Bitsevsky maniac corpses. Is it true that there is a new maniac in Bitsevsky Park? What's strange about this story?
Bitsevsky maniac 2019: true or not? The official press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is limited to lengthy statements, and real panic is growing on social networks. A series of murders that occurred in recent days in Bitsevsky Park in the south of Moscow has alarmed residents of the capital. After the famous maniac Alexander Pichushkin, who killed as many as 61 people in these forest plantations, everyone started talking about a follower who not only takes the lives of Muscovites, but also dismembers their corpses, scattering them in different parts of the forest.
According to the official version, three corpses have been found in the Bitsevsky forest in recent weeks. Women, dismembered men, and pensioners. According to the unofficial version, six people have already been killed in the park, and the police are not trying to disseminate this information so as not to create panic.
The corpses were found in the area of Miklouho-Maclay Street, parts of bodies at the Pagan Temple (!) and in the area of the Vodyanka River. The most dangerous place at the moment remains the paths and paths in the adjacent thickets to the power lines leading from the intersection of Sevastopolsky Avenue and Miklouho-Maklaya Street to the Bitsa equestrian complex (Balaklavsky Ave.). The Silver Springs and the floodplain of the Chertanovka River remain undesirable for visiting in the evening.
According to preliminary data, the new Bitsa maniac 2019 has a more cruel handwriting, however, rumors have already spread that
Pichushkin was arrested illegally and is mentally ill, and this, 10 years after the last murder, the real killer showed up. He also attacks mainly women and people with low moral character. And in general, the handwriting is similar, since the current attacker does not rape or rob his victims.
An identikit of a maniac
The police have already distributed an identikit of the 2019 Bitsa killer, however, whether it belongs to a real maniac is a big question.
The photo of this man was linked to the murdered woman, however, the wanted man could well have been just a passer-by or her casual acquaintance. Also, if one of the murders was committed on domestic grounds, as law enforcement agencies indicate, then it is likely that everyone is looking for the wrong person.
It’s also worth looking at the photo identikit of the real Bitsa maniac Pichushkin – it is quite different from the original.
Currently, an organization of Chechen youth has already announced that they are patrolling the park, however, whether they have the proper level of motivation to put him on a bottle is unknown, because the killer has not yet insulted a single mother over the phone. Along with the Chechens, the Cossack squad and volunteers from among local residents are helping in the search for the attacker.
How to deal with a maniac?
When meeting with the Bitsa maniac 2019, you need to remain calm. It is worth distracting him with side conversations, for example, about the war in Ukraine or the US national debt. When the maniac is distracted, you must:
- With a sharp movement with two outstretched fingers, hit him in the eyeballs;
- As soon as he grabs his eyes with his hands, kick him in the groin;
- While the maniac is in a state of painful shock, it is important to tie him up as quickly as possible with available means, for example, elements of clothing;
- Bring the maniac to the Bitsevsky Park metro station, where he will hand him over to the police.
If apprehending the 2019 Bitsa maniac is impossible, or there is uncertainty, it is better to try to quickly leave the meeting place, having first remembered his signs. The Ripper may walk behind you for a while and sniffle disgustingly from under his shaggy mustache; in this case, you should call for help and try not to provoke the maniac into attacking.
Body parts were found on Miklouho-Maclay Street
On the evening of October 3, behind a supermarket on Miklouho-Maclay Street, cut off legs - as it turned out later, were men's legs. The next morning, near the same street, passers-by came across the body of a 37-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds. Investigators later found a man's head nearby. “Criminal cases have been opened under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Murder”) based on the facts of the woman’s death and the discovery of the man’s head. Based on the discovery of fragments of the man’s body, a pre-investigation check has been launched,” Yulia Ivanova, official representative of the capital’s headquarters of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR), told Lenta.ru.
After the terrible discoveries, people started talking online about the “new Bitsevsky maniac”
Residents of the areas neighboring the Bitsevsky forest - Yasenevo, Teply Stan, Konkovo, Chertanovo and others - talked about the “new Bitsevsky maniac”. Published information varied: for example, the public page “Yasenevo Konkovo Teply Stan” reported about one victim, “Troparevo-Nikulino” - about several, and in “Chertanovo” wrote about 4-5 dead.
