Nicholas TRAPISHKI

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Apparent outlaw - Robberies
Number of victims: 100 +/-
Date of murders: 1920 - 1926
Date of birth: ???
Victim profile: ???
Method of murder: ???
Location: Russia
Status: Executed in 1926

At his trial in Moscow, during April 1926, Trapishkin was accused of murdering 100 persons in the past six years, with several robberies appended to the charge.

Convicted on all counts, he was sentenced to death by the Moscow Supreme Court on April 6. A peasant named Dibenko received a sentence of five years at hard labor for harboring Trapishkin during the manhunt that culminated in his arrest.

Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers - Hunting Humans


SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1920-26

VENUE: Russia

VICTIMS: 100 alleged

MO: Apparent outlaw; several robbery charges also included.

DISPOSITION: Executed, 1926.