Volga maniac biography

He was caught only 10 years later, and in this, by pure, his mother, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, sentenced Radik Tagirov, one of the most cruel serial killers of the 21st century, to a lifelong conclusion, helped. On his account 31 a strangled victim and three more assassination attempts. They could not catch a maniac for almost 10 years, but in the end they calculated with the help of DNA expertise.

We tell the story of the modern Raskolnikov, whose victims were only elderly women. Childhood, school and the first prison term by Tagirov, the story of any maniac should always start from the very beginning, and we will not leave the canon. Radik Tagirov was born in a year in a small village in one of the regions of Kazan, but a few years later he and his parents moved to a larger microdistrict where his grandmother lived.

According to the memoirs of the Volga Maniac himself, the grandmother constantly took care of him. She did not allow one to go to school, and could hit for minor offenses. If Tagirov dropped a spoon at the table, the pensioner could give him his forehead. In elementary grades, Tagirov was engaged in judo and taekwondo sections and even took prizes a couple of times.

But the athlete’s career ended, never having time to begin when he began to sniff glue in the seventh grade. By the ninth grade, the glue was replaced by alcohol and psychotropic drugs, and Tagirov abandoned his studies. In the army, he was not given a weapon for six months - the medical board revealed a neurosis and other psychological disorders, probably associated with use.

The first problems with the law began at Tagirov in the year - then he got into prison for five years for illegal storage of weapons. After the liberation, the Volga Maniac could not find a job and lived on the street for some time until he met Gregory. He began to stay at night, periodically they used. And just a year later, Tagirov committed his first murder. The first murder of the Volga Maniac on March 5, a summer resident of Kazan Nasima Ishmuratov left the house for shopping.

At the exit from the store, a dark -haired man called out to her and with a good -natured smile asked: “Grandma, help you? On the way to her house, they talked. The man complained that he was in a difficult situation, and asked if a pensioner could lend him a little money. As in the work of Dostoevsky, Ishmuratov turned out to be a money -lender - she gave small amounts on interest at interest and earned a living by this, so she easily agreed to lend a thousand rubles to a new acquaintance.

She left the man in the hallway and went to the balcony, where she hid the funds for a “rainy day”. Taking a thousand from there, she returned to the hallway, but did not manage to hand the money - literally a second later she was hit the chin, and she lost consciousness. In the evening of the same day, Ishmuratova’s daughter could not get through to her mother and decided to go to check if everything was in order.

Nobody opened the door, so the woman took advantage of her key. In the apartment, she found the body of her mother with a belt from an apron on her neck and signs of strangulation. The police who came to the place interviewed all the neighbors, but no one remembered any suspicious people. The operatives, of course, were the first to work out the version that Ishmuratov was killed by one of her debtors-all the more, including alcoholics and drug addicts.

She had to abandon her after two more killed pensioners were found in the neighboring areas of Kazan in a month - one of them was strangled by a belt from a robe, the second - a cord from the phone. It became clear that a maniac appeared in the city. Tagirov’s first blossom and a series of “saving successes” the story of Radik Tagirov could end much earlier, and most of his victims would have remained alive, if not for the oversight of the first witness of the crime.

Tagirov operated not only in his native Kazan, but also in neighboring republics. So, after the next murder in the city of Volzhsk, the neighboring Mari El, he almost came across. Again, a pensioner fell into the apartment of the apartment and, without delay, strangled her with a wire from the iron. However, Tagirov did not have time to stole money with jewelry, nor even to look around: the key suddenly turned out to be in the keyhole - the son of the murdered returned home ahead of time.

A second delay almost worth him of freedom - his son rushed at the stranger, but then, seeing his mother’s body lying on the floor, froze from shock for a few seconds. They became fatal - the Volga Maniac managed to escape. The law enforcement agencies later said that the apartment was on the third floor of Khrushchevka and Tagirov had to jump from the balcony.

For some inexplicable reasons, none of the neighbors drew attention to the noise in the apartment or on a person jumping out of the window. Also, he did not remember the face of the criminal and the son of the murdered person - he only told the police that it was a thin man tall about see photobot Radik Tagirov. Photo: The RF IC after that Tagirov began to choose only those pensioners who lived on the first or second floor, so that there was always a chance to escape from the apartment.

Once he again made a mistake - his victim miraculously remained alive.She told the police that the maniac introduced himself as an employee of the utility services and attacked her as soon as the front door closed. From blows and strangulation, the woman lost consciousness, because of which Tagirov decided that she was dead. Then he took a couple of thousand from her wallet and left.

