The bodies of two victims of the "Bogorodsky Maniac" from the Moscow region, suspected of a series of murders and attempted murders, have been discovered. After searching the property of Dmitry Artamoshin, forensic experts using search equipment discovered the body of one of the girls in a compost pit at a depth of two meters, then the body of the other in a well.
VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info report on how events unfolded.
The first missing person report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs languished for several months. Back in the summer, the mother of one of the victims filed a report about her daughter going missing in the Bogorodsky district. Then began the usual red tape of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the inconvenient report being passed on to others. The report was sent from Elektrougli to Korolev, where the missing woman lived, but there it was simply shelved.
In the fall, the mother began besieging the Elektrougli police station again, hoping to learn something about her daughter's fate, and she succeeded in getting a response. She had information about her daughter's recent residence and work—a house in a gardening community where Dmitry Artamoshin, a previously convicted felon, lived. The detectives, along with the complainant, descended on the house.
The owner greeted them calmly. He had another girl in the house, but she was immediately escorted out. The maniac didn't deny that the missing woman had visited him. But when asked what had happened to her, he replied, looking at the mother: "I told you—your daughter is a prostitute. She just left me."
This background abruptly deterred the police from taking any further action, and they simply returned to the station. But almost immediately, another mother contacted the police: a "nanny" who had gone to work for... Artamoshin had disappeared. This time, the Investigative Committee took up the matter.
And the second time, the maniac claimed the girl had left on her own, and that he had nothing to do with it. But after two strange disappearances, he was sent to a cell. After some time in the temporary detention center, he began to talk. Artamoshin remained firm about the first girl—it turned out she had been dating him and also a riot police officer. The latter, according to witnesses, was jealous of the girl and would cause trouble for her.
But regarding the second missing woman, the maniac gave very favorable testimony. They had used drugs together and she died of an "overdose." Afterwards, he became frightened and got rid of the body, but he didn't give a definitive answer as to how. In the final version, Artamoshin allegedly put the body in a bag out of fear and tried to carry it out into the woods at night. He walked along a dark path for several hours, "lost the bag" in a swamp, and ran away. Law enforcement officers and volunteers combed the forest and dove (with specially called divers) into the swamp, but the body was never found. The maniac, however, was well-versed in the forest; as he himself explained, he regularly stashed illegal drugs there, which he used first with his wife and then with his girlfriends.
Over time, three more victims emerged in the case. Artamoshin's wife was found in a private psychiatric clinic in St. Petersburg. She complained that her husband had hooked her on drugs and raped her (chained her to a radiator and tortured her).
Another woman was rescued by friends. She is also undergoing rehabilitation at a specialized facility and accuses Artamoshin of violence. The fifth victim is the same girl whom investigators and the mother of the first missing woman found in the ill-fated house.
According to the guest, Artamoshin offered to live with him for money as a nanny/kept woman, and she agreed. The woman recalled horrific moments from her brief life with the maniac. She said Artamoshin fed his son moonshine and engaged in inappropriate behavior in front of him.
Particularly terrifying was the almost Balaban-esque dialogue between father and son that she overheard while in the shower. The boy begged the man not to touch the guest: "Let's not do anything to her, she's a good girl, let's keep her with me, like a toy." The victim claims that after every meal and drink in the house, she felt dizzy and confused.
