The clairvoyant from the "Battle of Psychics" predicted: "The killer is a close friend of the victim. The use of psychics in solving crimes Under the recruitment hypnosis

I went! - The door behind 25-year-old Ivan Afanasiev slammed shut so quickly that his mother did not have time to say anything. Vanya has been worried about something lately. And these guys, Mikhail Mironov and Alexei Samoilov, with whom her home son began to disappear in the evenings. Even in the morning Ivan did not come home.

At first, the police did not accept the application - they say, the guy went on a spree. And when they did start doing it, there were still no results. Desperate, the mother decided to ask for help from the “Battle of Psychics” program. Relatives found the e-mail address of the program on the website of the TNT channel and wrote a letter. And they attached a card of Ivan with Mikhail and Alexei to it.

The answer came quickly. Lidia Ivanovna was informed that Ivan was dead. And he was killed by one of the people in the photo - Mikhail. Alexei was a witness. And then on the map of Vorkuta, Maxim Vorotnikov (he participated in the "Battle of Psychics") marked the place where Ivan's body might have been hidden - the semi-abandoned village of Rudnik.

When the mother brought a clue from a clairvoyant, the security forces combed the village, but found nothing. Then the detectives decided to test the suspects on a lie detector.

Mikhail Mironov behaved confidently, denied his guilt, but the device showed that he was telling a lie. But Samoilov, already when they put on the wiring, got nervous and told everything, - Roman SOROKIN, an employee of the criminal investigation department, told us.

Samoilov said that Mikhail and Ivan met for several months. Both worked at the same company. But lately, young people have begun to quarrel. Ivan wanted to leave, Misha tried to keep him. But he only received derogatory SMS from a friend: they say that there are guys and cooler. Mironov was mortally offended. According to investigators, he bought a nylon rope a month before, thought out the scenario... That evening, the guys took Ivan out of town, and Mikhail strangled him with a noose. Then he took and threw the corpse into the well. Alexey watched the massacre ... The village turned out to be only 15 km from the settlement that the psychic indicated.

Mikhail found Ivan's murder weapons - a rope and a stun gun. They also received a printout of SMS correspondence between Mironov and Afanasyev, which confirmed their connection and quarrel.

It turned out that Mikhail was looking for a killer to deal with Alexei.

True, Ivan's mother has her own version.

Vanya worked as the deputy head of the department of the internal control service, - says Lidia Ivanovna. - The son said that some employees have fake diplomas of education. They tried to negotiate with Vanya, but he didn’t...

Later it turned out that it was. Some employees, including Mikhail, have fake diplomas. Here he was avenged.

The names of the heroes have been changed for ethical reasons.

FIRST HISTORY

Maxim VOROTNIKOV, who revealed the murder of Ivan:

"I felt like the guy was suffocated"

I saw that the guy was already dead. It was very painful for me to feel his experiences in the last minutes of my life. Something was choking him... In many ways, my mother helped me, she really wanted to find her son, so it was easy for me to read the information. When relatives sincerely want to find a person and are determined that there will be a result, success in the search is guaranteed. Many people turn to me, but I do not help everyone. Sometimes there is not enough information. And it happens that relatives put too much pressure, interfere with work ...

FROM THE "KP" DOSSIER

What other crimes did psychics help solve?

Svetlana Proskuryakova, a participant in the first season of the program, is a forensic expert herself, - said the expert of the Battle of Psychics, criminologist Mikhail VINOGRADOV. - When a man disappeared in the Moscow region, colleagues asked her to help. She indicated on the map a place in the forest. There they found the body.

A diver drowned near Minsk. Clairvoyant Arina Evdokimova in a studio in Moscow showed a square on the map and added that he could not emerge because he was caught on something iron. And for sure: the diver caught on a sunken barge, could not free himself and suffocated.

