We’ve all heard of the world’s most infamous criminals: the Jeffrey Dahmers and Al Capones of history, who got away with murder – sometimes quite literally – well, until they got caught. Astonishing illegal and immoral acts of all kinds that gave these criminals an unpleasant legacy in history. However, there are many more you won’t have heard of – some due to how long ago they conducted their dastardly deeds, and others because their crimes didn’t make the international news pages. Read on and remember – crime doesn’t pay (well, not often).
Salvatore Riina
A great number of notorious criminals are part of a gang of organized crime, and so we start our list today with one of the Mafia. Specifically Salvatore Riina, who was for a time the head of the Corleonesi faction of the Sicilian Mafia. In his tenure as the boss, he ordered the bombings and assassinations of hundreds of people, not least Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, prosecutors in the Antimafia Commission.
It was this that prompted a widescale crackdown on the Mafia, and the first informant was recruited. Following this, 475 Mafia members were indicted, and 338 convicted, and Riina felt compelled to retaliate. He ordered a bomb to go off inside the Apennine Base Tunnel, killing 17 people and injuring 267. It became known as the Christmas Massacre, happening on 23rd December. Riina was finally arrested after 23 years as a fugitive, when it transpired he had been living in Palermo the whole time. He died in 2017 whilst in prison.
Peter Niers
One of history’s most notorious criminals, Peter Niers began his 15-year crime spree as a 16th century highwayman in Alsace (in present-day France), which might not seem that heinous. However, he didn’t limit his criminal activities to highway robbery, as the deaths of over 500 of his victims attested.
Arguably the worst part of his story is that he was arrested in 1577, but managed to escape and commit even more horrible crimes before he was arrested a second time in 1581. At least that time he didn’t manage to escape.
Shoko Asahara
You may not be familiar with this Japanese cult leader, but you might have heard of the crimes that prompted his execution in 2018. Shoko Asahara was the founder and leader of a doomsday cult that hung out in a compound at the foothills of Japan’s Mount Fuji.
The cult, known as Aum Shinrikyo, had an eclectic mix of beliefs and followings that included Christian and apocalyptic teachings, Buddhist and Hindu meditation, yoga and – wait for it – the occult. Asahara was convicted of masterminding the lethal sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995 (along with other crimes).
Elizabeth Báthory
There’s no way that a list of infamous criminals could be entirely male dominated, so please pay heed to the Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory, who earned the nickname of Countess Dracula way back in the late 1500s. It seemed that she was reasonably well behaved, a dutiful wife and mother, until her husband passed away.
Then word got out of her depraved behavior, predominantly to young girls in her servitude, many of whom suffered horrendous deaths. Her social standing meant she never faced trial but was placed under house arrest until her demise five years later.
Leonid Minin
Guns kill many people – over 35,000 people so far have died from gun violence in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Worse still is the fact that arms dealers profit from the sale of weapons to dangerous people. Ukrainian-born Leonid Minin is one such nefarious criminal, a man who got rich on warfare.
Much of his wealth came from trading with rebels in West Africa, and his lavish lifestyle was at direct odds to the suffering of hundreds of thousands in civil wars that were weaponized by Minin. By sheer fluke, he was discovered and arrested in 2000 by an Italian vice squad patrol, partying at the hotel he owned near Milan.
Gilles de Rais
This man and his list of crimes was the inspiration for the French fairytale of Bluebeard, which, when you know what he was accused of, is understandably, a rather watered-down version. Gilles de Rais was a respected aristocrat, an accomplished knight and a national hero in France, having served as Joan of Arc’s chief captain.
However, the truth will out, or so it is said, and the allegations against Gilles de Rais were so abhorrent that he was executed in 1440 (although there is talk that it was a huge miscarriage of justice). Either way, the phrase “How the mighty have fallen” has never been more apt.
Alexander Pichushkin
Chances are that most of us have heard of famous criminals like Al Capone and Jeffrey Dahmer, but there are plenty of undesirable people in the rest of the world too. Take Alexander Pichushkin from Russia, who became known as The Chessboard Killer.
Word has it that police found a chessboard with 62 of the 64 squares dated with the occasions he had taken a life. He would lure his victims for a consolatory drink over his dog’s grave in Bittsevsky Park, Moscow. For his crimes he was jailed in 2007 for life. Checkmate.
