We are starting a unique experiment, clairvoyants are trying to unravel the most hopeless cases from the police archives, side by side with law enforcement officers they will carry out the investigation to the end.
Orenburg region, dozens of girls disappear. Crowds of relatives beg for help. Investigation by detectives and clairvoyants.
Orenburg region, Orsk city. In the 90s, this area, surrounded by colonies and prisons, was considered the criminal capital of the southern Urals. The dashing 90s with the murders of authorities and armed clashes are a thing of the past. However, what is happening here these days again terrifies local residents. Here girls disappear without a trace. According to official data, 29 girls and young women have been wanted in the Orenburg region since 2009 (Elena Volkova 23 years old, Ekaterina Morozova 19 years old, Elena Tkachenko 24 years old, Olga Zhuravleva 18 years old, Aizhan Urkumbayeva), according to unofficial data there are about 100. All of them are different age and religion, but the circumstances of their disappearance are suspiciously similar. The girls disappeared in broad daylight; as a rule, the last time they were seen was at stops where they were waiting for a regular bus or catching a ride. Then there were long searches and sleepless nights. The parents were waiting for a call or some news. Days and years passed. Now parents can only hope. Gang, sect or maniac? There are many versions, but the parents are sure that their daughters are kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. After all, the border with Kazakhstan is only a few tens of kilometers away.
In October 2011, there was a faint hope that the matter would move forward. It was then that the body of 25-year-old Alina Kuzhagulova, who disappeared in August 2011, was discovered. However, the criminals did not leave any evidence.
Zulia Radjabova and Leonid Konovalov were the main rivals in the second battle. And now they will join forces to fight the unknown evil that makes parents mourn their missing daughters. And although girls disappear throughout the Orenburg region, 3 cases occurred in the city of Orsk and its environs, and psychics will go there.
On behalf of the investigators, Dmitry Annenkov, head of the forensic department of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Orenburg region, is taking part in the investigation.
Today, the TNT channel aired an episode of the program “Psychics Are Investigating,” dedicated to the history of those who disappeared in
Let us remind you that on June 30 last year, 18-year-old Olga Zhuravleva disappeared in Orsk. Her disappearance became especially resonant - rumors spread in the region that girls were being kidnapped and even sold for organs. Then the families of five young women turned to the clairvoyant program. Famous psychics came to Orsk to understand this confusing story. However, relatives of dozens of other people came to the shooting, whose fate is unknown to anyone.
The investigation was carried out by one of the strongest participants in the “Battle of Psychics” Zulia Radzhabova and Leonid Konovalov. Representatives of the Investigative Committee also arrived to listen to their versions.
Leonid Konovalov was the first to meet with the relatives of the missing girls. His words were disappointing.
The psychic saw that none of the five girls whose photographs were given to him by the relatives of the missing were alive. Leonid described in detail how one of them got into the car with an unfamiliar fellow traveler. After that, according to the clairvoyant, the driver stunned her, and after a while, raped and strangled her. This girl is the only one whose body was found - mutilated, mutilated, as investigators say, with signs of sexual contact and mechanical asphyxia.
The same fate befell the rest of the missing girls, the psychic is sure. He described some of the killer's characteristics: a large round face, over 50 years old. And this villain, the clairvoyant believes, has many victims. He is a maniac and has been operating for many years.
The clairvoyant Zulia Radjabova also dispelled the last hopes of those who arrived when she saw that the girls were no longer alive. She repeated the same thing as Konovalov: a maniac is operating in the region, perhaps not only in Orenburg.
Zulia began to describe the cars in which the killer abducted the girls. According to her, this is a truck driver, he has several cars: a white SUV, a truck with a blue tarpaulin and others. He is also an exemplary family man, he has a wife and two sons. She, like her psychic colleague, said that the man has been killing and raping for many years, and the death toll goes into the dozens.
The investigators who observed the psychic's work were, to put it mildly, surprised by what they heard. They had evidence that pointed to a specific person - Valery Andreev, whose signs, cars and lifestyle were described by the clairvoyant. Moreover, some of the small details that the woman described were known only to the investigators. Let us remind you that information that will help in finding this man is now being offered
Law enforcement officers were especially shocked when Zulia began to describe the place where the maniac kept his victims. The meeting with relatives had to be interrupted. Investigators, together with psychics, went to the same white car in which traces of the blood of the last victim, Olga Zhuravleva, were found. During the examination, the clairvoyant became ill and the experiment had to be stopped for some time. Then, having calmed down, the woman described in detail exactly how the attacker transported his victims, as well as what evidence the investigators found in the car (which was also known to a narrow circle of people).
During the investigation, Zulia stated that the list of victims included not only women, but also men. She wondered why they only showed her photos of women. To this, the investigators replied that there were simply very few victims of “this category”, so they were not yet included in this case.
