Serhiy Tkach

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Serhiy Fedorowytsch Tkatsch ( Ukrainian Сергій Федорович Ткач , Russian Сергей Фёдорович Ткач Sergei Fedorovich Tkatsch , * 12. September 1952 , in kiselyovsk , Kemerovo Oblast , Soviet Union ; † 4. November 2018 or 5. November 2018 in Zhytomyr ), known as the madman of Polohy ( Пологівський маніяк / Пологовский маньяк ), was a Ukrainian serial killer who confessed to murdering 100 girls and young women to satisfy his sexual instinct and was sentenced to life imprisonment for this.

Life

As a soldier in the Soviet armed forces, Tkach took part in the war in Afghanistan , where he was wounded. He then studied and worked as a criminal investigator in Kemerovo in the central regions of the Soviet Union . Although he started a promising career, he was forced to submit his resignation due to a fraud offense , whereupon he moved to the Ukraine , where he worked in coal mines and industrial plants. Here he committed his first murder in 1980: he strangled a woman and raped her. According to his own account, the rape was his target and he accidentally killed the woman, but found it extremely arousing.

Series of murders

Between 1984 and 2005 he murdered girls and young women until he was caught. His modus operandi was asphyxiation, after killing the girls he performed sexual acts on the corpses of his victims .

He looked for his victims near arterial roads and train stations to make investigators think the killer had come from a strange city. Trained as a criminalist, he left no traces and walked away on the rails that he had treated with tar to confuse sniffer dogs. He also stole valuables and jewelry to make the act look like a robbery.

During the period in which he committed the murders, Tkach married three times and had four children.

Investigations

Over the years, 10 innocent people had been sentenced to prison terms for murders committed by Tkach. One of the wrongly accused men committed suicide as a result.

Tkach was arrested in 2005 in Polohy, where he lived; he had murdered the daughter of an acquaintance, at whose funeral the girl's friends discovered that he was the last to be seen with the girl who had been killed. Visited by homicide investigators at home, Tkach said, "I've been waiting for you to come to me for twenty years."

Trial and sentencing

The trials did not take place in public as most of the victims were underage girls. During the year-long trial in Dnepropetrovsk , Tkach stated that he had murdered 100 people and that he was a monster who only deserved the death penalty. When asked about his motives, he stated that he wanted to snub his "completely incompetent police colleagues". He refused to apologize to the victims' families.

Eventually, since Ukraine abolished the death penalty with its independence, he was sentenced to 36 life imprisonment for the 36 murders that were proven against him.

literature

  • Anil Aggrawal : Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects. CRC Press

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Появились подробности смерти "пологовского маньяка" - одного из самых жестоких серийных убаин Уыкрийных , accessed on November 9, 2018
  2. ↑ DIED IN PRISON SERIAL KILLER SERGEY TKACH, WAS OPERATING IN PAVLOGRAD , accessed on November 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tkach, Serhiy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ткач, Сергій Федорович (Ukrainian); Tkach, Serhiy Fedorovych (full name); Ткач, Сергей Фёдорович (Russian); Tkach, Sergei Fjodorowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemerovo Oblast , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2018 or November 5, 2018
Place of death Zhytomyr