Anatoly Onoprijenko

Anatoly Jurijewitsch Onoprijenko ( Ukrainian Анатолій Юрійович Онопрієнко , scientific. Transliteration Anatoly Jurijewitsch Onoprijenko * 25. July 1959 in Lasky at Narodychi ; † 27. August 2013 in Zhytomyr ) was a Ukrainian serial killer . He became known as the " Terminator of Chernobyl ".

Life

Youth and prehistory

Onoprijenko grew up in a Ukrainian orphanage. He was considered a loner, but he appeared with great self-confidence. He always had problems at school and was even discharged early due to poor performance. He later joined the merchant navy and traveled around the world on the cruise ship Maxim Gorkiy . After retiring from the Navy, he went as an asylum seeker through various European countries such as Germany , Greece and Spain , but was nowhere recognized as entitled to asylum.

Deeds

Onoprijenko killed 52 people across Ukraine in a period of seven years (1989–1996). The newspapers gave him the nickname “Terminator of Chernobyl” as the country's worst serial killer. He killed his victims, usually entire families whom he visited at night on lonely farms, with a sawed-off shotgun , a knife or other objects such as a spade . He then took the time to examine his actions carefully. Usually he robbed his victims after the crime.

After the largest manhunt in Ukraine's history - 2,000 police officers combed an area of ​​100 square kilometers - Onoprijenko was finally arrested without resistance on April 16, 1996 in his fiancée's apartment.

After the arrest

After the arrest Onoprijenkos who took off a full confession, voices were raised in the population, so despite the abolished capital punishment to execute. During his pre- trial detention, the public prosecutor's office took Onoprijenko to the crime scenes so that the murders could be reconstructed. In doing so, Onoprijenko made sure to report in as much detail as possible about the atrocities he had committed. As a result, these crime scene inspections were only possible with the massive use of the police, as the residents wanted to lynch Onoprijenko in the respective places .

Onoprijenko was sentenced to death by a court in Zhytomyr, but the execution of the sentence was suspended because the death penalty has not been used in Ukraine since it joined the Council of Europe (see European Convention on Human Rights ). Onoprijenko was most recently held in solitary confinement under the highest security level in the maximum security prison in Zhytomyr. Here he died of a heart attack at the age of 54 at the end of August 2013 .

literature

• Jaques Buval: The Messenger of Death: The True Story of the Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko. Heyne, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-453-87440-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ukrainian serial killer dies in prison