In the Novosibirsk region, they searched for a serial killer for several years. It turned out that there were two maniacs

Saturday night on August 27, 2000 in the birch grove in the middle of Berdsk found the body. One of the locals went to the grove at the house to dig the worms - the next morning he was going to go fishing - but, barely going into the forest, he saw a naked young girl lying on the ground. A white blouse lay next to the body.
It was about eight in the evening when the man called the police. Half an hour later, many people came to the grove: investigators and operatives, dog handlers, forensic experts and prosecutors. Nearby was the locals. When the body was raised on a stretcher, a man in a crowd of eyewitnesses, Vladimir Frolov, recognized his girlfriend in the dead-21-year-old Svetlana Minina.
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Frolov said that the last time Svetlana saw on August 26, when they went to visit his relatives in order to celebrate the baptism of his nephew. At about 10 o’clock in the evening, Frolov and Minin quarreled, and she decided to leave. Soon Frolov gathered home.
Minina lived in a house that was right at the grove. “The grove is a place of non -human. In the dark, almost no one goes there. They try to go around it through the quarter, ” said Oleg Akraintsev, senior operative officer of the Berdsky ATS.

The forensic experts found that Minina died on the night of August 26-27 - she was raped, after which they strangled it. Apparently, the girl did not try to run away or scream. “It was precisely this that the victim did not even manage to resist, being paralyzed by either fear or threat,” said Yuri Eremenko, prosecutor of Berdsk.
Frolov told police officers that that evening Minina put on silver jewelry and a watch with a spider on the dial and took a handbag with her. However, next to the body, the girls did not find other things except a blouse. “The orientation was set in order to carry out the persons in whom they could have been testing,” said Alexei Choliy, who at that moment worked as an investigator in the prosecutor's office of Berdsk, with the possible detection of similar things. In addition, investigators went around all the houses in the district - however, none of the local residents noticed anything suspicious.
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Frolov himself did not have an alibi, so he was detained. However, the analysis of the sperm taken from the victim’s body showed that the criminal had the first or second blood group, while the blood of Frolov turned out to be the third group. He was released. Then the investigators checked all the friends of Minina - to no avail. This meant that the offender could choose the victim by accident.
On September 10, two weeks after the murder of Minina, another body of a young girl was found in Berdsk - this time in the forest near the shore of the Novosibirsk reservoir. She lay on her stomach, face down, and from her clothes there were only a blouse and underwear. The examination showed that the girl was raped and strangled, but it was not possible to identify her immediately.

Next to the body lay a brown bag with the inscription "Suzuki soprano". Soon near the microdistrict “A”, where Minin was killed, investigators found other evidence-a handkerchief with traces of blood, an empty bottle of vodka, brown women's shoes and a black handbag. Someone scattered things within a radius of 100 meters.
Investigators also learned about the third victim of the maniac-they drew attention to the undisclosed case of the murder of 16-year-old Anastasia Fatkova, which happened a year earlier. The body of the applicants of the Novosibirsk Pedagogical University was discovered in the same area - it was raped and strangled in a low shrub, 30 meters from the bus stop. This happened in the region of six in the morning, when people were already going to work. The offender took his clothes and jewelry with him. All three killings were united in one investigation.
On September 11, a resident of Berdsk Vladimir Samokhvalov came to the police, who on the radio found out that police officers found the girl’s body. Two days before, his daughter, 22-year-old Tatyana Samokhvalova, went to the rehearsal of the city day and did not return. At first, the parents were not worried: Tatyana was independent and sometimes remained to spend the night with her young man. But, having learned about the maniac, they were worried. Samokhvalov was shown photos from the scene of the murder, and he identified his daughter.