Then the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that hypnotists helped in solving the case of the explosion of the Nevsky Express train. Representatives of the Russian special services made such a sensational confession for the first time. However, according to NI, over the past fifty years, the security forces have been actively, but behind the scenes, collaborating with people with hypnotic and psychic abilities. For the disclosure of what crimes the investigators "mobilized" people with supernatural abilities, tried to find out "Novye Izvestia".

Parapsychology, the possibilities of hypnotic influence on a person have been of interest to representatives of special services and security forces since the beginning of the last century. There was a real hunt for people with extrasensory abilities in the Soviet Union. So, for example, it is known that Stalin had special laboratories, and astrologers and hypnologists were sought out for him throughout the country. But even after the death of the tyrant, the special services did not forget about people with unique abilities.

Under the hypnosis of recruitment

“That was in 1982. I just served in the army, - recalls the head of the Moscow School of Hypnosis Gennady Goncharov in an interview with NI. “People from the KGB urged me to cooperate with them. They promised me an apartment in Moscow and promotion. I was told that I would be part of the delegation to participate in negotiations or attend conferences, recognizing people who are amenable to hypnosis, and influencing them. I think it was about intelligence activities.” Goncharov then preferred the stage to this work, where for many years he performed with psychological experiments.

The fate of the psychiatrist Mikhail Vinogradov, who connected his life with the special services, was different. He studied the possibilities of personality prognosis at the Department of Psychiatry of the First Medical Institute. After his work on the subject was published, people in gray gabardine raincoats came to Vinogradov and asked: “Can you really predict the reliability of a person?” He replied that he could. “We have a request for you,” the men got down to business. - Soon there will be a buffet table at the embassy, ​​at which a discussion will take place on the purchase of new drugs for the Soviet Union. Could you look at some of the embassy staff and determine which of them are intelligence officers and which are not. “I agreed,” Mr. Vinogradov admits to NI. “Looked,” he said. Coincidentally. Then they invited me to another embassy.”

During his career in the organs, our interlocutor met colleagues who could make even more amazing predictions. “A psychic worked in one of the closed research institutes about forty years ago, who was engaged in forecasting the development of US weapons,” says Mikhail Vinogradov. He gave tips for military intelligence. I sat in my office, worked, then went to the management and told. When he made a prediction for the first time, the director of the institute called me to him and asked if it was worth listening to the words of a psychic, or maybe send him to Kashchenko? I advised giving the clairvoyant a chance. He said that he knew that a new type of weapon was being developed in one of the countries. He explained that he saw a picture on this topic. The agents checked the information and confirmed it.”

See through the ground

Recruit psychics and in our days. According to experts, the information system works like clockwork: as soon as a person who really has supernatural abilities appears on the horizon, he is invited for an interview. Then the abilities of such people are tested in practice. Candidates are brought, for example, to a forest where a plane once crashed. They ask: "What happened here"? Someone starts telling stories: there was a rape, a murder. Those who have the ability get to the point: they say that here the sky converged with the earth, the plane fell.

Experts are sure that in each country there are no more than twenty strong psychics of interest to the security forces. The state resorts to the help of this twenty when it is impossible to cope with any problem by traditional methods. So, according to Gennady Goncharov, special services turned to psychics to uncover a terrorist attack at the Avtozavodskaya metro station in Moscow in 2004. “All the information received from them was analyzed, and I know that in this way it was possible to calculate one of the criminals who was related to this terrorist attack,” the hypnotist explains.

One of the promising areas that psychics could be engaged in, Mr. Goncharov calls ... the search for mineral deposits and underground water sources. Hypersensitive people work on the map and allow you to narrow down the search area. Then, according to their information, detailed exploration of the subsoil can be carried out.

Experts note that psychics successfully manage to find missing people, and during earthquakes show whether there are survivors under the rubble. In addition, they help the police in the calculation of maniacs. For example, the famous announcer Viktor Balashov had psychic abilities, and he was often approached with requests to find missing loved ones. “I remember how, after one of the concerts, a woman approached Balashov and told about her trouble,” recalls Gennady Goncharov. - Her daughter is missing. Balashov advised her to go to a neighboring town. That's where her daughter was found."

