Текст книги "Children of the gods"

Chapter 19

The next morning, Sunday, the two families all the staff went to city Prosecutor’s office. Eugene asked the investigator to question them Lobova despite the Easter weekend and, as the evening had to go home, to Vladivostok. The previous evening our fishermen held in the police station where they were questioned by investigators.

Tamara still could not recover from the incident. How could she assume that her family will be in the thick of things in the case of Nadya Timofeeva. Thanks to them, the case has finally moved from a dead point. Now they were sitting in the premises of the Prosecutor’s office in the small hallway before the door of the investigator. The office was closed. The guys were in high spirits and with interest and childish joy were discussing yesterday. For them it was an adventure. No, they certainly knew That found, but at their age it was seen as a game.

Ten minutes later, after their arrival to the door of the Cabinet ran low full dark-haired man with a leather portfolio under his arm and began hastily to open lock keys. Tamara it seemed suspiciously familiar. Opening the door, the man walked into the office and two minutes later began to take turns inviting all the participants of yesterday’s incident.

Tamara walked over and read the sign on the door: Lobov Vyacheslav Viktorovich. “Warbler! Well of course it’s him!” It was a classmate Tamara Thank Lobov, with whom she studied from the first to the eleventh class in Vladivostok. After school they have never seen. Fate has scattered all of whom where. “So he became an investigator and runs this business! As it turns out, small world.” thought Tamara.

Yes, Warbler still in high school dreamed of becoming a detective. In sixth grade, in September, as was previously decided, as a class they collected scrap metal. Classes competed against each other: who collects the most. Each class was a separate pile in the back yard of the school where the stored prey. After school, home portfolios poised, dressed and after eating, going to the school and they walked the whole company is on the hunt. And then one of these Sunny September days, a gang of several pupils, among whom were Warbler and Tamara, came upon and dug a long time already fairly overgrown ditch, surrounded on all sides by a metal grid. A pit was dug for the pool, but, as often happened in the USSR, are simply abandoned. The edges of the pit were impenetrable thickets of various trees and shrubs. Finding a hole in the grid, the guys take turns penetrated into the territory of the pit in hopes of finding in the Bush any metal objects.

– Oh look, a ring! – reported his find girlfriend Tamara Plotnikova Ludka. – And here are the cufflinks!

All rushed to see the find.

– There’s a whole bunch of stuff. – called the Dima guys Shafigulin.

On the carpet of yellowed leaves were a bunch of rings, earrings, rings, cufflinks, bracelets, and a little to the side as a bunch of price tags from them.

Without thinking, the boys collected all this stuff lying around randomly in a plastic bag and rushed headlong into the nearest police station. It turned out that recently robbed a jewelry Department, and these products are from there. The thief or his relatives decided to get rid of evidence and threw stolen on the territory of an abandoned pit. These products were cheap, most likely stole them some stupid teenager or teenagers. It is doubtful that for such a cheap went to the store a grown man, if he is certainly not crazy.

Called them several times to the police and interrogated as witnesses. Even once was invited to a lineup because the girls said that they had seen in the bushes some guy. Came to school and thanked in front of the whole class. The boys felt themselves to be heroes. Apparently since then he’s Warblers, something clicked in my head.

When his turn came Anfisa to enter the office, Tamara went along with it. Lobov was sitting at a brown polished table of the times of the USSR, on which from two parties were folders full of papers and there was a carafe of water and a faceted glass. It was a small room. In addition to the Desk there was a filing Cabinet and a safe. The only window was closed with blinds. On the floor next to the table was attached a white electric kettle. At the entrance to the office stood a clothes hanger. Discharged all this sad state environment ficus with a broad smooth dark green leaves in a large ceramic pot, standing on the wide windowsill.

Man something continued writing and without looking at the newcomer pointed to him standing in front of the chairs:

– Come in, sit down, I now.

Anfisa Tamara and sat down and began to wait, when TDS will pay attention to them. When you are finished writing, the investigator looked at first on Anfisa, then at Tamara.

Tamar, is that you? – raised his eyebrows, the man said.