Alerts to the alleged killer were posted on the streets
On October 10, the administrator of one of the communities on VKontakte dedicated to the Troparevo-Nikulino region, the radio station “Moscow Speaks”, announced that information about the alleged killer was posted on the streets. According to Vladislav Utkin, the suspect is 35-40 years old, has an Asian appearance, average build and height of 175-180 centimeters. “We saw him in Troparevo recently, he committed all the crimes in the Bitsevsky forest park, mostly either in the evening or at night,” the radio station’s interlocutor said. He believes that the killer suffers from a mental disorder. “For example, he stabbed a woman 20 times and cut off the legs of one of the men. The corpse was dismembered, roughly speaking,” Utkin explained.
Law enforcement agencies doubted the emergence of a new maniac
On October 4, a source in law enforcement agencies told Lenta.ru that it was premature to talk about a new maniac in Bitsevsky Park. “Even if it turns out that the fragments of a man’s body belong to one person and he is connected to a woman, the nature of the crime is more similar to an ordinary domestic incident during the joint drinking of alcohol. Based on the results of the inspection of the crime scenes, there is no reason to say that the crime was committed by a serial killer,” he noted. The editor's interlocutor added that in Bitsevsky Park, as in any other large forest park in Moscow, bodies are found regularly: firstly, alcohol is most often drunk here in the open air, and during these feasts murders are committed, and secondly, bodies are brought there with the expectation that it would be more difficult to find them among the trees.
The police have so far been stingy in their official comments about what happened. The Moscow department of the Russian Investigative Committee reported that 2 corpses were found directly in Bitsa and next to the park. According to the department, on the same day, October 4, the dismembered body of a man was found near one of the grocery stores on Miklouho-Maclay Street and the body of a woman born in 1980, which local residents found directly in the park, in the part of it that adjoins Ostrovityanova streets, Sevastopolsky Avenue and Miklouho-Maclay.
But a source in the Moscow criminal investigation department notes that there are actually 4 corpses - the Investigative Committee decided not to notify the media about all of them.
“Although one death that occurred in recent days in Bitsevsky Park is clearly not of a criminal nature - a 68-year-old pensioner died there from a heart attack, three other people were clearly “helped” to die. Of these, two are women and one is a man. The following can be said about one of the dead: there was alcohol in her blood at the time of death, and there was a gas canister in her bag. The killer inflicted more than 30 stab wounds on her,” the source said, adding that, according to available data, the woman was seriously involved in martial arts during her lifetime, but so far little is known about her personality. He did not voice her name so as not to interfere with the investigation.
As he reports, parts of the man's body - the torso, severed head, arms and legs, which were found near a store on Miklouho-Maclay Street - were neatly wrapped in plastic bags. The third corpse was also disfigured after the murder: his head was cut off.
“Now it’s difficult to say anything specific about them, but presumably these were people who led an asocial lifestyle or did not have a permanent place of residence. Now their identities are being established,” he said.
According to another police source, it is premature to conclude that all 3 murders are somehow connected.
“In any case, we need to wait for the results of the investigative medical examination, and this is not a quick matter. It is possible that the woman born in 1980 was killed during a drunken fight, although this is not yet fully known. It remains unclear why the criminal dismembered the man’s corpse. If we assume that he tried to cover up his tracks in this way, then it is unclear why he left the cut off hands along with other parts of his body. After all, fingerprints can be used to establish the identity of the deceased,” the interlocutor noted. He also clarified that over the past summer, several dismembered corpses of men were found in the Moscow River, and the identity of some of them could not be established.
“But this happens regularly, so it’s too early to conclude that another serial killer has appeared in the city,” he said.
On Tuesday, sketches of the suspects in the Bitsevsky Park murders appeared in the press. One of the sketches depicts a man with coarse short dark hair, protruding ears, and slightly squinted eyes. The second portrait is a little similar to the first, but slightly different: a crooked nose, larger cheekbones, brown hair.