Mikhail Vinogradov, who also has psychic abilities, has repeatedly managed to help the investigation in catching criminals. He told NI that he had recently indicated the approximate location of the Zlatoust maniac, who had been wanted since April 2. Then the bodies of two murdered schoolgirls were found in the cemetery. Maniac was arrested on April 12. On a tip from Vinogradov, at one time they managed to detain the Barnaul maniac, as well as find the bodies of six girls he had killed.

However, it is impossible to say that psychics work miracles. So, for example, the same Mikhail Vinogradov has been searching for boys kidnapped by sectarians near Ufa for eight years. Grandmothers took the children to a sports camp, and since then the grandchildren have disappeared. Only recently did psychics help to track down the missing.

On the investigator's couch

If the search for missing persons and fugitive criminals by psychics is a controversial but relatively safe measure, then the use of hypnosis during the investigation is a completely different story.

There is still no unequivocal opinion among experts why, at his recent press conference, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that during the investigation of the case of the bombing of the Nevsky Express, witnesses were refreshed with the help of hypnosis. Some believe that the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation simply revealed the open secret, made public what many have long known about. Others suspect that Bastrykin wanted to show how “cool” his department is and how it can solve complex crimes. Moreover, according to the estimates of the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliyev, in recent years the number of unsolved crimes has exceeded 16 million. And in 2007, more than half of all crimes committed remained unsolved. These figures had to be countered with something really "extraordinary".

In any case, the official recognition that the investigation uses the services of hypnologists caused a real one. The problem is that there is still no legal basis for this practice. Moreover, as Nikolai Kitaev, candidate of legal sciences, writes, “Russian legislation contains a direct prohibition of the use of hypnosis for any purpose other than medical.”

Meanwhile, a pamphlet published in 1999 called “A Handbook for Investigators.

Investigation of crimes of increased public danger”, a separate chapter of which is devoted to “obtaining information using hypnosis”. “Such a method does not in the least degrade human dignity,” the manual says. “Moreover, it is used only with the consent of the subject. According to the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, out of 237 employees interviewed using a special questionnaire, 183 employees from 14 regions of Russia answered positively to the question about the admissibility of using hypnosis, 38 respondents found it difficult to answer. And 16 expressed a skeptical attitude towards this method.

The fact that hypnosis is used and quite effectively, "NI" was also told by the head of the Main Directorate of Forensic Science of the RF Investigative Committee, Yuri Lekanov, whose full interview can be read in one of the next issues of our newspaper. “So, for example, police colonel Alexei Skrypnikov, who knows the art of hypnosis, provided great assistance to our investigators in the Perm Territory. For several years, a serial killer operated in different cities. It seems that the handwriting of the criminal was similar, but the appearance, according to the testimony of witnesses, did not match, - says Yuri Lekanov. - Skrypnikov conducted sessions of hypnoreproduction. He managed to detail the memories of each of the witnesses and draw up a portrait of the killer. Soon the offender was arrested.

Mistake at the cost of three lives

Experts compare the mechanism of hypnosis (hypnoreproduction) with how the hostess cleans the onion. Introducing the witness into a light trance, the hypnologist “layer by layer” makes him remember those details that have gone into the subconscious. The hypnoreproduction session is filmed on audio and videotape. The doctor asks the witness about all his illnesses, and if there are contraindications to hypnosis, then it is not performed. This is ideal, of course. And how everything really happens, no one, except for the investigators and the hypnotist, knows. And the latter, no matter what representatives of the prosecutor's office say, is not independent of the investigation: he either works in these structures, or is constantly invited from outside. So it's still "your own". However, hypnotists are reluctant to go to the prosecutor's office: the salaries of employees are incommensurable with the income from private practice.

The information obtained by the hypnologist is formalized as information obtained in an operative way. It cannot be used as evidence in a case. This is also stated in the mentioned “Manual”: “Hypnoreproduction can be erroneous. Therefore, it can be used as the basis of any decision in a criminal case only if it is confirmed by other evidence.”