– I! Hi, Slava! – laughed Tamara. And this is my daughter Anfisa.

– What a surprise! So you found things?

– Tell me, small world!

– I see, here are the investigator! Vyacheslav made a gesture with his extended hand, as if to show its ownership. Married with two children, a boy and a girl, this year finish school. How are you?

– We’re all family came. Came to Zelenogorsk to my sister’s for Easter, went fishing, and here… by the Way, Christ is risen!

Truly, he is risen!

– Eugene Sosnowski is my husband, you met him, Nikita – my eldest son is studying in the University, this year the wedding! Welcome! Well, Anfisa, this year completing the ninth grade, losing GIA. I live in Vladivostok. And how come you’re here in Zelenogorsk?

Yeah my wife is from here, went to school together at the University, she’s got an apartment in Zelenogorsk, and moved here. The work found here. The way we live!

– And where are your parents?

– Parents in Vladivostok remained. This year our son and his daughter will enter the University, so send them to live with grandparents!

You need to interrogate?

– Yes, so it should be. I’ll ask and you answer. I’m going to write everything down, and then read and sign.

– Well.

Anfisa again recounted all that happened yesterday at the lake.

– What do you think happened? – asked Tamara classmate, after a Protocol was signed. In Zelenogorsk all suspect family, I have been following this case.

Yeah, bunch of muddy… But until yesterday there was no evidence. As the saying goes, no body, no case.

– They found only the skull and spine, and even hair?

– Yes, yesterday all was searched. And now I continue to explore this place. Where are the other bones unknown. No no ribs, nothing.

– Is it really true animals, in order, as they say in the media? I don’t believe it. Most likely planted recently, as soon as they started checking garages. After the fall of the place tested volunteers and found nothing.

– Everything can be… Now the remains and belongings will be sent for examination, there will be clear something. The skull had no teeth and lower jaw.

– You think, specifically, why it was removed?

– On purpose, of course. In order to make the DNA testing.

– It looks like the perpetrator difficult and is well versed in this matter…

– Let’s hope that the offender not all evidence and traces were destroyed. Maybe he left his hair on the clothes and the remains potiranie stains, semen stains, nails… anything at all, though a small lead.

Chapter 20

Words Lobova that the offender specifically dismantled the body, got rid of the lower jaw and teeth did not give Tamara peace. After returning from Zelenogorsk and putting it all to bed, she’s stuck for your laptop. Tamara began looking for information that could shed light on the martyrdom of her questions. So she stumbled on the Forum, Forensic. The topic on matters of interest to established members under the name Caesar.

Caesar

Dear colleagues! Open the section on methodological approaches to the extraction of genomic DNA from bone tissue. The topic is becoming increasingly important.

Romulus

Hello. Tell me, do you hold the decalcifying bone material prior to DNA isolation?

Caesar

We in the Department worked out a technique to obtain DNA from the bone (78 hours) decalcification. At first tried without decalcification to do, but faced with the following problem: the instability of the final result (the result is suitable for amplification of DNA, it does not work). Came to the conclusion that the decalcification makes a certain element of stability in the results. “Pass” almost all of the bones that we receive. For the average bone preservation needs about 5 g of powder. Tubular bones, better than the bones of the skull, scapula and vertebrae. But sometimes surprisingly well-behaved bones of the foot and hand. All the best.

Romulus

Thank you. Try to apply and we. The situation when approximately half of the cases on materials related to the study of skeletal remains, the results or negative or hard to interpret, not very happy.

Bim-Bom

Dear CAESAR! I am interested in the question of the preparation of the bone to the selection. If you separate the remains of muscle tissue and bone treated if you peroxide? Needless to decalcification in cases with rotten bones?

Caesar

From muscle tissue trying to get rid of completely, as by bone marrow inside bones. Another thing, when fragments of dry muscle found on the outer surface of the bone. Then emitted in parallel, DNA from pieces taken from bone muscle tissue. Sometimes muscle works and getting DNA from bone is canceled. Peroxide is not processed. Distilled water and ethyl alcohol. The decalcification hold always, with any bones.

