Anatoly Jemelyanovich Slivko

Anatoly Jemeljanowitsch Sliwko ( Russian Анатолий Емельянович Сливко ; born December 28, 1938 in Isberbash ; † September 16, 1989 in Novocherkassk ) was a Soviet serial killer who was found guilty of seven murder between 1964 and 1985 in the vicinity of the Russian city of Stavropol and having sexually abused at least seven others.

Past life and first offenses

Slivko was married and the father of two children. He was a well-respected member of society and received awards for some of the films he made in his spare time. He was also the head of a "children's club" called "Tschergid" (Russian: ЧЕРГИД, an abbreviation for "Через горы, реки и долины" = "Over mountains, rivers and valleys").

In 1961, Slivko was an eyewitness to a serious traffic accident in which a young person wearing a uniform of the Soviet pioneer organization was burned and thus died. Since the incident aroused him sexually, he has since tried, like many serial offenders, to relive the excitement and feeling of the first incident again: first he tried to put himself back there just by the smell of gasoline and fire. When that was no longer enough for him, however, he soon began to take advantage of his position in the children's club that he ran: once or twice a year he tried to win the trust of one of the children for himself. As soon as he succeeded in doing this, he told him about an experiment in which the aim was to stretch the spine through controlled strangulation until unconsciousness. He assured that he would resuscitate them immediately afterwards and that they were in no danger.

Within 21 years he persuaded a total of 43 boys between the ages of 13 and 17 to do this experiment. While the boys passed out, he patted and caressed them. He videotaped all of this and photographed the victims in the act. He also took off all of his victims' shoes and kept them to himself as mementos. In 36 of these cases, he resuscitated the boys and silenced them by saying that they were very lucky to be alive. Nobody dared to betray him.

The murders

Seven “experiments” by Slivko ended fatally. He murdered his first victim in 1964, it was an unidentifiable homeless boy, probably 15 years old. Slivko insisted to the end that he accidentally killed his first victim. After the attempt to resuscitate the boy failed, he divided his body, buried it and destroyed any photo and video footage he had made of it. For other murder victims, Slivko dismembered their bodies, poured gasoline on them, and set them on fire.

Nine years later, on November 14, 1973, the 15-year-old Alexander Nesmeyanov from the city ​​of Nevinnomyssk in the south of the RSFSR was his next victim. Two more years after this murder, on May 11, 1975, 11-year-old Andrei Pogasyan disappeared. The boy's mother told police that her son was planning to participate in a video project that a man would record in a nearby forest. But the police did not pay attention to this advice, because they knew Sliwko personally and could not imagine that a socially recognized educator like him, who was known for his excellent amateur films, could have anything to do with the child's disappearance.

Another victim was the 15-year-old Slav Chowistics, who was killed by Slivko in 1982. His next and last victim was 13-year-old Sergei Pavlov on July 23, 1985. Before he disappeared, he told his neighbor about the plan to meet the head of "Tschergid".

Arrest and Execution

In November 1985, the public prosecutor Tamara Langujewa investigated the disappearance of Sergei Pavlov and took a closer look at the activities of Slivko's club following a tip from the victim's neighbor. However, she found no further evidence that anything illegal was going on there. The lawyer interviewed several boys who were members of the club. Eventually, some said they had temporary amnesia and Slivko had done some experiments on them.

After a long investigation, Anatoly Slivko was arrested in December 1985 and charged with seven murders, seven cases of sexual abuse and necrophilia . In January and February 1986, he led investigators to the locations where he buried six of the seven bodies of his victims, but was unable to locate the body of his first victim. He was sentenced to death in 1986 and spent the three years leading up to execution on death row in Novocherkassk prison . In 1989 he was questioned by the police about the case of the serial killer Andrei Tschikatilo , who murdered 53 children and women. Anatoly Slivko was shot in the head just hours after being questioned by police.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Murderpedia.org (eng.)