Stella Kubler
While all of us are aware of the heinous evil of the most famous Nazis of WWII, you probably won’t know of Stella Kubler, a famously cruel woman known as Blonde Poison around Berlin, as she denounced so many fellow Jewish people to the Nazis.
She is attributed with the deaths of between 600 and 3,000 Jews during the war, even after her own family were sent to Auschwitz, and remained firmly anti-Semitic until her death, aged 72. It’s said that her loathing of Jews, despite being one, stems from a resentment that began at school where her classmates were wealthier.
Kenichi Shinoda
It’s not just the Italians that have a mafia – Japan, one of the safest countries in the world according to Time Out, has its own – the Yakuza. There are several factions, but current top dog of the biggest is Kenichi Shinoda, nicknamed the Japanese Godfather. He’s done time (thirteen years, to be precise), for killing a rival with a Samurai sword known as a katana.
Oh, and he oversees a 35,000-strong group known as the Yamaguchi-gumi. The US Treasury says that the group makes billions of dollars each year from crimes such as trafficking (drugs AND humans), money laundering and prostitution. Vito Corleone, eat your heart out.
Belle Gunness
There are plenty of infamous male serial killers to read up on, if your tastes lean towards the macabre, but women are also capable of atrocious crimes – and Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness was a classic femme fatale. In 1881 she met her first husband, and first known victim, Mads Sorenson, in Chicago. They had four children, but two died of acute colitis, a known symptom of poisoning. Then Mads died of cerebral hemorrhage.
Funnily enough, that happened the very day that one life insurance policy on him was due to expire the following day, and another came into effect. Gunness was able to collect on both policies (as she had with the two deceased children). She’s known for the deaths of at least 14 victims, possibly as many as 40. She became known as Hell’s Belle, and aptly so.
Wan Kuok-Koi
Organized crime gangs called triads are well-known in China, with the largest being the Sun Yee On triad, with over 25,000 members. Gangster Wan Kuok-Koi, known as Broken Tooth Koi, was a feared leader of the Macau branch of the 14K, the second largest triad. He started his life of crime from an early age, inadvertently garnering his nickname after breaking his front tooth crashing a stolen car.
The 14K was involved in extensive gang wars in Macau at the height of his leadership, with Broken Tooth Koi having rapidly climbed the crime boss ladder, in part due to his propensity for violence. The loss of several fingers in one of many assassination attempts evidently didn’t mar his ambition.
Abubakar Shekau
You probably don’t know the name of this particular criminal, but you may have heard of the Nigerian militant group that he led from 2009 until his death in 2021. Shekau was responsible for the transformation of Boko Haram from an underground sect into the deadly terrorist group that has led to the deaths of over 30,000 people.
The group is most famously known for the kidnap of hundreds of girls from a secondary school in Chibok in 2014, although Boko Haram have kidnapped many more people. Shekau was infamous for being declared dead, only to resurface, resolutely alive and kicking. However, his apparent suicide in 2021 seems to have been the real deal.
Ruth Eisemann-Schier
Ruth Eisemann-Schier is famous primarily for being the first woman to make the FBI’s Most Wanted list, back in 1968, which she was involved in the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle. The kidnapping demanded $500,000 in cash, which for the wealthy parents, friends of then President-Elect Richard Nixon, was presumably a price well worth paying for the safe return of their daughter.
The poor girl had been buried in a box 18 inches underground for over 80 hours, and even though she’d been given food, water and ventilation it must have been horrendous. Eisemann-Schier served four years of her seven-year sentence and was then deported to her home country of Honduras.
Liu Pengli
The legend of Prince Liu Pengli has it that he was the first recorded serial killer, as well as a member of the Han Dynasty way back when (more specifically, he was appointed king of Jidong in 144 BC).
You could liken him to Game of Thrones’ Ramsey Bolton, in that he quite enjoyed murder as a hobby, and for the extensive period of over 20 years. Justice being rather scant in the annals of history, he wasn’t jailed or executed for his crimes, merely banished from his realm as a lowly commoner. How terrible for him.
