Onoprienko maniac biography. Anatoly Onoprienko: biography. “When I went into the girl’s room, she was sitting on the bed in her nightgown and praying”

Anatoly Yuryevich Onoprienko, (Ukrainian Anatoliy Yuryovich Onoprienko, born July 25, 1959 in the village of Lasky, Zhytomyr region) is a Ukrainian serial killer. Nicknames: "Ukrainian Beast", "Terminator" and "Citizen O". Between 1989 and 1996, he killed 52 people: 9 victims from June 14 to August 16, 1989 and 43 victims from October 5, 1995 to March 22, 1996. At the same time, a large number of episodes incriminated to him, but not proven, remain.

[edit] Birth and life before the murders

Anatoly Yuryevich Onoprienko was born on July 25, 1959 in the village of Laski in the Zhytomyr region. He is the youngest, his older brother Valentin Onoprienko (born 1946) is 13 years older than him. Father Yuri Onoprienko participated in World War II and had awards for bravery, but then he was convicted twice and treated his wife and son cruelly. (Father at the age of 14 went to the front, rose to the rank of sergeant, he had awards for bravery. He worked as a fireman of a steam locomotive, a driver, was engaged in trade. He was convicted twice: the first time for stealing a piece of lard, the second - he borrowed money from relatives and did not return, in 1970 Yuri Onoprienko was sentenced to a settlement and lived in the city of Frolovo, Volgograd Region, where he died.)

When Anatoly was 3 years old, on September 15, 1962, his mother died of heart failure.

He was raised by his grandfather, grandmother and aunt, who themselves demanded care for themselves, and about 7 years old older brother and father, who did not want to take him into their families (his father remarried and had another son from his new wife, and Valentin married early and started three children at once, but as a village teacher he received a small salary) Anatoly was handed over to an orphanage in the village of Privotnoe. Subsequently, in an interview, Onoprienko said that this predetermined his fate - according to him, 70% of orphanage graduates end up in prison.

After the orphanage, he entered the forest technical school, from where he was subsequently expelled for poor progress.

After the army, he got a job at a nautical school, served in the navy, mainly earned money by smuggling. After his dismissal in 1987, he began his career as a firefighter, became a department commander, and joined the Communist Party. He was even a deputy party organizer in the city of Dneprorudny, Zaporozhye region

Murders

Onoprienko killed with a hunting rifle. In the first series of murders in the summer of 1989, committed with partner Sergei Rogozin, a veteran of the Afghan war (but Onoprienko himself committed the murders himself), he used his officially registered gun with a sight for hunting in the dark. After the murders, he is almost detained by the police during the chase. He flees to Europe, trying to obtain political asylum and citizenship of various countries: Canada, Greece and Spain. Having achieved nothing, Onoprienko, being sure that the police are looking for him in Ukraine, continues to travel illegally around Europe. What he did during his wanderings remains unknown, Onoprienko himself claimed that he was engaged in thefts and occasionally worked as a loader at various enterprises. He also denies that he committed murders then.

Onoprienko was resourceful. After he is deported back to Ukraine, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies do not meet or arrest the killer. Onoprienko, believing that they are still looking for him, is at the Boryspil airport for a long time, waiting for his arrest. However, seeing that no one is interested in him at the airport, he freely leaves for Kyiv. In the future, at the railway station, he feigns madness. He is sent to a psychiatric hospital. Pavlov in Kyiv. During his hospitalization, he enjoys a "free exit" and conceives and commits several crimes. After some time, he learned that those murders were not solved. After leaving the hospital, he begins a new series of murders. In the second series in 1995 and 1996, Onoprienko acted alone. He killed with a sawn-off shotgun made from a TOZ-34 hunting rifle stolen from a familiar hunter. This sawn-off shotgun was found by the police in the room in which Onopriyenko was detained (in the apartment of her mistress Anna Kozak, where she lived with her children). Items were found there, including jewelry and a VCR that had been stolen from the victims. Couples, whole families, groups of people, but also individuals became victims of Onoprienko - in the second series of murders, he could kill up to 7 people in a day (in one episode he killed 8 people in 2 days). He chose the places for his crimes so that they would form a cross on the map of Ukraine. In total, he killed 52 people, 11 of them minors. There was an episode where he had sexual intercourse with a woman he had killed.