The first stage. Choice bones, which will be made drunk (or place on the bone) and the implementation of the latter.

The second stage. Purification of fragment of bone, inside and outside (if tubular). All under running water in the sink.

The third stage. Sequential immersion for several minutes in each solution fragment: in distilled water, in alcohol 96% in distilled water.

The fourth stage. Air drying 12 hours.

The fifth stage. Crushing bones in a mortar made of metal (stainless steel, bronze) to a state of fine sawdust, but not flour.

Sixth stage. The decalcification, etc.

Bim-Bom

Bones need to grind up the shavings? What’s wrong with the powder?

Caesar

The powder settles at the bad decalcification, even with centrifugation. In addition, in order to achieve the state of powder, it is necessary either to use special mills with cooling or nag, which leads to excessive heating of the material. It is easier to work with fine sawdust.

Boy

Is it possible to isolate DNA from charred bones (there are bones of the skull, teeth and vertebrae) and set the match with family (mother)?

Panda

Perhaps if the vertebrae left to the spinal cord (was extracted by phenol, the DNA of the whole bucket). Teeth, but climbs a lot of extra.

Caesar

Bones can be burnt to varying degrees. There are options when genetics had nothing to do. Sometimes DNA is obtained from charred bones even better than all kinds of other bones. You should try to touch the bone. If you crumble easily, and the teeth will not help.

Ray

A question to the esteemed CAESAR. Why you refused treatment peroxide? What is the meaning of processing ethanol? I believed that the peroxide treatment has two aims: first (and main) to get rid of possible surface contamination of foreign DNA, and secondly the destruction of microorganisms. But what is the meaning and the task of processing alcohol? The question is not idle. I have to work with fragments of the bones of the cranial vault. Skull collection, and then once boiled, matrix cloth a little and confuses me a great impact on the DNA of the object in the spongy tissue between two thin layers of bone matrix.

Caesar

We just historically have never used peroxide. In addition to mild washing procedures are used fairly rough physical action, when a scalpel or sandpaper to remove the top layer of bone. This method is probably not suitable for a loose historical examples – there have to gently immerse into a series of solutions. In all other cases, we are satisfied with the end result a positive genotyping, so we do not change the current methodology. Yes, the alcohol. Alcohol leads to degreasing of bone fragments, which is essential for further successful decalcification. We remove only the part of the fat, but often at the surface of the bone there are too many to be neglected. And that can happen to Dnkey? It is washed out with alcohol, as it is located inside the cells, which is not something to be torn away from the basics – to get to them is not so easy.

The bones of the skull (excluding the mandible) is the most difficult for DNA extraction, especially when the skull was boiled. A question for you: what is the shelf life of skulls before DNA analysis? What is the percentage of successful genotyping? And if there are any practices which the bones of the skull to better DNA?

Ray

Thank you dear CAESAR for your prompt reply. About developments too early to say, made two skulls. The bone material was taken from the cranial vault. Initially tried to use drank from the lower jaw, but twice from first bone received a mixture of profiles. Before you give up on research, took some more material out of the cranial vault and got good data. The second skull was taken from the cranial vault. In both cases, there were samples for one of the next of kin. Profile and obtained full coincidence with the samples through the alleys of the textbook. Taken today in the skull. Local CSU frighten 105 skulls accumulated over the past ten years.

It appeared that the offender heard something about the fact that DNA is easier to extract from the bones of the lower jaw and teeth, but still not sufficiently versed in this matter. It is possible that the offender is a person associated with medicine. Had to wait an examination, which may shed light on this complicated case.

Chapter 21

Nadia’s mother refused to believe that they have found the remains of her daughter. The family put an ad on the Internet that they do not believe that girls are no more and what will continue to search for Nadia. Margaret asked the members of the group in search of her daughter, how can she refuse the results of a genetic examination. Cited various arguments that examination may not be accurate and that it will be to late to believe that Nadia is alive and ever coming back home.

