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I was dumb enough to visit Encyclopedia Dramatica thinking there would be some Christmas humour. Theres link to a video on the main page with an article, basically trying to make it sound funny and diong a bad job of it. 30 seconds of this video is probably the most horrific horrible thing I personaly have ever seen and I have seen some messed up crap on the internet. there is nothing funny about it, at all. So before hand if you read this or become morbidly curious or are also dumb enough to visit encyclopedia Dramatica like I did or someone sends you a link or whatever, for the the love of christ do not watch it not even a peak, it will do you no good.
So anyway, wanting more backround on the story behind it I was reading about it on wikipedia as the majority of news sources seem to be Russian.
I wont post the link as even the wiki page has a picture of two of the perpetrators posing with a dead animal.
"The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July of 2007. Three 19-year-old locals, Viktor Sayenko (Виктор Саенко
, Alexander Hanzha (Александр Ганжа and Igor Suprunyuck (Игорь Супрунюк were arrested and charged with 21 murders[1]. They are currently on trial, with the investigation still on-going as of December 2008."
"The Murders The first two murders took place late at night on June 25, 2007. The first victim was a 33-year-old local woman named Katya Ilyichenko[2], who was walking home after having tea at her female friend's nearby apartment. According to Sayenko's confession, he and Suprunyuck were "out for a walk" with a hammer. As Katya walked past them, Suprunyuck "spun around" and struck her in the side of the head. Katya's body was found by her mother at 5 am[3].
The next victim was Roman Tatarevich, a local man who was sleeping on a bench a short walk away from the first murder scene. His head was smashed with blunt objects multiple times, rendering him unrecognizable. The bench he was discovered on was located across the street from the local Public Procurator office. [4].
19 more murders followed, often with multiple bodies found in the same day. Two were found on July 1st, three on July 7th, and two each on the 14th, 15th and 16th. Victims were seemingly selected at random. Many victims were vulnerable to attack, including women, children, the elderly, vagrants, or people under the influence of alcohol.
Most of the victims were killed by blunt objects, including hammers and steel construction bars. Most blows were directed at the victim's faces, leaving them unrecognizable. Many victims were also mutilated and tortured; many had their eyes poked out while they were still alive. One of the victims was a pregnant woman; her fetus was cut out of her womb. No sexual assaults on any victims were reported.
Some of the victims were also robbed of their cell phones and other valuables, their possessions pawned to a large network of second-hand shops in the area."
Investigation
"The manhunt quickly grew to encompass most of the local law enforcement. Reportedly over 2,000 investigators were working on the case[5], and thousands of suspects were identified and interviewed during the final weeks of the investigation. Most of the breaks came from the suspects selling the victims' possessions, with major clues also coming from several victims who managed to escape.
Sometime during the murder spree (the exact date is not clear), a local man was attacked but managed to escape. He provided investigators with a description of the attackers and their vehicle.
Several days later, two 14-year-old boys from Podgornoye, a local village, were attacked as they went fishing. One of the two friends, Andrei Sidyuck, was killed, but a second boy named Vadik Lyakhov managed to escape. He was placed under arrest, suspected of murdering his friend. He was reportedly denied access to counsel and beaten by police during questioning. However, it quickly became clear that he was not responsible for his friend's death, and that the murder was connected with the Dnepropetrovsk murder spree. Vadik сooperated with the investigators to create sketches of the attackers[6]."
"The suspects' cell phones and personal computers contained multiple video recordings of murders taking place. At least one full video[11] was leaked to the internet, showing an unidentified male victim laying prostrate in a wooded area. He is repeatedly struck in the face with a hammer held inside a plastic bag. The murderers then poke out the victim's eyes with a screwdriver, and stab him with the screwdriver elsewhere. The victim is then repeatedly struck with the hammer to ensure he's dead. The murderers walk back to their car, showing that the crime took place just a few feet away from the side of the road, right next to their parked car. They calmly discuss the murder, expressing mild amazement that the victim was still breathing after a screwdriver was plunged into his exposed brain. The suspects then wash their hands and the hammer in a puddle and with a water bottle, and begin to laugh. Only two suspects appear to be present in the video, one always behind the camera.