Methods

In the summer of 1989, Onoprienko killed couples (twice) and a group of people in or near cars on Ukrainian highways. In 1995-1996, he chose poorly protected private houses in villages in the west and in the center of Ukraine, entered them at night or in the early morning and killed everyone, including small children (so as not to “leave them orphans,” as he said). In addition, he killed random passers-by who met on the way in the same places, sometimes shot at people from a car. The village of Bratkovichi, Lviv region, suffered especially at the hands of Onoprienko. When internal troops were brought into Bratkovichi, Onoprienko simply changed the place of the murders - he switched to other villages.

Investigation

For the murders of 1989, Onoprienko and Rogozin miraculously escaped punishment, as Onoprienko's lawyer Ruslan Moshkovsky tells in detail in his interview. The search for the criminal after the second series of murders (however, at that time it was not yet known that one killer was acting - there were various versions) was launched in March 1996, after 8 families were brutally murdered in their homes. Most of the victims were in remote villages in the Lviv region near the border with Poland. In total, thousands of people took part in the “hunt” for Onoprienko, including simple operatives who were patrolling “critical” areas.

motive

Onoprienko's motive is not exactly known. He himself claimed that some higher powers ordered him to arrange three series of murders: the first (9 people should be killed in it) was against communism, the second (40 people) - against nationalism, the third (360 people) - against the plague of the twenty-first century. According to some sources [source not specified for 105 days], it was Onoprienko's lawyer who ordered him to explain his motives in this way. Some believe [source not specified 105 days] that he killed only for the sake of material values, which he carried away from the scene of crimes.

Detention and trial

In March 1996, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and specialists from the Prosecutor's Office detained 26-year-old Yuriy Mozola as a suspect in several brutal murders. For three days, 6 employees of the Lviv SBU and a representative of the prosecutor’s office “interrogated” Mozola in the prosecutor’s office using fire, electric shock and beatings. Mozola refused to confess to the crimes and died during the torture. All 7 people responsible for his death were sentenced to prison terms. 17 days later, the real killer was detained - Onoprienko, whom someone told the district police officer - it was said that a suspicious person lives in such and such an apartment with Anna Kozak, who seems to be hiding. Seeing the policemen entering, Onopriyenko, who had just woken up, rushed to the bag with the sawn-off shotgun, but was captured. Onoprienko was sentenced to death on March 31, 1999, but due to Ukraine's intention to join the Council of Europe, the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment (then President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma applied to a number of international organizations with a request to make an exception from the moratorium on the death penalty, especially for Onoprienko). Onoprienko's accomplice Rogozin was sentenced to 13 years in prison. At the moment, Onoprienko is serving a sentence in the Zhytomyr SIZO No. 8.

Personal life

ex-wife Irina (Onoprienko) until 1989

son Dmitry Anatolyevich (Onoprienko)

Born in a small village in the Zhytomyr region. The father left the family when the child was only a year old, and three years later the mother died. Until the age of seven, he lived with his grandfather and grandmother, and later he was brought up in the Malinsky orphanage. After graduating from eight classes, he entered the local forestry technical school, but dropped out and joined the army. He served in an artillery regiment near Leningrad, then graduated from the Odessa Naval School (having passed the program of the 9th, 10th and 11th grades in 3 (!) Months) and for five years, until the end of 1986, sailed as a sailor-minder on steamboats " Georgia", "Leo Tolstoy", "Maxim Gorky", "Ukraine". During this period, he was actively engaged in smuggling and accumulated decent capital for those times - about 15 thousand rubles. He resigned due to a conflict with the captain of the ship "Ukraine" and for three years worked as the head of the VOKhR of the fire department of the city of Dneprorudny, Zaporozhye region.

The first blood was shed in June, when at night, at the entrance to the city of Sinelnikov, he attacked the spouses sleeping in the car, shot them, buried the corpses in a copse, and burned the car.

A month later, the killer dealt with tourists from Poland who were sleeping in a Polonaise car.

And in August, according to the same scheme, he attacked people who were resting in a car on the Kamenka-Berdyansk highway. He shot a man, two women and two small children returning from a holiday in the Crimea. He drove the car with the corpses into a forest plantation and burned it.

After that, the "inner voice" called him on his way. Onoprienko began many years of wandering around Europe. He traveled to Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Holland, Germany, Austria, was deported from there more than once, and was even convicted of pogroms of shops in Vienna. After the forced return to his homeland at the end of 1995, Onoprienko again heard the "inner voice" and, having stolen a hunting rifle, went to kill.

At times, the chronicle of the crimes committed by Onoprienko resembles a low-grade horror film, where a maniac with passion and devilish dexterity kills everything that moves, breathes or tries to crawl. Regardless of whether the victim resists or begs for mercy, threatens to report to the police or sleeps peacefully in a cradle. He killed everyone, left no witnesses, even if they were babies.

