Vladimir Mukhankin

Vladimir Mukhankin
Born (1960-04-22) 22 April 1960
Khutor Krasnoarmeysky, Zernogradsky District, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR
Other names The Pupil of Chikatilo, Lenin
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment
Conviction(s) Attempted murder
Murder
Killings
Victims 9
Country Russia

Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin (Russian: Владимир Анатольевич Муханкин, born 22 April 1960) is a Russian serial killer, who called himself "the pupil of Chikatilo". In 1995 he killed 9 persons - one man, five women and three children in a two-month period. Two of them were killed in the last day before his arrest.

Life

His childhood was cruel and harsh. There is an opinion he had been sexually abused in special school. Mukhankin was committing thefts and robberies, torturing animals as boy and arrested for child molestation.

Murders

In 1995 he committed nine murders (and two murder attempts) ripping and cutting the bodies of victims, mostly in the town of Shakhty (Rostov Oblast). Victims - women and girls - were stabbed or suffocated, some of them tortured before death.

Rape was not a part of his usual modus operandi, but in at least one case Mukhankin had sex with a 13-year-old victim whom he then killed. Dead bodies were ripped and sometimes burned.

Mukhankin's main and possibly only motive to kill women and young girls was just that he hated women. He also had a plan to kill 40 policemen (the list was found) as a revenge for years spent in prison. He was caught before he could enact his plan.

Punishment

In court Mukhankin was unremorseful. He said that he considered himself as Chikatilo's student in the art of murder, but then announced: "Chikatilo was a chicken, I am cooler than he!". He was sentenced to the death penalty, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. In prison Mukhankin writes poems in which he claims himself to be a thinker and a poet. The notes with such poems were presented to Yandiev, a detective, who was working on his case.

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