Crimes

The corpse collector, a russian historian was caught after robbing the graves of 29 young girls and then taking their corpses home where he turned the bodies into dolls Anatoly moskvin age: 53 also expressed no remorse about his activities and refused to apologize to the parents of the deceased girls claiming they were left out in the cold but they took them in to keep them warm. The mummified remains of the girls were covered in masks and he dressed them and applied makeup to them, moskvan actually shared his home with his parents his parents told authorities they had absolutely no idea that he was collecting bodies and turning them into giant dolls, they just thought the large dolls were part of an unusual hobby. During the days of the soviet union, moskvan worked as a translator for military intelligence he went on after the collapse of the soviet union to write history books he had a deep comprehension of biology and apparently of cemeteries over the years he dug up many corpses brought them home dressed them in clothing and kept them preserved in his own house, he even celebrated their birthdays with macabre parties. The corpse collector was captured in 2011 when he confessed to 44 counts of abusing graves he was moved to a mental institution and as recently as 2020 there were discussions of releasing him as his schizophrenia was reportedly cured the judge in the case overturned the appeal and he remains in custody.

The soapy killer: the italian serial killer leonardo chanchuli was born in 1894. she got married in the 1930s opened up a little shop in the small town of carreggio and started selling soap. leonardo's shop may have been doing all right but the rest of her life at the time was filled with strife, she served a short jail sentence for committing fraud, her home was destroyed in an earthquake and she was constantly battling with her parents about her marriage which they didn't approve of not only that but leonardo was experiencing major fertility issues she'd been pregnant 17 times but of the 17 children three died due to miscarriage and 10 died during early childhood, she became incredibly superstitious about her children and also became more deeply interested in fortune telling palm reading and tarot a childhood interest of hers. It was during a meeting with another fortune teller who predicted her remaining four children would also die that she was told that the only way to prevent her still living children from dying was to start sacrificing people leonardo was frightened but she didn't start the human sacrifices right away, however in 1939 her son told her he was joining the military this pushed leonarda into action and she began luring women back to her soap shop and killing them in an effort to keep her surviving children safe.

How did she kill these women and what did she do with them? She first tricked the women into going into her shop by promising to tell their fortune or offering to help them find whatever they were looking for including telling one victim she could help them find a husband, she drugged her victims with spiked wine then she killed each woman with an ax and boiled their body in caustic soda she then used her victim's flesh and fat to make soap that she sold in her store she gave these bars of soap to her neighbors, her friends and anyone who would pay for them she also used some of her victims fat to make cakes which she ate but her killing spree ended after just a third victim a witness saw the victim going into her soap shop and then never coming out when police went to investigate. She confessed everything and was arrested.

Ed gean may have been one of the most notorious serial murderers but juana barraza samperio is a criminal mastermind she is currently spending the rest of her days locked up in the santa marta de prison in mexico, the reason for her incarceration she killed at least 48 people. She's known as the little old lady killer when still living on the outside she spent her days selling popcorn and occasionally fighting in wrestling matches. The rest of her time she was hunting and killing elderly women, juana killed nearly 50 people in mexico city between the 1990s and january 25th 2006, she only got caught when a neighbor witnessed her leaving the scene of a crime although the cops couldn't get evidence for every murder, they did manage to pin her in 17 of them these 17 murders alone earned her 759 years in jail during her trial. It came out that Juana was a psychopath, incapable of feeling remorse; she actually thought she was helping society by getting rid of elderly women, likely because of the trauma she experienced in her own childhood. When Juana was just a young girl her mother would trade her to dangerous men for things like beer and cash. When she grew up she took that hate of her mother and transformed it into something evil, lashing out at older women perhaps because they reminded her of her mother and now for a serial killer.

Santa Bruce McArthur was seen on the outside as a happy man, those that knew him described him as outgoing, friendly and even jovial, he had white hair a white beard and played the perfect santa claus at the agincourt mall in toronto as recently as 2016. He was a 66 year old landscaper who posed as Santa during the holidays and it seemed that he loved children. What no one knew was that Bruce had a bizarre attraction to the dead, not only did he have an obsession with dead bodies but he was also a serial killer. As a landscaper Bruce used his cover to bury the bodies of his victims in his customers gardens while his clients thought he was simply creating beautiful landscapes he was actually turning them into secret graveyards. Between 2010 and 2017, bruce mcarthur murdered eight men, his targets were the homeless, the destitute and immigrants in the predominantly gay neighborhood of church and wellesley. Bruce's method of killing is what will really give you chills strangulation was his preferred method he would wrap a rope around his victim's throat then use a metal bar to tighten the ligature once his victim had stopped breathing bruce would then do a photoshoot he would dress up his victims in things like fur coats, sometimes positioning them as if still alive with one victim even photographed with a cigar hanging out of his mouth, when bruce was finally caught by the police authorities in toronto, they had to check out 75 properties in search of remains bruce had concealed many victims in the planters and gardens he had worked on as a landscaper.

The bone collector: in Mexico authorities recently discovered approximately 3787 bone fragments that they say belong to at least 17 different murder victims. The killer in this story was a bone collector he had a fascination with killing and dismembering, the mexican authorities have not been able to release his identity but they do say that by the time they caught up to him he was 72 years old the cops actually arrested this serial murderer in connection with the killing of a 34 year old woman whom he reportedly cut up with a hacksaw it was when they began looking at his home that they discovered the true scope of his crimes, during careful excavations the police found the bones and bone fragments as well as 91 photographs, eight cell phones, a bucket full of women's jewelry and actual videotape of the man murdering his victims he had been dismembering his victims cutting them up so small that he had pieces of them hidden all throughout his house the police were shocked and horrified when they realized the extent of the crime scene, as of right now the police are still trying to extract dna from the bone fragments to identify the victims many of which are probably missing people, in the meantime the identity of this prolific serial murderer has still not been released.