In Fastov, he killed the driver of a passing car only because he did not give him a lift, and for the company - his wife and two small children. Stuffed a bag with stolen junk, hid it near the monument and... forgot to come for it.

In the Kiev region, Nopriyenko killed a man, a woman and their daughter in order to get hold of cottage cheese, a tracksuit and sneakers.

In the village of Bratkovichi, Lviv region, a maniac killed more people than died here in the Great Patriotic War (!).

Later, analyzing his actions, Ukrainian operatives recreated Onoprienko's typical way of committing crimes. A few hours before the "action" he came to a populated area (most often a small village or settlement, where there were not even telephones), studied the situation, walked around the outskirts and outskirts. After waiting for people to fall asleep, he chose a building where the lights were on until late in the windows. Then he broke into the house if the door was not locked, shot at two nearby owners (Onoprienko went to the murders with a stolen sawn-off shotgun T03-34 with two vertical barrels) and ran out into the street. Family members rushed after him. And he coolly reloaded his weapon and shot the rest. Then he killed children and finished off the wounded with the first objects that came to hand - a knife, an ax, a hammer, a shovel. He used a different tactic if the house was locked. Then Onoprienko threw a stone out the window. The indignant owner jumped out onto the porch to find out: which bully broke the glass? And he got shot at point-blank range. By turning off the owner, the killer gained freedom of action and finished off all the living who were in the house. Most of the victims probably did not even have time to understand what was happening.

"Gentle, considerate, caring." This characteristic was given to him by a cohabitant, who was found to have 122 items stolen from crime scenes. Moreover, Onoprienko's girlfriend is an absolutely normal woman: twenty-seven years old, a military serviceman in Yavorova's military unit, a mother of two children. The children, by the way, doted on the good Uncle Tolya. He brought them toys, spoiled them with sweets and fruits, walked and played with them, read books and showed cartoons on a VCR. Anatoly Onoprienko generally loved children. Anna says that when her son Igor called him "dad", it was one of the happiest moments in his life. But Anatoly Onoprienko also loved to kill children. Only during the three honeymoons spent with his beloved, he killed 38 people, usually slaughtering entire families right in their sleep.

In total, the “Zhytomyr maniac” committed more than 20 attacks, killed in Odessa, Zhytomyr, Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov, Zaporozhye, Rivne, Kiev regions. He killed, according to him, “looking at the map of Ukraine, so that the places of the murder would resemble a cross with their location.”

"When a person dies, a memorial service is celebrated on the 9th day, the 40th and the year. First I killed 9 people, then 40 and "changed" the year, so there were still 300 people left to kill ..."

They caught him seven years after the first murder almost by accident, despite the fact that more than 100,000 people were involved in the search for the maniac: police services, internal troops, and the SBU. The district police officer in the city of Yavorov, Lviv region, became aware that a man who seemed to be hiding had stopped at a local resident ... It was Onoprienko who was hiding ... At first he was silent. But once he spoke ... Until six o'clock the next morning, his story continued. When asked about the motive, he replied that he was ordered to kill "from above", that he was led by "intergalactic forces". He demanded to be studied as a "natural phenomenon". He admitted, one by one, to all the murders, except for banditry, which he and his accomplice Rogozhin, who assisted the “guru” in several murders, are charged with.

In order for Ukraine to be accepted into the European Union, Leonid Kuchma imposed a moratorium on the death penalty, 81 death sentences hung in the air. Taking into account popular indignation, the President of Ukraine said that "as a person, he sees no other punishment for the serial killer Anatoly Onoprienko, except for the death sentence"... The reassured people covered their pitchforks and scythes, but observers from the European Union immediately became more active, threatening the "inhumane" to deny the country literally everything... "What did you want to achieve?" - Asked Onoprienko during the investigation. "I wanted to show people's impotence," the killer of the 20th century smiled coquettishly. Wanted - and showed ...

In Zhytomyr Prison No. 8 there are about thirty people whose death penalty has been commuted to life imprisonment. Among them is Anatoly Onoprienko. A mechanism for keeping this category of convicts has been developed. They have the right to receive two parcels a year, one half-hour walk a day, receive correspondence, food in accordance with allowances, and medical care. Since the entry into force of the verdict, they have been banned from visiting their relatives.

However, after 15 years of imprisonment and subject to good behavior, they are eligible to apply for a pardon. And, perhaps, someone will be released. All these provisions of the law also apply to Anatoly Onoprienko ...

