Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

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## Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

### Full Names

Igor Vladimirovich Suprunyuk
Viktor Igorevich Sayenko
Alexander Alexandrovich Hanzha

### Occupations

Unlicensed taxi driver (Suprunyuck)
Security guard (Sayenko)
Numerous jobs (Hanzha)

### Hobbies

Taking photos with the animals they tortured
Filming their murders
Attending to funerals of their victims

### Goals

Kill many people as possible
Avoid punishment for their crimes (all failed)

### Crimes

Serial murder (inc. child murder)
Serial torture
Armed robberies
Mutilations
Animal cruelty
Snuff filming
Attempted murders

### Type of Villains

Sadistic Psychopaths

The **Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs** (**Igor Suprunyuk** (20 April 1988- ), **Viktor Sayenko** (1 March 1988- ) and **Alexander Hanzha** (16 February 1988- )) are three Ukrainian teens who caused the deaths of 21 people and attempted to take the lives of 8 more between June and July 2007.

## Before the murders

They are all born in 1988. Viktor and Alexander were childhood friends later Igor joined the group too. On 8th grade they decided to get over their fears. Alexander was afraid of blood so they decided to murdering animals with him to get over his fear. They began to torturing animals in woodland areas. Boys took photos of using animal blood to made a swastika,drawing Hitler moustaches to themselves and giving Nazi salutes with animals they murdered. When they were 17 years old Igor stole a bike from a local boy and sold to Viktor. Both were arrested but not jailed because they were underage. After high school Alexander worked in various jobs,Viktor worked as a security guard and Igor worked as a unlicansed taxi driver. Few months before murders with the help of Alexander and Viktor, Igor robbed the passengers.

## Victims

Their first two murders happened on the same day on 25 June 2007 33 year old woman Yekaterina Ilchenko was walking to her home after visited her friend. Igor hit her in the side of the head. Ilchenko's body found by her mother. An hour after the first murder, Igor and Viktor smashed face of Roman Tatarevich who was sleeping on a bench. The bench was located across the street from the local public prosecutor's office. In the same day they tried to kill a man named Viktor Pertsev too they smashed his face like they did to Roman Tatarevich.

On July 1, two more victims, Yevgenia Grischenko and Nikolai Serchuk, were found murdered in the nearby town of Novomoskovsk.

On the night of 6 July, three more people were murdered in Dnipro. Victims were Egor Nechvoloda, a recently discharged army recruit, Yelena Shram, a night guard, and Valentina Hanzha a mother of three kids and wife of a disabled man. Nechvoloda's body found by his mother. According to Viktor, Igor used Yelena's clothes on her bag to clean his hammer.

On 7 July Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs attacked two 14‑year-old boys from Pidhorodne, a nearby town,that went fishing were. One of the two friends, Andrei Sidyuk, was killed, but the other, Vadim Lyakhov, managed to escape after hiding in the woods.

On 12 July Igor attacked 48 year old Sergei Yatzenko while he was riding his motorcycle and brutally killed him in the woods with Viktor while Alexander was filming. They repeatedly struck his face with hammer then stabbed his eyes and stomach with screwdriver. The video got leaked to the internet.

On 14 July Igor and Viktor killed Natalia Mamarchuk who was riding her scooter. While they beat Natalia with hammer or a pipe an unknown man tried to steal Natalia's scooter they killed him too. They committed 10 more murders after that.

## Arrest

Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs were arrested on 23 July 2007. Suprunyuk tried to sell a cellphone stolen from a victim in a local pawn shop, asking for ₴150. Law enforcement agents tracked the phone's location once the shop's owner turned it on to check its functionality. Sayenko and Suprunyuk were arrested near the cash register of the shop. Hanzha was arrested at home, reportedly managing to flush other stolen cellphones and jewelry down the toilet.

## Sentences

**Igor Suprunyuk** was charged with 21 counts of murder,8 counts of armed robbery and 1 count of animal cruelty and got sentenced to life imprisonment.

**Viktor Sayenko** was charged with 18 counts of murder,5 count of armed robbery and 1 count of animal cruelty and got sentenced to life imprisonment.

**Alexander Hanzha** was charged with 2 counts of armed robbery and got sentenced with 9 years of imprisonment.