Sergey Tsukanov

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Sergey Nikolaevich Tsukanov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Цуканов; born June 22, 1973), known as The Cemetery Maniac (Russian: Кладбищенский маньяк), is a Soviet-Russian serial killer and rapist who killed eight women in Likhvinka and Tula during two distinct periods. The first series of murders occurred between 1989 and 1991, when he was only 16 years old, and the second took place between 1998 and 1999. In 2000, Tsukanov was deemed incapable to stand trial and was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric clinic.^[1]