Sergei Shipin

 VICTIMS: 10

Very little can be found on this case, but I think that to not mention Sergei Shipin would be robbing you all of an opportunity to learn a little (and I mean very little) about the guy.

Sergei was another one of those pesky Russian cannibals that was given the nickname "the heir to Hannibal Lecter" by local newspapers. I don't know what it is about those Russians, but they just seem to love the taste of human flesh. And Sergei was no different.

In July 1998, Sergei, a 24-year-old former security guard, was arrested for the murder of a 19-year-old woman.

Sergei admitted to the police that he invited the woman to his home. Once he had her safely inside he beat and raped her. Sometime later that day she tried to flee, so he beat her to death.

He then said he dismembered the woman in his bathtub, buried part of her in a seedy part of town and then made a soup from parts of her corpse.

But it didn't end there.

Shipin then went on to talk about 10 other murders he had committed in St Petersburg over the preceding three-years. Allegedly he said that he had cannibalised most of the corpses.

He also said that he almost had 2 other victims, but they were able to escape after he had raped them. Police had already suspected him in these two cases, so it is possible that this was just a case of the police cleaning up their books on old cases.

The last I heard Shipin was undergoing psychological testing in a prison medical facility in Moscow, but that was over 3 years ago, so I would assume that he has since been executed.
 

MY OPINION

I’m really hoping a Russian reader might be able to fill me in as to what has happened in this case over the past three years, because it could be an incredibly interesting case to read the full facts about. But on the little bit that I have it’s still pretty interesting. I know that many will question the validity of many confessions made to Russian police, but for some reason I don’t doubt this case, although I’m not sure why, just instinct I guess.