Independent experts are convinced: you should not widely use hypnosis in the practice of investigation and build conclusions on the data obtained - the probability of error is too high. “There are people who take on other people's crimes for the sake of glory. In addition, work with the accused can be complicated by the bias of the hypnologist, his desire to inspire the subject with the need to solve the crime,” Mikhail Vinogradov notes. For his part, retired Moscow City Court judge Sergei Pashin clarified in an interview with NI: “No investigative actions using hypnosis can be considered legal. No one can guarantee that there will be no change in the mind of the subject. In addition, a person after treatment with hypnosis can sincerely believe in what he said under his influence.

As a senior investigator for particularly important cases at the USSR Prosecutor General's Office, lawyer Vladimir Kalinichenko investigated the murder case in Moscow, at the Zhdanovskaya (now Vykhino) metro station, of KGB major Afanasyev. “At that time there was a suspicion that the defendants in this case – three police officers – were also involved in the disappearance in 1980 of the family of the head of the KGB encryption department, Viktor Sheinov,” says Mr. Kalinichenko. They confessed to this crime as well. But no bodies were found. The trio were sentenced to death. The day before the execution, Yuri Andropov ordered them to be injected with psychotropic drugs and interrogated under hypnosis. They again confirmed their testimony... And in 1990, Viktor Sheinov showed up in the United States. It turned out that he was a CIA agent. Knowing that he was suspected of betrayal, Sheinov and his family fled to America. They say that they took him out on the ambassador's plane ... "

Not a TV show, not an invented plot from a movie: the story that took place in Krasnoyarsk is absolutely real. Psychics helped solve the murder, and the killers were put in jail. The uniqueness of the story is also in the fact that the role of people with superpowers was confirmed in an exclusive interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda in the Sledkom.

Successful lawyer

Only an hour drive from Krasnoyarsk, but like another planet, the small town of Divnogorsk. "Wooden" streets, among which rise rare high-rise buildings. The doors are wide open. And people easily go out into the street in slippers, as in another room. An ordinary family lives here: Viktor Vasilchenko (he works as a security guard at the plant) and his wife Lyudmila. And also psychic Natalya Sannikova, who helped find the killers of their son, Alexander Samoilov *.

...At 27, Alexander Samoilov was a successful lawyer. Competent, tenacious, took on hopeless cases, and ... won. Things went uphill: he got married, had a son. To earn more, he became a realtor. He was spinning, but he did not forget his own. Constantly visited Divnogorsk. But not with his mother - with his stepfather and his new wife Lyudmila.

I raised him from a year and a half, as my own. When he married his mother Elena, the 63-year-old man awkwardly wets his eyes. - Mathematician, chess player, clever. I haven't spoken to my mother in two years. He took care of all his notebooks, from grade 1 to the end of the institute. And Elena threw them away, in the basement they sneezed from dampness. Sasha dreamed of showing them to his children, so he was offended. As a sin, family life also did not work out. Divorced his wife. He was in touch with us every day. And suddenly Sasha disappeared - no call, no sms, nothing. As it was not...

Helped everyone

Seeing how her husband was being harassed, Lyudmila advised: “Vitya, would you go to Natalya Andreevna?” The whole city went to this woman with their troubles. The psychic helped everyone she could.

How did I come to this, - Natalia explained. - I had big losses: in one year my mother died, followed by my father, then my daughter. Later, I was diagnosed with a massive brain tumor. And I turned to healers for help. Six months later, the doctors said: you don’t have any tumor, we were wrong! And I decided I needed to get trained. Started at 53, studied for 5 years. People went...

Viktor Vasilchenko also somehow knocked on a neighbor's door: "Natalya Andreevna, would you like to see what happened to your son?" I sat down, tuned in, looked. And then - like a butt on the head: "Go to the police, he is dead!".

