Biography
In an interview, sentenced to two lifelong periods with bitterness noted:"I could not foresee DNA examination. Born not in that time. "Only with modern technologies managed to calculate the serial killer Mikhail Popkov, which is now called Angarsky Chikatilo.
Childhood and youth
It is believed that injuries obtained in childhood are the first reason for the sadists and rapists grow. The situation with the Angarsky maniac did not exception. Although there is nothing unusual in his early biography, at first glance.
The future killer was born on March 7, 1964 in the city of Norilsk. Soon moved along with his parents to Angarsk - there he went to school. True, before that, I lived with my grandparents in Norilsk for some time. When his parents finally took, they immediately introduced themselves with their native sister. About pregnancy Mom and the birth of a child, the boy had not previously told.
Already then, Brother had a resentment. Little Michael saw that the youngest sister was indulgered and guarded, and he himself went to the background. Therefore, the boy tried to earn the love of parents with exemplary behavior. Flyer's mother in the transmission "Path say" said that the son was an excellent student.
Once the ass went to the summer holidays to the camp. In parent days, when moms and dads came to the children, no one visited him. Two weeks later, the boy could not stand and escaped home. Going to the apartment, he found drunk parents with an unfamiliar man for a sexual act. By the way, in an interview, which was given in 2020 in prison, these moments deniedly denied.
After school entered the technical school, where he received a specialty "Mechanic". Then carried military duty in Mongolia. Before and after the army helped the father digging the graves in the cemetery. Not afraid of physical work, was strong and strong.
Relations in the family remained warm. According to the memoirs of the mother, the son listened to the eldest, tried not to reach. In the press, the moments were repeatedly poplled when the parents of the Angarsk Maniac was accused of alcoholism. But Antonina Popkov denied this fact.
Personal life
As for family life, everything has also developed as a textbook of criminology. Close maniac and thoughts did not allow men's connection with a series of terrible murders in the city.
Mikhail early concluded marriage. His wife Elena Pavlovna was a colleague, worked in the same duty part of the passportist. Soon the daughter of Katya, Father's favorite was born.
Neighbors responded about this family exclusively on the positive side. No scandals, fights and other signs of inadequate behavior of both spouses were observed. On the preserved photo - happy lovers, gently embracing each other. Mikhail fumbled with the car in the yard, was polite, did not abuse alcohol.
Although one point from family life became a swivel in the biography of the Angarsk Maniac. Once, returning after the service, he saw a 5-year-old Katya near the house, frozen, in a lightweight sweater. When the question is why this is not at home so late, the girl said: Mom with an unfamiliar uncle asked her to walk.
The woman did not unlock. In addition, the husband found the condoms used in the house. It seemed that such a fact was to cross the warm relationship between her husband and his wife.
Amazingly, but the ass did not even try to blame Elena in infidelity. And the woman herself in the transfer "Let them say" reported that the spouse remained a strong shoulder and support for her. No reproaches and scandals - both tried to forget about what happened.
Investigators concluded: Mikhail wanted to raise her daughter in a full family. At the same time, there was more and more disgust to women "Fallen." Those who cheated husbands saw alcohol, changed.
All these unpleasant facts from childhood and personal life, as confident competent persons, have become a prerequisite for achieving a series of horrific crimes.
Career
Upon returning from the army, the ass got on the local plant with a mechanic repairman, then he got to the compressor driver. In the law enforcement agencies, he was given a random meeting with a former classmate, who worked in the transport police.
During the conversation, it turned out that the school buddy receives the same. But the schedule and job duties turned out to be more attractive. So in 1987, the future gentleman changed the field of activity and settled in the duty part. It was only required to register statements and carry the operatives.
A simple job allowed the ass to see the picture "from the inside." Subsequently, in an interview, he said that he did not try to hide the body. Angarsk maniac simply did not leave any hooks. The only one traces of tires from tires could point out the involvement of a policeman to perfect faiths. But it would be equivalent to search for a needle in a haystack.
In 1998, the ass wrote a report on the dismissal, which caused the perplexity of colleagues. Former policeman moved to a private security company. Shortly before the arrest was engaged in distillation of cars from Vladivostok.
Crime
The reasons why none of their relatives guess the true personality of the man was worried about the press. In fact, everything is simple - the maniac led a double life, talentedly replacing the role of family man and a sowing.
At the criminal trail, Popkov stood in 1992. The motive of rape and murders was Banalen: the story with his mother and his wife influenced a young man. Mikhail waved late evenings of single girls and women in the street alone and in a drunken state.
Then then another millionaire offered to bring the stranger to the house. The trip persuaded the fun on the trip - to drink and retire. The sacrifice agreed that the deadly sentence was signed.
As subsequently explained the ass, so he saved the city from unworthy women who changed family heat into alcohol and other people. However, the relatives of the victims with such a characteristic of the "cleaner" did not agree.
Mikhail first raped, then killed - an ax, knives, screwdrivers. And the tools for the crime took right at work.
Manyak's career flourishing fell for the period from 1994 to 2000. Today in official sources it is said that the number of his victims is 84 people. The survival managed to Troim. Moreover, one of the survivors reported that the rapist is a policeman. However, the girls did not listen to the words, as they considered that because of numerous injuries, it was closed by reason.
Arrest, courts and sentence
In 2002, the operational group was launched to work, which served Sergey Derzhavin, Valery Kostarev and Artem Dubinin. Before that, the famous prosecutor Nikolai Kitaev, famous for the capture of Vasily Kulika, was engaged.
The new group was able to narrow the circle of suspected to 589 people. These are the people who have at the disposal of the car "Niva", 3rd group of blood and experience in organs. For interrogation, Mikhail was called only in 2012. The suspect has taken tests for the DNA expertise (earlier during the investigative events of the bodies of the dead were exhumed for the intake of the biomaterial). And in June, the laboratory confirmed the involvement of the former policeman to three episodes.
In January 2015, the Irkutsk Regional Court voiced the sentence - a life imprisonment. The charges managed to prove the facts of murder of 22 women. Hope for the 25-year term of the prisoner melted, then he decided to tell about other crimes - another 59 episodes. As a result, in 2018, the rapist received the second life.
It became clear that by the number of ruined lives, he surpassed Andrei Chikatilo. The hard to believe that during so many years, none of the close surroundings noticed changes in the family man. On television, several programs came out, in which they tried to deal with the reasons for this phenomenon of the serial killer: "Let them say", "direct ether", "say and show."
In the summer of 2020, the criminal snored in the "other world." Investigative events, dacha testimony, departure to the place of crime - the only chance of the former policeman to go out. The ass confessed in two killings. According to the investigator Evgenia Karchevsky from the documentary film, released on October 6 on the Yutiub-Channel "Editorial", the investigated episodes fall in 1995-1998.
On June 4, 2021, the Angarsk City Court recognized Popkov guilty of these two episodes and sentenced to nine years and eight months of imprisonment, in addition to two lifetimes. Offers a sentence prisoner in a special regime colony.
In August 2020, the documentary series "Good man" came out. The cinema was removed based on the capture of the Angarsk sinner, although the images of the prototype and the kinherman in the final version were separated.