Anatoliy Tymofeev

During the proceedings, Tymofeev was cited as acting "indifferent", replying to all questions in a calm, laconic manner. His only surviving victim, Bobrovnik, also testified against him at the trial. Eventually, he was convicted of the 13 murders and sentenced to death. He lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court of Ukraine in 1995, citing his rough childhood and prison sentences as a drive that made him mad "like the Zmei Gorynych", causing him to kill any potential witnesses to his crimes. His appeal was unanimously denied, with one judge describing him as a "beast that couldn't be left alive". Because of this, in spite of pressure from the Council of Europe to abolish the death penalty, Anatoliy Tymofeev was nonetheless executed at the Lukyanivska Prison in Kyiv in August 1996, becoming the last inmate to have been executed by court order in the country.

After this murder, he has not been definitely linked to any other crime until the early morning of April 20, 1992. On that date, he had broken into three consecutive homes in the village of Pristromi, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Raion, but had only managed to steal a small amount of karbovantsi and 20 shawls. After breaking into the fourth house, he happened upon the pensioner living in it, Bobrovnik. Wanting to vent out his frustrations, Tymofeev grabbed a kitchen board and hit her on the head, causing her to flinch, hit herself on a heating pipe and subsequently collapse. Believing that she was dead, Tymofeev rummaged through the house, stole everything of value and left, locking the door behind him. Despite her injuries, Bobrovnik survived the attack and called for help, resulting in her eventual recovery.

By this time, police units from both Ukraine and Russia were aware that a serial murderer was active, as witnesses had given similar descriptions of a slenderly-built young man being seen near the crime scenes. As a result, on September 19, 1992, Tymofeev was detained at the Moscow Kiyevsky railway station and brought in for questioning. While initially uncooperative, he soon confessed his crimes to the Russian authorities, who quickly extradited him to Ukraine. There, he gave detailed confessions to his crimes to the investigators in Baryshivka, revealing details about murders which, until then, were either not connected to the case or weren't considered homicides at all.

Not long after, the newly-renamed Tymofeev returned to his criminal ways, and began burgling into the houses of elderly residents in the Kyiv Oblast to steal small items of value. On September 11, 1991, while burgling one such home in Brovary, he overheard that the elderly resident, a woman named Scherbak, was entering the house. Tymofeev initially hid from sight, but when he saw that the woman hadn't seen him yet, he crept up behind her and hit her with an iron pestle, knocking her to the ground. Unwilling to leave a witness and risk going to the penal colony again, Tymofeev took off his belt and strangled Scherbak. In what later become his trademark, he turned the house upside down until he found some money and gold jewellery, set it on fire and promptly left.

In 1990, Krivobok was released again serving his out the entirety of his sentence. In the early 1990s, due to the difficult political situation and poor economic status of the country, Krivobok had trouble with finding a normal job and was inclined to return to his old habits. Despite this, he attempted to lead a normal life, marrying a woman in October 1990 and starting a family of his own. In an effort to sever ties with his criminal past, he decided to legally change his surname to that of his wife, renaming himself to Anatoliy Tymofeev.

Anatoliy Tymofeev (né Krivobok; 1960 – August 1996) was a Ukrainian serial killer and burglar who murdered at least 13 pensioners in both Ukraine and Russia between 1991 and 1992. He was convicted, sentenced to death and executed, one of the last to be executed in Ukraine prior to the abolition of the death penalty.

Anatoliy Krivobok was born in Berezan in 1960. Little is known about his childhood, but according to his later claims, Krivobok had a harsh upbringing, and at age 12, was sent to a juvenile detention center in Zhmerynka. While living there, he claimed to have been physically assaulted by both other delinquents and the prison staff on a regular basis, even when he was sick. Due to this, he escaped the facility on two separate occasions, but was caught both times and harshly disciplined. As a result, Krivobok began stealing in his teens, for which he was first arrested in 1981 and ordered to serve 3 years in prison. Shortly after his release, he was caught stealing again and given another prison term.