Vladimir Romanov

Vladimir Ivanovich Romanov (born 1950 in Kaliningrad Oblast, RSFSR - October 12, 2006 in Kaliningrad, Russia), known as the "Kaliningrad Maniac", was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile. Between 1991 and 2005, he committed at least 12 murders associated with rape.

On September 25, 2006, he attempted to rape a 24-year-old whom managed to escape and remember his car's registration number. Two days later, Romanov was arrested. He immediately confessed to killing a number of girls between 2001 and 2005, a total of 10 murders being established. He also confessed to the 1991 double murder.

Romanov was placed in Kaliningrad's pre-trial detention center No. 1, and was immediately put in solitary confinement. On October 11, 2006, he confessed to committing a thirteenth murder, the circumstances of which he planned to tell later. However, on the night of October 12, the 56-year-old pedophile hanged himself with his bed sheets, leaving a brief suicide note addressed to his son, in which he apologized to his family.

Romanov lived in the town of Bagrationovsk. In 1991, he committed the double murder of teenage girls whose bodies he later buried. Due to the absence of the corpses, the victims were considered missing and the case remained unsolved. During the same year, he raped a 12-year-old girl and tried to strangle her. The victim remained alive and gave a description of the offender, with Romanov being arrested soon after and sentenced to 10 years in prison. While in prison, he was raped by another inmate. After his release in 2001, Romanov began working in the private transport industry.