Tatyana studied at the Novosibirsk Conservatory in a class of wind instruments. The bag that was found next to her turned out to be a cover from the flute - the killer, apparently, abducted the instrument. Father said that in addition to playing the Flate Samokhvalova, Wushu was engaged in and read books on philosophy.
The news that a maniac acts in the city diverged in Berdsk: the media wrote a lot about the murders, and the police reported almost every day to report on the progress of the investigation. “At first, the information was not disclosed. When the murders continued, they began to talk about what was happening, in local newspapers, on the radio. They wanted people to report harassment, rape. Many girls, women were shy or did not want to publicize it, ”the operative of Akrainsev recalled in a conversation with“ KP-Novosibirsk ”. - After this publicity, from morning to night, the phones in the offices did not stop. There was such a glow. ”
Journalists noticed that all the killed girls were brunettes. In the panic of a resident of Berdsk and Novosibirsk, they began to repaint the hair. Parents did not let the children walk unattended, met them from school and from training. In the dark, the streets were patrolled by police officers and volunteers. The city hall discussed the abolition of city events.
Investigators found out the Samokhvalova route on the day of death. At half a year, she left the local recreation center, where the rehearsal of the musical group took place. At 10 o’clock in the evening, Samokhvalova went to her young man-he was not at home, so she left a note and went to her, but for some reason turned towards the forest.
Investigators noticed that the bodies of Minina, Fatova and Samokhvalova were found in one part of the city. They drew a triangle on the map, connecting the crimes, and suggested that one of the local residents could commit murders. They made up a psychological portrait of a maniac. “The motive of the crime, conclusion: clearly sexual, satisfaction of sexual passion, sadistic inclinations, hatred of a girl,” the prosecutor Yuri Eremenko told reporters.
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According to Eremenko, investigators studied Alibi those who had previously committed violent crimes of a sexual nature or were suspected of them, as well as people who are on psychiatric accounting. Berdsky were not limited: they sent requests to Novosibirsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Omsk and Tomsk regions, to Altai. Lombards and commission stores also went around - in the hope that the stolen things of the girls will appear there. As a result, investigators revealed more than 10 rape, but the maniac never approached.
However, the murders in Berdsk stopped - police officers suggested that the maniac had left the city or simply hid. The investigation gradually stalled until a new murder occurred in December 2002.
In December 2002, a resident of Berdsk Valentina Mogilny called the police: she went into the apartment of her daughter, 25-year-old Julia Zabirannik, and saw that she was lying on the floor, stripped without signs of life. Later, the examination showed that the bolt was raped and strangled.

The operatives arrived in the apartment, located in the same microdistrict “A”. In the kitchen, they found traces of a feast - pieces with snacks, piles and an unfinished bottle of vodka. Before you leave, the killer wiped all the dishes - however, he forgot about the bottle of beer, which was lying under the table. It found fingerprints that do not belong to the gateway.
Investigators noticed that the offender locked the door of the apartment - this suggested that he was familiar with the deceased. This version was confirmed by the fact that on the day of the murder they drank alcohol together. Then the investigators decided to check the acquaintances of the gb.
Her friend and colleague, Irina Nikiforova, said that she had the last time she saw on December 6. They returned after the shift on a busy bus - the gateway went out at the bus stop near the house, where always. According to Nikiforova, a friend loved to meet men and often invited them to her apartment.
In parallel, the investigators checked the prints removed from the bottle of beer - they looked for coincidences in the card index. A few days later it turned out that they belonged to the 27-year-old minibus driver Alexei Gaskov-he loved to drink and regularly got into the detector.
The colleagues of the deceased had already heard his last name. “The witnesses with whom she worked [recalled] that she [the gate -free man] said that just Gaskov should come to her home,” said Sergey Kopyrin, senior investigator of the prosecutor's office of Berdsk. According to colleagues, Gaskov recently returned from Moscow - and the bolt said that she really wanted to see him. The colleagues of the deceased recalled that on the eve of the alleged day of the murder, the gb was talking with Gaskov at the entrance to the enterprise. Then the capture group went to his house and detained him.
At first, Gaskov denied his involvement in the murder, but he soon confessed - he said that he did not want to kill the gb and this happened by chance. “Outwardly it was evident that he was repenting in this crime,” said Kopyrin, senior investigator of the prosecutor's office. Later, the results of the examination came, which confirmed the words of Gaskov - it turned out that he had the first blood type, like the wanted maniac.

