we would all like to believe that monsters exist only in horror films and that once the film ends
we can go back to the safety of our homes and forget about the evil we have just witnessed
sadly this is untrue and there are very scary people walking the streets every day involved
in true crime stories that you wouldn't believe number five those in ukraine knew sirai catch as
an upstanding member of the community for his hard work as a criminal investigator
little did they know that sirai was actually one of the very scary people that he had
dedicated his life to hunting down and putting behind bars he had been born in russia in 1952
and was around to see what many viewed as the glory days of the soviet union lying was second
nature to sirai and in his early twenties he began telling his neighbors that he had served
in the army and had been to afghanistan this was a lie that sirai would keep until his arrest
the reality was that he had only completed the second mandatory term in the armed forces
before becoming a police officer after becoming an officer he trained as a criminal investigator
sirai would get caught in his lies and after being caught falsifying evidence at the ministry
of internal affairs school he was forced to leave russia and start a new life in ukraine
once in ukraine he got work as a criminal investigator once more and in 1984 women in
eastern ukraine began mysteriously disappearing residents put their faith in men like sirai
only to find out decades later that he was a monster hiding in plain sight
between 1984 and 2005 sirai was believed to have taken the lives of over 100 women
he used his police knowledge to avoid capture he would commit his crimes near railway lines that
had recently been tarred so that police dogs would struggle to pick up ascent
for decades sirai went undetected and lived under the guise of serving and protecting the community
in mid-2005 sirai was taken out of his apartment in handcuffs
after the police had finally caught up to him when confronted sirai admitted everything although the
ukrainian police were only able to formally charge him in 37 cases sirai made headlines again in 2015
when he married 25 year old elena who had sent him letters in prison after seeing his case on
tv in russia the pair even went on to have a daughter as prisoners in ukraine are allowed a
three-day conjugal visit every two months the couple were even featured in the documentary
world's toughest prisons where elena proudly talked to the host and crew about her husband
in 2018 for reasons unknown their relationship soured and elena stopped visiting her husband
in november of that year sirai passed away his remains were placed in an
unmarked grave because neither elena nor his surviving family members wish to claim them
number four there is some contention as to whether the argentine vampire ever really
existed some argentinian news outlets seem to doubt and discredit the whole story
but no matter what you believe it doesn't make the supposed crimes of the argentine vampire
any less terrifying in the 1950s florencio fernandez was responsible for a string of
crimes in monteros argentina that earned him the nickname of the argentine vampire
florencio had an attraction to blood and once he found a female victim he liked he would follow
her for days on end noting down her routine and finding out when she would be home alone
once he was satisfied florencio ramped up and took things to another level he would sneak
into his victims homes through an open window before launching his attack his method of attack
differed each time but he left behind the same calling card a bite mark to signify that he had
taken what he wanted the women of monteros became terrified of being in their own homes
and were dissatisfied that the local police force had failed to catch the creepy man on the loose
after years of trying and failing the montero's police called in the help
of the federal police who brought with them more up-to-date scientific methods
the federal police created a map of the crime scenes and found that they were all centrally
placed around a cave where 25 year old florencio fernandez lived florencia was known as the loose
loquito of monteros and the federal police placed him under surveillance one evening in february of
1960 the federal police caught florencio in the act as he was climbing through the window of an
apartment where a lone woman lived florencio knew that the game was up and went with the federal
police to the police station some reports state that florencio was almost relieved to be caught
during a psychiatric evaluation florencia was found unfit to stand trial due to suffering from
schizophrenia and being incredibly unstable he would pass away in 1968 from natural causes at
least that's what was reported to the media at the time many people in argentina believed that while
florencia was a real person he was not the person responsible for the scary crimes that happened
without a re-examination of the evidence it's unlikely that we will ever know
number three
australia is a land of sunshine beaches and barbecues and one of the last places on earth
you'd expect to find scary insane people between 1984 and 2009 the residents of victoria australia
were haunted by a serial killer who claimed the lives of three people and impacted the lives of
millions shattering the notion that they lived in a small peaceful community where things like this
just didn't happen in 1984 john along with andrew opie entered the home of henry kells according to
their testimony the two did not intend to take cal's life but only wanted to harm him
and intimidate him during his trial john claimed that he was under the influence of several things
and that he wasn't in his right state of mind while the crime shocked the community john's
sentence was even more shocking john leslie combs was originally sentenced to life imprisonment
however following a review he was given just 11 years when a report stated that in spite of his
