Serial killers – stories from real life

Charles Milles Manson was born November 12^th, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Manson came from an unfortunate background and childhood; his mother was a heavy drinker and his biological father was nowhere to be found. Because of his dismal upbringing, Manson developed an obsession with the life of crime very early on in his youth. His very first offense was burglarizing a liquor store way before he was even in his preteens. From there, his passion for crime only increased. Throughout his youth, Manson was arrested for armed robberies, break in’s, sexual assault, and taking stolen property across state lines. Sadly for Manson, the majority of his younger years were spent either behind bars or running from the law.

Artyom Anoufriev and Nikita Lytkin were social outcasts who hated society and humankind. The teenage misanthropes shocked Russian society by attacking seemingly random victims with a mallet and knife. Since the attacks always occurred from behind, the survivors were unable to give any significant details to the investigators.

The serial killers claimed a total of 15 victims. Six of them died. At least one of the attacks was videotaped and circulated in Russian social networks, showing the dead body of a woman being mutilated with a knife. The camera used to record the attack belonged to Nikita’s uncle, who found an SD card with a gruesome video of the murder of their last victim, Alevtina Kuydin.

Since the attacks occurred in and around the area of Akademgorodok (Academy Town in English) in Irkutsk, the two were dubbed the Academy Maniacs.