Gaskov was informed that he was suspected of three more murders - Fatova, Minina and Samokhvalova. He got acquainted with the results of the tests, after which he wrote a turnout with a confession of all episodes. The news that the maniac was caught reached the media, and the inhabitants of Berdsk finally sighed calmly.
However, during the investigative experiment, Gaskov began to get confused in the testimony: the suspect could not remember exactly how he was dealing with the victims, and mentioned the facts that contradicted the police.
“I can characterize it in one word - a clown. During interrogations, he began to show his acting abilities. He entered the role of what is called. <...> When we went to the investigative experiment, he was confused. I did not know where to go, I did not know anything, ” said Oleg Akrainsev to the journalists“ KP-Novosibirsk ”. - He stood his eyes clapped and thought that he would be spoken to the crime scene. The investigative experiment showed that it is most likely improper. ”
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Just in case, investigators sent Biomaterial Gaskov to a genetic examination. The answer came in a week - it turned out that the DNA of Gaskov did not coincide with what was found on the bodies of the victims. The investigation again came to a standstill.
However, Gaskov was not released-investigators thought that he could know something about a real criminal or to be in an apartment at the bolt on the day of her murder. During interrogations, he refused to answer questions about the murders, but he willingly talked about himself.
It turned out that Gaskov from childhood dreamed of glory: he wanted to become an actor. He graduated from school, then served in border worshipers. After that, he entered the theater school of Novosibirsk, but after some time he was expelled. Then Gaskov went to Moscow - he entered the VGIK, where he studied on a commercial basis on the course of Emmanuel Vitorgan. Six months later, he was again expelled for absenteeism. However, Gaskov returned to Berdsk only two years after the deduction. Then the investigators asked colleagues from Moscow to collect material on Gaskov.
Soon, investigators from the city of Khimki near Moscow reported that during the period when Gaskov lived in Moscow, they had rape and murder of a student of the preparatory course of the Moscow State Institute of Culture.
On November 8, 2002, a citizen of Peru, 23-year-old Agnes Carolina Santeban, who came to Russia to study choreography, disappeared in the suburbs.
After meeting with her friend, she went home to the hostel in Khimki. The last time she was seen in the subway. A week later, classmates went to the police, but a random passerby helped to find it.
On November 17, the man walked through the forest plantations and found the girl’s body, powdered by snow. He called the police, and the girl was identified - it was a missing Santistuban. The examination showed that it was raped, after which it was strangled. She was killed 300 meters from the hostel - and Gaskov just lived a five -minute walk from the Studgorod and left Moscow shortly after they discovered the body.

When the coincidence was paid attention to, the investigative-operational group came from Himki to Berdsk-Gaskova was interrogated to check for involvement in the under Moscow.
"I say:" Well, will we have a conversation? " He says: "will be." Only, he says, I may not remember something. Please tell me, ” recalled Oleg Mishukov, First Deputy Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Khimki. Gaskov again confessed, this time in the murder of the Santistuban, but the DNA analysis did not confirm his word again.
Investigators continued the search. The investigation advanced only a year later, after in 2003, a 30-year-old resident of Berdsk Marina Vlasova contacted the police in 2003.
Vlasova said that the night before, returning from work, she saw friends from the store who communicated and drank beer. She stopped to say hello. It turned out that she knew everyone in the company, except for one - the young man introduced himself to Misha. Slightly drunk, and therefore cheerful and sociable, he invited the girl to take her home. Vlasova agreed, and then they went together.
A slight conversation ensued between new acquaintances. Everything went well until they ended up on a deaf street - then Mikhail unexpectedly grabbed Vlasov and dragged into the bushes. There he threw it to the ground, grabbed her throat and, threatening to strangle, raped. Then Mikhail ordered her to put herself in order - they went out into the street and continued to go, but now the man held Vlasova for his clothes.
After some time, he raped the girl again, but when he lost his vigilance, she managed to break out. “I ran away from him, ran out onto the road and stopped the car. In one T -shirt, the truth, ”Vlasova recalled .
She did not want to talk about the experience until she saw on TV the news about the maniac who strangled his victims.
Vlasova’s statement interested law enforcement officers. “The handwriting of all previous killings of the person we are looking for [was] similar,” said Sergey Mikhailov, senior officer of the criminal investigation of Berdsk.

Investigators found Vlasova’s acquaintances, with whom the criminal drank beer that evening, and so recognized his name and address - Mikhail Yudin, Oktyabrskaya street, house 18, microdistrict “A”. Soon, Yudin was called for interrogation, but there he claimed that sex with Vlasova was by mutual agreement.
Yudin’s blood was taken on a genetic analysis, the results came a week later, and it turned out that his DNA coincided with the one that was found on the bodies of Fatova, Minina, Samokhvalova and the Gb and the Gbirannik.
Then the investigators searched Yudin's apartment - and found many female things in it, including a watch with a spider on the dial. Then law enforcement officers examined the sheds that remained of the previous development. There they found the clothes of Minina and the Flate Samokhvalova, and another nine bras of various colors. Then Yudin admitted to all the murders - including a gateway, of which Gaskov was suspected of murder. Чтобы проверить, не совершал ли Юдин других преступлений, следователи стали искать информацию о его прошлом.
Михаил Юдин родился в 1975 году в поселке Нагорном Алтайского края. Он жил с матерью и братом и рос обычным ребенком — хотя окружающие отмечали его угрюмость и закрытость. Уже подросший Юдин решал проблемы в общении с помощью алкоголя: после первого бокала он начинал шутить и флиртовать с девушками — причем небезуспешно. «Входить в доверие» ему помогала внешность, как предполагал старший оперуполномоченный Акрайнцев.