As time went on. There was little hope that the examination will yield some results and will help to find the culprit. After all this time since the girl’s death and the body was found is not complete and only part of it. What could be saved? Smelled like another “case”.

On may 27, in the media appeared the message:

“Tonight the staff of criminal investigation Department of police “Zelenogorsk” detained a suspect in the murder of schoolgirl Nadia Timofeeva. Now he is in a temporary detention center. Information about the identity of the detainee, a suspect in the murder of Nadia Timofeeva, – so far at least. All the “classified”. Media investigators communicate carefully, weighing every word. All for the sake of work went down the drain.

The reason for the detention was the results obtained quotes. Biological traces left on the baby stuff, 99.9% coincided with a biological sample (saliva) taken from one of the residents of the city.

We will remind, the investigative team has conducted more than 270 inspections of various utilities, checked about 200 non-residential premises, more than 500 apartments, homes, and outbuildings. Were sequestered from CCTV footage on the way the girls are home from school. Questioned over 3,000 people, held a large number of different examinations. Seized more than 1000 samples for carrying out quotes and highlight genetic profile. The search was conducted not only within the city but also far beyond its borders.

In one of the first parties aimed at the examination, the selected genetic profile coincided with the biological material that was discovered in the belongings of a missing girl.

Employees of criminal investigation Department have organised ambushes in places of possible appearance of the suspect. When carrying out quickly-search actions policemen have established his whereabouts, was arrested and taken to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee.

From informal sources it became known that the detainee was a relative of a missing girl. They have long lived together, which perhaps explains the emergence of biological traces of the suspect on the baby stuff. The detained often did lessons with Nadia and took her to school.”

Guesses and suspicions of residents and participants of search group has confirmed. The girl has suffered at the hands of a relative. But, despite the fact that the detained particular person, many believed that involved the whole family, and that’s all there is not so easy. In one house lived a girl with two men: her stepfather Andrew and her husband’s sister Margaret Alexander Stein. Since it was not officially announced the name of the detainee in the city and on the Internet have spread gossip and rumors. People wanted to know who of these two is a killer. To prevent gossip, the authorities decided to announce the name of the suspect. And the next day in the media appeared a new message:

“The investigation finally revealed the secret, who is accused of murdering a girl, is her uncle, husband of mother’s sister, Alexander Stein. 29 year old man was involved in the education of Nadi. The mother and stepfather of the girls worked in shifts. The daughter grew up in a family of aunts, under supervision of the grandmother.

The things Nadia, was found in April, traces of epithelial and sperm. He, by the way, a young father, he has a small child.

Suspect to testify refused, citing the relevant article of the Constitution. It fully supports Nadia’s family. Relatives of the dead girl’s claim that he is “more fussed after her disappearance, wrote letters to the regional Prosecutor’s office, went to a meeting with police authorities, demanding the acceleration of the investigation”. The investigative Committee explained that the man went to take a biomaterial.

In addition, Timofeeva do not believe that these remains – bones and hair – belongs to the girl. Although the results of the examination indicate otherwise.

The other day he will have to indict at least two articles of the Criminal code. According to the investigation, before killing the baby, the man had committed “a sex crime”. This is indicated by the traces of semen found in the form of Nadi.

Previously considered a version that the murder could be part of Nadya’s stepfather, but later it was disproved by investigation.

The man detained on suspicion in murder of Nadia Timofeeva, previously took a polygraph test. During the survey, the instrument recorded a deviation from the norm. However, because the suspect was familiar with the girl and took an active part in the inquiry, experts have linked them with inner feelings of a man.”

The scandal flared up every hour hotter. By the evening of 28 may, the grandmother Tonya put on his page in social networks appeal to the members of the group:

Dear countrymen!

I appeal to you to help in our “loud” family. September 16, 2013 in our family there was a mountain, our beloved daughter, granddaughter, niece Nadia Timofeeva has not returned home from school. She, along with her mother Margarita Timofeeva, grandmother Antonina Timofeyeva, Timofeeva aunt Sophia, uncle Stein Alexander and Andrei Simonov stepfather lived in the same house. On the evening of 16 September 2013, the girl’s mother reported the disappearance to the police, Nadia. The search was joined by police officers, rescuers, volunteers, ordinary residents.

