This evidence-led archive now pairs a final 2005 serial-murder judgment with the 2018 contract killing of Mārtiņš Bunkus, whose 2024 convictions remain under appellate review.
Files appear here only when reliable sources document convictions and a criminal judgment.
A first-instance conviction is documented here without presenting an unfinished appeal as a final judgment.
The verdict controls the label; accusations, confessions and headlines do not expand what a court proved.
The prosecution is nationally significant and unusually well documented in contemporary regional and international reporting. It also demonstrates why a true-crime archive must distinguish an investigation’s scale from the final convictions.
The label covers thirteen murder convictions, eight attempted-murder convictions and the resulting life sentence. It does not convert every death attributed during the investigation into a proved murder.
The visuals use apartment architecture, evidence records and memorial lights. They do not claim to depict victims, Petrovs or an original crime scene.
Direct answers that keep allegations separate from the judgment.
Kaspars Petrovs was convicted by a Riga court in May 2005 of thirteen murders, eight attempted murders, theft and robbery. He received a life sentence.
No. Contemporary reporting connected the investigation or indictment to more than thirty deaths, often reported as thirty-eight, but the court convicted Petrovs of thirteen murders. This archive does not count unproved allegations as convictions.
The proved case concerned older women in Riga. Available court reporting does not provide a reliable, complete public list of names, so this page does not invent or merge victim identities.
Contemporary trial reporting said he often posed as a gas-company employee or otherwise followed residents home, entered their apartments and robbed them. The page avoids reproducing unnecessary graphic detail.
The charged conduct spanned 2000 to 2003. Petrovs was arrested in 2003, tried in Riga and sentenced to life imprisonment on 12 May 2005.
The classification applies to the thirteen murders and eight attempted murders established by the 2005 convictions. Other deaths associated with the wider investigation are not presented as judicially proved.
