Serhiy Tkach

Serhiy Tkach
Born September 12, 1952[1]
Kiselyovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[2]
Other names Pologovsky Maniac[3]
Criminal penalty
 Life imprisonment
Killings
Victims 36 confirmed, 100+ claimed[3]
Span of killings
 1980–2005[3]
Country Soviet Union
Ukraine
Date apprehended
 August 2005[3]

Serhiy Fedorovich Tkach (Ukrainian: Сергій Федорович Ткач, Russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ткач; born September 12, 1952) is a former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, originally from Russia, and a convicted serial killer who claimed to have killed 100 people.[3][4] He suffocated girls aged between 8 and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead.[3] Although Tkach admitted his crimes and demanded the death penalty, after a one-year trial, a tribunal in Dnipropetrovsk sentenced him to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of 36 women and girls over more than two decades.[3]

Over the years, nine men were wrongly jailed for some of the murders of which Tkach was found guilty. One of the men wrongly accused committed suicide.[3] Another was not released until March 2012.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Превзойти Чикатило. А film from Russian criminal documentary TV series Следствие вели...
  2. ↑ Я зверь, а не человек! (in Russian). kp.ua. 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Elder, Miriam (24 Dec 2008). "Man sentenced to life in prison for murdering 36 women". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-12-24.
  4. ↑ "BBC News: Serial killer jailed in Ukraine". bbc.co.uk. 2008-12-24. Retrieved 2008-12-24.
  5. ↑ Innocent Man Spends 7 Years In Prison, Kyiv Post (12 April 2012)