The suspects were also found in possession of multiple photographs showing them attending victim's funerals and smiling and "flipping off" the coffins and gravestones. Evidence of animal abuse was also shown, with suspects posing with mutilated animal corpses"
The Suspects
he three suspects, Viktor Sayenko, Alexander Hanzha and Igor Suprunyuck, were life-long friends who attended school together. According to the interviews with the suspects' families, Sayenko and Hanzha were friends from a very early age. Suprunyuck moved to the area later, and the three became friends in the third grade. The two other boys had been good students before making friends with Suprunyuck, but their grades began to slip. One of their teachers reported that Suprunyuck was shy and withdrawn, but always picking fights and getting into trouble.
By the fifth grade, the boys had their first brush with the law when they were caught throwing rocks at passing trains. By the 7th grade Suprunyuck reportedly started killing stray cats. When the boys were 17, Suprunyuck beat up a local boy and stole his bike, which he then sold to Sayenko. Both were arrested, but did not go to jail due to their age[12].
At the time of arrest, two of the suspects were unemployed, and the third was working as a security guard[13].
Local media also reported that the suspects had wealthy influential parents with ties to local law enforcement. Suprunyuck's father was reported to be a well-known lawyer, and Hanzha's father was described as a local prosecutor. Local authorities, including deputy interior minister Nikolay Kupyanskiy, initially supported the claim[14], but later began to deny the assessment, claiming that all three suspects came from poor families. However, Viktor Sayenko is represented in court by his father, Igor Sayenko, who is indeed a local lawyer"
This is the part that was interesting.
"Motive
Prosecution did not establish specific motive behind the killings. However, local media widely reported that the killers had some sort of a plan to get rich off of the murder videos they recorded. One of the suspects' girlfriends reported that they were planning to make 40 videos of 40 separate murders. This is collaborated by the suspects' classmate, who has often heard that Suprunyuck was in contact with an unknown "rich foreign website operator" who ordered 40 snuff videos, and would pay a large sum of money once all 40 videos were made"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
Like something from "Hostel".
There are a few websites that do get a ton of traffic, Ogrish (now liveleak) and I think Rotton.com come to mind.
Do you think there could be any palpable truth to this? That a third party "rich foreign website operator" from a snuff/gore/reality website was trying to profit or get material themselfs through these crimes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
So anyway, wanting more backround on the story behind it I was reading about it on wikipedia as the majority of news sources seem to be Russian.
I wont post the link as even the wiki page has a picture of two of the perpetrators posing with a dead animal.
"The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July of 2007. Three 19-year-old locals, Viktor Sayenko (Виктор Саенко
, Alexander Hanzha (Александр Ганжа and Igor Suprunyuck (Игорь Супрунюк were arrested and charged with 21 murders[1]. They are currently on trial, with the investigation still on-going as of December 2008.""The Murders The first two murders took place late at night on June 25, 2007. The first victim was a 33-year-old local woman named Katya Ilyichenko[2], who was walking home after having tea at her female friend's nearby apartment. According to Sayenko's confession, he and Suprunyuck were "out for a walk" with a hammer. As Katya walked past them, Suprunyuck "spun around" and struck her in the side of the head. Katya's body was found by her mother at 5 am[3].
The next victim was Roman Tatarevich, a local man who was sleeping on a bench a short walk away from the first murder scene. His head was smashed with blunt objects multiple times, rendering him unrecognizable. The bench he was discovered on was located across the street from the local Public Procurator office. [4].
19 more murders followed, often with multiple bodies found in the same day. Two were found on July 1st, three on July 7th, and two each on the 14th, 15th and 16th. Victims were seemingly selected at random. Many victims were vulnerable to attack, including women, children, the elderly, vagrants, or people under the influence of alcohol.
Most of the victims were killed by blunt objects, including hammers and steel construction bars. Most blows were directed at the victim's faces, leaving them unrecognizable. Many victims were also mutilated and tortured; many had their eyes poked out while they were still alive. One of the victims was a pregnant woman; her fetus was cut out of her womb. No sexual assaults on any victims were reported.