The pensioner came to her senses and immediately called the police, who came to the call in the hope of finally drawing up a photobot of the killer. But, alas, the surviving victim was half -wilted and was able to distinguish only the silhouette of a man. The expansion of the geography of murders in the year Tagirov committed a series of murders in different cities. Also, his victims were two elderly women in Samara and two more in Perm.

He committed one murder in just a km from Moscow - in the city of Ivanovo. There, the summer Alexander Radchenko, a well -known dentist in the city, became his victim. The scheme there was exactly the same as during the first murder - a modest courteous man met a pensioner near the grocery store and offered to help convey heavy bags to the house. As the relatives of the murdered said, she was a kind and open person, so she could not even allow thoughts about the self -serving motives of the assistant.

A picture of the radical Tagirov from the intra -house surveillance camera. Photo: The RF IC in Ufa Tagirov completely decided to arrange a “deadly tour” - in just three days from September 25 to 27, he killed three women at once. Then he got to the CCTV camera in one of the houses - the maniac noticed a pensioner with packages, who entered the staircase, and immediately ran up to offer her help.

In the apartment, he tried to attack a woman, but she was lucky-the granddaughter was at home, because of which the maniac had to urgently escape. By appointment from cameras, the police compiled a photobot, but this did not help to catch the criminal. Why did Tagirova not catch the motives and handwriting of a maniac for 10 years, but he committed his killings with filigree pedantry - he always chose low floors, which allowed him to escape several times, the victim was letting in, opening the door with his key, after the murder he bombarded the floors in the apartment with cleaning funds to bring down the door of the apartment and covered the door of the apartment and opened the door of the apartment.

The key, so as not to leave any evidence and hints. In addition, Tagirov not just decided to expand the geography of crimes - he operated in different cities and regions of the country, hoping to confuse investigators and prevent them from comparing all crimes in one series. But the greatest difficulty in capturing Tagirov was that he abruptly lay on the bottom and stopped committing crimes.

The maniac lurked for eight years, and many even assumed that he was killed, but the operatives continued to search. The Volga Maniac himself at that time returned to his native Kazan, started his family and began to work as a locksmith. At work, he was known as a responsible and non -native employee, and in his hometown he was considered a decent family man and a good father, who was always polite and courteous with his neighbors.

As one of the most dangerous maniacs of the 21st century managed to catch, despite caution, Tagirov still miscalculated a couple of times and left traces of sweat on the things of his victims. This was enough to make sure that all women in different cities were killed by one person. At the same time, the search for coincidences for DNA did not lead to the results: experts checked more than 10 thousand.

It is not known how many years the investigators would try to recognize in the exemplary family man from Kazan one of the worst killers from the time of Chikatilo, if not for one successful coincidence. No matter how ironic this is, but to catch a maniac, without realizing it, his mother helped.

At the beginning of the year, eight years after the last murder, an elderly woman turned to the police of Tatarstan, who tried to find her son. She said that eight years ago, her summer son abruptly cut off all the contacts with his family and since then did not get in touch. The woman indicated that they did not give independent searches for the results, and also complained that recently she feels bad and worries that she could not see his son to death.

Police officers who did not suspect that they attacked the maniac’s trail, invited the woman to pass the DNA test and look for coincidences in all available databases. And what was their surprise when the biological material coincided with the samples of the sweat of the Volga Maniac. The detention of Tagirov, attempts to prove innchy and verdict investigators almost immediately detained a man who, however, did not unlock and agreed to cooperate with law enforcement officers.

He said that he committed the first murder shortly after leaving prison - in the colony he was told about lonely pensioners, most of whom have savings, and also shared ways to hide traces of crime with cleaning funds. After detention, Tagirov told more about his crimes. For example, he told investigators that he always paid attention to the curtains in the victim’s house - if they were dirty, most likely, the pensioner lived alone, and the risks were minimal.He also explained that he had chosen strangulation, because he considered this the most “humane” way of murder.

He said rather dryly about the motives: "My crimes were spontaneous - I wanted to eat." The investigators were skeptical of such a statement - Tagirov never tried to make a robbery without murder. In addition, when he talked about his first victim, he suddenly remembered his childhood with his grandmother and how he was “unbearable to be at home” because of a difficult relationship with her.

At the same time, at the trial, Tagirov sharply changed the rhetoric and began to abandon this previously sincere recognition, citing the fact that he had made him under pressure from the investigators. In his last word, he argued that during the murders he lived in Kazan and was noted with the district police officer, since he was released by parole, approx. He also refused to compensate for the damage to the victims and accused his lawyer of poor -quality work.

Despite this, on March 21, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan sentenced the Volga Maniac to life imprisonment. He will spend the first 10 years in prison, after which he will be sent to a special regime colony. Anastasia Melnik also read the court.