9 Serial Killers Who Are Now Free

9. Anatoli Neželski

Neželski was born in 1951 in Estonia, at that time a republic within the USSR. After spending his youth working as a fisherman, he started a job in a furniture factory. With the newfound tools at his disposal, Neželski manufactured himself a makeshift pistol.

His wife quickly divorced him and claimed he was a violent, religious fanatic. Afterwards, he got a job as a security guard and joined the Druzhina - the Soviet volunteer police. This service in the Druzhina is where things start to get worrisome. When his finances worsened, Neželski used his police experience to become a robber. In August 1994, Neželski eventually broke into his ex-wife's home and murdered her new boyfriend with his self-made pistol. He also killed the manager of a currency exchange, and later an accountant, in crude robberies.

Neželski spent the next two years on the run from police, eventually being apprehended while living in poverty. He readily confessed to his killings and was convicted of three counts of murder. Due to a loophole in Estonian law, the maximum sentence was either 15 years or the death penalty, and the year he was captured the death penalty had been abolished. He served his 15 years and was released in March 2013, and has been living freely in Estonia since then.