In 1987, the entire USSR was shocked by the case of the serial poisoner Tamara Ivanyutina, who poisoned 20 people with the most dangerous thallium. Among the dead were small children.
Tamara Antonovna Ivanyutina (virgin Maslenko) (1941-1987).
The motives of the serial killer Tamara Ivanyutina were revenge and self-interest. She had grandiose fantasies about a prosperous pigsty, "mountains of gold" and a black "Volga". In addition, she did not want to "breed poverty" - in the person of other people's children. Very modern and familiar to us "trends".
Psychiatrists recognized Ivanyutin as absolutely sane. At the same time, three main features of her personality were identified: extremely overestimated self-esteem, oversensitivity and vindictiveness. All of these traits are common among sociopaths, paranoids, and narcissists.
Tamara was born into the family of Anton Mitrofanovich and Maria Fedorovna Maslenko and was the fourth child of six in this large family. The main deity, the supreme idol and the main measure of success in the family was wealth.
The father did not hesitate to add poison to the person who did not like him, and the mother confessed the following life wisdom: “You should not write complaints, but be friends with everyone and treat them. But it is especially harmful to add poison to food. "
Maslenko's old men did not hesitate to poison his neighbor in a communal apartment to death, who turned on the TV too loudly and interfered with sleep. And even a relative who made a remark to them about the puddle in the toilet. This is how they "avenged the insults." They added rat poison to pilaf and pancakes prepared for treats, stuffed oranges and gingerbread with poison ... And at the same time they were very proud of their ingenuity.
How "went to success"
Growing up, Tamara jumped out to marry a representative of one of the most successful professions of that time - a truck driver. People who have lived in the USSR remember that the "long-range combatants", along with the sailors, have always been extremely successful - no joke, they traveled all over the republics of the Union, wandered to the CMEA countries, and sometimes, lo and behold, even to capitalist countries! Live and rejoice! But that wasn't Tom's girlfriend. Money and an apartment - that's what she needed right now. And so she began to persecute her husband. Slightly, but gradually increasing the dose.
In the course of the investigation, his partner described the last flight as follows. Tamara's husband became ill during the flight. His legs hurt badly, he could not feel the pedals. He asked to replace him for an hour or two, but the poor fellow's health was getting worse. Neither two nor three hours later the driver could not get behind the wheel. Driving past the village rivulet, he asked his partner: “Maybe I should swim to cheer up? I will quickly pour myself some water, get back to normal - and move on. Tomka prepared a clean towel for me ... "
When the driver wiped his head, the partner was horrified to see that the entire towel was strewn with hair. He refused to treat himself to the sandwiches that his wife supplied him: not because he suspected something was wrong, but simply was afraid to doze off after a hearty snack while driving. Soon after returning from the flight, Tamara Ivanyutina's first husband died of a heart attack.
After a short time, Tamara married Oleg Ivanyutin and took his last name. Seeing the house and the plot of Ivanyutin's parents, she immediately made a decision - the old people are at the expense, the plot for a small pig farm, pigs for meat and lard - and get richer, richer, richer.
One day, terrible for the old people, Tamara and her mother-in-law cooked dinner. We sat at the table together, but only towards evening the old man became ill. The next morning, the mother called Oleg and said that trouble had happened to his father: the legs were taken away, the feet were numb. He says that he cannot put on socks himself. And when the grandmother began to help him, he bellowed in pain, as if he were being cut into pieces. Oleg advised to call an ambulance, but in the emergency hospital the doctors examined his grandfather and said that it was polyarthritis that had worsened. Prescribed medications and sent home.
Tamara was very worried about her father-in-law's health and insisted on going to her parents immediately. I applied a hot water bottle to my legs, fed him with soup from a spoon. In general, Oleg praised her as the most caring daughter-in-law in the world ... Apparently, she just poured this liquid into the soup. On the same night, my grandfather died in the hospital.
At the funeral of her husband, the widow became ill with her heart. Oleg asked Tamara to bring medicine from home. She returned with a glass of valocordin and a glass of water. As soon as she drank the medicine, the mother staggered. A white coating appeared on her lips, and she immediately vomited. Panic broke out among those present. The widow began to shout that they had poured poison for her. Some woman swore that she saw with her own eyes how Tamara dropped some liquid from a vial into the medicine, taking it out of her jacket pocket. The men began to demand the police, someone offered to take the contents of the glass for examination. And then Tamara threw both a glass of medicine and a glass of water on the ground. Oleg Ivanyutin shielded his wife from the angry crowd and began to calm his mother. Oleg's mother began to experience the same symptoms: her arms and legs ached, her feet went numb. She could not move her tongue, hardly spoke. In the evening she was picked up by an ambulance, and two days later she died.
The road to his personal pig farm was open. But where to get food? There is only one answer - at school!
School number 16 of Minsk district of Kiev
In March 1987, three sixth-graders and 11 workers diagnosed with the flu were brought to the hospital by ambulance from a school in Kiev. All had the same symptoms: weakness, nausea, leg pain, baldness. Despite the intensive treatment, two children - Sergei Panibrat and Andrey Kuzmenko - and two adults died almost immediately, the other nine people were in intensive care.
For that time, four deaths in a row was a real emergency. The prosecutor's office took up the case. Doctors of the hospital, summoned to an emergency meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, suggested that an unknown form of flu was the cause of death, so standard treatment was ineffective. The following opinion was also voiced: people were poisoned with strong toxic substances through food or water. At first, this version was not even considered, but after the investigating authorities interviewed the victims, it turned out that they all ate in the school cafeteria what was left of lunch: chicken soup and chicken liver. Moreover, those who dined on time did not suffer.
