All about serial killer Mikhail Popkov, ‘The Werewolf’ of Russia who killed 92
Confessions
Popkov, who was sentenced to two lifetime imprisonment for dozens of murders committed between 1992-2011, confessed to attracting two 27-year-old women near the Angersk Electromechanical plant. After being rejected, he drowned them and left their bodies in a forest by the M-53 highway. At the beginning of 2025, he also confessed to killing a cleaner in 2011 and hit him with an ax before he burned his body. His crimes were not limited to Siberia – confessed to the remote murders up to the Pacific Coast of Russia.
A pattern of violence
Popkov first targeted women between the ages of 18 and 50, and usually presented trips in the police car late at night. He put them on knife, axes, bats, or only to the secluded areas he would rape and kill using his hands. Victims include teachers, store assistants, civil servants, mothers and prostitutes. The bodies were often injured, some of them were impossible for the funeral ceremonies of the open floor.
He once killed a teacher from his daughter’s school, then donated to the funeral fund and killed two students after a concert on another occasion. The survivors were rare – a young girl who fled in 1998 described her and her car, but other officers rejected their allegations and made an excuse.
Double life
For family and colleagues, Popkov looked ordinary, even fascinating. While her daughter described her as the “Best Father ,, her colleagues praised the police record. All mental assessments passed and praised for fitness and courage, including a rapist while in office.
Popkov admitted that he was leading two lives: “I was an ordinary man. On the other hand, I did murders.” Later, he said that his wife Elena triggered the severe impulses of her suspicion of her relationship in the 1990s and claimed that she wanted to “clean” the streets of the women she deems immoral.
Mental Health and Punishment
Despite the diagnosis of “Murder Mani”, Popkov was declared sane and responsible for his crimes. Russia has been allowing the Moralerator to spend the rest of his life in prison since 1996. A disturbing home video from the 1990s shows that he smiles the camera while holding a knife and a violent rhyme – a frightening rhyme chanting. Even in court, when asked for the total victims, he shrugged and said, “I can’t say exactly. I didn’t register.”
Today, Popkov is behind the bars, his name was engraved as one of Russia’s most deadly killers-a hunter hiding behind a family man’s front while leaving behind a hundred victims behind the victim.
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