergeev broke into a factory on Dzerzhinsky Street in Zaporizhzhia, stole several ushankas (Russian fur hats with ear flaps) and gold ornaments, and killed a cleaning woman, Natalia Yurchenko. On the same day he broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment and stabbed her new boyfriend several times with a knife.