One of the few children's photos of Sasha, left by his stepfather A photo: from the family archive

Killed best friend

After meeting with the "seeing" there was no doubt, Victor rushed to the police. At first, they laughed at him there: “The guy is young, he went on a spree, he will return. Who did you believe? For the sake of money, they will tell you this."

She didn’t take a penny from me,” Viktor Ivanovich argued. Help, we need to find it!

We checked a variety of versions, ”recalls Ivan Soprun, head of the second investigative department of the first department for the investigation of particularly important cases. - Made telephone detailing. And the first suspects appeared in the case - Andrei Zharov and Vladimir Bronnikov. Samoilov was the last to call them.

Zharov was taken at home, Bronnikov - in Moscow. They didn't budge.

Sentenced in correspondence

During interrogations, a friend of the missing Alexander, Vladimir Bronnikov, explained: he knew that Samoilov had money, says Ivan Soprun. - Saved up on legal cases. Then he suggested to his friend, Zharov, to kill Samoilov, take everything (money, car) and divide it into two.

Zharov is an orphan: there is no family, he was interrupted by odd jobs. Before that, there had been no crime behind them, but here ... They shook hands, sketched out a plan. Bronnikov convinced Samoilov to go with him to another city, allegedly to earn extra money by reselling timber. On the way, a representative of the seller was taken away - Zharov played his role.

We left in the evening, in the dark. Soon Sasha asked to change him at the wheel, he stretched himself in the back seat, and immediately fell asleep.

...Then, having slowed down, the friends took up the phones. They stuffed messages, showed each other on the screens and erased them. They were terribly afraid to wake up Samoilov - he had an air pistol with him.

“Come on, we can’t wait any longer,” Bronnikov insisted. “I would have tried it myself first!” - snarled accomplice. Then Zharov pulled out a hammer - he kept it under his jacket from Krasnoyarsk itself.

Hidden in a rock over the Yenisei

After the first blow, the guy jumped: “What are you doing?” The psychic said even before the killers were interrogated. - And they killed him - sleepy.

Surprisingly: when Bronnikov and Zharov testified, everything came together, almost verbatim.

In a rocky place near the river along the highway, where the Yenisei makes a sharp turn, they found a deep crevice. They put a corpse there and threw stones at it.

They raked money out of Samoilov's bag - 305 thousand. Taking most of the money, Bronnikov fled to Moscow. And Zharov got the car. It quickly found a buyer.

Body in an ice sarcophagus

In conversations with the investigator, the suspects laid out everything, but they themselves could not find the place where Sasha was “buried”. And this is just one of the most important evidence, without which it is impossible to prove guilt in court.

Well, somewhere around here it seems, - they hesitated, pointing to a section of several hundred meters. - Everything was covered with snow, you won’t remember!

And here again came to the aid of a psychic Natalya Sannikova.

I immediately said: you will not find your son soon, when the ice melts, she explains. - Now you can not look, it's useless. I got a picture: some mountains, a tree on a hillock. Beneath him is a body, squeezed by stones, in ice.

“You will not find it soon,” Viktor Ivanovich did not want to put up with this. Together with his wife, he personally traveled around familiar rivers - Manu, Yenisei, Kacha, looking for a similar place. Nothing!

The “seeing one” herself could not go in search. The years are not the same, she was 60. She suggested a friend of a psychic - Elena. She just turned 25. A young, productive girl simply amazed the investigators.

Only she was able to point out the place where the criminals hid the corpse, Ivan Soprun explains.

Once in a roughly indicated place, she confidently said where to go. Never made a mistake.

Alas: the rocks are too icy. It was impossible to get to the crevice where the body lay.

The psychic indicated the exact coordinates, and the SOBR group blew up a block of ice with a TNT charge. But it has not yet been possible to remove it all, Sasha remained in the ice sarcophagus.

Every word came true

He was found in May, when everything melted, in the very place that the psychics described. The fisherman was fishing there and suddenly noticed: between the rock and the gorge there was a mound of stones. And from there sticks out the nose and forehead. A few hours later, the relatives identified the body - it was Alexander Samoilov.

