MOSCOW, September 17, Viktor Zvantsev. The search for Zulpiyat Magomedova, who disappeared without a trace back in 1993, has been resumed in Elista. She was only 13 years old at the time, and only one photograph was preserved in the criminal case. What the investigation is counting on — in the material .
Double murder
On the evening of February 3, 1993, near the village of Voznesenovka, workers at a livestock farm heard several shots. The police were not called immediately — the telephone connection was unstable.
Operative officers inspected the farm — nothing suspicious. We went around the neighboring houses and came across the body of a woman with obvious signs of violent death. It was established that the deceased and her common-law husband worked on a farm.
The couple raised two young sons and the woman’s daughter from her first marriage. The brothers were soon found, but the girl and her stepfather were nowhere to be found. They called for reinforcements, combed the area and found the body of a man a kilometer from the farm — with several gunshot wounds.
Active searches continued for several more days, but the girl was never found. It was assumed that she was kidnapped by an unknown criminal who shot her mother and stepfather. The family did not live well; it is unlikely that the purpose of the raid was robbery. The other day, investigators from Elista came to the village with questions about the missing woman 30 years ago to a girl. Why there was interest in the old case is not reported. “The murdered woman and her daughter were Dargins by nationality, but I didn’t know them personally, although I was born and raised here,” says one of the local administration employees. “In general, we have a fairly large diaspora from Dagestan. I asked its representatives about the Magomedov family , is there any relatives left here? The surname, of course, is common, but no one from the diaspora remembered these particular people.» Zulpiyat and the teachers of the only school in the village could not remember. “She might not have studied there,” explains an administration official. “The farms and shepherds’ camps were far from the village, and most of the children were taken to boarding school every week until the weekend. But the boarding school closed in the 2000s, and all its teachers left.” . In the only surviving photograph, Zulpiyat is in school uniform. The crime is unlikely to have been committed due to the professional activities of the victims, investigators believe. Locals assume that the killer’s traces may lead to Dagestan, where the dead came from, and the crime itself is the result of a squabble within the family. The search for Zulpiyat was resumed not only in Kalmykia, but also in Dagestan.
The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Article 102 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR «Murder». No one was detained in hot pursuit, there were no direct witnesses. The stalled investigation was suspended. Relatives took the orphaned brothers to Dagestan.
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Most likely, the family came to Kalmykia to work and got a job at the Voznesensky state farm. It was a fairly large agricultural enterprise, engaged in livestock breeding, growing grain and other crops. In the 2000s, the state farm was transformed into an agricultural company. The company was closed last year.
Priority version
“Since the crime was committed in the so-called conditions of non-obviousness, and the body of the teenager was not found, the abduction version remains a priority,” says a source in law enforcement agencies. “Also «It is possible that the girl ran away after witnessing the murder of her relatives. We hope that Magomedova will see herself in the orientation and respond, or her friends will do so.»
The problem is that Zulpiyat is already 43 years old, she could have changed her last name and first name . Nevertheless, investigators hope that the 30-year-old criminal case will not return to the archive shelf.