Юдин закончил восемь классов сельской школы, затем отслужил в армии, а после переехал в Искитим — городок по соседству с Бердском. Там он работал на стройке, а летом 1998 года перебрался в Бердск и съехался с девушкой. Тогда же Юдин совершил первое убийство — его жена об этом ничего не знала .
О криминальном прошлом Юдина следователи узнали после того, как в прокуратуру пришла жительница Бердска Вера Николаева. Она увидела маньяка по телевизору и узнала в нем своего насильника. Николаева рассказала, что вечером 12 августа 1998 года возвращалась с работы, когда на нее напал мужчина — изнасиловал и попытался задушить. Ей удалось спастись благодаря прохожим, которые спугнули преступника. Николаева пошла в милицию, однако тогда насильника найти не удалось.
В июле 1999 года Юдин шел на работу и в районе шести часов утра встретил 16-летнюю Анастасию Фатькову. Он затащил девочку в кусты прямо у остановки и насиловал ее в течение часа. Когда Фатькова попыталась позвать на помощь, Юдин задушил девочку ее же колготками. «Она что-то крикнула, я ее взял за горло. Взял второй рукой, сильно вот так придавил», — говорил он следственном эксперименте.
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Юдин забрал вещи Фатьковой: часы убитой отдал жене, а серьги подарил матери на день рождения. Та носила их каждый день, поскольку это был единственный подарок от сына — сняла серьги только через четыре года, когда узнала о их происхождении.
Осенью 1999 года Юдин поехал в командировку в Новосибирск. 23 ноября он выпил с друзьями, после чего отправился на прогулку и встретил 23-летнюю Ольгу Карпову, которая как раз подходила к дому. Юдин заговорил с ней и вызвался проводить до квартиры, однако на лестничной клетке первого этажа изнасиловал, после чего убил — ударил ножом минимум 30 раз. Он снял с Карповой дубленку, которую позже подарил жене.
Еще через месяц Юдин попытался ограбить прохожую, однако его задержали проезжавшие мимо сотрудники ДПС. По данным правоохранителей, он специально попался на ограблении — чтобы отсидеться в тюрьме, где его бы не подозревали в убийствах. В феврале Юдина приговорили к трем годам колонии, однако через несколько месяцев амнистировали в связи с избранием Путина президентом. «14 июля 2000 года он был освобожден. Это рок, рок, понимаете, что такой зверь вышел на свободу», — говорил Юрий Еременко, прокурор Бердска.

Оказавшись на свободе, Юдин через месяц убил Светлану Минину, еще через две недели — Татьяну Самохвалову. Перед тем как убить студентку консерватории, маньяк попросил ее сыграть: «Я сидел на корточках, а она стояла и играла на флейте, — позже вспоминал Юдин. — Я не знаю, сколько [мы здесь находились], может, минуты 3−4 мелодию она играла. Бах или кто он там. Но мелодия была классная». После этого маньяк изнасиловал и задушил Самохвалову, а ее флейту забрал как трофей. Он признавался, что частенько приходил в сарай и подолгу разглядывал вещи убитых девушек.
18 октября Юдин пришел в гости к своей знакомой Елене Травиной. Прямо в квартире он несколько раз ударил ее ножом, после чего попытался изнасиловать — однако Травина сумела выставить его в подъезд. Она пригрозила, что пойдет в милицию, — поэтому Юдин оплатил ей лечение и давал деньги после выздоровления.
Следующей жертвой Юдина стала 25-летняя Юлия Забиранник. «Юдин сообщил, что перед убийством Забиранник совместно с ним [в квартире] находился ранее ему незнакомый парень по имени Алексей, который “вел себя как клоун, смешил, был как актер”», — вспоминал Сергей Копырин, старший следователь прокуратуры Бердска.
Следователи попытались доказать, что тем «клоуном» был Гаськов — однако сделать этого не получилось. «При производстве очных ставок они оба отказались от дачи каких-либо показаний в присутствии друг друга и в присутствии адвокатов, — говорил Копырин. — Довольно сложно было установить их знакомство». Вскоре Юдин и вовсе заявил, что выдумал историю про Алексея. Гаськов же объяснял свои отпечатки на пивной бутылке тем, что был в гостях у Забиранник за день до убийства.
В июне 2004 года начался суд. Юдин говорил следователям, что совершать преступления его заставлял «внутренний голос», а души убитых девушек постоянно приходят к нему в видениях. Несмотря на это, Юдина признали вменяемым.
Его обвиняли в 27 преступлениях: восьми изнасилованиях, пяти убийствах, покушении на убийство, кражах, а также в уничтожении документов: маньяк сжигал паспорта, чтобы жертв было труднее опознать. В декабре того же года Юдина приговорили к пожизненному заключению в колонии особого режима. Судья также обязал его выплатить по 100 тысяч рублей семьям убитых девушек, хотя сами они оценивали моральный вред на суммы от одного до пяти миллионов рублей. Юдин спокойно выслушал приговор и отказался от последнего слова.
Гаськова же оправдали в связи с отсутствием улик. «Когда открыли клетку, как я выходил оттуда, я просто не помню. At all. Оно и верилось, и не верилось, — позже говорил он журналистам. — Была радость из-за того, что наконец-то свершилось правосудие, как оно должно быть. [Испытывал] еще столько разных эмоций, что просто не описать словами».
Следующие два года Гаськов работал водителем маршрутки — пока его не задержали за изнасилование 11-летней школьницы.
В конце мая 2006 года в квартиру к Гаськову пришла 11-летняя Настя (фамилия девочки не раскрывалась, так как она была несовершеннолетней) — ее мать дружила с сожительницей Алексея, поэтому спокойно отпустила дочь к ним в гости.