The court sentenced Bronnikov to 12 years in a strict regime colony, Zharov to 11. The first was the instigator, and he beat more. This is a friend!

When all the traditional methods and possibilities of the investigation have been exhausted, we turn to non-traditional ones, - Ivan Soprun sums up. – This time the psychics helped us a lot. We admit: these people were extremely effective!

P. S. As for psychics, Natalya Andreevna no longer practices. He says it's time to rest. Lena also retired. She got married and dedicated herself to her family. Now she works as a teacher and brings up children. It is impossible to combine the life of a psychic with ordinary female happiness, her relatives explained to us. So Elena made her choice.

About secret psychics who have collaborated with the KGB for years, Major General Nikolai Sham, who led the research on extrasensory perception, far-sightedness and other amazing phenomena of the human psyche.

Nikolai Alekseevich, how to explain that after the USSR Academy of Sciences stopped researching psychics and the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics fired Juna, who was acting as a senior researcher, you raised an abandoned banner and at the state level in law enforcement agencies began to deal with topics that are still called pseudoscience. Do you yourself have inexplicable abilities?

My interest in the new and the unexpected was passed down to me from my ancestors. My grandfather was a lumberjack, my father built thermal power plants throughout the country, a street in Dzerzhinsk is named after him. I am a mechanical engineer, at the Komsomol call I went to the security agencies, where almost all the time I was at the forefront of everything new and advanced, supervised, in particular, programs for the study of planets, international space flights, the docking of Soyuz and Apollo.

But the most interesting thing that I had to do turned out to be connected with people who had the gift of transmitting and reading thoughts, foreseeing the future, diagnosing and treating, and other amazing abilities that could not be explained by science.

What motivated you, besides interest in the unexpected, to take up such people? Name those who influenced your decision to take on cases that were officially considered at least reprehensible?

There have been two emergencies in my area. Within a short period of time, two high-ranking leaders in the defense industry were killed. The first to die was Igor Berezhnoy, general designer of the design bureau of medium machine building in Samara, who was engaged in laser weapons. An explosive device was handed over to him under the guise of a box of medicines. Berezhnoy died in his car on the way to the airport when he opened this box. The murder of such a secret and protected person turned out to be a complete surprise; the KGB had never faced such a challenge before.

Before we had time to single out the main version of the crime, the chief engineer of the Astrophysics NPO, a top-secret design bureau in the Moscow region, also connected with the laser theme, was killed. He, along with his mistress, his secretary, was stabbed to death in his own house. Nightmare! A natural thought: some of the foreign intelligence agencies began a series of sabotage against the creators of Soviet laser weapons.

The general director of the NGO turned out to be the son of Marshal Ustinov, the Minister of Defense. The toughest orders came from above, colossal forces were thrown to solve crimes, and the most sophisticated technical means were involved. Along the way, they uncovered the "diamond cases", shop showdowns, but did not go on the trail of the killers.

Suddenly, the KGB informed me that in Rostov they have a "secret weapon" - the man they turn to in the most difficult situations, Valery Valentinovich Kustov. He helps solve crimes.

The leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan urgently arrived at the airport, the headquarters of the operation was formed, and they decided to involve the well-known Tofik Dadashev in it to all Baku residents. He was asked to convince the terrorist to wait until 11 am, when half a million dollars would be delivered from Moscow, which the local branch of the State Bank did not have. During the night, a group of special forces "Alpha" flew to the airfield. Tofiq offered to introduce him to the terrorist as a “representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs”. In a service car, a KGB officer drove Dadashev to the tail of the plane. And when Skok looked out the door, he started a conversation with him, which he himself interrupted after a few minutes. Shaking his finger at the criminal, Tofig returned to the car and told the KGB officer: “Yours told me that he had a bomb and accomplices, but I see that this is a bluff. He has no bombs, no helpers."

