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shot in podyezd |
connected w/ Russian sports |
murder for less than $100 |
really stupid criminal |
explosive device |
cries for help ignored |
perp in body count |
children |
"investigation continuing" |
carved up like a turkey |
cannibalism |
riddled with bullets |
related to victim's job |
By the Book
Another day, another demented, married, family-man serial killer from the southern provinces. Police last week finally arrested a killer who had been known in Voronezh as the "Voronezh Chikatilo," suspected of at least 10 murders of underage girls from 1990 to the present. The killer's MO was pretty standard fare for the hardcore Voronezh-Rostov area: bodies of minors had been found in remote wooded areas, showing signs of sexual abuse, with genital organs frequently hacked out of the corpses.
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| "There's nothing I wouldn't do for a clean house."
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As was the case with Chikatilo, the suspect in this case-police have not yet released his name-is married with children. The suspect's family, police report, suspected nothing. Police were led to the killer when it was discovered that the locations of the bodies closely corresponded to delivery routes for local trucking companies. Truckers were questioned one after another, until one finally gave a partial confession, claiming that he picked up hitchhikers, then raped and killed them after stopping at the side of the road. The suspect may not stand criminal trial, however, as state medical examiners have declared him insane. News of the suspect's capture, incidentally, appeared in only one Moscow newspaper-Moskovsky Komsomolets. Apparently, you need to kill more than 10 people to make the newspapers in this country. More later on Russia's latest, greatest forgotten serial murderer...
Boys Will Be Boys
The southern provinces may be Russia's serial murder capital, but the Far East-and particularly a hideous little city called Nakhodka-is fast earning a reputation as the most gruesome and depressing place in all of Russia. In its third Death Porn appearance this year, Nakhodka made news this week for a banal little story that powerfully illustrates the depths of Russian nihilism. According to Kriminalnaya Khronika, a Nakhodka patrolman was walking around a schoolyard when he noticed a group of kids playing soccer. Smiling, he decided to walk over and watch the game. At the sight of him, the kids stopped playing, and a few ran away. Then the patrolman took a second look. It turns out the kids were playing soccer using a human skull as a ball.
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| "Dad, this camping trip is giving me the creeps. Can we go home now? Hey, dad? Dad?"
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The cop grabbed the head, then conducted a quick interrogation. The kids admitted that they had broken into the unguarded municipal morgue the day before and robbed some of the body parts. Subsequent phone calls revealed that the skull belonged to a homeless man who had died in anonymity and whose body had been decomposing in the morgue while the state decided the unpleasant financial question of its disposition. The paper concluded: "In Nakhodka this story of the efforts of little kids, raised in the indifferent atmosphere of modern Russia, has brought us face to face with the height of cynicism, vulgarity, and revulsion-in short, our total lack of culture."
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
And now another uplifting story of people helping others in need. In Mezhdurechensk last week, four people were arrested for kidnapping and extortion after police ended the two-month incarceration of 9-year-old Nikolai Kozlov, whose mother owed local thugs 60 million rubles. When she failed to pay on time, the flatheads seized her son, installing him in the apartment of a girlfriend. Instead of putting the boy in a room, they relegated him to the balcony, where he slept on towels and rags and was fed bread and water-for two months. Nikolai appealed to neighbors who periodically appeared on adjacent balconies, and at times even screamed down to the street at passersby, insisting that he was being kidnapped and needed help. It wasn't until two months had passed, however, that one of the neighbors decided to call the police. "The neighbors were afraid they would get in trouble if they called the police," said a spokesman for the Mezhdurechensk police department.
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