Ahmad Suradji
Known as the Black Magic Killer, Admad Suradji was a deranged Indonesian man who believed he was a shaman. Nothing wrong with a bit of self-delusion, you might think – well, unless you become a serial killer. Suradji had some odd beliefs, the primary one being that drinking his victims’ saliva would enhance his mystical powers. Weird.
The poor victims, 42 women he killed over the 11-year period of his crimes, discovered all too late that he was only benefitting himself, having encouraged them to dig a hole for themselves to stand waist-deep in, and then when they were immobilized in said hole, he strangled them.
Christopher Scarver
It’s a pretty innocuous name, and while there’s a chance you might know who Christopher Scarver is, he doesn’t have the infamy of some of the inmates he did time with. Scarver was already serving a jail sentence for the murder of Steve Lohman, a man employed by the Wisconsin Conservation Corps, where Scarver had been working.
Whilst tragic, as a crime it wasn’t likely to make national or international news. However, whilst serving a life sentence for Lohman’s murder, Scarver then killed two inmates – one of whom was none other than Jeffrey Dahmer. More likely you’ve heard of him.
Karl Denke
Known (or rather, not) as the Forgotten Cannibal, Karl Denke was the stuff of nightmares. A respected, upstanding member of his local community to outward appearances, he hid a deeply troubling secret – his taste for his fellow man. Outwardly, Denke was a well-known father figure in the then-Prussian town of Münsterberg (now Ziębice in Poland).
However, Denke took in plenty of travelers and vagrants – to their peril. he is believed to have killed and possibly eaten as many as 42 victims, based on the number of body parts found in his house. Most disgusting was his supply of “pickled pork” to neighbors and villagers. Let’s just say it wasn’t from any pig. Nasty.
Bruce Reynolds
This innocuously named British man was the mastermind behind one of England’s most infamous crimes – known as The Great Train Robbery, it was a team of sixteen men who undertook the robbery of a Royal Mail train in 1963. At the time it was the biggest recorded robbery in the UK, with a value of £2.61 million.
That’s equivalent to around £61 million in today’s terms, about $74.1 million. No mean feat. Bruce Reynolds spent nearly five years on the run after the robbery (including a family Christmas in Acapulco), finally serving nine of the 25 years for which he was sentenced.
Grace Marks
There are stories of people convicted of crimes they may not have committed throughout history, and Grace Marks was one of them. She likely isn’t a name you’ve heard of, although her story has been told before, after author Margaret Atwood was inspired to write a historical novel based on her life.
Marks was a housemaid in Ontario in 1843, when her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery were murdered. There was much controversy over whether she was an active participant, with fellow servant James Montgomery (pictured) executed for the brutal murders. Marks had her execution commuted to life in jail, for which she served almost thirty years.
Dennis Nilsen
This man fits the bill of so many serial killers – you wouldn’t bat an eyelid at him if you walked past him on the sidewalk, but his crimes were deeply disturbing. Nilsen murdered a dozen young men between 1978 and 1983, and admitted to a degree of post-murder unpleasantness (to put it mildly), with some of his victims.
His innocuous appearance belied the repugnant way that he treated his victims after he had killed them, and there was a certain irony to Nilsen calling the landlord to complain about the blocked drains caused by his attempts to dispose of human remains. Nilsen died in jail after serving 34 years of his life sentence.
Winston Moseley
You may have heard the history of how dialing 911 came into existence, and that the murder of a young lady called Kitty Genovese was instrumental in it. What you may not know is that she was killed by Winston Moseley, which is not really the pivotal part of what makes this significant in history.
Moseley was a psychopath and a serial killer, neither of which is of credit to him, but the details of her assault and murder, while tragic, were erroneously reported as having 38 witnesses, none of whom tried to help. The relative complexity of calling the police in 1964, combined with the bystander effect of the supposed witnesses, is what prompted the ability to call for help with just one number.
Anatoly Onoprienko
The many crimes of Anatoly Onoprienko earned him the nicknames The Terminator and The Beast of Ukraine, both of which sound far cooler than they should. Needless to say, the 52 murders that Onoprienko was convicted for were anything but, which involved breaking into an isolated property and stealing anything of value he could find before killing the family and any other witnesses.
The murders took place mostly between 1995 and 1996, although Onoprienko confessed to murders as far back as 1989, When police arrested him in 1996 and searched his house, they found over 120 items that were linked to unsolved murders. Onoprienko admitted in one interview that he resented his father for being sent away to an orphanage while his brother got to stay at home, and alleged that this destined him for the crimes he committed. He was jailed for life, and died in prison at the age of 54.
