Sergey Kashintsev

Sergey Alexandrovich Kashintsev (Russian: Сергей Александрович Кашинцев; August 9, 1940 – January 17, 1992) was a Soviet serial killer. Originally convicted of a single murder in 1975, he was later released and committed at least seven additional killings across the country. Following his arrest, he confessed to a total of 59 murders and 3 attempted murders he had supposedly done from 1985 to 1987, most of which remain unverified. He was sentenced to death for his confirmed crimes in 1990, and subsequently executed two years later. Sergey Alexandrovich Kashintsev was born on August 9, 1940, in the village of Podyuga, Arkhangelsk Oblast, RSFSR. He was born with a defect which caused his right leg to be shorter than the left one, due to which he had to walk with a cane and was constantly mocked by his peers. He began displaying aggressive behavior early on in life and started committing small crimes, with his outbursts growing so bad that even his own mother was afraid of him. Kashintsev refused to study or work and frequently ran away from home, and in 1955, he molested a young girl by luring her into a bathhouse and convincing her to undress for him. Kashintsev's first criminal convictions were for two thefts, one of which was for stealing an overcoat from his brother, Nikolai. After his release, he moved into the apartment of an acquaintance, Ostapchuk, in Kalach-na-Donu, where he soon found a job at a boiler room but quit only months later. He eventually started extorting his landlady for money, sometimes resorting to beating and even strangling her. In the early 1970s, he was convicted of public indecency and property damage and had a short stint in prison. In 1975, Kashintsev was arrested and subsequently charged with killing a woman named Korotkova in Kalach-na-Donu. The psychiatric examination concluded that while he showed psychopathic traits, he was sane and did not suffer from any mental abnormalities. However, as the killing was done in a state of intoxication, Kashintsev was instead sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at a local penal colony.