Zhivko Dimitrov

Zhivko Hristov Dimitrov (; 1946 – 1981) was a Bulgarian serial killer and former police officer who killed six people in Dobrich Province from 1975 to 1981 in order to steal their money. Arrested shortly after committing a triple murder, he was convicted, sentenced to death and subsequently executed after confessing to all of the crimes.

Early life Little is available about Dimitrov's life. Born in Tolbuhin (present-day Dobrich) in 1946, he entered the police force and eventually managed to reach the rank of Major of the local police department's First Regional Division. According to former colleagues and people who knew him, he was known to be a very arrogant, egotistical individual who threatened everybody who slighted him for even the smallest of things.

Murders Dimitrov committed his first murder sometime during the autumn of 1975 when he invited a man named Lyuben Yankov to his father's house in Tolbuhin. He lured Yankov to the basement, where he closed the door and shot him in the back with his service pistol. As he was a high-ranking officer from the First Regional Division, the clerks trusted him and took with them the bag containing the store's savings, amounting to approximately 100,000 leva. The trio then got into his car, a blue Moskvitch, and started their journey, but along the way, Dimitrov claimed that he had to make a detour so he could fill the car's gas tank.