Trial of Anatoly Onoprienko

Anatoly Onoprienko is one of the most brutal killers, who began his "career" back in the USSR, whose terrible adventures are also well known to foreign forensic experts. At the peak of his fame, in the mid-90s of the XX century, he topped the rating of the most bloodthirsty killers over the past 200 years, compiled by the France-Presse news agency. I must say, not in vain. In just six months, this maniac took the lives of 52 people, almost as many as Chikatilo in two decades. So the trial of this killer, who has one of the longest "track records" in modern forensic science, was called the "trial of the century."

Anatoly Onoprienko

Anatoly Onoprienko was born in a small village in the Zhytomyr region in 1959.

The boy's father left the family shortly after the birth of his son, and when Tolya was not even five years old, his mother died. Until the age of seven, the future serial killer lived with his grandfather, grandmother and older brother, and then "loving relatives" handed over the boy to an orphanage.

After finishing eight classes, Onoprienko went to study at a technical school, deciding to become a forester, but did not receive a diploma, since he was drafted into the army. After demobilization, Anatoly chose a different specialty and entered the nautical school in Odessa (graduating in 1986). By the way, before that, the guy managed to complete the program of 9th, 10th and 11th grades of high school in just three months (!)! Having received the cherished "crusts" of a sailor-minder, he made several foreign voyages. However, after Anatoly was convicted of dishonesty and petty theft, he was written off to the shore. The guy quickly found a new job, becoming the head of the fire department in the city of Dneprorudny, Zaporozhye region. But the quiet life of this man did not attract.

In 1989, Onoprienko began his "career" as a serial killer. The first victims of the maniac were a married couple, shot by him at his own car. By the New Year, Anatoly's "account" had already nine victims; among others, an eleven-year-old boy, who was sleeping in a car, died at the hands of Onoprienko. Then, in the car, the sadist killed four more people. The bodies of the dead were burned by their executioner in cold blood. At that time, Anatoly worked in company with Sergei Rogozin, an Afghan veteran.

Onoprienko understood that now they would be looking for him, and decided to get away. From 1989 to 1995 he traveled illegally, without a visa, in Europe; twice the offender was expelled to his homeland - from Germany and Austria. What Anatoly did during these years is hard to say. In his own words, he was a simple worker. Nevertheless, law enforcement agencies have reason to assert that abroad Onoprienko hunted with the same robbery, burglary and petty robberies. By the way, the killer, being expelled from Europe in 1994, flew to Kyiv, but did not go to his relatives or friends. Instead, he decided to play the role of a mentally ill person and stood on one leg at the Boryspil airport all day on August 31. As a result, the police sent Onopienko to a psychiatric hospital. Then the maniac managed to lead the doctors - he was diagnosed with "paranoid syndrome" and registered. After that, the maniac escaped from the clinic and, having robbed the apartment, went to Germany.

Anatoly finally returned to Ukraine only at the end of 1995 and again began to kill, now acting without accomplices, in cold blood, according to a well-established scheme. At the trial, the killer calmly said: "I never regretted anything, and I don't regret anything now." Onoprienko began his bloody "tour" in the west of Ukraine, shooting the Zaichenko spouses and their two children. Then the maniac managed to get hold of a few: he took wedding rings, some jewelry, warm clothes. As he left, he set the house on fire to cover his tracks. The next victims of the killer were a family of four: Onoprienko shot adults, stabbed a six-year-old child, and strangled a three-month-old baby. The killer set the house on fire again.

December 31, 1995 Anatoly once again went on the "hunt". In the village of Bratkovichi, Lviv region, he broke into the new house of Peter and Maria Kryuchkov. In addition to the spouses, there were two nineteen-year-old twin sisters of Mary in the building. The killer, dubbed the "terminator" by investigators, shot all four. He cut off a finger with a wedding ring from the owner's wife, and pulled out earrings from one of the girls with meat - they were lying next to the body, because they turned out to be just jewelry. The girl, who tried to escape from the maniac in the kitchen, bit her hands to the bone in a fit of horror. Not far from the burned-out house of the Kryuchkovs, the task force found the bodies of two more men: apparently, these people witnessed the crime. By the way, Onoprienko failed to get hold of someone else's property at that time, since the Kryuchkovs had almost no valuable things; all the funds that Peter earned abroad, he invested in a new house.