offense which did not seem premeditated he does not pose a substantial threat to the community
the community were outraged when john leslie combs was released in 1996
and allowed to live among them as a free man kelz's family were appalled that the person
responsible was free to walk the streets meanwhile their loved ones would never get that chance again
then in december of 1996 john leslie combs was arrested once again this time for his
involvement in the 1984 disappearance of michael peter spirani spirani was last seen when he left
for a fishing trip telling his friends and family that he would be home within a few hours but as
the hours passed and there was no sign of it they knew something was very wrong it wasn't
until michael's body was found near port phillip bay that the investigation was taken seriously
and ended with an unlikely suspect being charged again jon managed to talk his way
out of his crimes and ended up serving 11 years of a 10-year minimum sentence
in 2007 he was once again released into society john had somehow managed to convince psychiatrists
and the parole board that he was a changed man but deep down he was exactly the same it would
take a third and final crime for the authorities in victoria to realize that they had been played
two years later the state of victoria was hit with another crime involving john leslie combs
rachel batts was found in the home of nicole godfrey on phillip island after she and john
had gotten into an argument during the trial it was revealed that nicole was in the house at the
time of the offense and knew what was going on it also alleged that nicole and john began a
sexual relationship following the crime and nicole helped john cover up evidence for her involvement
nicole was sentenced to just three years for attempting to pervert the course of justice
meanwhile john leslie combs was handed down an indefinite life sentence with the victorian courts
making sure that he would never make it out of prison john leslie combs will now spend the rest
of his life in the port phillip prison number two 29 year old darius catwicka is one of europe's
most dangerous criminals that you've never even heard of in mid-2015 darius embarked on a spree
that saw him committing crimes in sweden austria the netherlands czechia and the uk
these are just some of the countries where darius is believed to have been active
but now other members of the european union are re-examining evidence to see if the man
known as europe's first traveling serial killer is linked to any of the other unsolved crimes
in 2015 darius attacked pensioners in the countries previously mentioned although there
have only been convictions in sweden and austria it's believed that he broke into his victims
homes before attacking them in their beds darius failed to provide the police with the motive only
telling them that he chooses his victims at random because he enjoys it after committing his crimes
in austria darius made use of the open borders between the european countries and fled to germany
by this time the austrian authorities were slowly catching up with him and alerted their neighbors
to be on the lookout for a wanted criminal darius was only able to evade capture for so long
and by the end of november he had been arrested and extradited to austria to face the police
during his trial darius told psychiatrists that he had been hearing voices and was diagnosed
with paranoid schizophrenia while he was found guilty of his crimes his diagnosis meant that
he was transferred to a mental health treatment facility instead of a prison following his arrest
many countries across the eu including the uk began re-examining cold cases that fit darius's mo
darius had lived in the uk and other european countries before 2015. and now authorities
in those countries are wondering whether he could be responsible for their unsolved cases
so far darius has not been convicted of any other crimes he's expected to serve out his sentence in
austria before being extradited to another country number one in 2003 the residents of
china were alerted to the fact that there was a scary person on the loose who was targeting
young women that man was zhu wen an unassuming taxi driver who blended into the background and
went about his daily life like hundreds of other people in early june of 2003 young women began
disappearing after getting taxi rides home only to be found days later in a field or near wells
the women in the area became panicked at the news and began avoiding taxis altogether
opting to either take public transport in groups or stay at home entirely whenever possible
what these women didn't know was that zoo also dubbed the taxi demon wasn't picking victims
at random he picked victims he believed were involved in certain professions which greatly
angered him he would always wait until the sun went down to strike when a lone woman got into
his taxi zoo would strike up casual conversation with them and get to know more about them once he
had enough information he made a decision on what he wanted to do for those unlikely women zoo drove
them out to a remote area before attacking them and leaving their bodies to be found days later
police quickly established that all of these women had taken a taxi and that they had all been picked
up by one driver zhu wen in july of 2003 the crimes mysteriously stopped as quickly as they had
begun by november of 2003 zuwin was arrested and charged in connection with the crimes and during
questioning he admitted everything he even gave the police a diary that detailed all of his crimes
sealing his fate he told the police that his wife had done something to anger him and that
women in general angered him so this was his way of getting revenge zoo's exact sentence is unknown
though many chinese publications speculate that he has possibly been given a sentence of capital
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