Rostov-on-Don is a large and beautiful modern city, but it is not far from it that the “triangle of maniacs” is infamous throughout the country. Local investigators claim that killings are almost ongoing in the area. Mines - Taganrog - Rostov-on-Don - it is this area that enjoys bad fame. The most famous local maniac is Andrei Chikatilo, but with his capture and receipt of the verdict, there was no calmer in the “bad place”. The criminal glory of the bloodiest maniac did not haunt many. One of the followers of the fanatic is Vladimir Mukhankin, a serial killer who set a new bloody record in the Rostov Region.
Not needed by anyone before birth
The story of the maniac Mukhankin begins in 1959. At that time, his future mother was still a very young girl, she was only 19 years old. The father of the future killer fell in love with a young beauty and began to look beautifully. Soon he managed to achieve reciprocity, and the case ended in an unplanned pregnancy. Young people thought about the wedding and even found a house for living together. However, the happiness was destroyed by the mother of the young man. She did not hide her hostility to a potential daughter-in-law and openly called her a “piggy”, and sometimes even more unpleasant words.
The matter ended with the pregnant girl being put out of the door, and her failed husband soon married another. Most likely, it was at that moment that the future mother hated her unborn son. But, despite this fact, on April 22, 1960, a completely healthy boy was born - Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin.
short biography
Mother gave the name to her son in honor of Vladimir Lenin. The boy was born in the farm Krasnoarmeysky Zernograd district of the Rostov region. The mother did not abandon her son and raised him herself, but he did not know affection and kind words. From early childhood he was punished for and without reason, later bullying began in school. The most harmless teasers were: “Fly” or “Lenin”. Vladimir Mukhankin could not repulse his offenders, at best, he simply ran away from home.
Already in his teens, the future killer began to mock animals, it cost him nothing to stick a knife into the body of a collective farm horse or cow. Until the seventh grade, Vladimir studied at a special school for difficult children, and then completely dropped out of school. Having reached adulthood, Mukhankin tried to marry and start a family, a son was even born in marriage. But a happy family life did not work out.
Beginning of a criminal career
Vladimir Mukhankin committed his first crimes at the age of 13. It all started with banal robberies and thefts. Over time, he developed his own criminal strategy. The criminal chose his victim on a deserted street, attacked from behind and stunned her with a strong blow to the head. After that, Mukhankin took the bag, fur hat or other valuables. In the criminal career of this criminal there is also an unproven episode of molestation of a minor girl.
Quickly enough, Vladimir realized that he was committing crimes not in order to profit from some trifle. His main goal is a thirst for blood. Having completed his first murder, he became convinced of this and could no longer stop.
Bloody sprinter killer marathon
In his revelations, Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin admits that he shed the first blood, succumbing to the persuasion of a woman. One acquaintance of a maniac asked him to help get rid of his own roommate. The crime was committed at the time of drinking a large amount of alcohol. Mukhankin coped with the task easily, for which he immediately received thanks in the form of voluntary sexual intercourse with the “customer”. The presence in the immediate vicinity of the cooling body of lovers did not stop. They say that if an animal once tastes human blood, he will never forget its taste again. And indeed, having committed his first murder, Vladimir Mukhankin was not going to stop. The maniac even managed to set a kind of bloody record - he killed 8 people in two months.
Mukhankin stood out for his particular cruelty and craving for sexual perversions. The bodies of his victims were often found dismembered or disfigured beyond recognition. In addition, forensic experts noted meaningless and serious injuries. During interrogations, it turned out that the killer performed various manipulations with the extracted internal organs of his victims, inflicted multiple stab wounds to the cooling corpses, and even tried to have sexual intercourse with a victim shuddering in dying convulsions.
Investigation progress
In 1995, police in the Rostov Region literally knocked down. The region is already not entirely prosperous (after all, this is where the "triangle of maniacs" is located), and at that time two criminals were systematically operating in this place at once. The first of them is a psychopathic killer who received the nickname “Dwarf”, since on the basis of investigative examinations it could be concluded that the maniac is not tall.
At the same time, a wave of robberies against women swept through the Rostov Region. The investigators nicknamed this criminal “The Riding Hood”, as he often took not only handbags and valuables from his victims, but also fur hats. The investigation revealed that all the crimes were committed by one person, and it turned out to be Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin, a maniac who, thanks to his atrocities, will go down in the criminal history of modern Russia.
Sincere recognition
It is worth noting that Mukhankin himself did not specifically hide from the detectives, but they caught him absolutely by accident. At the first interrogation, the maniac said: "Now I’ll tell you something that Chikatilo seems like a chicken." After that, Vladimir Anatolyevich began to thoroughly talk about all the crimes committed, trying not to miss the details. According to detectives, with such confessions Vladimir Mukhankin tried to convince investigators of his insanity. The examination was carried out and showed that the defendant was aware of the actions taken.
Court and sentence
Immediately before the trial, Mukhankin refused all evidence against himself. However, this did not help to avoid punishment, the offender was found guilty of 22 crimes (including 8 murders). Vladimir Mukhankin - a maniac who received the death penalty. In connection with the abolition of the death penalty, the killer was sentenced to life in a maximum security colony.
Novocherkassk prison is a place in which many famous serial killers of Russia were kept at different times. Mukhankin Vladimir is no exception. And today the criminal continues to serve his term in the famous colony "Black Dolphin". Even while behind bars, the maniac from time to time gives interviews for newspapers and television, as well as writes lyric poems and likes to philosophize.
Where does the urge to kill come from?
Vladimir Mukhankin is not a typical maniac. He did not commit his crimes for the sake of enjoying others' torment. Many experts who studied the identity of this killer came to the conclusion that it was in someone else's death that the maniac’s aggression directed against his own mother found a way out. The fact that childhood and adolescence were not easy, says Vladimir Mukhankin himself. The biography of this maniac includes many facts of injustice and cruelty towards him from his closest people, in particular, from his mother.
However, in his modern interviews, Mukhankin denies the presence of any problems in his family. But he is largely given out lyric poems, which he writes today. Vladimir Anatolyevich talks a lot about his situation and eagerly. According to him, life in prison is unbearable, but he does not even think about committing suicide.