In the next episode of the program, psychics will go to the place that Radjabova saw: to where the killer hid the girls. According to the investigators who took part in the filming, they had all the information about the crimes, except exactly how and where to look for the attacker. Perhaps the joint work of law enforcement officers and psychics will lead to a positive result.
The news that a maniac had appeared in the Orenburg region shocked local residents. It was published on social networks back in the spring of 2013. After some time, employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that the identity of the suspect in committing violence was established - he is 55-year-old truck driver Valery Nikolaevich Andreev. According to reports, the murderer kidnapped and raped women ranging in age from 17 to 40 years. He was immediately put on the international wanted list, and a reward of half a million rubles was promised for information about where the rapist might be.
When did this all start?
“Andreev Valery Nikolaevich could not commit such brutal crimes,” answered the suspect’s friends and his work colleagues.
They were simply dumbfounded and stunned to hear that a man they knew well was a rapist and murderer. It turned out that they didn’t know him well. They had no suspicion of the criminal thoughts that Valery Nikolaevich Andreev, his wife and children were harboring. Detectives say that the truck driver first embarked on a criminal path back in 2006, but they did not find direct evidence that would prove his guilt. And only six years later did investigators manage to get on his trail, when an eighteen-year-old girl, Olga Zhuravleva, disappeared. She was last seen getting into a white foreign-made car. It was not difficult for law enforcement agencies to check the database for vehicles that matched the description.
The identity of the criminal has been established
It was established that the owner of the white SsangYong foreign car was none other than Andreev Valery Nikolaevich. It was in his car that traces of biological material were found. It became clear that in his own car the maniac committed violence against the girl.
Investigators found that condoms and hair clips were often “forgotten” in the truck the driver of which was the suspect. Although in most cases, Valery Nikolaevich carefully destroyed traces of crimes after each episode. He locked the raped women in his own garage and kept them there for several days.
Victims of the criminal
Of course, Andreev Valery Nikolaevich is a maniac who has developed his own style of committing crimes. As already emphasized, he was interested in young and middle-aged women. In addition, he preferred the fairer sex with a slender figure, who often hitchhiked.
In the summer of 2012, when they were already close to solving the crimes, Andreev immediately disappeared, leaving behind his wife and child.
Rumors and speculation
The following fact is noteworthy: initially, even the Ministry of Internal Affairs employees from the regional department did not believe that Valery Nikolaevich Andreev was a maniac from the Orenburg region, and a cruel and cynical one at that.
Back in the period from January to October 2009, 29 women aged 15 to 30 were on the list of missing people. Then rumors began to circulate that a maniac was operating in the region. However, law enforcement agencies hastened to declare that this was not true. But after a while they changed their position, linking the disappearance of the women with the criminal activities of the rapist.
Television also joined in solving this mystery. The program “Battle of Psychics” aired on the TNT channel helped make significant progress in the investigation of the atrocities of a truck driver from Orenburg.
They caught someone else...
In 2012, information unexpectedly appeared that Valery Nikolaevich Andreev was detained. However, as it turned out, this is another person who was the namesake of the “Orenburg maniac.”
He came under suspicion from investigators after a diary was found in his apartment detailing sexual acts against children. He circled the dates of his crimes. Since 2010, there have been approximately five hundred such marks. As a rule, the pedophile operated in the village of Luzino, Orenburg region. succeeded just after yet another sexual act: several schoolgirls came running to the police station and reported that they had tried to rape them in one of the basements. The pedophile was subsequently charged and sent for compulsory treatment. The fact that Valery Nikolaevich Andreev was detained was received with relief and joy on social networks. However, it was premature, since the serial killer and rapist was still at large and posed a serious threat to society.
Where could the criminal potentially be?
After some time, the public became aware that the information that the maniac Valery Nikolaevich Andreev had been detained was false. The man who committed a series of brutal murders and rapes in the Orenburg region must suffer the most severe punishment, so he was put on the international wanted list, and law enforcement agencies promised a substantial monetary reward to anyone who has reliable information about the whereabouts of the murderer.
Subsequently, information appeared that the maniac Andreev Valery Nikolaevich was detained in the Karaganda region. However, the people there did not confirm it, although they did not deny the fact that they received an orientation on the Orsk truck driver back in 2012. Karaganda police stated that they had not found the above-mentioned criminal in their region.
After this, rumors spread that Andreev Valery Nikolaevich (maniac) had been found in Omsk. And again, representatives of law enforcement agencies reported that this is just a myth, and there is no rapist in the Western Siberian city.
Subsequently, information about Andreev’s whereabouts began to appear regularly: they say that the rapist truck driver was seen in Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, and Kaliningrad. Some media outlets again began to write that the attacker had been arrested, but this is not true.
The Investigative Committee is keeping the case under control
A press conference was organized in Orsk, at which the head of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexey Smolkov, tried to put an end to the discussion about whether Andreev was arrested or continues to walk free.