Поздним вечером Гаськов, сам уже пьяный, предложил девочке выпить джин-тоник — сожительница в тот момент отлучилась из дома. После этого Гаськов изнасиловал Настю. Девочка рассказала матери не сразу, поскольку опасалась Гаськова. Мать Насти узнала о случившемся через месяц и сразу пошла в милицию.
Гаськова доставили на допрос, однако под вымышленным предлогом он сбежал из кабинета следователя. В Бердске объявили операцию «Перехват», и вскоре сотрудники ДПС задержали преступника.
В апреле 2007 года Гаськова обвинили в изнасиловании — во время следствия также выяснилось, что он заразил девочку венерическим заболеванием. К делу присоединили еще и грабеж — осенью 2005 года Гаськов вырвал из рук женщины сумочку. Сам он отрицал вину и называл обвинения «провокацией» — якобы правоохранители не простили ему оправдания по делу о «бердском маньяке». Гаськова приговорили к 10,5 годам колонии строгого режима. Его обязали выплатить семье Насти 70 тысяч, а ограбленной женщине — 9 тысяч рублей.
В 2016 году Гаськов вышел из колонии, вновь устроился работать водителем и женился . Тогда же он завел страничку во «ВКонтакте» — взял псевдоним Алексей Волк, а в статусе написал: «Холостяк- существо безобидное,потому что безрогое…!» (пунктуация сохранена) . Но в 2024 году спокойная жизнь Гаськова закончилась: его вновь задержали по подозрению в серийных убийствах.
В июле 2024 года московские следователи изучали архивы и обнаружили нераскрытые убийства четырех девушек — их объединили в серию и решили расследовать. Биоматериал преступника, взятый более 20 лет назад, отправили на повторную генетическую экспертизу. Так следствие вышло на Гаськова — его вычислили по потожировым следам, которые остались на теле Сантистебан, после чего он признался в этом и еще трех убийствах: одной девушки в парке города Подольска и двух — в центральном парке города Пушкина. Он нападал в темное время суток: сначала бил жертв, чтобы они не могли сопротивляться, после чего насиловал и убивал.

Гаськов вспомнил все детали преступлений: «Привлекла меня внешность нерусская. Решил подойти познакомиться, — говорил он на следственном эксперименте по убийству Сантистебан. — Она хотела уйти, я поймал за руку. Я ее оттащил и кинул с силой на землю. В район головы нанес несколько ударов. Девушка отключилась. Я решил совершить с ней половой акт». Сейчас Гаськова проверяют на причастность к другим аналогичным преступлениям. Он остается в заключении. Юдин же продолжает отбывать наказание в ИК-18 «Полярная сова» в поселке Харп Ямало-Ненецкого автономного округа. Там же содержится «битцевский маньяк» Александр Пичушкин. Почти каждый год Юдин подает апелляции в Верховный суд, чтобы обжаловать приговор, — в последний раз делал это в январе 2025 года, а в феврале суд отклонил жалобу.
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Автор:Дарья Волошина Фото:Анна Иванцова