SERIAL KILLER Anatoly Slivko #truecrime #serialkiller

For more than 20 years a depraved killer was luring the boys the Soviet city Nevinnomysk to their deaths. 7 are known to have died at his hands, but many more were taken to the woods and subjected to bizarre patterns of abuse. His victims were gently hanged until they were unconscious but so their necks would not break them then he took them down and photographed the atrocities he committed against them. Not all of his victims would survive the ordeal. He even filmed some of these bizarre hanging rituals and attacks and the videos can still be found online to this day.

Anatoly Slivko, the childrens Hangman

Anatoly Slivko was born on December 28 1938 in the Soviet city Iverbash. Not much is known of his childhood aside from the fact that he knew he was gay at an early age. Despite this he married a woman named Lyudmila in 1967 and the pair settled in Nevinnomysk. 6 years prior to his marriage he witnessed an event that would shape his crimes to come.

In 1961, Anatoly saw a horrific accident. A drunk man on a motorcycle plowed into a group of people. One of them was a boy wearing a young pioneers uniform. The young pioneers were a group for boys age 9-15 formed in 1922 when the Boy Scout organization was banned for not supporting the communist regime.

The boy was hit hard by the motorcycle and fell to the ground. He convulsed until he died there in the street and Slivko described later how excited he had become watching the boy slowly die as the air filled with the smell of gasoline and fire from the accident. The image was burned into the monsters mind and soon he would recreate the scene of a dying young pioneer over and over.

2 years after the motorcycle crash Anatoly Slivko began a youth program and began to prey on the boys that joined. He always seemed to have 1 or 2 favorites who were typically between 11 and 15 years old and of slight build. Part of the creatures scheme was to convince the boys he knew a way to make them taller. The method was for them to hang from their neck.

The hangings took place in the woods and were often photographed and filmed. Once the boys were unconscious, Slivko took them down and abused them. Each time, the monster bought a new Young Pioneers uniform for the victim to wear. 43 boys were put through this horrific process and 7 of them would never be seen alive again.

On June 2 1964, Slivko killed for the first time. 15 year old Nikolai Dobryshev had run away from home and Slivko took him under his wings. He claimed that the boys death was accidental and had not been able to revive him as he had with other boys. He panicked and dismembered then buried Nikolai’s body and destroyed the photos he had taken.

But the panic subsided and in May of 1965, he struck again. The victim was a boy named Aleksei Kovalenko. The process of dressing him as a young pioneer and hanging him until he was unconscious was the same. However this time, Slivko intentionally killed his young victim.

A year later, the youth club that Anatoly had started burned down, but the creature was not deterred. He started a new club called Chergid for boys. He waited for 8 years before he killed again. Once again his victim was another member of his club.

On November 14 1973, he took a 15 year old named Aleksander Nesmeyanov into the woods. The boy would never be seen alive again. And the killer was not done yet, and though he space the killings out, he would not wait another 8 years.

The next victim would disappear on May 11 1975. 11 year old Andrei Pogasyan told his mother that he was going to take part in a film with Anatoly Slivko in the woods nearby the city. When he vanished, police did not investigate Slivko as he was a known filmmaker and had actually won awards for it in the past.

In 1980, Slivko killed a 13 year old Sergei Fatsiev. Once again, his victim was a member of the club that the killer ran. 2 years later, he killed a 15 year old Slava Khovistik. With the growing number of missing kids, police were looking for any leads they could find and after Slivkos next victim they would not be so quick to dismiss him as a suspect.

On July 23rd 1985 a 13 year old named Sergei Pavlov told his his neighbor he was going to meet the head of the Chergrid club. When he never returned, police began to investigate his disappearance. And they soon zeroed in on the Chergrid club.

Almost all of the victims had been in Anatoly Slivkos clubs and prosecutor Tamara Langue was assigned to investigate the disappearances in November 1985. She started by interviewing the current members. What she heard from them was disturbing enough but the boys did not even know the worst of what Slivko had done.

Many of the children told the prosecutor that they had periods of time they could not remember when they spent time with Slivko. This was when they were unconscious and being abused by the monster. They also told her about the experiments to make them taller by hanging that Slivko had performed. After hearing the same story repeated severely times, Langue prepared the police to arrest the club leader in December of 1985 after investigating for 1 month.

After what we can only assume was an aggressive interrogation, Anatoly Slivko confessed. He spent January and February leading police to the bodies of his victims. They were able to recover all but his first victims remains. They bodies had been either chopped up or burned then buried in the woods. The killer had kept the shoes of his victims and they can be seen in the haunting films he made.

In 1989 Anatoly Slivko was sentenced to death for 7 counts of murder, 7 counts of of abusing a child, and 7 counts of abusing a corpse. He was sent to Novocherassk prison where he would remain until 1989. In that year he gave police insights into the mind of a monster to help them better hunt a new serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo who murdered 52 women and children. Later that same day The time came for the creatures sentence to be carried out. On September 16 1989, Anatoly Slivko executed by a gunshot to the head.

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