It is worth noting that it was in Bitsa Park that Alexander Pichushkin, also known as the “Bitsa maniac,” operated in the 2000s. According to the police, he committed at least 49 murders, and the maniac himself spoke of more than 60 victims. Pichushkin was a loader, played sports, lived next to Bitsa and knew this park very well. The history of his search is replete with police mistakes, due to which he remained at large for quite a long time. So, in 2002, a woman whom Pichushkin threw into a sewer manhole miraculously remained alive, got out of another sewer and ended up in the hospital. The local police officer called to the medical facility was more concerned not with the name and characteristics of the criminal, but with the victim’s lack of registration and asked her not to write a statement.
After the maniac was caught in 2007, they returned to this case and the unscrupulous policeman was brought to justice.
That same year, the killer threw a teenage substance abuser living with the criminal in the same area into the sewer. He was also able to survive, and after the victim met Pichushkin on the street, he immediately ran to the nearest police officer. But the teenager’s words were not given any significance at that time. And in 2003, Pichushkin, having taken a significant dose of alcohol, came to surrender to the regional police department, but they did not believe him, mistaking the maniac’s words for drunken inventions. At that time, the “Bitsa maniac” had about 30 murders to his name. Only on July 16, 2006, Pichushkin was arrested, and in October 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison. The prosecution at this trial was personally supported by the capital's prosecutor, Yuri Semin. The ex-maniac is serving his sentence in the Polar Owl colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
“The general practice is that law enforcement officers do not like to officially admit that there is a maniac in the city. What worries me in this situation is that among those killed, presumably, there are homeless people and alcoholics. As a rule, maniacs begin their murders with victims who cannot resist either due to physical weakness or alcohol or drug intoxication. Often such people do not have relatives or stable social connections, and no one will file a missing person report. Establishing the identity of such people will be problematic. Pichushkin, by the way, also often killed homeless people and alcoholics, although not only them,” said a source in the Moscow criminal investigation department.
Some of the interlocutor’s colleagues focus on the fact that various offenses are often committed in Bitsevsky Park: robberies, fights and sometimes murders.
“There are a lot of idiots in the world. So what? We must take into account what Bitsevsky Park is. When the investigation into Pichushkin was underway, three or four corpses were found there that had nothing to do with this criminal. But everyone was screaming that the maniac, it turns out, was free, continuing his dirty work, and we “closed” the unfortunate man,” said Andrei Suprunenko, a former investigator for especially important cases of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office, who led the case of the “Bitsa maniac.”
“Currently the situation is escalating on social networks, but it is too early to draw conclusions. Even the sketches of those who are supposedly behind the recent murders are made up of different people. Therefore, it is better not to succumb to this hysteria, which, it is possible, is being fanned on purpose,” said a source in the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A series of new mysterious murders have occurred in the south of Moscow. How to understand where and when the killer will appear again? Creators of the program "Live" tried to penetrate the monster's soul. To do this, they interviewed the Angarsk maniac Mikhail Popkov, who accounted for 84 innocent victims!
10 years ago, the trial of Alexander Pichushkin, the Bitsevsky maniac, took place. And here is again disturbing news from Bitsevsky Park - more than five victims of the same killer have already been found there. On October 3, 38-year-old Galina Ivanova was killed during a walk. There are 28 stab wounds on the girl's body. Galina's friend Valentina Matveenkova came to the Live Broadcast studio to warn Muscovites how dangerous the current situation is. The woman recalls: “At first we didn’t recognize Galina - she was brutally mutilated. On her body they found a message, a letter from a maniac, which said that he would continue to kill. Moreover, the note was written in Pichushkin’s handwriting... There are already many victims, more than five, and It’s not just women – there are both men and boys among them.”
The investigation disseminated the characteristics of the suspect and made an identikit. But the fact is that these signs can suit every tenth person: “A man 35-40 years old, height 175-183, European type, average build. Dark brown hair, light eyes. He was wearing a black leather jacket.”