He reported his decision to the leadership of the headquarters. Viktor Karpukhin, commander of the Alpha, asked: “What to do? He keeps his hand on the remote all the time.” Without thinking twice, Dadashev advised to start a conversation with him. According to his foresight, the invader will think, ask for a cigarette, take his hand away from the clock to light a match, then he should be taken.

Returning to headquarters, the general, Hero of the Soviet Union, referring to the psychic as a boss, reported: “I report: I did everything you told me. He let me in, he asked for a cigarette, and at the moment when he lit it, we took it.

It was my acquaintance with Valery Kustov and several other talented psychics that prompted me to initiate a state program for the study of psychic phenomena in Russia, despite not being recognized by official science. All the facts and experiments, many of which I myself witnessed, convinced me of the existence of physical fields and principles not yet discovered by physics, but quite real and suitable for practical use. They must continue to be studied, sparing no effort and means. They will reveal to us many secrets of the world.

For a crime he did not commit, a Nizhny Novgorod citizen received 13 years in prison

“Olesya is no longer alive,” said psychic Svetlana. Her body is in the forest now. There is a pond nearby...

Having lost all hope of finding her daughter, Natalia Nikolaevna called her son-in-law Dmitry to look for her. They decided to inspect the shore of the nearest reservoir to their house - a lake in the Sormovsky Park of Culture and Recreation.

After walking several tens of meters, they noticed the naked corpse of a girl in the water. The victim's face was disfigured beyond recognition. From clothes - only socks and boots ...

Olesya, 23, left home on September 29, 2008 after an argument with her husband. She was jealous of her husband for his friend, got ready and went to spend the night with her parents in the Sormovsky district.

The next day in the evening, she called a friend, 27-year-old Mikhail Smetanin, and offered to meet. A friend at that moment was in the slot machine hall in the center of Sormov and did not refuse to meet. Olesya did not come alone - there was another friend of hers with her. The three of them went to the shopping center on the street. Chaadaev to play on the machines. There, they were joined by several other familiar girls. We drank beer and played slot machines. When they lost to the nines, they gathered at home.

By that time, Olesya and Mikhail were left alone - a large cheerful company had already left.

At 11:47 p.m., they left the mall and walked home. Their path lay through Sormovsky Park...

Facts and only facts

As the forensic doctors determined, the girl's death occurred between October 2 and 4 from numerous. The suspicion of committing this fell on Mikhail, who, as the investigation believes, was the last to see Olesya alive.

In a pawnshop on Komintern Street, detectives found her gold bracelet and chain with a pendant. It was established that on the night of October 1, Mikhail handed over the jewelry there using his passport.

While under arrest, he confessed to the murder, but, despite the fact that he subsequently retracted his words, it was precisely this confession that formed the basis of the accusation.

So, according to the investigation, on the way home, Mikhail offered Olesya to sleep with him. The girl allegedly agreed, but on the condition that she would tell Mikhail's girlfriend, whom she knew, about this.

Mikhail became furious, hit Olesya first in the face, then beat the girl to death with his hands and feet. He took off her jewelry, dragged her body to Park Lake, threw it into the water, and threw branches at it.

Then he went to the pawnshop, handed over the bracelet, bought vodka, drank it. I spent the rest of the money in the slot machine hall. Again I went to the pawnshop, handed over the chain with the pendant. I also lost this money.

After Smetanin retracted his confession, he told his version of the events of that night.

According to him, Olesya gave him the jewelry herself, he promised her to buy them back in the near future. Allegedly, they together lost the money they received for the bracelet. Also handed over to the pawnshop and a chain with a pendant. At about 3 o'clock in the morning Olesya was going somewhere. He gave her money for a taxi, she got into the car and left...

The Sormovsky District Court sentenced Mikhail Smetanin to 13 years in prison to be served in a strict regime colony and ordered him to pay compensation to the relatives of the deceased: 500,000 rubles for moral damage and 70,000 for material damage.

Trial passed, but questions remain

The more carefully we got acquainted with the materials of the criminal case, the more and more questions arose.