Diet nurse Natalia Kukharenko.
Nurse Kukharenko was the first to fall at the hands of Tamara, who had the imprudence to make remarks to Ivanyutina, including for non-observance of hygiene rules, rudeness and rudeness. Tamara did not skimp on comments to children and even teachers, she constantly spun around the stove, looked into the pots. But it was difficult to find another dishwasher for a meager salary, so Ivanyutina was kept at work.
When Kukharenko was hospitalized, the patient complained of numbness and coldness in her legs, the doctors diagnosed her with heart failure. But just the day before, the woman looked healthy, active and cheerful. Six months earlier, two schoolchildren and two teachers were hospitalized with the same symptoms. One of them told the investigation that he had become bald in a strange way, but the reason could not be established.
All these facts showed that the "diseases" were not accidental. It was decided to exhume the remains of Kukharenko. It was then that the presence of thallium in the tissues was discovered. But no one even thought about the deliberate use of this heavy metal for the purpose of poisoning. The request to the sanitary and epidemiological station about carrying out measures for the destruction of insects and rodents in the food unit received a negative answer. Experts checked all school premises, food, pots, containers for cereals and the buckwheat itself, which remained in them. To no avail. But the investigators drew attention to the strange behavior of the dishwasher Ivanyutina. She in every possible way obstructed the inspection, rude.
“I came to the conclusion that they don't like us at this school,” recalled expert chemist Valentina Kalachikova. - The dishwasher Ivanyutina followed me on my heels, like an overseer. Probably, I decided that I would steal a pot from them or pour cereals into my pockets. An eerie sensation, honestly. The look is unkind, heavy ... How was this shrew even allowed to work with children? "
The next step was to check all the personal files of the canteen employees. And then it turned out that Ivanyutina's work book was fake, since she had a conviction for speculation, which means that she had no right to work in children's institutions. This was the reason to study the life of a dishwasher in more detail. Here the deaths of the first husband, the parents of the second, surfaced. They all complained of nausea and numbness in the limbs. Oleg himself had been ill for a long time (general weakness, joint pain, baldness), but the doctors could not establish a diagnosis. Thus, Ivanyutina became the number one suspect.
Consequence
During a search in Ivanyutina's house, the necessary thing was found literally at the last moment.
When they examined everything that was possible, Valentina Petrovna Kalachikova suddenly went to the bedside table, which stood by the window, and asked to open the door. Ivanyutina, who watched everything that happened with contempt, stepped uncertainly to the bedside table:
This is a sewing machine, I got it from my mother-in-law. Will you inspect?
We will examine, open or give the key, I will open it myself.
Ivanyutina threw the keys to the floor and almost hissed: "Open it yourself, seamstress!"
Kalachikova examined the contents of the boxes. Bobbins with thread, needles in boxes, a set of accessories for embroidery, a bottle of machine oil for lubricating mechanisms ... She picked up the bottle and suddenly realized that the dishes were too heavy for oil. And put the bottle in her pocket. Analysis in the laboratory showed that the container contains Clerici liquid - this is the name for an aqueous solution of thallium. It is used in geology to separate minerals by density. Therefore, first of all, all the organizations of the Ministry of Geology of Ukraine were checked. And almost immediately they found a supplier. One of the laboratory assistants of the exploration expedition regularly supplied the Maslenko family with thallium, allegedly for baiting rats. For all the time they received about 500 mg of the poison.
Her sister Nina Matsibor did not lag behind Tamara, who sent her legal spouse to the next world. Nina married a man much older than her. Having registered the young wife in his apartment, the elderly husband signed his own sentence. A week after the wedding, he was admitted to the hospital complaining of weakness and pain in his legs. His death was attributed to age.
In November 1980, Tamara's mother, Maria Fedorovna, fell ill and went to the hospital. Spouse Anton Mitrofanovich was very worried about her health. At some point, the matchmaker decided to visit her. After the hospital, she went to Anton Mitrofanovich and expressed concerns about the state of health of the bridegroom. Like, of the entire ward, she is the heaviest. It won't do. "I.e?" the matchmaker asked in bewilderment. “Otherwise, there is little hope. We have to prepare to bury in a human way ”. This phrase became a verdict for her. Maslenko suggested the matchmaker not to say stupid things, but rather to drink to the health of his ailing wife. While a relative was pouring moonshine and collecting food on the table, he seized the moment and poured poison into the glass. At night, the ambulance doctors, lost in conjecture, gave her injections - now from the heart, then to reduce the pressure, but all in vain - by the morning the woman died. By the way, the patient told the doctors that she had poisoned herself with a boiled egg. Like, when they had a snack, Maslenko began to peel the egg, and it turned black right in his hands. He announced that the egg was spoiled and threw it aside. But when he left, the sweater felt sorry for throwing him away, and she finished the egg. Unfortunately, the doctors considered it a dying delirium.
No poison was found during the searches at Maslenko. But the poisoners gave themselves away. When Tamara was already in jail, Maria Maslenko baked pancakes and went to treat her neighbor. She had a large disability pension, which was the subject of Maslenko's black envy. But the neighbor did not eat pancakes, because she had heard that the old woman's daughter was suspected of being poisoned. She threw one pancakes to the cat, and in the evening the animal began to thrash in convulsions, and three hours later died. A neighbor reported this to the police, and the Maslenko spouses were arrested. Just like Tamara, they told in detail and with relish who, when, how and for what they were poisoned.
Initially, Ivanyutina wrote a confession. The time has come for a psychopathic benefit performance. While in the grandiose, she spoke in detail about her crimes. It turned out that she treated two sixth graders with poison only because they refused to arrange tables and chairs. “I decided to punish them,” Tamara said.
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Ivanyutina also said that she first experienced the effect of the poison on neighboring chickens and cats. I experimented with the quantities - I knew what dose to give so that a person would get a little sick, and what dose to probably die. At the same time, she did not care at all in what agony her victims die. “In such a case, there should be no accidents,” Ivanyutina explained smugly. - My friend almost got burned on an ordinary chicken egg. It's good that the doctors turned out to be mugs ... "
However, later Ivanyutina stated that she made a confession under pressure from the investigation and refused to give further evidence. Apparently, when the "fuckers-snoopers" did not buy into her "a lot of gold", for the first time she soberly assessed the reality and realized that she was really in trouble.
But the investigation was already clear on the whole picture of the crime. So, in the fall of 1986, Ivanyutin poisoned the school party organizer to death - the woman prevented the theft of food from the canteen. Then Tamara treated two students of the first and fifth grades with thallium, who dared to ask her for the rest of the cutlets for their dog. Fortunately, the guys survived, but such poisoning does not pass without leaving a trace for the body.
After the March death of dietitian Kukharenko, the head of the canteen by the name of Noga sensed something was wrong and began to lock the utility room at night so that Ivanyutina would not have access to food. The psychopath who missed the mark openly declared that “The foot will follow Kukharenko.” Then the poisoner filled the orange with a solution of thallium with a syringe and treated the "enemy", but he, fortunately, did not accept the offering. On that ill-fated March day, when the children were poisoned, the liver with thallium was also intended for the manager. Just by chance, due to the meeting of the trade union committee, some school workers were late with lunch. As witnesses later said, Ivanyutina watched with a satisfied smile as innocent people devour the poisoned dishes.
The end of the Kiev Borgia family: Lukyanovskiy SIZO in Kiev. There, under the USSR, death sentences were carried out.
In total, the family has 40 proven poisonings, 13 fatal. Surprisingly, according to the results of a forensic psychiatric examination, the whole family was declared sane. Tamara Ivanyutina was the most successful in terms of poisoning - 20 poisonings, 9 of which were fatal.
The serial killers' trial lasted several months. Oleg's husband, in his testimony, said that every time Tamara brought more and more waste from the school, while being glad that the children did not eat well. And the teachers got it just because they forced the children to finish their portions. This was not at all in the interests of the criminal, so she decided to poison the especially persistent teachers. In addition, poisoning in the school cafeteria, in her opinion, should have caused distrust of school food and thereby increase the amount of waste for her pets.
Tamara Ivanyutina was sentenced to capital punishment and confiscation of property. Her father, mother and sister received 13, 10 and 15 years in prison, respectively, and the obligation to reimburse all victims for the costs of treatment.
When she was given the last word, she refused to admit guilt and ask for forgiveness from the relatives of her victims. “My upbringing is not the same,” she snapped haughtily.
Tamara Ivanyutina was shot at the end of 1987 in the Lukyanovskiy SIZO in Kiev; she became the third and last female criminal officially sentenced to death in the USSR. The old murderers died in custody, sister Nina, after serving part of the term, was released already in Independent Ukraine. Further her traces are lost.
In fact, this woman's name was Antonina Makarovna Parfenova. She was born in 1921 in the village of Malaya Volkovka near Smolensk, where she went to school. The teacher incorrectly wrote down the name of the girl in the journal, who was embarrassed to give her name, and classmates shouted: "Yes, she is Makarov," meaning that Antonina is Makar's daughter. So Tonya Parfenova became Makarova. She graduated from high school and went to Moscow to go to college. But the war began. Tonya Makarova volunteered for the front.
But the nineteen-year-old nurse Makarova practically did not have time to serve the motherland: she got into the notorious Vyazemskaya operation - the battle near Moscow, in which the Soviet army suffered a crushing defeat. Of the entire unit, only Tonya and a soldier named Nikolai Fedchuk managed to survive and escape from captivity. For several months they wandered through the forests, trying to get to the native village of Fedchuk. Tonya had to become a soldier's "field wife", otherwise she would not have survived. However, as soon as Fedchuk got home, it turned out that he had a legal wife and lived here. Tonya went further alone and went to the village of Lokot, occupied by the German invaders. She decided to stay with the invaders: maybe she had no other choice, or maybe she was so tired of wandering through the forests that the ability to eat and sleep normally under the roof became a decisive argument.
Now Tonya had to be a "field wife" for many different men. In fact, Tonya was simply constantly raped, in return providing her with food and a roof over her head. But this did not last long. Once the soldiers gave the girl a drink, and then, drunk, put her to the Maxim machine gun and ordered to shoot at the prisoners. Tonya, who managed to pass not only nursing courses, but also machine gunners before the front, began to shoot. In front of her were not only men, but also women, old people, children, and the drunk Tonya did not miss. From that day on, she became a Tonka-machine-gunner, an executioner with an official salary of 30 marks.
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Historians claim that Tony's childhood idol was Anka the machine gunner, and Makarova, becoming an executioner, fulfilled her childhood dream: it doesn't matter that Anka shot enemies, and Tonya shot partisans, and at the same time women, children and the elderly. But it is quite possible that Makarova, who received an official position, a salary and her own bed, simply ceased to be the object of sexual violence. In any case, she did not refuse a new "job".
According to official data, Tonka the machine-gunner shot more than 1,500 people, but only 168 were able to restore the names and surnames. As an encouragement, Makarova was allowed to take away the belongings of the killed, which, however, had to be washed from blood and sewn bullet holes on them. Antonina fired at the condemned with a machine gun, and then had to finish off the survivors with shots from a pistol. However, several children managed to survive: they were too small in stature, and machine-gun bullets passed over their heads, and for some reason Makarova did not make control shots. The surviving children were taken out of the village along with the corpses, and partisans rescued them at the burial sites. So rumors about Tonka the machine-gunner as a cruel and bloodthirsty killer and traitor spread throughout the district. The partisans appointed a bounty for her head, but they failed to get to Makarova. Until 1943, Antonina continued to shoot people.
And then Makarova was lucky: the Soviet army reached the Bryansk region, and Antonina would undoubtedly have died if she had not contracted syphilis from one of her lovers. The Germans sent her to the rear, where she ended up in a hospital under the guise of a Soviet nurse. Somehow, Antonina managed to get fake documents, and, having recovered, she got a job in a hospital as a nurse. There, in 1945, the wounded soldier Viktor Ginzburg fell in love with her. The young people got married, and Tonka the machine gunner disappeared forever. Instead, a military nurse Antonina Ginzburg appeared.
After the end of the war, Antonina and Viktor became an exemplary Soviet family: they moved to Belarus, to the city of Lepel, worked in a garment factory, raised two daughters, and even came to schools as honored front-line soldiers - to tell children about the war.
Meanwhile, the KGB continued to search for Tonka the machine-gunner: the search continued for three decades, but the trail of the executioner woman was lost. Until one of Antonina's relatives applied for permission to travel abroad. For some reason, Antonina Makarova (Ginzburg) was on the list of relatives as the sister of citizen Parfenov. Investigators began to collect evidence and went on the trail of Tonka the machine gunner. Several surviving witnesses identified her, and Antonina was arrested on her way from work.
They say that during the trial, Makarova remained calm: she believed that after many years she would be given a not very harsh sentence. In the meantime, the husband and daughters tried to secure her release: the authorities did not say what exactly Makarova was arrested for. As soon as the family learned what exactly their wife and mother would be tried for, they stopped trying to appeal the arrest and left Lepel.
Antonina Makarova was sentenced to death on November 20, 1978. She immediately filed several requests for clemency, but they were all rejected. On August 11, 1979, Tonka the machine gunner was shot.
Berta Borodkina
Berta Naumovna Borodkina, aka Iron Bella, was neither a ruthless killer nor an executioner. She was sentenced to capital punishment for systematic embezzlement of socialist property on an especially large scale.
Berta Borodkina was born in 1927. The girl did not like her own name, and she preferred to call herself Bella. She began her future dizzying career for a woman in the USSR as a barmaid and waitress in the Gelendzhik canteen. Soon, the girl with a tough character was transferred to the position of director of the canteen. Borodkina coped with her duties so well that she became an honored worker in trade and catering of the RSFSR, and also headed the trust of restaurants and canteens in Gelendzhik.
In fact, this meant that in Iron Bella's restaurants, party and government officials received perfect service - not at their own expense, but at the expense of visitors to inexpensive cafes and canteens: underfilling, underweight, use of written-off products and banal shortcuts allowed Bella to free up dizzying sums. She spent them on bribes and serving the highest ranks.
The scale of these actions allows the Gelendzhik restaurant trust to be called a real mafia: each bartender, waiter and director of a cafe or canteen had to give Borodkina a certain amount every month, otherwise the employees were simply fired. At the same time, ties with officials for a long time allowed Berta Borodkina to feel completely unpunished - no sudden checks and audits, no attempts to catch the head of the restaurant trust in embezzlement. At this moment, Borodkina was called Iron Bella.
But in 1982, Berta Borodkina was arrested at the anonymous statement of a certain citizen who reported that pornographic films were shown to selected visitors in one of Borodkina's restaurants. This information, apparently, was not confirmed, but the investigation found out that during the years of the leadership of the trust, Borodkina stole more than a million rubles from the state - an absolutely incomprehensible amount at that time. During a search in Borodkina's house, they found furs, jewelry and huge amounts of money hidden in the most unexpected places: in radiators, in rolled-up cans and even in a pile of bricks near the house.
Borodkin was sentenced to death in the same 1982. Bertha's sister said that in prison the defendant was tortured with the use of psychotropic drugs. So Iron Bella broke down and began to confess. In August 1983, Berta Borodkina was shot.
Tamara Ivanyutina
Tamara Ivanyutina, nee Maslenko, was born in 1941 in Kiev, in a large family. From early childhood, parents taught Tamara and her five brothers and sisters that the most important thing in life is material security. In the Soviet years, the spheres of trade and public catering were considered the most "bread" places, and at first Tamara chose trade for herself. But she fell for speculation and got a criminal record. It was almost impossible for a woman with a criminal record to get a job, so Ivanyutina got herself a fake work book and in 1986 got a job as a dishwasher at school number 16 in the Minsk district of Kiev. Later, she told the investigation that this work was necessary for her to provide livestock (chickens and pigs) with free food waste. But it turned out that Ivanyutina did not come to school for this at all.
On March 17 and 18, 1987, several students and school staff were hospitalized with signs of serious food poisoning. In the next few hours, two children and two adults died, another 9 people were in intensive care in serious condition. The version of an intestinal infection, which the doctors suspected, was ruled out: the victims began to lose hair. A criminal case was opened.
The investigation interviewed the victims, the survivors, and it turned out that they all had lunch the day before in the school cafeteria and ate buckwheat porridge with liver. A few hours later, everyone felt a rapidly developing malaise. An inspection was carried out at the school, it turned out that the nurse who was responsible for the quality of food in the canteen died 2 weeks ago, according to the official conclusion, from cardiovascular disease. The circumstances of this death aroused suspicion in the investigation, and it was decided to exhume the body. The examination found out that the nurse died from thallium poisoning. It is a highly toxic heavy metal, poisoning with which causes damage to the nervous system and internal organs, as well as total alopecia (complete hair loss). The investigation immediately organized a search of all the employees of the school cafeteria and found in the house of Tamara Ivanyutina "a small but very heavy jar." In the laboratory, it turned out that the jar contained "Clerici liquid" - a highly toxic solution based on thallium. This solution is used in some branches of geology, and the school dishwasher could not need it in any way.
Ivanyutina was arrested, and she wrote a confession: according to her, she wanted to "punish" the sixth graders, who allegedly refused to place tables and chairs in the dining room. But later, Ivanyutina said that she confessed to the murders under pressure from the investigation, and refused to give further evidence.
In the meantime, investigators found out that the poisoning of children and school staff was not the first murder on the account of Tamara Ivanyutina. Moreover, it turned out that Tamara Ivanyutina herself and her family members (sister and parents) had been using thallium for poisoning for 11 years - since 1976. Moreover, both for selfish purposes, and in relation to people who, for some reason, simply did not like family members. They acquired the highly toxic liquid Clerici from a friend: the woman worked at the Geological Institute and was sure that she was selling thallium to her acquaintances for baiting rats. For all these years, she passed a poisonous substance to the Maslenko family at least 9 times. And they used it every time.
First, Tamara Ivanyutina poisoned her first husband in order to inherit the apartment. After she remarried, but the relationship with her father-in-law and mother-in-law did not work out, as a result, they died with an interval of 2 days. Ivanyutin herself poisoned her husband too, but with small portions of poison: the man began to get sick, and the killer hoped to soon become a widow and inherit a house and land. In addition, the episode of poisoning at school, it turns out, was not the first: earlier Ivanyutina poisoned the school party organizer Ekaterina Shcherban (the woman died), the chemistry teacher (survived) and two children - students of the first and fifth grade. The children annoyed Ivanyutina by asking her for leftover cutlets for their pets.
At the same time, Tamara's sister Nina Matsibor poisoned her husband in order to take possession of his apartment, and the parents of the women, Maslenko's wife, poisoned a neighbor in a communal apartment and a relative who reprimanded them. Tamara and Nina's father also poisoned his relative from Tula, having come to visit her. Also, family members poisoned neighboring pets.
Already under investigation, in the pre-trial detention center Tamara Ivanyutina explained her life principles to her inmates as follows: “To achieve what you want, you need not write complaints, but be friends with everyone, treat them. But it is especially harmful to add poison to food. "
The court proved 40 episodes of poisoning committed by members of this family, of which 13 were fatal. When the verdict was announced, Tamara Ivanyutina refused to admit guilt and to apologize to the relatives of the victims. She was sentenced to death. Ivanyutina's sister Nina was sentenced to 15 years in prison, father and mother to 10 and 13 years, respectively. Spouses Maslenko died in prison, the further fate of Nina is not known.
Tamara Ivanyutina, who did not admit her guilt, tried to bribe the investigator by promising him “a lot of gold”. After the verdict was announced, she was shot.
The wave of thallium poisoning in Taganrog vividly recalled the story of the most brutal criminal of the post-war Soviet Union - Tamara Maslenko-Ivanyutina.
The detective story continues, connected with the mass thallium poisoning at the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex. M. Beriev, working mainly on orders from the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Defense. For a long time, the employees of the enterprise were silent about what had happened, but the demonstrative inaction of the management and the investigating authorities forced them to turn to the media. A minimum of 25 casualties in a plant where thallium is not used in any production process is very serious. This explains the cowardly behavior of the plant director. Yuri Grudinin, who did everything to hide the state of emergency even from his immediate superiors. Either no one turned to the police, or people in uniform “wrapped up” these appeals - at least in the Investigative Committee of the Rostov Region, they say that they had not heard anything about the poisoning. This, of course, is not true, such rumors spread instantly, but to start investigative actions, first of all, the statements of the victims are needed.
The most interesting character among the victims is the leading design engineer of the plant Konstantin Kolesnikov, who once even died of 150 times the concentration of thallium in the body; Fortunately, the doctors managed to get him out of the state of clinical death. The rest of the victims, 19 of whom are in hospitals, work mainly in the legal and economic departments.
The plant, which is part of the United Aircraft Corporation, which is now going to be handed over to the incredibly ineffective Rostec, refuses even to acknowledge the incident as an industrial injury and to pay any compensation to its employees. Perhaps there is simply no money for this: the financial condition of the enterprise entrusted to Grudinin is terrible. And employees suspect that they are still being poisoned with thallium ...
Nothing is new
The Investigative Committee, of course, knows better, but all this is very similar to the attempted murder of Mr. Kolesnikov and the suppression of this fact by the management of the enterprise. Other employees, apparently, fell under the distribution by accident - their departments are located next to Kolesnikov's office. The leading engineer himself, however, finds it difficult to say to whom exactly he could cross the road. The games of big people - the Ministry of Defense, Rostec, UAC - are incomprehensible to small sims, even if they hold high positions.
Thallium itself is a soft metal, no one would ever think to gnaw it, so an aqueous solution of thallium compounds, "Clerici's liquid", is usually used for poisoning. Under normal conditions, this solution is used by geologists to determine the density of minerals - of course, with a lot of precautions, because Clerici's liquid is extremely toxic. The Taganrog poisoner undoubtedly focused on the success of the most famous thallium poisoner - Tamara Maslenko better known as Ivanyutin, by the name of the second husband.
This lady was born in 1941, in a large family. Life then was, to put it mildly, not satisfying, and in order to somehow explain its crimes, Soviet criminologists concluded: from childhood, Tamara de learned that the meaning of every day should be the struggle for material well-being. In fact, selfish considerations were the reason for only a few episodes of the large-scale "case of Ivanyutina - Maslenko - Matsibora". At least since 1976, and most likely much earlier, Tamara's family members have gained access to the said Clerici liquid - a friend from the Geological Institute supplied them with poison for baiting rats. Everyone who annoyed the family in some way became "rats" in turn.
Trucker's heart attack
Tamara's first husband was a truck driver - a very highly paid profession in the USSR, after all, several decades remained before Platon: by that time he had not even gone to kindergarten, and, apparently, had not been born at all. The partner of Tamara Maslenko's spouse recalled how his friend's legs were gradually taken away, hair fell out, how he stopped feeling the pedals. The official cause of death is a heart attack, although after the fact it is obvious that we have all the signs of thallium poisoning. Around the same time, Tamara received her first conviction - for speculation.
Father-in-law polyarthritis
The criminal widow did not grieve for long, she married Oleg Ivanyutin from a family of wealthy peasants and took his last name. First of all, she dealt with her husband's parents: after the dinner she had prepared, her father-in-law's legs began to go numb, he could not put on socks himself ... The doctors said - an aggravation of polyarthritis. Tamara did not leave the patient's bed, and the same night he died.
Valocordin for mother-in-law
At the funeral, the poisoner almost burned herself. When the mother-in-law drank the valocordin brought by her daughter-in-law, the elderly woman immediately vomited. Some of the guests shouted that Tamara was adding something to the medicine, people began to demand to call the police. "Shocked by the unfair accusation" Ivanyutina Jr. threw a pile of medicine on the ground and threw herself under the protection of her husband. Two days later, he became an orphan, and Tamara became the sovereign mistress of a large household plot where the old Ivanyutins raised pigs.
Son-in-law stress
Tamara's older sister Nina Matsibor used a useful experience - she married an elderly man, registered in his apartment ... A week later, he was admitted to the hospital with pain in his legs and soon died. Age, stress ...
Egg for match
All these killings were at least logically justified. But feeling impunity, the family began to simply persecute people left and right. Nina's father with Tamara, offended by the careless phrase of his matchmaker, threw poison into her moonshine. Apparently, some thallium got on his fingers: when he peeled a boiled egg, it turned black before his eyes. Anton Mitrofanovich, taking care of the health of the already poisoned woman, put it aside - they say, spoiled. But she ate it anyway - not to waste the good - and then in the hospital she told the doctors about the strange egg. They blamed it on dying delirium.
Communal squabbles
Maslenko's parents also accounted for the death of a neighbor in their communal apartment - he turned on the TV, interfered with sleep. Another of her relatives also died from thallium - she allowed herself to comment on the puddle that someone left in the toilet of the Maslenko family. All this was ignored by the competent authorities, although there were plenty of rumors around the elderly couple. And the doctors did not find anything criminal in any of the deaths.
Pig dinners
But back to the pigs. They are unpretentious animals, but they still need to be fed. Where to get at least leftovers so as not to pay? The ideal option is at school. Having falsified a work book (remember about a criminal record), Tamara Antonovna got a job at school №16 in the city of Kiev as a dishwasher. She was interested not so much in a penny salary, as in access to leftover food - the students did not really lean on the tasteless food from the canteen. It would seem, work and live for your own pleasure.
The vigilance of the party organizer
But Ivanyutina's brains were much less than Clerici's liquid, so strange poisonings accompanied all her work. A couple of months after the employment of a new dishwasher, the school party organizer Yekaterina Shcherban died - she noticed that Tamara was carrying out the remains of food in her bag, and it was customary to fight this in Soviet times.
Heart failure nurse
Further more. In March 1987, 14 people were immediately hospitalized - three children and 11 school workers. Two children and two adults died. Who should be responsible for this? That's right, nurse and nutritionist! Only when the investigators wanted to talk to her, it turned out that Natalya Kukharenko had died two weeks before the mass poisoning. Numbness, legs were taken away ... "Heart failure." She, you see, made too many comments to the unkempt dishwasher.
Thallium takes the stage
The case on 14 poisoned victims was already going to be closed: it turned out that all the poisoned dined separately from the rest of the children and school workers: they ate chicken soup and chicken liver, which, apparently, during this time deteriorated in the spring sun. But one of the investigators, upset by the inability to talk to the nurse, insisted at least on the exhumation of her body. Thallium was found in the tissues.
Poisoning with pesticides at that time was the norm, dozens of corpses with similar diagnoses were daily received in morgues: the anti-alcohol campaign of Gorbachev-Ligachev forced people to drink everything that burns. But thallium did not belong to such substances in any way, and the sanitary and epidemiological station reported that no one poisoned rats at school for a very long time.
In a pre-trial detention center for prevention
And only then did the wise Soviet investigators turn their attention to Ivanyutina. Not because people were constantly dying around her - just a habalistic dishwasher constantly interfered with searches, followed the police on the heels, and was rude to them for nothing. They began to check the personal files of the school employees - and found signs of forgery in Ivanyutina's documents. Her house was searched, nothing was found, but the lady was taken to the pre-trial detention center. To at least not interfere with work.
Apple from apple tree
Unfortunately for Tamara Antonovna, she inherited her mother's brains - that is, practically emptiness. When Tamara was already taken to the police, her mother Maria Fedorovna did not find anything smarter than to poison her long-tired neighbor with pancakes (she received too much pension). A neighbor checked the gift on a cat - after three hours she had one less cat. The woman called the police, a decision was made to search again, and the jar with Clerici's liquid was finally found: the Maslenko-Ivanyutins disguised it as grease for a sewing machine, and the investigator was surprised by the unusually heavy weight of the jar.
This begs the question: why did Ivanyutina poison so many people at once? Note that they ate later than the rest. Tamara was already considering the food left over from dinner as her own, and then people came and began to eat her pigs! An emotional Ukrainian woman could not stand this insult ...
Wrong upbringing
Both she and her parents immediately confessed to all crimes, and the examination found them sane. But Ivanyutina, who enthusiastically talked about her "exploits", declared at the trial that she had testified under pressure. The proud dishwasher refused to admit guilt and talk about remorse, because "she has the wrong upbringing." However, it was too late: 20 attempted murders and 9 murders (another 20 and 4, respectively, fell on her parents and sister) was not difficult to prove: thallium remains in tissues and bones forever. And the quality of Ivanyutina's upbringing was assessed by the court at 13 years old for her father, 10 for her mother and 15 for her older sister.
After Stalin's death, the 65th anniversary of which we are celebrating today, in the USSR and on the territory of the new states, only three women were executed by court verdict. Antonina Makarova for war crimes, Berta Borodkina for speculation and Tamara Ivanyutin for the murder of nine people, including two children.
The "Ivanyutina case" is an indelible shame, a lifelong and now posthumous stigma for the investigating authorities and doctors of the USSR. A simple woman from Ukraine, cute on the face, but stupid as a sheep (she clearly did not grow up to her pigs), she did not hide at all, for at least ten years she did what she wanted.
There is no doubt that Ivanyutina would have come out dry from the water if she had even a drop of reason. Now she would be 77 years old - a good age for retirement in the status of, for example, the owner of vast agricultural land and the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
However, we also managed to build a society in which a good half of the population would gladly treat the evil half with thallium, if they were sure of their impunity ...
This high-profile case began with the fact that in 1987, 13 people from one school were in a hospital in critical condition. Two children and two adults died almost immediately, the rest were taken to intensive care.
For a long time, doctors could not establish an accurate diagnosis, since the symptoms were atypical for known diseases. The first thing they thought was poisoning with poor-quality food, or E. coli, since everyone who was admitted to the hospital had lunch in the school cafeteria before. But an unusual symptom was that the patients began to lose hair, and this is the result of exposure to toxic substances. The police opened a criminal case.
A total inspection of the school revealed another fact of death (the woman in charge of the quality of the products, who, as it turned out after the exhumation, died of thallium poisoning). After that, they began to look for the poisoner within the school walls. When the check reached the dishwasher Tamara Ivanyutina in her house, the police found a container with an unknown substance. After verification, it was found that this is a thallium solution (toxin), which is widely used in geology.
Ivanyutina admitted her guilt and, as the reason for her behavior, indicated the hostile attitude towards her colleagues and students, who were very noisy. But later she refused her words. As it turned out later, poisoning is a favorite method to solve problems in Tamara's family (her older sister poisoned her husband with thallium; Tamara's parents poisoned their hated neighbors and animals). From an early age she was taught that material well-being is the basis of everything. Tamara became vindictive, touchy, envious, with an overestimated self-esteem person. Where did she get the poison? A friend who works at the Geological Institute, whom she said she wanted to etch mice.
She believed that there was no point in studying, the main thing was to get married successfully, especially since her appearance made it possible to find a good match. The first time she married a rich man, who died very quickly, according to Ivanyutina - she simply poisoned him in order to stay in his apartment in the center of Kiev. Then she once again married a wealthy man, whom she gradually hounded along with his parents. So she also acquired a large suburban area that belonged to her father-in-law.
Having got a job at the school, she immediately disliked many of the team. From the beginning, she killed the school party organizer, wanted to poison the chemistry teacher, who prevented her from stealing in the school cafeteria. The thing is that she had a dream - a black Volga car, which she wanted to buy by selling pig meat. To raise them, she stole from the school cafeteria. And that's why I almost poisoned two children who asked for a cutlet for a stray cat.
In 1987, an unprecedented trial was held in Kiev in the case of a family of serial killers who chose a highly toxic aqueous solution based on thallium compounds as the weapon of crime.
This is a continuation of the story of female criminals, the first part is
Maria and Anton Maslenko and their daughters - Tamara Ivanyutina and Nina Matsibor - were in the dock. Most of the victims were on the account of 45-year-old Ivanyutina. She became the last woman in the USSR to be sentenced to death by a court.
What was Tamara Ivanyutina like?
The biography of a woman before the start of the process does not differ in any outstanding events. Her maiden name is Maslenko. She was born in 1942 to a family with six children. Parents have always instilled in their offspring that material security, prosperity are the main conditions for a normal life. This is exactly what the serial poisoner Tamara Ivanyutina was striving for.In the course of investigations into the poisoning case, it turned out that Ivanyutina had previously been convicted of speculation, and got a job at the school with a fake work record book.
Since September 1986, she worked in a cafeteria of one of the schools in Kiev. She was hired as a dishwasher. This work brought her considerable benefits. Tamara Ivanyutina kept a fairly large farm. Working in the cafeteria, she was able to provide her animals with free food, which remained after schoolchildren with poor appetite. To make it even worse, Tamara Ivanyutina periodically added poison to food. She also used poisonous substances against those who, in her opinion, "misbehaved." The victims of Ivanyutina were also those who interfered with stealing food from the school cafeteria, allowed themselves to make comments to her, and in general all those who did not like her for one reason or another.
Poisoning
The story of Tamara Ivanyutina became known when several workers and students of School 16 in the Podolsk district of Kiev were admitted to the hospital. Doctors diagnosed signs of food poisoning. It happened on March 16 and 17, 1987. At the same time, four (two adults and the same number of children) died almost immediately. There were nine victims in intensive care. Initially, doctors diagnosed an intestinal infection and flu. However, after a while, the patients began to lose hair. For these diseases, this phenomenon is not typical.
Law enforcement agencies quickly established that Ivanyutina Tamara Antonovna was involved in the poisoning. The investigation began as soon as it became known about the death of students and school staff. Criminal proceedings were initiated. The investigation team conducted interrogations of the surviving victims. It was found that they all became ill after eating lunch at the school cafeteria on March 16. At the same time, they all ate liver with buckwheat porridge. Investigators decided to find out who was responsible for the quality of the food at the school. It turned out that nutritionist nurse Natalya Kukharenko died 2 weeks before the proceedings were initiated. According to official figures, the woman died of cardiovascular disease. However, investigators doubted the veracity of this information. As a result, an exhumation was carried out. After research, traces of thallium were found in the tissues of the corpse. Then began searches of everyone who had anything to do with the school cafeteria. The house where the dishwasher of the catering unit Ivanyutina Tamara Antonovna lived was also not ignored.
Arrest
During the search at the dishwasher in the house, a “small but rather heavy container” was found. Naturally, the investigation team was interested in its contents. The container was confiscated and handed over to experts for examination. As it turned out, it contained Clerici's liquid. It is a highly toxic solution based on thallium (used in a number of branches of geology). Tamara Ivanyutina was taken into custody. First, she submitted a confession, confessed to all the episodes that took place in the school cafeteria. Such a crime, as Tamara Ivanyutina explained, she committed due to the fact that the sixth graders who were dining refused to arrange chairs and tables. She decided to punish them and poisoned them. However, she later stated that the confession was made under pressure from the investigators. She refused to testify.The case of Tamara Ivanyutina became resonant. In the course of further operational measures, new facts emerged. So, the investigation found that not only Ivanyutina herself, but also her family members (parents and sister) for 11 years used a highly toxic solution to deal with people they disliked. At the same time, they committed poisoning both for selfish motives and to eliminate people who were unsympathetic to them for some reason. The family received the Clerici liquid from a friend who was an employee of the Geological Institute. The poisoners explained that they needed thallium to fight rats. The acquaintance herself later admitted that over the course of 15 years, at least 9 times she had passed the toxic solution to Ivanyutina herself, as well as to her parents and sister.
Tamara's criminal activities began with her first husband. She poisoned the man and got his apartment. After the death of her first spouse, Ivanyutin remarried. In the new marriage, her husband's parents became her victims. Father-in-law and mother-in-law died two days apart. The second husband himself received small portions of thallium. So she kept his sexual activity at a low level. In addition, Ivanyutina hoped to get the house and land that belonged to her husband's parents. In September 1986, she became a dishwasher at a local school. In addition to the episodes described above, the school party organizer (died) and the chemistry teacher (survived) became victims. They prevented Ivanyutina from stealing food from the catering unit. Pupils of the 1st and 5th grades were also poisoned, who asked her for the remains of cutlets for pets. These children survived.
The investigation revealed that Nina Matsibor, the elder sister of the main defendant in the case, was also actively involved in criminal activities. In particular, using the same Clerici liquid, she poisoned her husband and received his apartment in Kiev. Spouses Maslenko - parents of Ivanyutina - also committed numerous poisonings. So, a neighbor in a communal apartment and a relative who made a remark to them was killed with a highly toxic liquid. In addition, animals belonging to "unwanted" people also became victims of poisoners. The geography of the family's criminal activities was not limited to Ukraine alone. So, it was proved that a number of poisonings were committed by criminals in the RSFSR. For example, while in Tula, Maslenko Sr. killed his relative. He mixed Clerici liquid into the moonshine.
Court
It considered the case of 45-year-old Ivanyutina, her older sister Nina Antonovna and their parents - Maria Fedorovna and Anton Mitrofanovich Maslenko. They were charged with numerous poisonings, including fatal ones. The court found that for 11 years the criminal family, for mercenary motives, as well as out of personal hostility, committed murders and attempted murders of various persons with the help of the so-called Clerici liquid - a highly toxic solution based on a potent toxic substance - thallium. According to the deputy chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, who worked during the trial as a senior investigator for especially important crimes in the prosecutor's office of Kiev, the episodes identified relate to the first criminal cases in which such a compound was used, recorded in the USSR. The total number of proven facts is 40. Of that number, 13 were fatal. Most of the murders (nine) and attempts (20) were personally committed by Tamara Ivanyutina. The process lasted for about a year.During the investigation, Ivanyutina tried several times to bribe the investigator. She promised a law enforcement officer “a lot of gold”. The unusualness of this case in criminal practice is that the main accused was a woman sentenced to death, and the punishment was carried out.
In her last word, Ivanyutina did not admit her guilt for the episodes. While still in jail, she stated: in order to achieve what you want, you do not need to write any complaints. It is necessary to be friends with everyone and treat them. And especially harmful people mix poison. Ivanyutina did not ask for forgiveness from the relatives of the victims, saying that her upbringing did not allow her to do this. She regretted only one thing. Her old dream was to buy a Volga car, but it never came true. Ivanyutin was found sane and sentenced to death. The accomplices were assigned different prison terms. So, sister Nina was sentenced to 15 years. Her subsequent fate is unknown. The mother received 13, and the father - 10 years in prison. Parents died in prison. The year in which Tamara Ivanyutina was shot was 1987.
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