The first night we demanded from the police to seek the assistance of a dog handler. Perhaps having the dogs in the worst case narrowed the area of search on the first day, and in the best case our girl would be found. We were explained that the dog has only in Vladivostok and its use, is possible only with the permission of some General. However, dogs are available in the departmental security service of Russian Railways in the city of Zelenogorsk, in a correctional facility of the settlement October in Zelenogorsk area. Search dog we found yourself in a state correctional facility. Conducted searches of result have not given.

On the third day after the loss questioned the biological father of Nadia, who also was out.

September 21, 2013, through social networking on the phone is unknown, which reported that Nadia is with him and if we value the life of our little girl, demanded preliminary to transfer 10,000 rubles (ten thousand rubles) for his phone number. All correspondence with this person we, relatives, have provided to the Investigation Committee, which refused to accept and advised to provide this correspondence in MO the Ministry of internal Affairs of the Russian Federation “Zelenogorsk”. What we have done. However, the police dismissed us, saying that for the unknown to take any measures.

Their indifference to the statement of the relatives about the fact of extortion of money from us for the life of Nadia already indicates the presence of official misconduct unworthy of being a police officer. The fact of extortion is not verified, a person is not defined. Moreover, this version is not verified. Perhaps it was the man who held the girl. To find it or the location from which messages were sent, in the presence of a competent specialist is not working, because the IP address it is possible to quickly perform, as well as to find persons who used a personal computer at the time and the place from where the call was made.

After the disappearance of the girls before the mother phoned, “thug”, said the other day to smuggle children across the border, and there just Nadya. The description of the car, called names. The girl’s mother went to the investigator, he “kicked”. The volunteers then reported that such a machine through customs was held.

Version revenge classmates and friends at the Nadi discussion was not raised and has not been verified. Placed at the disposal of police records from cameras of external video surveillance for a long time not processed, because how to convert video files from one format to another, experts in the police Department there.

On the sixth day the staff of the investigative Committee visited our house: seized personal belongings Nadi, the system unit and the laptop. Very carefully we checked on the lie detector to provide false information. Special attention was given to Alexander Stein is the uncle. Several times they searched his office and shop on manufacture of furniture. After this check, the psychologist who conducted her down, drew the conclusion that he is an exceptionally honest man, and that if Sasha legal education, he would take him to work. Were also seized from the relatives of the biological objects.

Had to deal with blatant lies of law enforcement officials. After you have made the search with the use of service dogs we were assured that this quest will be continued the next day, but no additional searches were not. To the question, sent there dogs the next day, the police officers answered in the affirmative. However, reported time and place of the search, there is other reliable information searches were made.

As time went on. It’s not moving. Alexander began to write letters to regional and General Prosecutor’s office, went to meet with the head of the regional police, tried, as could, anything to break the “dead point”.

Now began a new round: April 19, Nadina’s things and found someone’s remains. All it took for DNA tests. We honestly were waiting for the results of the examination, although it looked very strange: the mother was never called to identify the remains. In our cold climate, where the cold comes in early October and the snow begins to melt in April, found completely!!!bare bones and a skull with no teeth!!! Helpful side by side and put a briefcase with neatly folded Nodename things, they say, need a corpse – Nate, and media have all reported? We all did not react to this message: we were interested in only one thing – whether it’s our soul?

Took one of our own, and turned it this ugly way. May 27, late in the evening Sasha was arrested. This man was, so to speak, our “voice”, our “right hand”. His behavior before the arrest, was natural: he led a normal life, ordered a new machine for their production. In these days we learned that our new baby arrives.

As we later became aware, during the night he demanded surrender and threatened the welfare of his wife and his small child. Thank God that we quickly caught on and found a lawyer. The lawyer specifically said nothing found, they say, traces on Nadya’s clothes. What kind of traces? In response to the silence. We all lived in the same house: shared life, shared Laundry. The lawyer vaguely heard in okololegochnykh circles that the bones there is generally a half from animals. And Nadina?