On January 5, in the Zaporozhye region, near the Berdyansk-Dnepropetrovsk highway, a maniac killed four people: two men fiddling with a broken car, a passer-by and a policeman on duty. The next day, the investigating authorities received four more corpses. Onoprienko not only took the rings and earrings from one of the killed, but also took off his shoes, he was also flattered by two bags of groceries. January 17 - another tragedy in Bratkovichi. The unfortunate village became the main arena of the monster's actions. This time, its inhabitants buried seven fellow villagers - a family whose youngest member was only six years old, and two bystanders to the murder. By the way, in Bratkovichi, a maniac killed more people than died here in World War II!

After returning from Europe, Onoprienko decided to go to his brother in Narodichi. He was not going to get a job, but he did not want to be a dependent, so he found an easy way to solve the problem - theft. Later, Anatoly again tried to go abroad illegally, but this time he was not lucky. Then he moved to Yavorov, Lviv region, where his cousin, who had the rank of captain, served. For a month the murderer lived with relatives, and then the daughter-in-law began to insist that her husband find another place for his gloomy brother, who kept a gun under his bed. Then the captain introduced the thirty-seven-year-old Anatoly to the thirty-four-year-old Anna Kozak, who had her own apartment. The woman worked in a garrison hairdressing salon, managed to divorce her husband and raised two children alone. Anna was looking for support in life; she “pecked” at Anatoly immediately. And he tried not to disappoint the woman.

Having decided on the place of residence, the maniac began the second series of murders. From December 1995 to April 16, 1996, he killed 43 people. Among his victims was even a ten-month-old baby!

Anna Kozak, meanwhile, seemed quite happy: she met a sensible, calm man who treated her children better than their own father. And with her, Anatoly behaved as if he were a boy in love. Kozak had no suspicions that Onopriyenko was leading a double life. The killer explained his frequent absences by trips to his brother and odd jobs, while he himself continued to travel around Ukraine, destroying entire families. So, on January 30, four people became his victims in the Kiev region (two of them were children). Three weeks later, the Dubchak family died in Oblevsk (Zhytomyr region). Onoprienko shot his father and son, and beat his mother and daughter to death with a hammer that came under his arm. On February 27, the Bondarchuk family from the Lviv region and their neighbor added to the sad list of victims of the maniac. In this case, two children were hacked to death by a serial killer with an axe. You can talk about the adventures of Onoprienko for a long time, but is it worth it? All the crimes of this monster are equally terrible and bloody. The last time Anatoly successfully “hunted” near Bratkovichi was on March 22, 1996, destroying a family of five. The killer cut the youngest of the children with a knife from the stomach to the throat. During the three months spent with Anna, the maniac managed to kill 38 people.

The investigation team, meanwhile, worked in emergency mode. However, one remark should be made here. The fact is that Onoprienko could have ended up behind bars at the very beginning of his terrible “activities”. In 1989, he and Sergei Rogozin were “put out”; all the evidence was there, it only remained to charge the accomplices with several murders, and then. For some unknown reason, at the last moment they stopped “digging” under Onoprienko.

It took too long to identify the serial killer. Finally, law enforcement agencies received information about the maniac's place of residence. The operation to detain him became the largest in the history of Ukraine: the police, internal troops, and the SBU were involved in the case; the participants in the operation had heavy weapons and even armored vehicles in their assets! In total, more than 100,000 (!) People were involved in the search and capture of the maniac.

The horror of six bloody years ended unexpectedly simply. On April 16, a sleepy Onopriyenko calmly opened the door to the police. He believed that it was Anna Kozak who returned home. Ahead of the maniac was a long term in solitary confinement, since there was a significant delay with the start of the trial.

Preparing the parties for trial took so much time. Firstly, the materials of the Onoprienko case barely fit in 100 solid volumes. And secondly, there were certain problems with financing: it was necessary to pay for travel and accommodation for almost 500 witnesses. The court was also attended by reporters from all over the world. They were interested not only in the maniac himself, but also in the person on whom the bitter mission will fall - to act as a lawyer for the most ruthless killer in the last 200 years.

