Just when you think people can't get any sicker...

[Neil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs So these three 'kids' (that's basically what they were), grew up togethor. WTF made all three of them this way I've become aware of this story because there's an article in a UK newspaper today where one of the journalists watched one of the murder videos unaware of what it was. They appear to be quite scared by it! I suspect it's a clip of the video mentioned in the above wiki article. My morbib curiosity tells me to hunt this video down, but my common sense is prevailing by not letting me! I just don't want those images stored in my brain!

[Philly_SWAT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs So these three 'kids' (that's basically what they were), grew up togethor. WTF made all three of them this way I've become aware of this story because there's an article in a UK newspaper today where one of the journalists watched one of the murder videos unaware of what it was. They appear to be quite scared by it! I suspect it's a clip of the video mentioned in the above wiki article. My morbib curiosity tells me to hunt this video down, but my common sense is prevailing by not letting me! I just don't want those images stored in my brain! In case your curiosity wins out over your common sense, I found this video when I searched after reading your post. It has a translation of what they are saying in the video, which you can read without watching. Link removed by moderator

[EvilNed]

I get two of the guys... But the Alexander Hanzha guy. What did he do? It just states he is being prosecuted for 1 case of attempt of murder. But I never read anything about him in the text. Still, a gruesome story. Yuck.

[capncnut]

WTF made all three of them this way Local media widely reported that the killers had some sort of a plan to get rich off of the murder videos they recorded. One of the suspects' girlfriends reported that they were planning to make 40 videos of 40 separate murders. This is corroborated by the suspects' classmate, who has often heard that Suprunyuck was in contact with an unknown "rich foreign website operator" who ordered 40 snuff videos, and would pay a large sum of money once all 40 videos were made. My morbib curiosity tells me to hunt this video down, but my common sense is prevailing by not letting me! I just don't want those images stored in my brain! Holy shit! Just watched it - this is like the fire extinguisher vs face scene in Irreversible come true. Whoa, throw the book at them! In case your curiosity wins out over your common sense, I found this video when I searched after reading your post. It has a translation of what they are saying in the video, which you can read without watching. That's where I found it, Philly. Actually, for those into plastic surgery, it's an interesting display of how quick you can make a face look unrecognisable. But hard to watch though.

[AcesandEights]

Could never bring myself to watch a snuff film, but the descriptions of the murders provided in the article are horrifying, as is raw number of victims. It's a shame the Ukraine abolished the death penalty, instead of just adding in stiffer requirements for its application.

[capncnut]

On second thoughts, I decided to remove the video link. While HPotD doesn't have any strict rules against death videos and the like, it does with pornography (I know, I know...). As the site contained numerous links to pornographic sites, it has been removed.

[bassman]

Holy shit....is this in the video you guys are talking about? The murderers then poke out Yatzenko's eyes with a screwdriver, and stab him with the screwdriver elsewhere. If that's it, I'm definitely not wanting to see that.

[capncnut]

Well, they jab the guy everywhere with the screwdriver. It's hard to define 'eyes' because in the opening 30 seconds, one of the kids absolutely takes the guys face off with a few heavy strokes of the hammer. I mean no actual facial features left, not dissimilar from Major Cooper in Day of the Dead.

[bassman]

That just sounds friggin disgusting. How did you guys watch that?!? I have to admit, that I have a strange sense of curiosty to see it, but I'm definitely going to fight that urge off. It's like if you're driving past a car accident and you don't want to see a dead body, but you just have the need to look. Weird. That's just disturbing that people do that kind of thing for pleasure. Makes me scared to go outside. lol *runs off to get a concealed weapons permit while looking over his shoulder*

[capncnut]

That's just disturbing that people do that kind of thing for pleasure. Makes me scared to go outside. It's interesting you say that because some of the comments on the link I removed were pretty much saying the same thing. There was a transcript of what was being said on the video and after they pummelled him and jabbed him with screwdrivers, they're jumping on his body while laughing, saying stuff like "Whoa, he's really not having a good day is he?" It's that what shocks me, not the death itself.

[Mike70]

stories like this me make me want to go outside armed like mel gibson in beyond thunderdome. even though the Ukraine doesn't have the death penalty anymore what is likely to happen to these "people" in prison will probably make them wish it did.

[Neil]

It's interesting you say that because some of the comments on the link I removed were pretty much saying the same thing. There was a transcript of what was being said on the video and after they pummelled him and jabbed him with screwdrivers, they're jumping on his body while laughing, saying stuff like "Whoa, he's really not having a good day is he?" It's that what shocks me, not the death itself. This is what gets me... Three young adults, from seemingly normal (wealthy) families, and all three of them are somehow capabable of the most detached, inhuman violence you can imagine... How?

[slickwilly13]

I have to see this, too. Would someone be so kind to send me the link through p.m.?

[capncnut]

This is what gets me... Three young adults, from seemingly normal (wealthy) families, and all three of them are somehow capabable of the most detached, inhuman violence you can imagine... How? It's like what makes two pre-teens entice a three-year-old boy to a train yard (James Bulger), force him to drink paint, bludgeon him around the face with iron bars, pelt bricks at him, jump on his head, and drag his unconscious (probably dead) body on the train track. There's never a shortage of freaks in this world.

[Neil]

It's like what makes two pre-teens entice a three-year-old boy to a train yard (James Bulger), force him to drink paint, bludgeon him around the face with iron bars, pelt bricks at him, jump on his head, and drag his unconscious (probably dead) body on the train track. There's never a shortage of freaks in this world. Forced him to drink paint