Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov

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Michail Wiktorowitsch Popkow ( Russian Михаи́л Ви́кторович Попко́в ; born March 7, 1964 in Angarsk , USSR ) is a Russian serial killer and rapist. It is known to have killed 78 people in Angarsk, Irkutsk and Vladivostok between 1992 and 2010 . After his arrest in 2012, he confessed to 24 murders of women and was sentenced to life imprisonment for 22 murders and two attempted murders in 2015. In prison, he confessed to 59 other murders and was convicted of 56 of them in 2018. His victims were all women except for one other police officer. In Russia Popkov became known in the media under the name "Angarski manjak" (The Mad of Angarsk) or "The Werewolf".

Life

Little is known about his childhood. After leaving school, he trained as a police officer and worked in this profession until the end in Irkutsk. He often committed his deeds while on duty or as a police officer. He often took his victims in police uniform and with the promise of free ride home in his company car, where he then sexually assaulted and killed himself. He mostly used weapons from other crimes that he had acquired in the course of his investigative work as a police officer. He often took knives, axes, baseball bats or screwdrivers as murder weapons, with which he sometimes extremely mutilated women. In particular, “morally reprehensible women”, such as B. drunk women after going to a discotheque or prostitutes were his preferred victims.

Popkow is married and has one daughter. According to the media, he was "a loving father and husband" to his family, so that for a long time they could not believe the crimes he was charged with.

arrest

Popkov was able to escape the police investigation for a long time. Only a mass DNA test of around 3,500 active and former police officers could convict him. In 2015, Popkow was sentenced to life imprisonment for 22 murders and two attempted murders. He was tried again three years later; On December 10, 2018, the Irkutsk regional court sentenced him to life imprisonment for 56 other murders. However, three murders could not be proven.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ex-Russian police officer convicted of 56 more murders. The Irish Times, December 11, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Emily Thomas: Ex-Policeman, Mikhail Popkov, Allegedly Confesses To Gruesome Murdering 24 Women In Siberia. In: Huffpost of December 6, 2017 - available online
  3. ↑ Russian serial killer killed over 80 women. In: Web.de - available online
  4. ↑ Mikhail Popkov, Russian ex-cop, on trial for 59 murders, BBC News from January 10, 2018 - available online
  5. ↑ Zamira Rahim: Mikhail Popkov: Russia's most prolific 'werewolf' serial killer found guilty of raping and murdering 56 women. The Independent, December 10, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Popkov, Mikhail Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Попко́в, Михаи́л Ви́кторович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian serial killer and rapist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Angarsk , USSR