The trial of Onoprienko began on November 24, 1998. The defender of the maniac at the trial was Ruslan Moshkovsky, whom the press immediately dubbed the "devil's advocate." Interestingly, already during the trial, the killer demanded to replace his lawyer, so that he must be a Muscovite, a Jew by nationality, over 50 years old and with twenty years of practice. Onoprienko's request was rejected, and Moshkovsky had to drag this cart to the end. Ruslan Ivanovich later gave an extensive interview in which he spoke about his client, his "exploits" and about the trial itself, which foreign criminologists began to call the "trial of the century." To this day, journalists from Germany, Sweden, and Russia come to the "devil's advocate". Moshkovsky, who was once accused of agreeing to defend this monster, explained that lawyers are not asked for consent to participate in such cases. At the trial of a maniac who "shines" the death penalty, a defender is appointed - go and work. So it remains only to say a warm "thank you" to the authorities, who hung such a "fun" thing on you. In general, Moshkovsky had to console himself with the fact that “someone still has to do a thankless job,” and then go get acquainted with the case (100 volumes of 250–300 pages each) and his client.

For four months, Ruslan Ivanovich had to listen to a lot from the relatives of the victims; he was literally bombarded with anonymous messages with threats. No one seemed to care that the "devil's advocate" himself considered the death penalty a fair sentence in this case. He just honestly fulfilled his duty and brought the matter to an end, and then filed a cassation appeal with a request to mitigate the punishment to the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Moshkovsky did this for purely professional reasons, bearing in mind that a person in his profession often has to put emotions aside. So, let's say, like a surgeon who, taking up a scalpel, will not figure out who is lying on the operating table - a bandit or an ordinary law-abiding citizen.

First of all, the "devil's advocate" decided to make sure that his client was not forced to take on someone else's fault. This was not done by accident. After all, just three weeks before the arrest of the maniac in Lvov, excessively zealous police officers tried to pin Onopriyenko's sins on twenty-nine-year-old Yuriy Mozola, who was eventually tortured to death. And this is not the only such episode in this case. So, after Anatoly and his accomplice shot the family of the Poles Vasilyuk, the investigation was taken under special control (of course, because foreigners suffered!). As a result, the police arrested two drug addicts - a man and a woman. After "spiritual" conversations with representatives of law enforcement agencies, one of the suspects hanged himself in prison, and the second died in the hospital. But it was then that the operatives had data that pointed to Onoprienko and Rogozin! Moshkovsky claims that the criminal duet was deliberately allowed to escape punishment, and then Onoprienko's hunting documents, which featured a 12-gauge gun with a device for night shooting, evaporated somewhere. Most likely, the point was that Rogozin, who was identified by the investigation, was the chairman of the Society of Afghans, that is, a well-known and respected person.

In a conversation with a lawyer, the killer calmly stated that there was no violence against him and that other people's sins were not “hung” on him. Onoprienko said: “Ruslan Ivanovich, everything that they accuse me of is mine. These hands are up to the elbows in blood. The maniac willingly testified and did not seem to repent of his deed. He deliberately shocked the public, trying to convince others that a normal person cannot do this. Nevertheless, when it came to defense, Anatoly behaved smartly, prudently, using all the possibilities, which surprised even professionals. The court decided to conduct a second medical examination of the accused. For this purpose, Andrei Tsubera, a candidate of medical sciences, came to Zhytomyr from the Pavlovsk hospital. So, the psychiatrist came to an unequivocal conclusion: Onoprienko is healthy, and all his stories are nothing more than a simulation.

So, after collecting the maximum amount of evidence and conducting all conceivable examinations, the case was taken to court. It is difficult to say who and from whom was more carefully protected in the hall where the trial was taking place - those present from the maniac or himself from those around him. Almost all the participants in the meetings demanded the death penalty for Onoprienko, and most of them insisted that the death of the monster be as painful as possible. And how could it be otherwise, if Onoprienko quite calmly admitted the murders of more than fifty people, and at the same time he was clearly proud of his "exploits" ?! So, he easily agreed to tell in detail about the murders of babies, and at the same time he claimed that the juvenile victims did not cause him not only not a drop of compassion, but also no emotional outburst at all. The killer behaved defiantly, declared that he was a "hostage of justice." Onoprienko explained his actions simply: they say, a certain voice from above ordered him to kill. This behavior of serial killers is far from new. Onopriyenko, who used a "preparation" that had already set the criminologists on edge, making them seriously think that the person under investigation was suffering from a serious mental illness, spoke a lot about his motives and was clearly far-fetched. He planned for himself three series of murders, and each of them was supposed to serve "for the good." The first included nine victims (against dying communism), the second - 40 (against neo-nationalism), and the third - 365 (against the "plague of the 20th century"). Onoprienko explained these numbers simply. Like, the dead are also commemorated on the ninth, 40th day, and also every year. Anatoly committed the first series of murders together with Sergei Rogozhin, and then began to act alone. In the second series, as the maniac cynically emphasized, he somewhat "overfulfilled the plan", sending 43 people to the next world. He, you see, had just begun the implementation of the third series, but the arrest disrupted his plans, preventing "saving humanity from AIDS." As for the geography of crimes, it should have resembled a cross on the body of Ukraine. This nonsense with an attempt at least for schizophrenia seemed to pursue several goals: Onoprienko enjoyed “playing for the public” and at the same time tried to make himself look more abnormal than he really was.

