Anatoly Slivko

Anatoly Yemelianovich Slivko (Russian: Анатолий Емельянович Сливко; December 28, 1938 – September 16, 1989) was a Soviet serial killer, sexual predator, and necrophile. He was convicted of killing seven teenage boys in and around Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR, between 1964 and 1985.[1]

Anatoly Slivko
Анатолий Сливко
Born
Anatoly Yemelianovich Slivko

(1938-12-28)December 28, 1938
Izerbash, Dagestan ASSR, Soviet Union
Died(1989-09-16)September 16, 1989 (age 50)
Novocherkassk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
Spouse(s)Lyudmila Slivko (m. 1967)
Children2
MotiveSexual sadism
Criminal penaltyDeath penalty
Details
Victims7
Span of crimes
June 2, 1964–July 23, 1985
CountrySoviet Union
Date apprehended
December 28, 1985

Over a two decade-long period, Slivko molested young boys at his youth club after tricking them into unconsciousness, killing some of them in an attempt to recreate the violent death of a teenage boy he had witnessed in 1961, which had sexually aroused him.[2]

Slivko was executed by shooting on 16 September 1989.[3]

Background

Anatoly Yemelianovich Slivko was born on 28 December 1938 in Izerbash, Dagestan ASSR, Soviet Union. He lived in Stavropol and was a married father of two children, although he had known himself to be homosexual since puberty,[4] later admitting to investigators he and his wife Lyudmila had engaged in intercourse no more than ten times throughought the course of their seventeen-year marriage, and never after the birth of their second child.[5]

In 1961, Slivko witnessed a traffic accident in which a drunken motorcyclist had swerved into a group of pedestrians, fatally injuring a boy in his early teens who was wearing a Young Pioneers uniform.[6] For reasons Slivko would later insist he never could explain, this scene had sexually excited him. He later recalled the accident vividly: "The boy had experienced convulsions in his death throes as the smell of gasoline and fire permeated the air."[7]

Beginning in 1963, Slivko exploited his position at a children's club he ran to relive the fantasies of this accident.[8] Once or twice a year, he would form a close friendship with a boy who was usually aged between 12 and 15 and never older than 17.[n 1] The boy would be short for his age and would be wearing a Young Pioneers uniform - just like the boy Slivko had seen die in the traffic accident. Slivko would gain the boy's confidence and tell him of an experiment he knew which involved a controlled hanging to stretch the spine, and that he would reenact the scene of a partisan executed by Nazi soldiers for his children's club in order to film this scene,[10] after which, the boy was assured, Slivko would revive him from his state of unconsciousness.[11]

Prior to each boy undertaking this "experiment", Slivko would purchase a new uniform for the victim to wear and shine his shoes. In addition, to prevent any vomiting, the victim was required not to eat for several hours before the experiment.[12] Once the boy was unconscious, Slivko would strip him naked, caress and fondle him, take films in which he would arrange the body in suggestive positions, and repeatedly masturbate.[13]

Murders

Over the course of 22 years, Slivko persuaded 43 boys to take part in this contrived experiment. In 36 cases, following his established ritual of photography, filming and repeated masturbation, Slivko revived these boys. Cautioned by Slivko into silence, these individuals resumed their lives unaware of what had happened to them whilst they had been unconscious.[14] However, in seven cases, Slivko's behavior became violent: once these victims were unconscious, he dismembered their bodies, poured gasoline on their limbs and torso, and set the remains on fire to remind himself of the traffic accident which had sparked his arousal. Slivko typically retained the victim's shoes as a memento, as well as the photographs and films which he developed in a home laboratory.[15] The pictures and films served as stimuli for Slivko's masturbatory fantasies for months or years until he needed fresher stimuli and killed again.[16]

On June 2, 1964, Slivko killed his first victim, a 15-year-old runaway boy named Nikolai Dobryshev.[17] Slivko claimed this particular victim was killed unintentionally, as he had been unable to revive Dobryshev once he was unconscious. He dismembered the boy's body and buried him, also destroying the film and photographs he had taken of this particular victim. In May 1965, Slivko killed his second victim, Aleksei Kovalenko. Slivko began operating a tourist club for boys named Chergid in 1966, after his first club had been destroyed in a fire.

