Alexander Ivanovich Skrynnik (1953 – 1981), known as The Moldavian Chikatilo, was a Soviet serial killer who committed his crimes in Yakutia and Kishinev. Biography The exact date and place of birth of Skrynnik is unclear (it is known that he lived in Kishinev and in 1980 he was 27 years old). He considered himself a loser in his personal life, and envied other men. His marriage was unhappy: after he had a child, Skrynnik realized that he did not love his wife. One day, his friend Feodosiy Glukharyov boasted to him about his success in love. After this, Skrynnik made an advertisement in the newspaper that he was searching for a lover, but the girl he met infected him with venereal disease, which made Skrynnik decide that women are the source of all the ills in the world, and must be destroyed. Murders In the mid-1970s, Skrynnik went to work in Yakutia. There he killed stewardess Nina Puganova, cutting off her breasts and genitals. Although her torn body was found, it did not lead to the killer, and the murder remained unsolved until Skrynnik's capture. Later, Skrynnik returned to Kishinev, where he worked as a carpenter in the "Bucuria" factory, was an udarnik and a candidate member of the CPSU. In 1980, he committed another murder. He took Irina Trasyn, who had a seven-year-old child, on a date treating her with ice cream before stabbing her multiple times with a knife. Skrynnik then removed her eyes and cut off her head, which he put in a briefcase. The killer then brought the briefcase to Glukharyov, attaching the following note to it: Initially, Glukharyov was suspected of killing her. The investigation had a version that he had been a member of a criminal group but decided to cut off ties with the criminal world, and they had decided to intimidate him. It was impossible to identify the victim, as she was left without eyes. With the permission of the Moldavian SSR, the head of the murdered Trasyn was shown on television. After that, police was called by 7-year-old Viktor Trasyn, the son of the deceased. He recognized his mother, whom he had not seen in a week. As he was left an orphan, the boy was put in an orphanage. Soon after, Skrynnik killed a new victim named Anastasia Mikhailova, bringing to Glukharyov her severed hand. The examination later established