YAROSLAVL, September 25 A court in the Kaluga region sentenced a resident of the Stavropol Territory to 12 years in a maximum security colony on charges of rape and murder of a student in 2005, reports the SUSC of Russia. by region.
The tragedy occurred on the night of July 25, 2005 on Lenin Street in the city of Tarusa, Kaluga Region.
«»A forty-year-old man attacked a 19-year-old student, stole her phone, beat her, and stabbed her. The next morning, the girl's body, covered with branches, was discovered by passers-by. From the scene of the incident, fragments of a broken bottle with the inscription «Wines of Stavropol» were removed. On the neck bottles, experts found traces of the victim’s blood, as well as a palm print,” the report says.
Only in 2020 did investigators manage to identify the alleged killer. He turned out to be a previously unconvicted resident of the Stavropol Territory, working as a heavy truck driver, who in July 2005, together with his partner, was in Tarusa for work, the investigative department notes. The palm print on the bottle, which was the crime weapon, coincided with the prints of the Stavropol resident. In addition, SUSC notes, the use of the deceased’s phone with a SIM card belonging to the defendant was recorded.
““These and other evidence together convinced the jury of the defendant’s guilt… The court sentenced the 58-year-old guilty to 12 years of imprisonment to be served in a high-security penal colony,” the report says.