Now residents of the area are afraid to return home late. Elena Fedulova, investigator for particularly important cases at the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office (1994-2009), believes that in the case of the new Bitsevsky maniac there is a criminal suppression of information. “All the details should be covered in the media so that people are warned and careful. I am sure that 90% of athletes will refuse morning and night runs in the park if they understand the danger they are in!” says Elena.
To get into the psychology of a maniac, the Live Broadcast correspondent talked with one of the most brutal killers of our time, currently serving a life sentence. According to him, former junior police lieutenant Mikhail Popkov has 84 murders to his name. Of these, 22 have been proven. It is believed that the trigger for the massacres was his wife’s infidelity, which influenced Popkov. This is confirmed by his colleagues and relatives. Having learned about the betrayal of his beloved woman, Mikhail set out to “cleanse” society of vice, killing those who provoked him in some way, specifically choosing victims of a certain lifestyle, taking out his anger on them.
Snezhana Kozitsyna miraculously escaped death 20 years ago - but Popkov killed her friends in February 1998. The three girls went to visit, and two of them disappeared. A few days later their mutilated corpses were found. There are ax wounds on the head, the eyes are gouged out, and the fingers are cut off. Anna Motofonova and Marina Chetverikova were only 20 years old...
Popkov has a young daughter. What does he advise her to avoid falling into the clutches of someone like him? “If you have a normal company, they will always show you off and put you in a taxi. Ekaterina always called me when she returned late. I went and picked her and her girlfriends up.”
Popkov does not consider himself a maniac, he says that he does not have an irresistible urge to kill: “I do not agree with the diagnosis of the Serbsky clinic. I did not kill all my fellow travelers, but only those in whom there was something provoking. Cleaner? But whatever you want with me call me. I was caught in 2012, and I haven’t killed since 2010, which means I can control myself.”
The worst thing is that Popkov shows no remorse at all. His behavior aroused anger among studio guests, and there were even calls to reinstate the death penalty for people like him. But not everyone agrees with this, because execution is also murder, only legalized. And this is unacceptable.
What can you do to protect yourself from meeting a serial killer? How to spot the Bitsa maniac? Why is there so little information in the media? The answers to these and other questions are in the “Live” program.
In October 2018, it became too dangerous in Moscow - according to the latest news, a maniac began to operate in the Bitsevsky forest park. Two victims were found in the park earlier this month, but authorities still doubt it was the work of one person. Is there really a dangerous maniac walking around in Moscow in the South-Western Administrative District 2018?
Follower of Alexander Pichushkin: truth or fiction
The Bitsevsky forest has never been a calm and quiet place - from 1992 to 2006, the criminal Alexander Pichushkin operated in it, who killed about 50 people during that time. When he was caught, residents of the surrounding areas breathed a sigh of relief, but now they have a new reason to worry.
On October 4, 2018, the latest news appeared on Moscow websites - an unknown maniac killed two people last night - a woman and a man. According to primary sources, their bodies were not only hidden from prying eyes, but also severely mutilated.
According to the latest news, the female body was pierced with a knife about thirty times, and the male body was cut into pieces. His legs, torso, arms and head were carefully wrapped in plastic bags, but they had to be collected almost throughout the entire park.
There are also rumors that another severed male head was found in the same vicinity and that the authorities are not in a hurry to report all crimes to the public.
But one thing was confirmed for sure - another death of an elderly woman, whose body, as the latest news reports, was found in mid-October 2018 in a Moscow park, was not subjected to the violent actions of a maniac.
Unfortunately, the old woman died of a heart attack before reaching her own home, but her death was almost blamed on an unknown criminal.
What is known about those killed by the Moscow maniac in 2018
There is actually very little information about the identity of the victims now in the South-Western Administrative District - the names of those who have been identified are not advertised so as not to interfere with the investigation, and they are trying to find out at least some biographical facts or passport information about others.
It only became known on the Internet that the first victim was a woman, born in 1980. A small amount of alcohol was found in her blood, and there was a gas canister in her purse, which she never managed to use.
The most surprising thing is that the murdered woman had been practicing martial arts for many years, but these skills could not save her life. This suggests that she either knew the maniac personally, or he was too strong, and the attacks were unexpected.