Eight years later, on November 14, 1973, a 15-year-old boy named Aleksander Nesmeyanov disappeared in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai. Two years later, on May 11, 1975, an 11-year-old boy named Andrei Pogasyan disappeared. Pogasyan's mother told the police that a man had shot a film in a nearby forest and that her son was going to participate. However, the police did nothing to prevent this because they knew Slivko, who had won awards for other, more innocuous films. In 1980, a 13-year-old boy named Sergei Fatniev, who along with Nesmeyanov and Pogasyan was a member of Chergid, disappeared. The next victim was a fifteen-year-old named Vyacheslav Khovistik, who was killed in 1982. On July 23, 1985, Slivko killed his final victim, a 13-year-old boy named Sergei Pavlov, who disappeared after telling a neighbor he was going to meet the leader of Chergid.

Arrest

in November 1985, prosecutor Tamara Languyeva investigated Pavlov's disappearance and took an interest in Chergid's activities. However, she had no evidence of anything illegal in the way the club was run. Languyeva questioned many boys who had belonged to the club, who said they had suffered "temporary amnesia" and that Slivko had performed many experiments with them.[18] Following a long inquiry, Slivko was arrested at his Stavropol home in December 1985. He would later be formally accused of seven murders, seven counts of sexual abuse, and seven counts of necrophilia. In early 1986, he led investigators to the bodies of six of his victims, although he was unable to locate the body of his first victim, Nikolai Dobryshev. In June 1986, he was sentenced to death and placed on death row in Novocherkassk prison.

Death row interview

In 1989, Slivko was asked by the police to help arrest a then-unidentified serial killer of Rostov Oblast who had killed a minimum of 29 victims by the time he was approached.[19] Although Slivko did provide some insight into how offenders such as himself were able to function, much of the actual advice he provided to police would prove to be incorrect.[20] The then-unidentified serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, was arrested in November 1990 and would be convicted of killing 52 women and children in October 1992.[21]

Execution

On September 16, 1989, just hours after he was interviewed by the police, Slivko was executed by shooting.[22]

See also

Notes
  1. Following his arrest, Slivko stated to investigators he never selected a youth older than 17 both because the boy killed in the 1961 traffic accident which had sparked his fantasies had been in his early teens, and out of concerns regarding the victim's physical strength.[9]

References
  1. Hunting The Devil p. 160
  2. Hunting The Devil p. 163
  3. Hunting The Devil pp. 162
  4. The Killer Department p. 131
  5. The Killer Department p. 131
  6. Born to Kill in the USSR p. 61
  7. The Killer Department p. 131
  8. Born to Kill in the USSR p. 65
  9. The Killer Department p. 133
  10. Hunting The Devil p. 160
  11. The Killer Department p. 132
  12. Born to Kill in the USSR p. 67
  13. Hunting The Devil p. 164
  14. The Killer Department p. 162
  15. The Killer Department p. 132
  16. Hunting the Devil p. 164
  17. Born to Kill in the USSR p. 65
  18. http://www.1tv.ru/sprojects_edition/si5937/fi26843
  19. The Worst People in History p. 147
  20. The Killer Department pp. 133-134
  21. "Soviet serial killer is sentenced to life term". The Prescott Courier. 15 October 1992. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  22. Born to Kill in the USSR p. 75

Further reading
  • Cullen, Robert (1993). The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer of Our Times. Orion Media. ISBN 1-85797-210-4
  • Kalman, Robert (2014). Born to Kill in the USSR. Friesen Press. ISBN 978-1-460-22731-2
  • Lourie, Richard (1993). Hunting the Devil: The Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History. Grafton. ISBN 0-06-017717-9
  • Wallace, Bill (2013). Mass Killers: Compelled to Destroy. Canary Press. ISBN 978-1-907-79590-9
  • Born to Kill in the USSR image gallery relating to Anatoly Slivko
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.