The taste of blood. Ten stories about Russian serial killers. Buta E.M.

Detable Slovko, Cannibal Dzhumagaliev, butcher Sukletin and his friend Dina-the names of these serial killers were diligently silent, but the whole Soviet Union shuddered from rumors about their crimes.

since the 1960s, statistics of violent crimes On the territory of the USSR, it grew steadily, and at the same time increased the number of those who are called serial killers. Anatoly Slivko killed and tortured children for twenty years, saying that "all this is exclusively for filming a historical film about the Nazis." Nikolai Dzhumagaliev divided and ate girls. This gave him inspiration. Alexey Sukletin preferred to feed his neighbors with dishes prepared from the girls he killed. Alexander Spesivtsev tortured his victims for several days, but his own mother helped him get rid of the corpses.

What pushed them to crimes? How was their personality formed, and at what point, killing others, they completely lost control of their own life?