The Taste of Blood. Ten Stories About Russian Serial Killers

Child murderer Slivko, cannibal Dzhumagaliev, butcher Sukletin with his girlfriend Dina – the names of these serial killers were carefully hushed up, but the rumors of their crimes made the entire Soviet Union shudder. Starting from the 1960s, the statistics... of violent crimes in the USSR steadily grew, and along with it, the number of those called serial killers increased. Anatoly Slivko killed and tortured children for twenty years, claiming that "all this was solely for the filming of a historical movie about the fascists." Nikolai Dzhumagaliev dismembered and ate girls. This gave him inspiration. Alexey Sukletin preferred to feed his neighbors dishes made from girls he killed. Alexander Spesivtsev tortured his victims for several days, while his own mother helped him dispose of the bodies. What drove them to commit crimes? How was their personality formed, and at what moment, while killing others, did they completely lose control over their own lives?