Vasiliy Kulik
Vasiliy Kulik | |
|---|---|
Death | |
| Details | |
| Victims | 13 |
Span of crimes | 1984–1986 |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| State(s) | Irkutsk, Kirovohrad |
Date apprehended | January 17, 1986 |
Vasiliy Sergeyevich Kulik (
Originally a
death
.
Kulik was
firing squad
in 1989.
Background
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Vasiliy Kulik was born on 17 January 1956 in
school headmistress.[2]
The Kulik family were considered respectable, and Vasiliy had a good relationship with his family except for occasional aggressive outbursts. According to his family, Kulik was a boxer, becoming the city boxing champion, and had many girlfriends. Notable was one girl with whom he was involved but the latter became depressed
after she moved to another city.
At age 18, Kulik served in the
doctor at the Irkutsk Medical Institute. During this time Kulik attempted to seduce numerous women, including fellow students and married women, who frequently rejected him. Kulik eventually married a lawyer
, with whom he had children.
In 1980, Kulik was
beaten by youths, where he received injuries to his head. Kulik later stated "... The last 5-6 years (after the head injury) I regularly visit the thoughts of a sexual nature, where I perform sexual acts with children. At first, I was only thinking about the girls, and then about the boys, as well as the old women ..." The same year, Kulik wrote a novel
in which the main character forms a relationship with a nine-year-old girl with the sole purpose of having sex with her.
Crimes
In 1982, Kulik graduated from the Irkutsk Medical Institute, and left home to begin work as a
child rapes
, very few of which were reported to the police.
Kulik committed his first murder in 1984, when he
strangled an elderly woman he encountered on the street. His second victim was an eight-year-old girl, and his third a 53-year-old woman whom he killed with a gun and a kitchen knife
. Over the next two years Kulik's victims included six children and seven elderly women, the youngest was only 2-years-old and the oldest was 75-years-old.
Arrest and execution
On 17 January 1986, Kulik's 30th birthday, he was arrested after a failed attack where he was beaten and subdued.[4] Kulik confessed to committing all of his murders, but his testimony was initially rejected until further investigations proved him right.[citation needed]
On 11 August 1988, Kulik was convicted for the 13 murders he had previously admitted to and nearly 30 additional rapes and assaults. Kulik was sentenced to
firing squad on 26 June 1989 in Irkutsk.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Serial Killers by Country". 110mb.com. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ "Маньяк Кулик помогал поймать ростовского маньяка Чикатило :: История иркутской милиции". policing.ru. Archived from the original on 2009-01-24.
- ^ "Василий Кулик". 3bb.ru. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ "Василий Кулик". hut.ru. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ Criminal Kulik[dead link]