It is interesting that the maniac failed to write off the atrocities on the thirst for profit. He did not have any special profit from the crimes committed. Onoprienko killed one of his victims for ... a bucket of herring, which he then brought to his brother.

The trial of the maniac lasted about four months. Finally, the hearing ended, and on March 31, 1999, the monster was sentenced to death. Since there was a lot of noise in the hall (many of those present shouted insults and curses at the defendant), the judge had to announce the verdict several times. Sergei Rogozin was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Lawyer Moshkovsky since then, by the way, has been trying not to conduct criminal cases at all, preferring to resolve housing and civil disputes.

In 2000, a moratorium on the death penalty came into effect in Ukraine, and the sentence against the maniac was not carried out. Nevertheless, residents of many Ukrainian cities organized a collection of signatures under an appeal to the president demanding that the moratorium be suspended - especially for Onoprienko. However, the serial killer is still kept in the Zhytomyr prison. The guards say that the maniac behaves calmly, decently, reads a lot and hopes. go free! After all, after 11 years in prison, he has the right to apply for pardon. But we must not forget: at one of the court sessions, Onoprienko firmly said: “If I manage to get out, I will start killing again.”

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In Zhytomyr Prison No. 8, having spent about 17 years in prison.

Brief biography of the maniac

Onoprienko's father participated in the Second World War and had awards for bravery, but then he was convicted twice. The first time he received a sentence for stealing a piece of bacon, the second - for borrowing money from relatives and not returning it. When Anatoly was three years old, his mother died of heart failure.

Onoprienko was brought up by his grandfather, grandmother and aunt, who themselves demanded care for themselves, and about 7 years old older brother and father, who did not want to take him into their families, handed Anatoly to an orphanage. After the orphanage, he entered the forest technical school, from where he was subsequently expelled for poor progress.

After the army, Onoprienko got a job at a nautical school, served in the navy. After his dismissal in 1987, he began his career as a firefighter, became a department commander, and joined the Communist Party. Onoprienko worked as a deputy party organizer in the city of Dneprorudne, Zaporozhye region.

First kills

In the first series of murders in the summer of 1989, committed with partner Sergei Rogozin, a veteran of the Afghan war (Onoprienko himself committed the murders himself), Onoprienko used an officially registered gun with a sight for hunting in the dark.

According to some reports, Onoprienko fled to Europe, trying to obtain political asylum and citizenship of different countries. Having achieved nothing, Onoprienko, being sure that the police were looking for him in Ukraine, continued to travel illegally around Europe.

After he was deported back to Ukraine, Onoprienko, believing that he is still being sought, spends a long time at the Boryspil airport, waiting for his arrest. However, seeing that no one was interested in him at the airport, Onoprienko decided to leave for Kyiv. Later, at the railway station, he feigned insanity, after which he was sent to the Pavlov Psychiatric Hospital.

During his hospitalization, he committed several crimes. After some time, he learned that those murders were not solved. After leaving the hospital, he began to prepare a new series of murders. In the second series in 1995 and 1996, Onoprienko acted alone.

As it turned out later, Onoprienko killed with a sawn-off shotgun made from a TOZ-34 hunting rifle. This sawn-off shotgun was found by the police in the room in which Onopriyenko was detained (in the apartment of her mistress Anna Kozak, where she lived with her children). Items were found there, including jewelry and a VCR that had been stolen from the victims.

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According to the investigation, Onoprienko's victims were couples, families, groups of people, but also individuals - in the second series of murders, he could kill up to seven people in a day (in one episode he killed eight people in two days).

In the late 80s, Onoprienko killed couples and companies of people in cars. In 1995-1996, he chose poorly protected private houses in villages in the west and in the center of Ukraine, entered them at night or in the early morning and killed everyone, including small children. In addition, Onoprienko killed random passers-by who met on the way in the same places, sometimes shot at people from a car.

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In March 1996, in the Lviv region, employees of the SBU and the prosecutor's office detained Onoprienko, whom someone told the district police officer. Seeing the policemen entering, Onopriyenko, who had just woken up, rushed to the bag with the sawn-off shotgun, but was captured.

