The case of the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs

the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs in June and July of 2007. Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk, two Ukrainians, were just nineteen years old when they went on a rampage, murdering, robbing and torturing people with knives, their fists and hammers, beating to death their victims and often videotaping the killings, posting them on the internet proudly. Their actions took the lives of 21 innocent people.

Many of the victims were hit numerous times with various blunt objects, to the point where their heads and skulls were rendered entirely unrecognizable. At various points during their videotaped murders, the two psychopathic teenagers proceeded to flash Nazi salutes, arms raised, faces unsmiling, for maximum shock value. You know those edgy 4chan kids making fun of Hitler, Nazi’s and killing ‘undesirables’? Well these guys are like that, but with real-world homicidal inclinations they lived out.

Some of the victims had their eyes gouged out. Almost all of them were tortured, often over prolonged periods of time. One victim, a pregnant woman, had her unborn child cut out of her belly while she was still alive, breathing and aware of what was happening. The depravity of these two young men is well beyond anything I have ever seen or heard of. And at the time it happens, a lot of their ‘material’ was floating around the net, shared, analyzed… I, too, received a link at some point. And forever regretted clicking it. This stuff will haunt you forever.

In some of the videos, the young murderers shouted “The weak must die, the strong must conquer!”, some say they did what they did because of notoriety. A boy who knew both perpetrators claimed he overheard one of the killers talk to a “wealthy foreigner ordering snuff films”. Having left ample evidence of their misdeeds, the pair was apprehended in late July and sentenced to life in prison. Continue reading