Harold Shipman
In 2000, it was discovered that British doctor Harold Shipman had murdered of over 250 of his patients. Shipman would administer an abnormal dose of drugs, primarily to elderly patients of whom he had won the trust, which would then kill them. Red flags about the high mortality rate of his usually healthy patients were raised.
However, it wasn’t until one solicitor queried the will of her deceased mother, which excluded the family but left almost £400,000 to Shipman. He was imprisoned for life, and hanged himself in jail four years later, having never given any acknowledgement of his guilt or any explanation as to why.
Paul Ogorzow
Among the many heinous crimes that occurred in Germany throughout World War II were the murders committed by a man known as The S-Bahn Murderer. Paul Ogorzow was an employee of the German railway, and he had managed to progress to assistant signalman by the time he started his criminal activities.
He first started to assault people, primarily women, in 1939, although he didn’t commit murder until the following year (mainly due to his own assumption that unconscious victims had died). He went on to kill eight people, and when the police arrested him they were shocked to find that he was a well-respected member of the Nazi party rather than an immigrant or Jewish person, as was expected due to Nazi policy at the time. Ogorzow confessed to eight murders, six attempted murders and 31 assaults, and he was executed for his crimes.
Pablo Escobar
At one time, Pablo Escobar had various responsibilities as the founder and leader of the notorious Medellín Cartel in Colombia. His cartel ruled the cocaine trade to the US with an iron fist, although there were plenty of attempts to steal his dominance – and he had a side hustle in narcoterrorism, which made sense, given his original criminal trade.
He is probably better known than most on this list, being nicknamed The King of Cocaine, not to mention being one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in his country (and the world). He died after being shot in a rooftop chase – suitably high-octane.
Robert Pickton
Robert Pickton may be one of the better-known criminals on this list, not least because his extensive list of victims was longer than it might have been, had police arrested him sooner. A report identified problems with the investigation, including poor leadership and a lack of communication between officers.
The lengthy delay in arresting Pickton added proverbial salt to the wounds of the victims’ families, who suffered the injustice of Pickton not being tried for the murders for 20 women. It was decided to convict based on the murders of just six women, in part due to difficulty obtaining any corpses. It’s widely believed that Pickton fed the bodies of his unfortunate victims to his pigs.
Edmund Kemper
We all have a mom, and more often than not, we love them but they can sometimes drive us a little crazy. However, as annoying as moms can be, it’s a pretty cold-hearted person that kills their own mama. Case in point right here, because Edmund Kemper killed his poor mother. And his dad’s parents to boot.
There were warning signs from a young age that something wasn’t right with Kemper. He started off with the family cat, and it’s said that serial killers often start with animals. Sadly, it wasn’t enough to stop him killing his grandparents, his mother and seven other people, most of whom female college students.
Lawrence Anini
Known throughout Nigeria in the 1980s as The Law, Laurence Anini was – and still is – the most notorious armed robber in Nigeria. He had started out in what was then Benin City as a taxi driver, but he soon grew bored and moved onto driving criminal gangs instead of paying customers. From that point on, he became a whirling dirvish in Benin City and earned a reputation for his relentless violence.
On occasion Anini would play the selfless philanthropist, sharing the money that he’d stolen like a parody of Robin Hood. One example said that he and his gang had robbed a branch of the African Continental Bank and stole 46,000 Nigerian dollars (a huge sum in the 1980s). Then, they drove to a nearby village market and sent the notes flying. Locals were ecstatic, but not so the family of the doctor he and his gang had killed earlier that day. Not so much the law as lawless. Anini was executed for his crimes in 1987.
H.H. Holmes
Known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes but born Herman Webster Mudgett in 1896, H.H. Holmes was an extensive criminal in his day. He was executed for murder (although he may have committed more), but his crimes included insurance fraud, horse theft, forgery, swindling, and three or four illegal and bigamous marriages. As if one illegal wife wasn’t enough.
