In Moscow, during his arrest, a maniac who committed two dozen attacks on women in the Vladimir, Tver and Yaroslavl regions committed suicide.

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As the press service of the Investigative Committee said, the investigative department for the Central Federal District of the agency is investigating a criminal case, which combines 18 criminal cases related to attacks on women in the Vladimir, Tver and Yaroslavl regions. These crimes were committed between 2006 and 2012 and remained unsolved for a long time.

During the investigation, it was established that the suspect came by car from Moscow to sparsely populated areas of the Tver, Yaroslavl and Vladimir regions, hiding his face under a cloth mask, attacked women of various ages, “using violence against them in the form of strangulation with his hands, tying up, deprivation of opportunity.” freedom of movement or uttering threats of violence, including causing death.” Then the attacker committed acts of a sexual nature against them using objects specially adapted to him, while photographing his victims or making a video recording of his violent actions, threatening to distribute incriminating materials among the victims’ relatives or through the Internet computer network.

Recently, employees of the Investigative Committee and the police established that Moscow resident Sergei Vechernin, born in 1968, may be involved in the commission of a crime. On May 31, an investigator, as well as criminal investigation officers, came to the suspect’s home to conduct a search. Vechernin, as noted in the Investigative Committee, declared his involvement in the above crimes, indicating where in the apartment photo and video images of the victims, notebooks with information about them, and items used in the commission of crimes were stored. The police handcuffed the suspect, but this did not stop the maniac from committing suicide. He managed to grab a knife and cut his throat. An investigation into the death of Sergei Vechernin is being carried out, based on the results of which a procedural decision will be made.

Nikolay Sergeev

The maniac passed his own sentence