The dashing 90s are the years of high-profile killings and brutal massacres. The tense time of maniacs, serial killers and especially dangerous groups. Crime grew every day, the police did not have time to solve the most complicated crimes. Only after years did they receive loud publicity, while in the 90s everything was hushed up, and the people lived in fear.
What has changed now? What is modern crime? More about this later, and this is a list of the most high-profile crimes of the 21st century in Russia.
Maniac killer
year 2001. In the Nizhny Novgorod region in the village of old Klyuchishchi, two raped and brutally murdered teenage girls were found. On whose conscience is this terrible crime and how did it happen that the girls ended up in the forest? During the summer holidays, 12-year-old Olya Levakova, as always, arrived in the village with her grandmother. Here she met a neighbor girl, 14-year-old Julia Nikandrova.
Once, when Yulia's parents arrived in the village to help her grandmother, the girl asked to go with her friend over the hill for berries. It seemed that there was nothing dangerous there, and in the village everyone knew each other. However, this turned out to be a fatal mistake. Not a couple of hours later, neither at night nor in the morning, the girls returned. Contacting the police did not bring any results; they were looking for the whole village. In vain. Later, a resident of the village of Zaprudnoye Lyudmila had a prophetic dream. The next morning, frightened, she ran over the hill to the very place where 2 corpses of completely innocent girls lay in the thicket.
Was there justice?
This terrible crime could not be solved for 7 years, and only in 2008 four men were suspected: Dorofeev, Chadinov, Peliksanov and Lobanov. At the end of the investigation, the last two were sentenced: 17 and 20 years in prison, respectively. In defense of the suspects, it is worth saying that at that time they had an alibi that did not help them. So who is really to blame for the death of children and were those people punished for this terrible crime? It remains a mystery to many. This incident has been debated for a long time, but too much remains unknown.
A gang of orderlies and several murders
Many have heard about the so-called St. Petersburg gang of orderlies. The name of the group was given based on the place of work of its members. They received a term of imprisonment for banditry and murder. They started talking about the tricks of the criminals immediately after the death of the orderly of the pathological anatomical bureau. His name was Sergey Efimov. He was killed in September 2001 when he was expecting a son with his wife. Wife managed to survive, but she received multiple injuries.
Sergei Efimov was discovered in an elevator with a shot through his head. After this high-profile assassination, investigations began. The personnel inspector Valery Burykin and the incumbent manager Pavel Belyaev were involved in the crime. As it turned out later, the aim of the murder was to control the shadow finances of the city's morgues.
In 2004, another crime was committed. An employee of the narcological hospital Larisa Artyukhovskaya was blown up in the entrance of her own house. In addition to Burykin and Belyaev, there were several more people in the gang: Poleshkin, Shepherd, Syrov, Tikhomirov and Dreizin. The crimes of the gangster group were disclosed, all participants were punished. Valery Burykin attempted to leave the country, but was detained at the border and handed over to the authorities. The orderlies case was on the list of the most high-profile economic crimes of the 21st century.
Elusive Raiders
Elusive raiders - the so-called criminal gang that committed repeated robberies and murders. These cases are also included in the list of the most high-profile crimes of the 21st century.One afternoon in St. Petersburg, two people were shot dead in the building of the Hydrometeorological Institute. On that day, men who worked as security guards returned to the school with money that was supposed to go to teachers' salaries, bonuses, and vacation pay. But as soon as the cashier was distracted by a certain acquaintance, shots sounded. Men were shot and money was taken. The woman was found hysterically lying in the corner. There were no traces of the crime. But one of the eyewitnesses noticed the car of criminals, which, as it turned out later, was in theft. The face of one of the attackers was also noticed, but it did not give positive results at that time.
The bandits thought up the crime very well. Incidentally, it was committed in a very short time: three minutes. It took criminals only three minutes to commit another crime: this time a jewelry store was robbed. The police who arrived at the scene found only broken windows and frightened sellers.
The third crime of the gang was the robbery of people who worked in the business center. On that day, they were given the task of the director, namely to bring a large sum of money from his wife. Not having time to enter the building, the men were robbed, and one of them was wounded. This time, the criminals also managed to easily escape, and after a while they made another attack on the jewelry store, only at a different address.
The police did not have time to work, and the robbers did not stop. In addition to all of the above crimes, they committed a lot of minor robberies, but they were not caught. How did they manage to leave and go unnoticed so easily? When the gang of criminals was detained, it turned out that they even rehearsed their attacks and planned everything clearly by the minute. As it turned out, the gang was part of the Kazan criminal community. After lengthy investigations by the police, they still managed to detain the criminals; all of them were given a strict sentence.
Maniac pedophile
No less high-profile case was the rape of a 5-year-old girl in Krasnoyarsk in 2007. Little Polina went out for a walk and disappeared. Parents knocked down in search of a girl. Everything was to no avail. Militia, cadets, volunteers joined. The whole city was on my ears. The girl was discovered only a few days later and, unfortunately, is already dead. The baby was raped and brutally murdered. The pedophile maniac was found soon, but the DNA helped to identify the terrible criminal.
In connection with such crimes, I would like to urge parents not to leave their children alone for a minute.
Izmailovsky maniac
2007 year In Moscow, a robber is operating, always acting according to one scenario. Approaching the victim, he hits her on the head with a steel pipe and takes the money. A robber was attacked by several people. Most often these were women.
It is interesting that the criminal worked only in one area, on Parkova Street. Arriving? Doesn't know other areas? As it turned out later, they turned out to be 20-year-old Sergey Gusev, a student at a construction college, living in a boarding school and not previously convicted young man. Why would this guy fall under an article and ruin his life? It turned out that Sergey was sick. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia. During the investigation, Sergei denied everything, but his testimony was unconvincing.
The most high-profile crimes of the 21st century. And again the pedophile
The case of another rapist-pedophile for a long time remained unsolved.
In 2005, in St. Petersburg, 10 young girls were attacked by a maniac. The criminal presented himself as a police officer, lured the children into a car and took them to a secluded place, where he committed acts of violence with them. The victims were girls from 8 to 14 years old. The maniac always recorded his actions on camera and never changed his clothes - this helped to identify the criminal. In addition, the rapist left all his victims alive and even drove to the place from which he had taken.The injured girls said that along the way he appeased them and repented of their deeds. Pedophile sentenced: 19 years in a maximum security penal colony. By then, his own daughter will be 20 years old.
Crime and Punishment
This is not the whole list of crimes of the 21st century in Russia. Hundreds of cases committed by robbers, killers and rapists are investigated every day. Of these, the most high-profile crimes of the 21st century were widely publicized.
Of these, some remain unsolved. Crime in Russia is high, and it should be fought. The death penalty in our country has long been abolished, and maybe, in some cases, it will be fair to take the life of one person who took it from a dozen innocent people?