There is speculation, cited as fact by the press of the time, about Holmes’ legendary ‘murder castle’ in Chicago, which was a three-story building comprising shops on the first floor and small apartments above. Rumor had it that the structure had a maze-like layout with hidden trapdoors to the basement, full of acid pits and quicklime, which have been deemed urban myth by modern-day historians. Of course, we can’t know for sure.
Anthony Gignac
In this day and age, fraudsters have all manner of elaborate tricks and cons up their sleeves to dupe innocent (and perhaps ignorant) folk out of their dollars. But con men and women have been around forever, and that’s how Anthony Gignac made his name – and his way onto this list.
He and his brother were orphaned at a young age, and it’s this early trauma that has been suggested for his criminal activities. Gignac began defrauding people from the tender age of 12, and as he developed his talents he started to go by the name of Prince Khalid bin al-Saud. It was only after he had managed to defraud his victims, who believed they were investors, $8.1 million, that Gignac was arrested. The owner of a lavish hotel had become suspicious that a supposed Muslim was ordering pork – prosciutto specifically – for his dinner. What a swine.
Madeleine Mouton
Frenchwoman Madeleine Mouton, born in 1910, was one of an array of women killers who used poison to despatch her victims. She had a torrent of lovers, much to the chagrin of her husband Clément, whom she married in 1929. Clément joined the Mobile Gendarmerie, part of the French Armed Forces, and so he and Madeleine moved to Algeria. That’s where the real trouble began.
Although Mouton had appeared to be a troubled soul since her teenage years, her erratic behavior prompted them to move more regularly than they might have, she been a calm and steady influence. While posted in Berthelot (now known as Youb), Mouton poisoned eleven people, seven of whom died. She was executed for the murders, the penultimate woman to be executed by guillotine in France, and the only woman to ever be executed in French Algeria. Hardly a great claim to fame.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho
The reason why some people end up on the path to criminality is often the question asked once someone has been apprehended and incarcerated, but it’s not always an easy question to answer. In the case of Pedro Rodrigues Filho, Brazil’s most prolific killer, there was speculation that he may have been affected by a damaged skull before birth, after his father assaulted his mother while she was pregnant.
Known to many as Pedrinho Matador, or Killer Petey, Rodrigues didn’t seem overly remorseful of his violent ways – he apparently had a tattoo that said “I kill for pleasure”. His life of crime had started out primarily with vengeful acts, for example killing the local mayor after his dad lost his job, and then an entire gang after his pregnant girlfriend was killed. He racked up many more murders in prison, and by the time of his own death, he claimed to have killed over 100 people.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Some of us have to work our backsides off to achieve the age-old American dream, some of us are born into wealthier circumstances, but some of us are perhaps destined to a life of crime. You could understand how this might be the case for Amado Carrillo Fuentes, whose uncle was the leader of the Guadalajara Cartel. Mentored into the drugs trade from a young age, Fuentes had built around $25 billion dollars by the time he died.
He earned the nickname of Lord of the Skies due to his fleet of planes that he used to transport cocaine around the world. He financed this fleet in part through money laundering. Understandably, such an infamous drug lord attracted the attention of the authorities, and he rose up the wanted lists in Mexico and the US. Perhaps the pressure led to his decision to undergo plastic surgery to change his appearance, but he died during the procedure due to complications.
Andrei Chikatilo
Oftentimes, psychologists looks for clues in a serial killer’s upbringing to help explain why they committed such horrendous crimes. In the case of Andrei Chikatilo, his childhood held a plethora of clues as to how he ended up murdering at least 52 young people. Growing up in a one-roomed wooden hut, suffering from malnutrition and severe hunger, and being beaten by his mother for chronic bedwetting, it can’t have been a happy childhood.
Nevertheless, understanding his childhood doesn’t negate his crimes, which started when he assaulted a female pupil whilst working as a teacher at Vocational School No. 32 in Novoshakhtinsk. He progressed to murder when the assaults no longer satisfied his desires, and yet he kept killing for a decade before he was arrested. His crimes earned him the nicknames The Butcher of Rostov and The Red Ripper, and he was executed for 52 of the murders.
Tamara Samsonova
Earning the nickname of Granny Ripper for the murders she committed, Tamara Samsonova wasn’t a landlady you would want to lodge with. Her life in was largely unremarkable until she moved to St. Petersburg in Russia, where her husband disappeared in the year 2000. It is speculated that she killed him and disposed of the body.
