Timeline

Born: 25 July 1959The Victims: Onoprienko killed 52 victims from 1989 to 1996, including: 1989 – Bratkovychi – family (two adults, five children) – with Rogozin 1989 - Galina Grishenko 24 December 1995 - Zaichenko family (two adults, two children) Late December 1995 - Lviv region - family (two adults, two children), one male witness 6 January 1996 - near the Berdyansk-Dnieprovskaya motorway - Kasai, a Navy ensign; Savitsky, a taxi driver and Kochergina, a cook 17 January 1996 - Bratkovychi - Pilat family (two adults, 3 children), two witnesses: Kondzela, 27, and Zakharko, 56 30 January 1996 - Fastova, Kievskaya Oblast region - Marusina, 28, her two young sons, Zagranichniy, 32 19 February 1996 – Olevsk, Zhytomyr Oblast - Dubchak family (two adults, two children) 27 February 1996 – Malina, Lviv Oblast – Bodnarchuk family (two adults, two children, aged 7 and 8), neighbour, Tsalk 22 March 1996 – Busk, outside Bratkovychi – Novosad family (two adults, two children)Arrested: 16 April 1996 – Anatoly Onoprienko, 37Trial: November 1998 - Zhytomyr - Judge Dmitry LipskyConvicted: 31 March 1999 – First-degree multiple murderSentenced: 31 March 1999 – death sentence by shooting, commuted to life in prisonDied: 27 August 2013 - died in prison in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, of a suspected heart attack