“Operational search activities are carried out by the Investigative Committee, and the police provide all possible assistance in this. I can definitely say the following: the investigation is being carried out in the most thorough manner, and the culprit will sooner or later appear in court for his crimes,” Smolkov said.
Some time ago, an identikit of the rapist and murderer was updated. It also depicts him with a beard. It is likely that during the few years that Andreev was hiding from the police, he greatly changed his appearance.
When exactly this story began, no one knows for certain except the criminal himself. Only proven episodes and confessions of the maniac that he gave during the investigation become known to the general public. Orsky maniac Valery Andreev confessed to seven rapes and murders, but presumably the count could go into hundreds.
Bloody Harvest
The first reports that a maniac was at work in the vicinity of Orenburg appeared in 2013 and quickly spread across all social networks. Frightened people shared information and simply rumors. Someone even stated that the criminal was seen here and there. In March of the same year, Orsk maniac Andreev was put on the wanted list and the governor of the Orenburg region announced that the reward for helping the investigation in catching the criminal would be half a million rubles.
At that time, the 55-year-old criminal was a truck driver and was hunting women throughout the area near Orenburg. The victims fell into his net themselves. Presumably, they voted on the side of roads near cities and villages in the Orenburg region in order to get to another settlement.
When Andreev’s car stopped, the women did not even suspect that there was a maniac in front of them. The Orsk criminal put another victim into the cabin, and no one ever saw her again. The criminal preferred women from 17 to 40 years of age with a thin build; it was they who made him want to rape and then kill.
Psychics against a maniac
In 2013, in mid-March, as part of the popular series “Psychics Are Investigating,” a program was released dedicated to the acts of a bloodthirsty criminal from Orsk. Before this, desperate relatives of the missing victims turned to participants in the “Battle of Psychics” for help with their last hope of finding their loved ones.
Well-known clairvoyants reported many details related to the girls, the accuracy of which amazed those who knew the missing people closely. Psychics confidently stated that the Orsk maniac Valery Andreev killed at least a hundred girls, whose disappearance the investigative authorities did not in any way connect with his bloody activities.
They voiced many small details known only to the investigative team, described the criminal’s cars and what he did to his victims. Investigators could not help but recognize the shocking accuracy of the matches and were convinced that their search was on the right track.
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Neither neighbors nor Andreev’s work colleagues had any idea that a real maniac was living and working next to them. The Orsk rapist and murderer had a family and lived to see his gray hair; he did not at all give the impression of a dangerous criminal. Truck drivers he knew accidentally found women's hair clips and used condoms in his car, but they could not think that these were evidence of bloody crimes. Valery Andreev (the Orsky maniac) was extremely careful and carefully washed away traces of blood; he never went on a caravan with other trucks.
Operatives are on the trail
Investigators managed to get on the maniac's trail in the summer of 2012. Then the search began for the missing 18-year-old girl Olga Zhuravleva, who (according to witnesses) got into a white foreign car and disappeared without a trace. The search for a similar car led the investigators to Valery Andreev. The car was examined, and as a result, biological material from several missing girls was found. Among them was Olga herself.
According to the data that the investigative team was able to obtain, Andreev began his criminal activities back in 2006. After he was put on the wanted list, the man disappeared, and even his relatives did not know about his whereabouts. His wife and two sons could not believe that Valery was the maniac who terrified all the women of the Orenburg region. Already hiding, he called his wife from someone else’s number. The maniac never found the strength to confess his crimes to her. To all his wife’s questions, he only insisted that the investigation would sort it out.
Has the Orsk maniac been caught or is he walking free?
Despite a lot of evidence and various precisely established information, to date it has not been possible to catch the criminal. Apparently, his rich life experience, resourceful mind and devilish cunning allow him to be so careful as to continue to hide. It is quite possible that Valery Andreev (the Orsky maniac) is now far from his small homeland.
In the Orenburg region, his photos have been posted in large numbers, and everyone knows what a maniac looks like. The Orsk Investigative Committee continues to search for the rapist and murderer. Law enforcement agencies warn and say that the criminal is very dangerous. He looks quite harmless and it is difficult to suspect a bloodthirsty nature in him. Andreev easily finds a common language even with strangers and knows how to inspire confidence in himself and win him over.
How to avoid becoming a victim of a maniac?
In criminology there is such a thing as “victim behavior of the victim.” This term refers to provocative behavior that causes the offender to act illegally. Perhaps fear-mongering in the Orenburg region will do a good job and force girls and women to be less frivolous.
Everyone will now think, when getting into an unfamiliar car, about the likelihood that an Orsky maniac may well be behind the wheel. The bloodthirsty killer will most likely be caught. Sooner or later, even cunning and cautious criminals make a mistake. But it is always worth remembering that trusting strangers can lead to fatal consequences.