On may 27, the boy was taken away at night, and the main victim had not bothered to declare. The girl’s mother in vain the whole day “catching” the Chief investigator, who was hiding from her and did not respond to calls.

In fact, there is one suicide electric school of the arts, where he studied Nadia. The investigative Committee so the man pressed that he came to work early, left a note that is innocent in the disappearance of Nadia and hanged himself.

Relatives and friends of the innocent Stein Alexander. There are so many inconsistencies in this complicated criminal case. Alexander’s life is in danger. Forced to take the blame. Please, please help!

Tomorrow will be a rally in support of Stein Alexander at the courthouse building. Please come to all the people concerned. Help to achieve justice and save the life of an innocent man!

The next day, as written in the petition at the city court a meeting was held. The rally came the relatives, including Margaret, the mother Nadi and close friends of Stein. Margaret was wearing a wig and tried not to show the face of numerous correspondents. Other than family and friends no one else responded to this call. People did not believe in the innocence of Alexander Stein. Moreover, many believed that the crime involved the whole family. The court decided to leave the matte in custody. The Internet is the wave of condemning the mother for the support of the murderer of her daughter.

– You look, when volunteers organized an action of memory of Nadya, she didn’t come, she was once, and then found the time! – wrote one of the band members.

– Yes. Has anyone seen on search of at least one of your relatives? In all that time, while other people the girl was looking for her day and night, no relative appeared, and there was polypoidal like cockroaches. Where did they all come from? How much is the Nadi family! And we didn’t know! How to find the baby, so no one, and took as their own, all at the rally he ran and found! – supported other it.

– Looks like there is all mixed up and now I’m afraid he’ll rat them out, the lot of them. So the lawyer quickly found and the appeal was up and the rally ran. They need to pull it out at any cost until he gets it.

– What his relations with Nadia! Poor girl, how she lived among these monsters!?

And this mother?! The child disappeared a few months no and I have found her remains and belongings, examination confirmed that it was Nadia. The remains of traces of semen of this matte. And what does a mother allegedly heartbroken? Running to protect her daughter’s killer! Yes is it possible to call her mother after this?

– Perhaps she crushes your family? After all, he is the husband of her sister. Can persuade not to leave the child without a father? After all, Nadia did not return. The whole time she was convinced that Nadia is alive. Matte is more of all there is the activity showed. Fucked her brains out. She probably already thinks that makes. – tried to protect the mother no new posts under the nickname PRINCESS BEAUTIFUL.

Yeah they’re all mixed up! The whole family from the very beginning was suspicious. – let her other participant groups. – Here see, in the appeal they write that the police does not work and does nothing. And remember, in winter when mother offered to contact the “test call”? The band asked Margaret, the mother of Nadia, give permission to write a letter to the program “test call”. She at first agreed, but then, after a few minutes, he changed his mind, citing the fact that the police and so working up a sweat. I will give screenshots of this conversation:

Svetlana M.

Girls, there is a reply from Margaret, regarding the treatment of the “test call”. Quote: “Hello, I don’t mind, and even, on the contrary, if they actually help. I have not yet addressed”.

And in a few minutes:

Margarita

About the call I thought about it and came to the conclusion that this act, I finally fall out with the investigative Committee. I will say this: the guys work so hard, I forgot about the dream, about food, about personal life, even with high temperature work. I think, it is not necessary to call anywhere – it will look like dirt to them, because they really work and work and sometimes I even feel sorry for them!

And inconsistencies in the testimony? Where Margarita was almost three hours? She came to school only about four hours, and you said you went to meet Nadia. Home from school just half an hour walk. So where was she all this time? And the testimony about the phone? He was with Nadia, it turns out, the house is broken. As a result he was found in was found in the swamp things with the removed back wall and pulled out the SIM card.

She said that one Nadia walked home from school and to school, and even, allegedly, asked her not to accompany. And now it turns out that Stein picked up Nadia on the machine. Everywhere lie!

There are many other questions to which there are no answers. For example: