In 1987, the entire USSR was shocked by the case of serial poisoner Tamara Ivanyutina, who poisoned 20 people with the most dangerous thallium. Among the dead were small children.
Tamara Antonovna Ivanyutina (maiden Maslenko) (1941-1987).
The motives of the serial killer Tamara Ivanyutina were revenge and self-interest. She had grandiose fantasies about a thriving pigsty, "mountains of gold" and a black "Volga". In addition, she did not want to "produce poverty" - in the face of other people's children. Very modern and familiar to us "trends".
Psychiatrists recognized Ivanyutina as absolutely sane. At the same time, three main features of her personality were singled out: extremely high self-esteem, hyper-susceptibility and vindictiveness. All of these traits are characteristic of sociopaths, paranoids, and narcissists.
Tamara was born in the family of Anton Mitrofanovich and Maria Feodorovna Maslenko and was the fourth child out 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 pour poison on a person who did not like it, and the mother professed the following wisdom in life: “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, without hesitation, poisoned their 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 "revenge for 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 to "succeed"
Having matured, Tamara jumped out to marry a representative of one of the most successful professions of that time - a truck driver. People who lived in the USSR remember that "long-range combatants", along with sailors, have always been extremely successful - it's no joke, they traveled around all the republics of the Union, dangled to the CMEA countries, and sometimes, lo and behold, even to capitalist countries! Live and rejoice! But Tom's girlfriend wasn't like that. Money and an apartment - that's what she needed right now. And so she began to poison her husband. Slightly, but gradually increasing the dose.
During the investigation, his partner described the last flight as follows. Tamara's husband became ill during the flight. His legs were very sore, he could not feel the pedals. He asked to be replaced for an hour or two, but the poor fellow's health was deteriorating. Neither two nor three hours later, the driver could not get behind the wheel. Passing by a village rivulet, he asked his partner: “Maybe I should take a swim to cheer up? I will quickly douse myself with some water, get back to normal - and move on. Tomka prepared a clean towel for me…”
When the driver wiped his head, his partner was horrified to see that the entire towel was strewn with hair. He refused to treat himself to the sandwiches that the little wife had supplied: not because he suspected something was wrong, but simply was afraid to doze off after a hearty snack while driving. Shortly after returning from the flight, Tamara Ivanyutina's first husband died of a heart attack.
Through 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 - to spend the old people, a plot for a small pig farm, pigs for meat and lard - and get rich, get rich, get rich.
One terrible day for the elderly, Tamara and her mother-in-law cooked dinner. We sat together at the table, but only in the evening the old man became ill. The next morning, his mother called Oleg and said that a misfortune had happened to his father: his legs were being taken away, his feet were going numb. He says he can't put on his own socks. And when the grandmother began to help him, he roared in pain, as if he had been cut into pieces. Oleg advised to call an ambulance, but in the emergency hospital, the doctors examined my grandfather and said that the polyarthritis had worsened. The medication was prescribed and sent home.
Tamara was very worried about her father-in-law's health and insisted on going to her parents right away. She applied a heating pad to her 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 splashed this liquid into the soup. That 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 shot of valocordin and a glass of water. As soon as she had drunk the medicine, the mother staggered. On her lips came out white coating and she immediately vomited. Panic broke out among those present. The widow screamed that she had been poisoned. 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 suggested taking 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 reassure his mother. Oleg's mother began to experience the same symptoms: her arms and legs hurt, her feet went numb. She could not move her tongue, almost did not speak. In the evening, she was taken by an ambulance, and two days later she died.
The road to the personal pig farm was open. But where to get food? There is only one answer - at school!
School No. 16 of the Minsk region of Kyiv
In March 1987, three sixth-graders and 11 workers were brought to the hospital in an ambulance from a Kyiv school with a diagnosis of influenza. All experienced the same symptoms: weakness, nausea, pain in the legs, baldness. Despite enhanced treatment, two children - Sergei Panibrat and Andrei Kuzmenko - and two adults died almost immediately, the remaining nine people were in intensive care.
For that time, four deaths in a row was a real emergency. The prosecutor's office took over the case. Hospital doctors, summoned to an emergency meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, suggested that the cause of death was an unknown form of influenza, so standard treatment was ineffective. There was also such an opinion: people were poisoned with strong toxic substances through food or water. At first, this version was not even considered, but after investigating authorities the victims were interviewed, it turned out that they all ate what was left of lunch in the school cafeteria: chicken soup and chicken liver. Moreover, those who had lunch on time did not suffer.
Diet nurse Natalya Kukharenko.
Nurse Kukharenko was the first to fall at the hands of Tamara, who had the imprudence to make comments to Ivanyutina, including for non-compliance with hygiene rules, rudeness and rudeness. Tamara did not skimp on remarks to children and even teachers, she constantly twirled 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 only 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 was strangely bald, but the cause could not be established.
All these facts showed that "diseases" were not an accident. It was decided to exhume the remains of Kukharenko. It was then that they discovered the presence of thallium in the tissues. But no one thought of the deliberate use of this heavy metal for the purpose of poisoning. A negative response was received to a request to the sanitary and epidemiological station to carry out measures to exterminate insects and rodents in the catering unit. Specialists checked all school premises, food, pots, containers for cereals and the buckwheat itself that remained in them. To no avail. However, investigators paid attention to strange behavior dishwasher Ivanyutina. She interfered with the inspection in every possible way, she was rude.
“I concluded that we are not loved in this school,” recalled expert chemist Valentina Kalachikova. - Dishwasher Ivanyutina followed me around like a warder. Probably, she decided that I would steal a pan from them or put cereals in my pockets. Terrible feeling, to be honest. The look is unkind, heavy ... How was this vixen even allowed to work with children?
The next step was to check all the personal files of the canteen workers. And then it turned out that Ivanyutina's work book was fake, because she had a criminal record for speculation, which means that she did not have the right to work in children's institutions. This was the reason to study the life of a dishwasher in more detail. This is where 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 suspect number one.
Consequence
During a search in Ivanyutina's house, the right thing was found literally at the last moment.
When they examined everything that was possible, Valentina Petrovna Kalachikova suddenly went up 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 towards the bedside table:
This is a sewing machine I got from my mother-in-law. Will you take a look?
We will inspect, open or give the key, I will open it myself.
Ivanyutina threw the keys on the floor and almost hissed: “Open it yourself, seamstress!”
Kalachikova examined the contents of the drawers. Bobbins of thread, needles in boxes, a set of tools for embroidery, a bottle of machine oil for lubricating mechanisms ... She took the bottle in her hands and suddenly realized that the dishes were too heavy for oil. She slipped the vial into her pocket. Analysis in the laboratory showed that the container contained Clerici liquid - the so-called aqueous solution of thallium. It is used in geology to separate minerals by density. Therefore, first of all, all organizations of the Ministry of Geology of Ukraine were subjected to verification. And almost immediately found a supplier. One of the laboratory assistants of the exploration expedition regularly supplied the Maslenko family with thallium, allegedly for rat-baiting. For all the time they received about 500 mg of poison.
Not far behind Tamara and her sister Nina Matsibora, who sent to the next world legal spouse. Nina married a man much older than her. Having registered the young wife in his apartment, the elderly husband signed his 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. Husband 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 her concerns about the state of health of the mother-in-law. Like, of the entire ward, she is the heaviest. Doesn't work. "That is?" - the matchmaker asked in bewilderment. “And it is that there is little hope. We must prepare to bury like a human.” This phrase became a sentence for her. Maslenko offered the matchmaker not to say stupid things, but rather to drink to the health of his ailing wife. While a relative poured moonshine and collected food on the table, he seized the moment and splashed poison into a glass. At night, the ambulance doctors, lost in conjecture, gave her injections - either from the heart, or to reduce 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 matchmaker felt sorry for throwing him away, and she finished the egg. Unfortunately, the doctors considered it a near-death experience.
During the searches, poison was not found at Maslenko. But the poisoners betrayed themselves. 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 black envy of Maslenko. But the neighbor did not eat pancakes, because she had heard that the old woman's daughter was suspected of poisoning. She threw one pancake to a cat, and by evening the animal began to convulse, and died three hours later. The neighbor reported this to the police, and the Maslenkos were arrested. Just like Tamara, they told in detail and with gusto who, when, how and for what they poisoned.
Initially, Ivanyutina wrote a confession. It's time for a psychopathic benefit. Being 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 tested the effect of the poison on neighboring chickens and cats. I experimented with quantities - I knew what dose to give so that a person was slightly ill, and what dose to surely die. At the same time, she did not care at all in what agony her victims died. “In such a case, there should be no accidents,” Ivanyutina explained smugly. - My friend almost got burned on the usual chicken egg. It's good that the doctors turned out to be mugs ... "
However, Ivanyutina later stated that she confessed under pressure from the investigation and refused to give further testimony. Apparently, when the “fuckers-sledaks” did not buy into her “a lot of gold”, for the first time she soberly assessed reality and realized that she really got into trouble.
But the whole picture of the crime was already clear to the investigation. So, in the fall of 1986, Ivanyutina poisoned the party organizer of the school to death - a 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 remains of cutlets for their dog. Fortunately, the guys survived, but such poisoning does not pass without a trace for the body.
After the death of the dietician Kukharenko in March, the head of the dining room named Noga sensed something was wrong and began to lock the utility room at night so that Ivanyutina would not have access to food. The presumptuous psychopath openly declared that "Noga 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 a 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 devoured poisoned dishes.
The end of the Kyiv Borgia family: Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv. There, under the USSR, death sentences were carried out.
In total, the family has 40 proven poisonings, 13 - with fatal. Surprisingly, the whole family, according to the results of a forensic psychiatric examination, was declared sane. Most of all, Tamara Ivanyutina succeeded in poisoning - 20 poisonings, 9 of which were fatal.
The trial of serial killers lasted several months. Husband Oleg, in his testimony, reported that every time Tamara brought more and more waste from school, while rejoicing that the children did not eat well. And the teachers got it just for the fact that they forced the children to eat up their portions. It was not at all in the interests of the criminal, so she decided to poison especially persistent teachers. In addition, poisoning in the school cafeteria, in her opinion, should have caused distrust in 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 treatment costs.
When she was given the last word, she refused to admit guilt and ask for forgiveness from the relatives of her victims. “I don’t have that upbringing,” she dropped haughtily.
Tamara Ivanyutina was shot at the end of 1987 in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv, she became the third and last female criminal officially sentenced to death penalty in the USSR. The old murderers died in custody, sister Nina, after serving part of the term, was released already in Independent Ukraine. Then all traces of it are lost.
Tamara Antonovna Ivanyutina(1941-1987) - Soviet serial killer. The main defendant in a resonant criminal case of the late 1980s, investigated in Kyiv.
Biography
Tamara Ivanyutina (nee Maslenko) was born into a large family (one of six children), in which parents always inspired their children that the main thing in life is material security. Although the forensic psychiatric examination recognized Ivanyutina as sane, she noted such features of her psyche as high self-esteem, vindictiveness, and resentment. In the process of investigating 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 book.
Chemistry teacher Viktor Stadnik, who himself suffered from Ivanyutina's actions, notes such traits of her character as "perseverance and arrogance", as well as rudeness and indiscipline.
Murders
On March 17 and 18, 1987, several students and employees of school No. 16 of the Minsk region of Kyiv were in the hospital with symptoms food poisoning. Two children - Sergey Panibrat and Andrey Kuzmenko and two adults died almost immediately, the remaining 9 people were in intensive care. Doctors initially suspected that the victims had influenza or an intestinal infection, but some time later, the victims began to lose their hair, which is not typical for such diseases.
A criminal case was initiated on the facts of poisonings and deaths, and an investigative group was created. The investigation, having interrogated the surviving victims, established that they all felt unwell after having lunch on the day before (March 16, 1987) in the school cafeteria, and they all ate buckwheat porridge and a liver. When the question arose whether the quality of food in the school cafeteria was controlled by anyone, it turned out that the nutritionist nurse Natalya Kukharenko (according to other sources, Kukarenko) who was responsible for this, died two weeks before the events described, according to official data, from a cardiovascular diseases. However, the circumstances of Kukharenko's death aroused doubts in the investigation, which is why it was decided to exhume her body. As a result of relevant studies, traces of thallium were found in the tissues of Kukharenko's corpse. After that, searches were carried out at all persons who were related to the school catering unit, including the house where Tamara Ivanyutina, who worked as a dishwasher in the canteen of school No. 16, lived.
During a search, some kind of “small but very heavy jar” was found at Ivanyutina’s, which interested operatives and investigators, and therefore seized and submitted for examination. Laboratory research showed that the jar contains "Clerici liquid" - a highly toxic solution based on thallium, used in some branches of geology.
Ivanyutina was arrested and initially wrote a confession, confessing to committing poisoning in the school cafeteria on March 16, 1987. The reason for the crime, according to Ivanyutina, was the fact that the sixth-graders who had lunch in the canteen refused to set up tables and chairs, and she "decided to punish them." However, Ivanyutina later stated that she confessed under pressure from the investigation, and refused to give further testimony.
Investigation
Further investigation of the "case of Ivanyutina - Maslenko - Matsibora" (Ukrainian Right Ivanyutina - Maslenkiv - Matsibori) showed that Ivanyutina and her family members (sister, parents) have been using thallium for poisoning for 11 years (that is, since 1976) ; moreover, poisonings were committed both for selfish purposes and against people who simply for some reason did not like family members. Clerici liquid was purchased by family members from a friend who worked at a geological institute, explaining to her that the poison was necessary to kill rats. A friend admitted that over the course of 15 years she had passed portions of this substance to Ivanyutina, her sister and parents at least nine times over the course of 15 years.
At the beginning of her criminal activity, Ivanyutina poisoned her first husband in order to get his apartment; husband has died. After his death, Ivanyutina married a second time, but in her new marriage she poisoned her father-in-law and mother-in-law (they died two days apart) and poisoned her second husband with small portions of poison (the goal was to take possession of the house with land belonging to her husband's parents).
Tamara Ivanyutina
In 1987 an unprecedented trial in the case of a family of serial killers who chose a highly toxic aqueous solution based on thallium compounds as a crime weapon. Maria and Anton Maslenko and their daughters, Tamara Ivanyutina and Nina Matsibora, were in the dock, accused of numerous murders and attempted murders. Most of the victims were on account of 45-year-old Ivanyutina. She became the last woman in the USSR sentenced by the court to an exceptional measure of punishment.
Members of the family of poisoners, who have been keeping people out of the world for more than one year "for selfish purposes, as well as motivated by personal hostility", were caught after a tragic incident in high school No. 16 Minsk district of Kyiv. During March 17 and 18, 1987, from educational institution Three sixth-graders, four teachers, a speech therapist, a nurse, a librarian, a canteen manager, a driver and a specialist who repaired refrigeration equipment in the school canteen entered the district hospital. All of them were diagnosed with a severe form of influenza and prescribed intensive treatment. Despite this, on March 20, one of the students died, a repairman died a week later, and on May 5, another child died. The rest of the victims were in serious condition, they all complained of general weakness, pain in the joints of the legs, while they had vomiting and hair loss.
In connection with the death of three hospital patients, the prosecutor's office of the Minsk region opened a criminal case, the investigation of which was taken under control by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In addition to the district prosecutor's office, which was headed by Sergei Vinokurov, a senior investigator for special important matters Prosecutors of the Ukrainian SSR Aleksey Baganets and operatives of the newly created department for combating criminal groups under the threat of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Kyiv, which was headed by Nikolai Poddubny.
On the trail brought buckwheat soup with chicken giblets
At a meeting at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine with the invitation of representatives of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, the head, chief physician and leading specialists of the hospital where the victims were hospitalized, some doctors suggested that an unknown influenza virus had been brought to the USSR, therefore existing methods treatments were ineffective. The opinion of one of the participants in the consultation that, most likely, there was poisoning with strong toxic substances that got into food or water were not taken seriously at first. But it was this version that became the main one for investigators and operatives: after interviewing the surviving patients, it was established that on May 16 they all ate buckwheat soup with chicken giblets and fried chicken liver left over from lunch in the school cafeteria on May 16, which did not cause any harm to those who had eaten in the canteen a few hours earlier.
First of all, in the course of investigative actions at the school, it turned out that on March 12, dietary nurse Natalya Kukarenko, who controlled cooking in the kitchen, died unexpectedly. “It happened right after March 8,” the school director specified. “At the party on the eve of the holiday [she] was cheerful, she even danced with the military instructor, and on the 9th in the evening she was taken by an ambulance, then they called us and said that she had died” . The operatives met with Kukarenko's friend, who visited her in the hospital. She said that the patient complained that her legs were numb and cold, while Kukarenko was perplexed: with the diagnosis that she was given, - cardiovascular disease- this should not be.
After a survey of teachers and attendants, it turned out that on November 20, 1986, at hospital bed with similar symptoms of the disease were a first-grader and a fifth-grader, both had profuse hair loss. Were ill with a strange "flu" and two teachers. “In November, I also felt very bad. I played football three times a week, and here it’s not just chasing the ball, I couldn’t move my legs,” said chemistry teacher Viktor Stadnik. to find out the cause of the ailment. They attributed everything to overwork."
Gathered together disparate facts that previously did not come into view law enforcement, prompted the investigation to obtain a sanction for the exhumation of the remains of the diet nurse Kukarenko. An analysis of the tissues of the deceased showed the presence of heavy metal thallium, which is highly toxic. According to Vinokurov, the use of thallium or its compounds for the purpose of murder was not officially recorded in the USSR earlier, and at first the investigation had no reason to think that the poisoning of Kukarenko was deliberate.
"This woman behaved ... well, nothing more than an angry vixen"
Investigators visited the district sanitary and epidemiological station. During the period of interest to law enforcement agencies, deratization and disinsection (destruction of rodents and cockroaches) were not carried out in the food unit, they assured. The next step was to conduct an examination at the school for the presence toxic substances by the department of special studies of the forensic department of the capital's police headquarters.
We examined all the utility rooms, chemistry and biology classrooms, - recalled 20 years later after the criminal case that thundered throughout the country, Valentina Kalachikova, who then headed the department. - Then proceeded to a detailed inspection of the catering unit. They collected buckwheat for analysis from all the containers where this cereal was stored, took swabs from a huge pot in which the ill-fated soup was cooked, and even from the drain pipe of the sink for washing dishes. I remember what I remember then unusual behavior dishwasher Ivanyutina. This woman behaved ... well, nothing more than an angry vixen! She almost pushed me away from kitchen utensils, she was rude. This behavior surprised me...
Experts did not find traces of thallium in the catering department, but the detectives made significant progress. Studying the personal data of the canteen workers, they also drew attention to Ivanyutina: when applying for a job, she used a fake work book in order to hide a criminal record for profiteering (according to Soviet laws, she did not have the right to work in children's institutions). It was not difficult for the police and prosecutors to establish some other details of her life. Ivanyutina's first husband died four months after the wedding; Before their death, both complained of weakness and nausea, that their legs were taken away and their feet became numb. Her second husband, Oleg Ivanyutin, who is not yet forty years old, is constantly ill, complains of pain in the joints of his legs, general weakness, but doctors find it difficult to make an accurate diagnosis. In addition, as the operatives found out, the still young man began to noticeably go bald.
Based on these data, the investigation singled out Ivanyutina as the number one suspect, while not stopping the checks of other employees of the school catering department.
Thallium pancakes for a neighbor with a big pension
Another line of work of the investigation is to establish the source of leakage of toxic metal from state institutions into the hands of private individuals. Since an aqueous solution based on thallium compounds - Clerici liquid - is used in geology to separate minerals by density, the search was concentrated in the capital institutions of the Ministry of Geology of Ukraine. And quite quickly they came to the laboratory assistant of one of the geological exploration expeditions, which periodically provided her acquaintances named Maslenko with poisonous liquid. For "rat-baiting," she explained. In total, as the investigation established, the laboratory assistant gave the family about 500 mg of Clerici liquid. After that, the investigators of the prosecutor's office and operatives took into the development of all family members.
In search of the main material evidence - the murder weapon - searches were carried out at the place of residence of Ivanyutina and her parents, who were headed by Vinokurov. The arrival of the police and the prosecutor came as a complete surprise to Ivanyutina. If the poisonous solution was kept at home, the suspect could not get rid of it, law enforcement officers argued, however, a thorough inspection of all the premises did not give anything. Only on re-examination of the foot sewing machine"Singer" in the presence of attesting witnesses seized a bottle with a label of engine oil, which had not previously paid much attention: no one expected that the thallium solution would be kept in plain sight. Expert Kalachikova thought the bottle was suspiciously heavy for lubrication, but the conclusions were postponed until the results of the analysis were received. By morning he was ready, Ivanyutina was immediately arrested.
A search in the communal apartment of Maria and Anton Maslenko yielded no results, but a few days after their daughter was placed in the Lukyanovskaya prison, they gave themselves away - they tried to poison a pensioner neighbor. The wife baked pancakes, "flavored" them with poison, taken from a hiding place not found by the police, and brought her a treat. Frightened by the search at Maslenko's and rumors that their daughter had been arrested, the woman "just in case" threw pancakes to the cat. A few hours later, the animal died. During the investigation, the detained spouses explained their intention by the fact that the neighbor received a disability pension, more than theirs, so they decided, in their words, "to restore justice."
After some time, on suspicion of poisoning her husband, Ivanyutina's older sister, Nina Matsibora, was also taken into custody.
Poison on the wedding table
In total, law enforcement officers obtained evidence on 40 episodes of poisoning, of which 13 were fatal. For the rest of the victims, the meeting on life path members of the Maslenko family ended in poor health. The geography of crimes was also impressive, their traces were found everywhere where Maslenko lived - in the Kherson region, in the Tyumen and Tula regions and, finally, in Kyiv. Poisoners used all available poisonous household substances, but really turned around, gaining access to Clerici's fluid.
The forensic psychiatric examination recognized the accused as sane, noting that the Maslenko couple and their daughters are characterized by selfishness, resentment, extreme rancor and sophisticated vindictiveness. Subjects with such character traits, it was said in the conclusion, are characterized by increased conflict, they are ready to see in each of the surrounding ill-wisher, standing in their way to their goals. Psychological portraits members of the family of poisoners, as shown by the investigation and the trial, turned out to be accurate.
For her first husband, truck driver Vasily, Ivanyutina began to mix thallium into food immediately after the wedding, and after burying him, the provincial became a responsible tenant of two-room housing in the capital. The murder of the parents of the second husband was also associated with far-reaching plans. Her father-in-law and mother-in-law moved to Kyiv from Krasnodar Territory, bought a house with a land plot and a large barn in a new place. Ivanyutina, cherished desire who was to buy a GAZ-24 (Volga) car, decided to become a full-fledged mistress in the house and breed pigs in order to save money by selling meat on the market. A constantly ill husband relied on his wife for everything, but his mother set a condition for her daughter-in-law: first give birth to her husband a child, and then we’ll think about your registration in the house. The angry Ivanyutina used the weapon that had already become familiar, the father-in-law became the first victim, and she added poison to the mother-in-law's medicine on the day of his funeral.
Sister Ivanyutina married a man from Kiev 25 years older than her. But she didn't want to live with him. A week after visiting the registry office, he registered a young wife at his living space, two more later he ended up in a hospital bed, complaining of nausea, general weakness and severe pain in the legs. Doctors diagnosed an exacerbation of arthritis and age-related changes in the work of the heart and kidneys and released the patient at the request of his wife in her care. Soon he died, the death of a 70-year-old man did not arouse suspicions in anyone, and the widow, yesterday's provincial from the Tula region, legally settled in a Kyiv apartment.
The older Maslenkos were distinguished by especially painful vindictiveness and vindictiveness. So, the head of the family poisoned a woman in Tula, with whom the family became related after the marriage of one of his sons (Maslenko had three sons and three daughters). The matchmaker had the imprudence after visiting Maria Maslenko in the hospital to tell her husband that she was very bad and that she had to be ready for anything. Maslenko immediately offered the matchmaker to drink moonshine for the recovery of his half - this glass was the last for the woman. The Maslenko couple also poisoned a neighbor in a communal apartment, who reprimanded them for a puddle in the toilet. Already in Kyiv, they poisoned a neighbor (offered him a drink), whose TV was on at full volume until midnight.
"There is no replacement yet..."
But most of the victims, including children, were on the account of Ivanyutina.
Having got rid of her husband's parents, to whom she also periodically added non-critical doses of Clerici's solution, Ivanyutina started a whole pig farm and got a job as a dishwasher in the 16th school, which was located not far from home. Every day after work she came back loaded food waste from the school cafeteria. After some time, she began to have conflicts with the dietitian Kukarenko and the chairman of the trade union committee, Stadnik, who were in the kitchen every day when laying the daily norm of food in the boilers and in the dining room during the schoolchildren's lunch. They repeatedly made a remark to the dishwasher for the fact that she walks around the entire catering department, being rude to people.
“She was very stubborn and impudent,” Stadnik recalled many years later. “She made remarks to teachers and children, just like a school principal. nose into all the boilers. She snapped at the comments. I remember our director even called the head of the canteen trust and asked to find another person. But he replied that there was no replacement yet. That was it."
Ivanyutina had a special dislike for the head of the dining room, Grigory Noga, who, after the death of a dietitian, decided to lock the food pantry from all catering workers who were not directly related to cooking. school breakfasts and lunches. Once, with a syringe, she injected a deadly liquid into several oranges and tried to treat the canteen, but he refused to offer a subordinate.
On March 16, 1987, Ivanyutina made another attempt to poison the manager. He usually dined at the end of the school day, when the students had already gone home. By this time, in the kitchen, Ivanyutina had added a few drops of Clerici's solution to the soup and fried liver left over from dinner. But unexpectedly for Ivanyutina, in addition to the manager, there were 12 more people in the dining room: on that day, an advance payment and a meeting of the trade union committee were expected, so some workers were delayed. Among the adults were three sixth graders. As witnesses testified during the investigation and during the trial, Ivanyutina watched with a smile as people ate the dinner she had poisoned.
So I didn't repent
The courtroom of the Kyiv City Court during the entire months-long process of Maslenko - Ivanyutina - Matsibora was filled to capacity. People who knew the Maslenko family, acquaintances of their victims, teachers and parents of students from school No. 16, correspondents of republican and central newspapers came. On the steps at the entrance to the building every day also crowded people who did not get into the hall.
“During the trial, I was sitting next to Ivanyutina’s husband, Oleg,” Stadnik recalled. “He said that at first Tamara brought very little waste from school, and then their amount began to increase. When he asked why there were more slops, she smiled rather : “Something the children don’t eat well!” And in the court verdict on the motives for Ivanyutina’s crime at school, it was said, in particular, the following: waste. And it was against her interests. In order to take revenge, and also so that the responsibility fell on the people responsible for the work of the dining room, Ivanyutina decided to poison several people. And also expected to cause distrust in the food produced in the dining room, so that there would be more waste.
Ivanyutina was charged with nine murders and 20 attempted murders "for mercenary purposes, as well as on the grounds of personal hostility, committed through poisoning" and complicity in several poisonings committed by her relatives. The court sentenced her to an exceptional measure of punishment with confiscation of property. 79-year-old Maslenko was sentenced to 13 years, his 77-year-old wife - 10 years, Matsibora - 15 years in prison. This part of the verdict caused a strong reaction in the hall: the people of Kiev believed that all family members deserved the death penalty. In addition, the court decided to recover from the convicts in favor of the state the amounts spent on the treatment of patients. Before giving the last word to the defendants, the judge (her name could not be found out in open sources) suggested that Ivanyutina repent before the parents of the deceased schoolchildren sitting in the hall, but the defendant said that she was not going to repent.
The death sentence against Ivanyutina was carried out and became the last reliably confirmed fact of the execution of a woman by a court verdict in the history of the USSR. Earlier, in 1977, a collaborator from the Great Patriotic War was executed. Patriotic War Antonina Makarova ("Pravo.Ru" wrote about her), and in 1983 - the head of the trust of restaurants and canteens of Gelendzhik Berta Borodkina, who was convicted "for the systematic embezzlement of socialist property."
In preparing this publication, excerpts from the book "Destroy the Werewolf" by Lieutenant General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Poddubny, published in the newspaper "Gordon Boulevard", an interview with the First Deputy Prosecutor of Ukraine Sergey Vinokurov to the Internet publication "Segodnya.ua", publications of the Ukrainian journalist Maria Vasil in the online publication "Facts", materials from other open Ukrainian and Russian sources.
Svetlana Didenko / Ivan SiyakIn the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv, 30 years ago, a dishwasher Tamara Ivanyutina was shot. Read about her crimes and agree with the verdict.
On March 17 and 18, 1987, three sixth-graders, four teachers, a speech therapist, a nurse, a librarian, a driver, the head of the canteen at school No. 16 in the Podolsky district of Kyiv, and a technician who repaired a refrigerator were hospitalized. All of them complained of weakness and severe pain in the joints. The original version was an influenza epidemic caused by an unknown strain. Doctors turned to the police when the patients began to go bald. Before the beginning of May, two adults and two children will die.
It turned out that on the eve of the disease, all the victims remained at school after the end of the school day. The adults were waiting for an advance. The sixth graders helped carry the new chairs. In the canteen they were fed the leftovers of dinner: buckwheat soup and fried chicken liver.
They began to figure out who controls the cooking. Nobody. Diet nurse Natalya Kukharenko died two weeks before the events. Diagnosis - cardiovascular insufficiency.
“It’s strange that my hands go numb, but I can’t warm my legs. And they are dumb too. The pain in the joints is such that I can’t sleep at night ... ”she told a colleague before her death.
Kukharenko's body was exhumed. Traces of the toxic metal thallium were found in the remains. A survey of teachers revealed that at the end of 1986, two schoolchildren, a chemistry teacher and a party organizer, were ill with similar symptoms. The children got better, the chemist lost his hair, the party organizer died.
Maria Sidorchuk and Vasily Yurchenko from the school canteen ended up in intensive care and died a few days later. Screenshot from the program "The investigation was conducted ... with Leonid Kanevsky" / NTV Diet nurse Natalya Kukharenko (left). Screenshot from the program "The investigation was conducted ... with Leonid Kanevsky" / NTV
The trail is taken
A search of the canteen turned up nothing, but all the workers were under suspicion. One of the operatives met with the husband of the school dishwasher Tamara Ivanyutina. He was just on sick leave. Oleg Ivanyutin complained to the policeman about pain in his legs and baldness. He said that recently, almost simultaneously, his parents died, leaving the spouses a private house with a plot.
“At the funeral of my father, my mother became ill. Tamara brought valocordin and water. After drinking the medicine, the mother staggered, she immediately vomited. She died two days later, ”the operative told the investigator Ivanyutin’s words.
During a search in the Ivanyutins' house, an expert removed a vial for lubrication from the drawer of the Singer sewing machine. The analysis showed that it had Clerici's solution based on thallium. The fluid is used by geologists to determine the density of minerals.
Kyiv School No. 16, where Tamara Ivanyutina worked. Photo: Google Maps
Housing problem
Tamara Ivanyutina got a job at the school in September 1986. Since she had a criminal record for speculation, she presented a fake work book. The woman dreamed of getting rich and buying a black Volga. She poisoned her first husband for the sake of an apartment. Parents of the second - for the sake of the site where she began to breed pigs.
Ivanyutina fed the animals with waste from the dining room and killed everyone who interfered. Party organizer and dietitian, because they controlled the write-off of products. Pupils to distrust school lunches and pick up more waste.
On March 17, 1987, Ivanyutina poured thallium into the head of the canteen's plate. The soup got cold, and the man poured it back into the cauldron, from which 13 people were then fed. Four of them did not survive.
Tamara Ivanyutina. Screenshot from the program "The investigation was conducted ... with Leonid Kanevsky" / NTV
From the memoirs of investigator Poddubny
“The worst thing is that the criminals went unpunished for a very long time. Believing in their exclusivity, they used to deal vindictively with those who stood in their way, splashing a few drops of Clerici liquid into food or into a glass of tap water.
Family business
The police found a laboratory assistant of a geological exploration expedition, who for almost 10 years gave a solution of thallium to a friend married couple Maslenko to poison rodents. Friends had daughters - Nina and Tamara (after the second marriage she became Ivanyutina). Both buried their spouses and became owners of apartments.
Already during the investigation of Tamara Ivanyutina, her parents treated a neighbor with a large pension to pancakes. She turned out to be suspicious and fed the treat to the cat, and after the painful death of the animal, she called the police.
It turned out that the parents taught Tamara and Nina to poison unwanted people. Among their victims were a neighbor in a communal apartment who watched TV at high volume, and a relative who made a remark about a puddle in the toilet.
Investigators were able to prove that the Maslenko-Ivanyutin dynasty was responsible for 40 poisonings, 13 of them fatal. 9 murders and 20 attempts were made by Tamara. Psychiatric examination found all the defendants sane.
Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv. There, under the USSR, death sentences were carried out. Photo: Artemka / CC BY-SA 4.0
Mentally healthy
The meeting room of the Kyiv City Court was full during the whole process. Familiar Maslenko families came, friends of their victims, teachers and parents of students from school No. 16, and journalists. At the entrance every day crowded people who did not get inside.
The verdict appointed the 79-year-old head of the family 13 years in prison, his 77-year-old wife - 10, daughter Nina - 15. A riot almost started in the hall, the audience demanded a death sentence.
Tamara was sentenced to death by the court. When Ivanyutina was given the last word, she refused to admit guilt and ask for forgiveness from the relatives of the victims. “I don’t have that upbringing,” said the serial killer.
Ivanyutina was shot in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv. It was only the third and last execution of a woman by a court verdict in the post-war history of the USSR. Before serial killer Nazi executioner Antonina Makarova and embezzler of state property Berta Borodkina were executed.
Antonina Makarova (Ginsburg), nicknamed "Tonka the machine gunner". During the Second World War, at the direction of the German authorities and Russian collaborators, she shot more than 1,500 people. Found and arrested in 1978, executed in 1979.
In 1987, an unprecedented trial took place in Kyiv 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 about female criminals, the first part is
Maria and Anton Maslenko and their daughters, Tamara Ivanyutina and Nina Matsibora, were in the dock. Most of the victims were on account of 45-year-old Ivanyutina. She became the last woman in the USSR sentenced by the court to an exceptional measure of punishment.
Who was Tamara Ivanyutina?
The biography of a woman before the start of the process is not distinguished by any outstanding events. Maiden name hers is Maslenko. She was born in 1942 into a family with six children. Parents always inspired 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 process of investigating 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 book.
Since September 1986, she worked in the canteen of one of the schools in Kyiv. She was hired as a dishwasher. This work brought her considerable benefits. Tamara Ivanyutina kept a fairly large household. Working in the canteen, she was able to provide her animals with free food, which was left over from schoolchildren with poor appetites. To make it even worse, Tamara Ivanyutina periodically added poison to food. She also used poisonous substances against those who, in her opinion, "behaved badly." Ivanyutina's victims were those who interfered with stealing food from the school cafeteria, allowed themselves to make comments to her, and in general all those who she did not like for one reason or another.
poisoning
The story of Tamara Ivanyutina became known when several workers and students of the 16th school in the Podolsky district of Kyiv 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 some time, the patients began to lose their hair. For these diseases, this phenomenon is uncharacteristic.
Law enforcement agencies quickly established that Ivanyutina Tamara Antonovna was involved in the poisoning. The investigation began immediately, as it became known about the death of students and school staff. Criminal proceedings were initiated. The investigation team conducted interrogations of the survivors of the victims. It was found that all of them became ill after they had lunch in 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 food at the school. It turned out that Natalya Kukharenko, a nutritionist nurse, had died 2 weeks before proceedings were initiated. According to official figures, the woman died of a cardiovascular disease. However, investigators questioned the accuracy of this information. As a result, an exhumation was carried out. After the study, traces of thallium were found in the tissues of the corpse. Then searches began at everyone who had anything to do with the school cafeteria. They did not ignore the house in which the dishwasher of the food unit Ivanyutina Tamara Antonovna lived.
Arrest
During a search of the dishwasher in the house, "a small but rather heavy container" was found. Naturally, its contents interested the investigation team. 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 sixth-graders who were having lunch 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 activities, new facts came to light. So, the investigation found that not only Ivanyutina herself, but also members of her family (parents and sister) for 11 years used a highly toxic solution to deal with people they did not like. At the same time, they committed poisoning both for selfish motives and to eliminate people who were unsympathetic to them for some reason. The Clerici family received 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 she had passed the toxic solution to Ivanyutina herself, as well as her parents and sister, at least 9 times over the course of 15 years.
Tamara's criminal activity began with her first husband. She poisoned a man and got his apartment. After the death of her first husband, Ivanyutina remarried. In a new marriage, her husband's parents became her victims. Father-in-law and mother-in-law died two days apart. The second husband himself also received small portions of thallium. So she kept his sexual activity low. In addition, Ivanyutina expected to get a house and land plot owned by her husband's parents. In September 1986, she became a dishwasher in local school. In addition to the episodes described above, the victims were a school party organizer (died) and a chemistry teacher (survived). They prevented Ivanyutina from stealing food from the catering department. 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 Matsibora, the older sister of the main defendant in the case, was also active in criminal activities. In particular, using the same Clerici liquid, she poisoned her husband and got his apartment in Kyiv. Spouses Maslenko - Ivanyutina's parents - also committed numerous poisonings. So, a neighbor in a communal apartment and a relative who made a remark to them were killed with a highly toxic liquid. In addition, animals belonging to "objectionable" people also became victims of poisoners. The geography of the family's criminal activity 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's liquid into the moonshine.
Court
It examined the case of 45-year-old Ivanyutina, her older sister Nina Antonovna and their parents - Maria Feodorovna 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 intentional deprivation of life. different persons with the help of the so-called Clerici liquid - a highly toxic solution based on a potent poisonous substance - thallium. According to the Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, who worked during the proceedings as a senior investigator for especially important crimes in the Kyiv prosecutor's office, the identified episodes are among the first criminal cases in which such a compound was used, recorded in the USSR. Total proven facts - 40. Of that number, 13 were fatal. Most murders (nine) and attempts (20) were personally committed by Tamara Ivanyutina. The process took about a year.During the investigation, Ivanyutina tried several times to bribe the investigator. She promised the law enforcement officer "a lot of gold." The unusualness of this case in criminal practice lies in the fact that the main accused was a woman sentenced to death, and the punishment was carried out.
In his last word Ivanyutina did not admit her guilt in the episodes. While still in jail, she said: 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 for malicious people to 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 she never came true. Ivanyutin was declared sane and sentenced to death. 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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