Some of the victims were also robbed of their cell phones and other valuables, their possessions pawned to a large network of second-hand shops in the area."
Investigation
"The manhunt quickly grew to encompass most of the local law enforcement. Reportedly over 2,000 investigators were working on the case[5], and thousands of suspects were identified and interviewed during the final weeks of the investigation. Most of the breaks came from the suspects selling the victims' possessions, with major clues also coming from several victims who managed to escape.
Sometime during the murder spree (the exact date is not clear), a local man was attacked but managed to escape. He provided investigators with a description of the attackers and their vehicle.
Several days later, two 14-year-old boys from Podgornoye, a local village, were attacked as they went fishing. One of the two friends, Andrei Sidyuck, was killed, but a second boy named Vadik Lyakhov managed to escape. He was placed under arrest, suspected of murdering his friend. He was reportedly denied access to counsel and beaten by police during questioning. However, it quickly became clear that he was not responsible for his friend's death, and that the murder was connected with the Dnepropetrovsk murder spree. Vadik сooperated with the investigators to create sketches of the attackers[6]."
"The suspects' cell phones and personal computers contained multiple video recordings of murders taking place. At least one full video[11] was leaked to the internet, showing an unidentified male victim laying prostrate in a wooded area. He is repeatedly struck in the face with a hammer held inside a plastic bag. The murderers then poke out the victim's eyes with a screwdriver, and stab him with the screwdriver elsewhere. The victim is then repeatedly struck with the hammer to ensure he's dead. The murderers walk back to their car, showing that the crime took place just a few feet away from the side of the road, right next to their parked car. They calmly discuss the murder, expressing mild amazement that the victim was still breathing after a screwdriver was plunged into his exposed brain. The suspects then wash their hands and the hammer in a puddle and with a water bottle, and begin to laugh. Only two suspects appear to be present in the video, one always behind the camera.
The suspects were also found in possession of multiple photographs showing them attending victim's funerals and smiling and "flipping off" the coffins and gravestones. Evidence of animal abuse was also shown, with suspects posing with mutilated animal corpses"
The Suspects
he three suspects, Viktor Sayenko, Alexander Hanzha and Igor Suprunyuck, were life-long friends who attended school together. According to the interviews with the suspects' families, Sayenko and Hanzha were friends from a very early age. Suprunyuck moved to the area later, and the three became friends in the third grade. The two other boys had been good students before making friends with Suprunyuck, but their grades began to slip. One of their teachers reported that Suprunyuck was shy and withdrawn, but always picking fights and getting into trouble.
By the fifth grade, the boys had their first brush with the law when they were caught throwing rocks at passing trains. By the 7th grade Suprunyuck reportedly started killing stray cats. When the boys were 17, Suprunyuck beat up a local boy and stole his bike, which he then sold to Sayenko. Both were arrested, but did not go to jail due to their age[12].
At the time of arrest, two of the suspects were unemployed, and the third was working as a security guard[13].
Local media also reported that the suspects had wealthy influential parents with ties to local law enforcement. Suprunyuck's father was reported to be a well-known lawyer, and Hanzha's father was described as a local prosecutor. Local authorities, including deputy interior minister Nikolay Kupyanskiy, initially supported the claim[14], but later began to deny the assessment, claiming that all three suspects came from poor families. However, Viktor Sayenko is represented in court by his father, Igor Sayenko, who is indeed a local lawyer"
This is the part that was interesting.
"Motive
Prosecution did not establish specific motive behind the killings. However, local media widely reported that the killers had some sort of a plan to get rich off of the murder videos they recorded. One of the suspects' girlfriends reported that they were planning to make 40 videos of 40 separate murders. This is collaborated by the suspects' classmate, who has often heard that Suprunyuck was in contact with an unknown "rich foreign website operator" who ordered 40 snuff videos, and would pay a large sum of money once all 40 videos were made"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
Like something from "Hostel".
There are a few websites that do get a ton of traffic, Ogrish (now liveleak) and I think Rotton.com come to mind.
Do you think there could be any palpable truth to this? That a third party "rich foreign website operator" from a snuff/gore/reality website was trying to profit or get material themselfs through these crimes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs#cite_note-15
