Alexander Skrynnik

The exact date and place of birth of Skrynnik is unclear (it is known that he lived in Kishinev and in 1980 he was 27 years old). He considered himself a loser in his personal life, and envied other men. His marriage was unhappy: after he had a child, Skrynnik realized that he did not love his wife. One day, his friend Feodosiy Glukharyov boasted to him about his success in love. After this, Skrynnik made an advertisement in the newspaper that he was searching for a lover, but the girl he met infected him with venereal disease, which made Skrynnik decide that women are the source of all the ills in the world, and must be destroyed.

Later, Skrynnik returned to Kishinev, where he worked as a carpenter in the "Bucuria" factory, was an udarnik and a candidate member of the CPSU. In 1980, he committed another murder. He took Irina Trasyn, who had a seven-year-old child, on a date treating her with ice cream before stabbing her multiple times with a knife. Skrynnik then removed her eyes and cut off her head, which he put in a briefcase. The killer then brought the briefcase to Glukharyov, attaching the following note to it:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}

In the mid-1970s, Skrynnik went to work in Yakutia. There he killed stewardess Nina Puganova, cutting off her breasts and genitals. Although her torn body was found, it did not lead to the killer, and the murder remained unsolved until Skrynnik's capture.

Alexander Ivanovich Skrynnik (1953 – 1981), known as The Moldavian Chikatilo, was a Soviet serial killer who committed his crimes in Yakutia and Kishinev.