He is also known to have sexually assaulted at least 36 other victims. Slivko's murder victims were aged between 11 and All were deceived into participating in home movies ostensibly reenacting the scene of a partisan soldier executed by Nazi soldiers in which the boy would be hanged. Upon rendering his victim unconscious , Slivko would sexually assault, then murder and dismember his victim before setting the body alight.
The entire routine would invariably be filmed, photographed, and documented in diaries to fuel Slivko's pyrophilia and erotic fantasies.
The routine of hanging, mutilation and burning enacted by Slivko was an attempt to recreate a traffic accident involving the violent death of a teenage boy he had witnessed in which had sexually aroused him and awakened his paraphilias.
Sentenced to death in , Slivko was executed by shooting on 16 September He was the oldest of two children born to impoverished parents. At the time of Slivko's birth, Ukraine was in the grip of a famine caused by Joseph Stalin 's forced collectivization of agriculture, from which Soviet Dagestan was not immune.
The marriage between Slivko's parents was fraught: both parents frequently argued. Furthermore, his father was an alcoholic. Slivko was an intelligent, but sickly child who suffered from insomnia and several childhood illnesses. He was also a classic loner, and later recalled his childhood as blighted by instability, hunger, war, and poverty. Slivko himself witnessed many atrocities committed by the Nazis following their invasion of the Soviet Union , [ 6 ] including their invasion of his own home in , although one of his most graphic wartime memories was of seeking shelter with four other children in a cemetery to escape German bombing raids, only to be pushed aside by these children, who were repulsed by his emaciated appearance.
