The case of the seven hangers

A terrible story, investigated not by the Investigative Committee at all, but by the recent prisoner Kutuzov, who served 11 years for killing someone else.

Once upon a time there were two friends in Ryazan, Polin and Shevtsov. They committed a theft in 1999, served five years each, returned, and began to live and live again. After some time, some murders began to occur in the city of Skopin, Ryazan Region. The investigation has accumulated seven "pendants". There would be “hanging” “hanging”, if in September 2011 an unknown person (as stated in the protocol) would not suddenly find “free lying” firearms of the brand TOZ-97 “Arkhar” on the street. And Shevtsov's "fingers" would not have been found on this weapon. It turned out that this weapon was registered to citizen Strepov, whose corpse was discovered on April 12, 2010. And earlier, on January 19, 2010, the corpse of his wife was found at their place of residence in Skopin. At the same time, the investigation did not look for either a weapon or a husband - although he lay under the snow in a ravine, 100 meters from the house. The snow melted and they found it.

After the discovery of "fingers" Shevtsov is detained. A month later, he testified against Pauline and a certain Filachev. Pauline . was taken at 5 am, at 7 pm he confessed to all the murders And Filachev too. For a year they marinate in a pre-trial detention center. A year later, the investigator's decision comes out, and all three are released. Quote from the decision: “The circumstances that served as the basis for the court to choose a measure of restraint in the form of detention have changed.” “Some circumstances of the involvement of Polina, Filachev and Shevtsov were recognized by the investigation as unacceptable, as they were obtained in violation of the criminal procedure law.”

That is, the peasants were tortured - which they talked about from the very beginning.

While the guys were steaming on the bunk, other people worked - and not at all in the UK, but about the main character of this ancient drama a little lower. So, there is a handwritten explanation of one lady, who was later found dead and naked in a garbage dump covered with leaves. Citizen Natalya K., as investigators informed her father, had died herself and covered herself with leaves, having previously beaten herself up. The case was not initiated, since there is no corpus delicti - an accident. However, a month before her strange death, Natalya K. reported that her ex-husband, who is also the main witness for the prosecution in a series of murders, underwent two craniotomies, was inadequate, he had memory lapses and visions, and he complained to her that he was summoned to the investigators, they “bruised his ribs” and forced him to testify.

At the same time, work is underway with the witness - I will call her Regina. She was an attesting witness during a search at the home of Pauline's parents on December 23, 2011. Then the operatives found a certain package in the things of Polin's mother . Without opening it in front of the attesting witnesses, the operatives entered into the protocol that this package contained a golden engraved tie clip belonging to one of the dead. Mother swore that she sorted things out three days ago and there was no package there. As soon as the clip was found, the opera immediately stopped the search. The understood Regina gives an explanation about this in January 2012, and in February some police officers put Regina in a car and take her somewhere. In the car, she becomes ill with a heart, and she is simply thrown out into the forest, presumed dead. But she survived. At the same time, the brakes in the car of Pauline's parents are clipped. They write an application to initiate a criminal case, they are refused, they appeal against the refusal in court, the court recognizes that the refusal is illegal, but now a new refusal to initiate a case has come.

In all these episodes - from the very beginning - there are a lot of employees. But two names meet with enviable constancy: this is an opera by Dmitry Panin and Timur Belyaev, I strongly recommend that the investigation take a closer look at them. After all, the matter is clear to everyone who knows Ryazan well. All those killed were local small entrepreneurs, and all of them were victims in the case of the local authority Kuzin, he took a bribe from them. He was convicted on the basis of their testimony. Kuzin came out not so long ago, but he was sitting at the time of the murders. Yes, and a person of this caliber would not personally run after “terpils” - but this is very similar to an order. In addition, after their arrest, a case was initiated against Polina , Shevtsov, Filachev, not only under Art. 105 (murder), but also under Art. 162 (robbery), and before their detention there were no signs of robbery - nothing was lost from the dead. One gets the impression that the 162nd was hanged on those arrested in order to add a selfish motive and disguise the order.

... Evgeny Kutuzov forced me to deal with this story, he also brought all the documents and introduced me to the defendants. I know Zhenya well and appreciate him very much. He himself was released not so long ago, after serving 11 years under Art. 105. The story was exactly the same: he was charged with a series of murders (7 corpses), Zhenya was preparing for a life sentence, until the cops accidentally caught the real killers - they shot a 16-year-old boy who asked for a smoke. Serial killers were also convicted: one was given a life sentence (Nikolay Sukhanov), the second - 20 years (Valentin Antoshkin). Then Zhenya met the second in the zone - they sat together. And he calmly and cheerfully told Zhenya how it was with "his" corpse - with the fact that Zhenya left the investigation and the court, not to let go of the already sitting one. Zhenya had seen enough of everything in prison, but it took 5 years for him to start fighting. And eventually became a natural human rights activist. Now everyone helps Zhenya: both prisoners and even employees. Because everyone understands everything, but they are afraid. And Zhenya has nothing to lose. Everyone in Ryazan knows that he is the one who brings this case to light. And I'm very afraid for him.