Between 1989 and 1996, Onoprienko killed 52 people, 11 of them minors. The youngest victim was 3 months old. Onoprienko killed people on the territory of Zhytomyr, Kiev, Lvov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Rivne regions.

Onoprienko was sentenced to death on March 31, 1999, but due to Ukraine's intention to join the Council of Europe, the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Onoprienko's accomplice Rogozin was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Last interview with the serial maniac Onoprienko:

Recently, Anatoly Onopriyenko, the bloodiest serial killer in Ukraine, died of a heart attack in Zhytomyr Prison No. 8.

The blood of at least 52 people is on his hands. However, during the consideration of his case, the killer said that he needed 360 more souls. His weapons are a sawn-off shotgun, an ax and a knife, with which he somehow cut the boy from the stomach to the throat. Until the last day of his life, Anatoly convinced that he could not commit the murders himself, and higher powers ordered him to shoot people.

Anatoly committed his first murders back in the Soviet Union - in the summer of 1989 - together with his friend, a veteran of the Afghan war, Sergei Rogozin. Together, with the help of Onoprienko's gun, they shot and robbed people on the highway. The first victims of the maniac were the couple, who just walked to their car. Onoprienko shot them in cold blood. Later in his case, he will say that he received "neither pleasure nor profit" from these murders.

During the year, he and his accomplice shot people near cars on the highway. In total, in 1989, Onoprienko killed 9 people. Among them is an 11-year-old boy who was sleeping peacefully in the car. He burned the bodies along with the transport.

Carnage at the call of voices

Video: Serial killer Anatoly Onoprienko - documentary

Anatoly Onoprienko is the bloodiest maniac in Ukraine. Having killed 9 people, Anatoly travels illegally across Europe and tries to obtain political asylum abroad. According to his stories, in other countries he worked in factories. In particular, in Germany he chopped meat at the plant.

However, in 1995 he was deported to Ukraine. But no one arrested him at the airport. So he takes on a new series of murders. This time he does not attack travelers, but enters houses and shoots entire families all over Ukraine. In just one year, he managed to kill 43 people. Among them, 10 are children. According to him, he killed children "because he did not want to leave them orphans." Onoprienko himself was brought up by his grandparents, who then sent him to a boarding school.

“I never regretted anything, and I don’t regret it now,” he will say in court. The first victims of Onoprienko's new series of murders were the Zaichenko family, whom he brutally shot, took their wedding rings, warm clothes and burned the corpses in the house. Further in a day, a maniac could kill up to 7-9 people. “When everyone was asleep, I went in. First he shot the owner, then his wife, who begged: "Don't shoot," he stabbed a 6-year-old and strangled a three-month-old baby. Then he set fire to the house, ”Anatoly told about the scenario of one of the murders.

The serial killer visited another family home before the New Year - December 31, 1995. The Kryuchkovs and their two twin daughters were brutally shot. The body of one of the girls was found under the table. Before her death, she bit her hand to the bone from fear of Onoprienko. Most of all, the maniac slaughtered people in the village of Bratkovichi, where he visited from time to time.

Weapons Onoprienko

From the beginning, Onoprienko shot his victims with a sawed-off hunting rifle TOZ-34. Throughout the period of bloody murders, he used a firearm. However, in the second period of the murders, after returning from abroad, Onoprienko helps herself to exterminate families also with axes, hammers and a knife. On February 27, 1996, he destroyed the Bondarchuk family. The maniac killed two children and their neighbor with an axe. And during his last murder on March 22, 1996, near the village of Bratkovichi, he cut the child from the stomach to the throat with a knife.

Then his collection of deaths was replenished by another 7 souls. “I look at it like an animal. Like a predator looking at a sheep,” Onoprienko explained during interrogation in 1997.

Voices from outer space ordered to kill

It is not known exactly why Anatoly Onoprienko began to kill. During interrogations and during court hearings, he often talked about the "voices" that gave him assignments. In particular, according to him, "higher powers" ordered three series of murders. The first - 9 people - for dying communism. The second - 40 people - against neo-nationalism. And the third series of victims was supposed to protect humanity from the plague of the 21st century.

Onoprienko was supposed to take 360 ​​souls. But he was prevented from being arrested. “I couldn't do it myself. I had a good upbringing. I was a communist, sailed abroad on the largest liner in the USSR. There, with a visa, everyone was checked very carefully. I don't know why I did it. There are probably some forces on Earth, in space that affect a person. I was influenced,” Onoprienko said during his last interview.