According to the latest news of 2018, nothing is said about the other victims of the Moscow maniac, although there is an assumption that they most likely did not have a permanent place of residence or led a lifestyle detached from other people. Which made them easy targets. They often walked around the park in the evening and at night, just when the “hunt” began.
During the investigation, it became clear that the criminal was not interested in money, jewelry and even the honor of the murdered, which means that the brutal murders were committed by a person with serious mental disorders.
Why is the version about the maniac still not confirmed?
If you believe the latest news from another source, it is too early to say that a maniac appeared in Moscow in the fall of 2018.
The fact that all three murders were committed by the same person has not yet been proven, since the results of the investigative medical examination are not known. But there is a hypothesis that a drunken young woman was killed during the crime - this crime could have happened by accident, although this fact does not exempt the perpetrators from responsibility.
Investigators are also concerned about the question of why the criminal dismembered the man’s body. It is unlikely that he tried to hide traces of the crime in this way, since law enforcement agencies found the victim’s hands.
But everyone knows that using fingerprints it is easy to find out the name of the murdered person, find out additional facts about him and get to the maniac if his actions were not a complete impulse and he knew the person he was killing.
Law enforcement agencies say that, unfortunately, murders occur in the capital almost every day and the fact that three of them occurred in one place may become an ordinary coincidence - and it is too early to talk about the appearance of an insane maniac.
Let's take a look: what does the suspect look like?
It is worth saying that we managed to create not one, but two identikit images, but the people depicted in them are very similar. The signs were described by people who often visit the park and pay attention to new suspicious characters who have not previously appeared in the area. Should we panic about a maniac in Moscow in 2018? How dangerous is the killer in the South-Western Administrative District?
Already on October 10, it became known that a man with protruding, protruding ears, coarse, short-cropped hair and narrow eyes was most likely involved in the crimes in Bitsevsky Park. This suggests that the young man has Asian roots and this is an important sign - such people stand out in the crowd and attract other people's attention.
Photo of the alleged maniac
Another portrait also depicts an Asian man, 35-40 years old, but with a crooked nose, brown hair and larger cheekbones.
According to the latest information, the park will be guarded until the very end of the investigation, but local residents and guests are asked not to walk in the park and nearby areas in the evening and at night, and also not to let children go there without watching.
Tsaritsyn maniac: another crime on Friday the 13th
The thirteenth was always called unlucky, especially if it fell on a Friday. And it was on this day in 2018, according to the latest news, that another maniac committed murder in another part of Moscow.
His victim was a modest but active pensioner who loved to walk around the arboretum. Relatives of Valentina Nikolaevna Smirnova began to sound the alarm when the woman did not return home, and even involved the local police in the search.
But no one expected that her lifeless body would be found with her throat cut under the autumn leaves. A serious wound was also found on the head, indicating that the victim was initially hit hard on the back of the head with a brick.
The only good thing is that the criminal was found very quickly. Thanks to the latest news in 2018, it became known that a maniac, while walking around Moscow, went into one of the stores to buy cognac. Already in a drunken state, the man admitted to the seller that he had recently stabbed a man.
After this statement, the police were called and the talkative buyer was taken to the station. He explained the motive for his crime by saying that on Friday 13th he was simply obliged to kill someone, and Smirnova was simply the first one to come across.
But this version is hard to believe, since the Moscow maniac some time ago already tried to kill the pensioner and even grabbed her, but at the last moment something scared the attacker away.
But, be that as it may, the criminal and murderer will be judged with all severity and will definitely find out the true reason for his atrocities. The relatives of the deceased, unfortunately, cannot even imagine for what sins Valentina Nikolaevna suffered such a fate.
They definitely didn’t want to rob her, since the suspect admitted that he was least interested in the pensioner’s money and jewelry. He simply pulled out everything that was in his pockets and threw the things into the pond so that they could no longer identify the victim.
We can only hope that the investigation will understand all the details, and the criminal will be punished with all severity.
At the moment, representatives of the law are trying to find out whether the criminal they caught could be involved in other, similar crimes that have recently occurred in the capital. Has the dangerous Moscow maniac, who committed many brutal murders in 2018, been caught?
