June 22, 1973 - Sergey Tsukanov (serial killer)
What distinguishes Tsukanov's case is the span of his offenses across two separate periods, the first beginning when he was still a teenager — a detail that complicated both the original investigations and later efforts to connect the crimes. Operating in Likhvinka and Tula across a decade-long gap, he was responsible for the rape and murder of eight women before his eventual identification.
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Sergey Nikolayevich Tsukanov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Цуканов; born 22 June 1973), known as The Cemetery Maniac (Russian: Кладбищенский маньяк), is a Soviet-Russian serial killer and rapist who raped and killed eight women in Likhvinka and Tula during two distinct periods. The first series of murders occurred between 1989 and 1991 when he was only 16 years old, and the second took place between 1998 and 1999. In January 2000, a panel of judges at the Tula Oblast Court declared Tsukanov insane and ordered him to undergo compulsory treatment in a psychiatric clinic.
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