A previous suspect had been tortured to death by the Police. Captured in 1995 along with the murder weapons, he confessed, saying that voices in his head had driven him to it. He always used the same method for the attacks, find an isolated building, cause a commotion and in the confusion target the man of the house, then his partner and finally the children. Unusual in that he targeted whole families, Onoprienko started his spree in Bratkovychi, in the Ukraine. Anatoly Onoprienko Confirmed victims 52, probable 52+ He confessed to 48 murders in 2003 and was sentenced to life imprisonment, when another body was found in 2011 an additional life sentence was added.ħ. A married man, his wife and neighbours were shocked when his criminal activities were detected by advances in DNA testing in 2001.
During the 1980’s and 90’s he picked up teenage runaways and prostitutes, strangling his victims during sex. Ridgway became known as the Green River serial killer after he was revealed to have used waste land, near to the 65 mile long water course, to dump his victim’s bodies. Gary Ridgway Confirmed victims 49, probable 90+ He later moved on to younger men, women and children as he worked towards his target of as many bodies as there are squares on a chessboard. Initially targeting elderly, homeless men, he would invite them to join him for a drink before attacking them with a hammer, always from behind to avoid getting splashed with their blood, and sticking an empty vodka bottle into their brains to make sure. 9.Ělexander Pichushkin Confirmed victims 48, probable 60Īlso known as The Chessboard Killer, or, after the scene of his attacks, the Bitsa Park Maniac, Russian born Pitchuskin committed his first murder in 1992 and then steadily increased his rate of attacks until his capture in 2001.