Like quite a few serial killers, Samsonova documented her efforts in a diary, which for some reason she wrote in Russian, English and German. The diaries are now part of the investigation into up to 14 murders, which has been ongoing since 2015. There is speculation that Samsonova may have had cannibalistic tendencies, although that may be largely down to the media rather than any strong evidence of such. Samsonova is currently being held in a psychiatric institution.
Vlado Taneski
Criminals are rarely the kind that warrant the moniker of criminal mastermind, and Vlado Taneski was one such example. He was a crime reporter from Macedonia who was tasked with writing about the murders of three middle-aged woman in 2004, 2007 and 2008. The police became increasingly suspicious when his freelance articles contained details about the murders that weren’t in the public domain.
The three woman that he killed were middle-aged cleaning ladies, all of whom were said to look similar to his mother, with whom he’d had a troubled relationship. Taneski had made detailed references in his articles to facts that only the investigating police would known, which some have speculated he deliberately included in order to be caught. We will never know his motive or whether he meant to be arrested, as he took his own life in his prison cell the day after his arrest.
Ivan Milat
Not that likely that you will have heard of this guy, not by his name at least. Ivan Milat was a trucker from New South Wales, which of itself isn’t unusual or interesting. However, you’ve probably heard of the Wolf Creek horror movie franchise, comprising two films and a series, which were loosely inspired by Milat. He was convicted and jailed for the murder of two men and five women backpacking in Australia.
Milat earned the moniker of the Backpack Murderer as his MO was to offer a lift to unsuspecting young people travelling Australia, only to take them to the remote Belanglo State Forest in south-western New South Wales and ultimately kill them. There was evidence that some of his victims suffered a great deal, and there is reasonable belief that Milat was responsible for as many as 20 other missing persons. Milat died in 2019 but never openly confessed to his crimes, despite a conviction that included testimony from an escapee.
Gen Sekine
Unsurprisingly, there are criminals and rule-breakers the world over, and every country has had its fair share of horrendous crimes. Japan, despite being one of the safest countries in the world nowadays, has its own collection of astonishing perpetrators. One such was Gen Sekine. He owned a pet shop and dog-breeding business with his wife Kazama, but it wasn’t the cute and cuddly scene you might imagine.
Sekine’s peers didn’t get too involved due to his reputation of associations with the Yakuza – he was missing a pinky, which he said was bitten off by a lion, but was actually chopped off for outstanding debt. They were right to steer clear, as Sekine and his wife lured at least four people interested in buying a dog into parting with their money, only to be murdered. Weirdly, there was another Japanese killer who had a very similar MO, but completely unrelated to Sekine’s crimes.
Pearl Elliott
Many of us are aware of John Dillinger and his gang during the Great Depression, and his crimes are legendary. However, you may not know of one of his gun molls, the woman Pearl Elliott. She was a fiercely independent woman, not one of the wives or girlfriends of the Dillinger gang but a businesswoman in her own right. The fact that she was operating a house of ill repute was, to put it politely, largely irrelevant due to the police protection she paid for.
Some consider Elliott’s role in the Dillinger gang as a side hustle rather than a contributing factor, but it was actually a mutually beneficial working relationship. Elliott buying police protection kept her brothel on the down low, out of the prying eyes of the FBI, and allowed a place to stay for the gang when necessary. She provided an account-keeping service for Dillinger and the gang, and they kept her and the working girls safe from harm. So all things considered, she was a key player in the Dillinger gang.
Mikhail Popkov
It’s sadly not unknown for those in a position of responsibility and trust to take advantage of that, often at the expense of others. Such was how Mikhail Popkov lured his victims, using his position as a police offer to convey that he was trustworthy. Not so, as Popkov was convicted of the murders of 22 people, primarily women, and subsequently confessed to the murders of a further 59 people.
He earned the moniker The Werewolf for his crimes, and he was known to be especially barbaric. His MO was to offer victims a lift in his police car and drive them somewhere remote so he could kill them and satisfy his impulses. His motive was a desire to “cleanse the streets of prostitutes” in that he saw the women he killed as behaving without moral integrity. Popkov’s victim count surpassed those of Russian serial killers Andrei Chikatilo and Alexander Pichushkin. He was jailed for life.
