Popkov described himself as a "cleaner" who was purging his home city of prostitutes. A file photo from Russian police shows convicted serial killer and former police officer Mikhail Popkov, who ...

Mikhail Popkov also says he performed well in his job as a police officer. While murdering 82 women between 1992 and 2010. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Popkov wrongly accused his wife of cheating on him, causing him to seek revenge against women. Filed under. homicide prisons russia serial killers 1/13/17; Read Next Trump ...

Popkov, one of Russia's deadliest serial killers and nicknamed the "maniac of Angarsk," killed his victims with axes, knives or screwdrivers, police said. IE 11 is not supported.

Popkov’s conviction Monday would make him Russia’s most prolific known serial killer and one of history’s most lethal individuals. In 2006, Alexander Pihuskin was sentenced to life in prison ...

Popkov also provided information on 12 more slayings and has put his total kill count at a whopping 59. The tally puts Popkov up there with Russia’s two other most prolific serial killers: ...

Mikhail Popkov, from the eastern Siberian city of Angarsk, was first arrested in 2012 and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 22 women. While in custody, Popkov confessed to 20 more.

Mikhail Popkov, a former Russian cop nicknamed the 'werewolf,' believed to be the country's most prolific killer, has been convicted of murdering 56 more women, swelling the number of his victims ...

Popkov, a former police officer from the nearby city of Angarsk, was arrested in 2012 after a series of DNA tests linked him to rapes and murders of three women in 1997.

Roman Popkov, aged 45, once helmed the radical National Bolshevik Party and stood out as a key opponent of Putin in Russia ...

A Russian serial killer serving two life sentences for his brutal crimes has said he wants to be released from prison to join Vladimir Putin's forces fighting in Ukraine.. Mikhail Popkov, 58, is ...

Roman Popkov, 45, is the former leader of the radical National Bolshevik Party and was a prominent anti-Putin activist in Russia well before the war with Ukraine, which began in February 2022.