Sofia Zhukova

Sofia Ivanovna Zhukova (; 1939 – 29 December 2020) was a Russian serial killer who committed three murders between 2005 and 2019. At the time of her last crime, she was 80 years old, making her the oldest serial killer in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. Some sources claim that Zhukova partially ate her victims. She died of COVID-19 before trial and was found guilty posthumously.

Biography Zhukova was born in 1939 in the village of Zvyagino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. She had no education, could hardly read or write, and worked as a labourer. Later, she moved to Khabarovsk, where she settled on the outskirts of the city, in the village of Berezovka, got married, and gave birth to two sons. In 2005, Zhukova's husband died. After that, changes took place in her psyche, which led to the murders. Zhukova often clashed with neighbours and threatened them, but no one took her threats seriously.

Crimes On 14 December 2005, Zhukova hacked her eight-year-old neighbor Anastasia Alexeenko to death with an ax, dismembered her body, and threw the remains into the street in a bag. She later explained the crime by saying that the girl made too much noise. She was found guilty of the three murders posthumously.