Yevgeny Sidorenko
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1982 (age 42–43)
Involuntary commitment (2006)
Yevgeny Sidorenko | |
|---|---|
| Born | Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Sidorenko 1982 (age 42–43) |
| Other names | "The Chernigov Butcher" |
| Convictions | Manslaughter N/A |
| Criminal penalty | "Several years imprisonment" (1990s) Involuntary commitment (2006) |
| Details | |
| Victims | 8 |
Span of crimes | 1990s–2005 |
| Country | Russia |
| State | Primorsky |
Date apprehended | 12 December 2005 |
Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Sidorenko (Russian: Евгений Евгеньевич Сидоренко), known as The Chernigov Butcher (Russian: Черниговский мясник), is a Russian serial killer who committed seven violent murders in his native village of Sibirtsevo, Primorsky Krai, from July to December 2005, shortly after being paroled from a manslaughter conviction.
Ruled unfit to stand trial, Sidorenko was ordered to undergo treatment at a psychiatric facility for an indefinite period.
Very little is known about the early years of Sidorenko's life. He was born in 1982 in the village of Sibirtsevo, where he grew up in poverty. From an early age, he began to show signs of a mental illness and lost interest in learning, leading to him performing poorly at school.[1]
As a teenager, Sidorenko started acting aggressively towards others and acted impulsively, suffering from outbursts and physically assaulting others. In the mid-1990s, he dropped out of school and started spending time on the streets in the company of criminals.[1]
In the late 1990s, Sidorenko was charged with manslaughter for causing the death of someone, for which he was subsequently convicted.[2] After serving several years in prison, he was granted parole and released in 2004, but by then his mental state had deteriorated dramatically, after which he started committing murders.[1]
Murders
In carrying out his crimes, Sidorenko did not demonstrate any sound reasoning for what he did. Later on, the prosecution would use this to illustrate the fact that he suffered from severe mental issues.[1]
On the night of 12 July 2005, Sidorenko murdered an acquaintance he had a personal dislike for, as well as her male companion, near the railway station in Sibirtsevo. The corpses were found at the intersection of Komsomolskaya Street and the Military Highway near the railroad tracks.[3]
In August, Sidorenko broke into the house of an acquaintance in the early morning hours and set fire to some items in a closet. As a result, all of the occupants – the house's owner, his wife and young child - died in the blaze.[1]
On 23 November, Sidorenko attacked a female acquaintance who lived on Komsomolskaya Street late at night.[1] He managed to stab her, but the victim fiercely resisted and managed to escape, after which Sidorenko began to wnader the streets and randomly came across a woman he did not know. He threw her down on the snowy ground and stabbed her death. A few minutes later, in another street, he attacked another woman and stabbed her with a knife, but the victim fought him off and fled.[1]
On the late night of 12 December, Sidorenko showed up at the doorstep of the "Maria" store on Komsomolskaya Street. After standing there for approximately three minutes, he attacked a random woman and inflicted multiple stab wounds on her, killing her in the process.[1]