The Supreme Court of the Komi Republic sentenced truck driver Dmitry Dirko to 21 years in a strict regime colony for the murder of a five-year-old child committed in Vorkuta. A seventeen-year-old student was not his first victim: earlier, Dirko brutally suppressed a schoolgirl from the Kostroma region. About how the maniac was caught – in the material of RIA Novosti.sister from the Manturovsky district of Kostroma region to the neighboring Mezhevskaya. After the first weekend in May, the girl did not appear either at home or at school. Only then did the mother turn herself in to the police.
The family was considered dysfunctional and officers believed that Vika had simply left the house. Volunteers found the body only on May 6 – not far from the highway and 13 kilometers from where the girl used to go for a ride. Experts have found that the teenager was strangled and there was no rape.
Pictured: Victoria Gureu
The most experienced employees of the regional departments of the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were looking for the killer. An operational headquarters was organized in Manturovo, and previously convicted residents of the district were interrogated. The deceased desperately resisted and, apparently, scratched the face of the criminal – pieces of skin remained under her fingernails. But no DNA matches were found in any database.
As a result, they agreed on the driver's version of the ride – they began to check by numbers the owners of cars that passed on May 2 in the Manturovo region. local college student Valentina Tsyvunina disappeared in Vorkuta. In the morning, she went to class. She did not return to the village of Vorgashor, which is a few kilometers from the city.
At first they also decided: the girl ran away after a conflict with her mother. But she assured that she did not argue with her daughter. Yes, and the student's documents remained at home. A criminal case was opened under the article “Murder”.
Pictured: Valentina Tsyvunina
Valentina often hitchhiked to Vorkuta.
“Six-month-old investigators called interrogations of my friend, a driving school instructor,” says Vorkuta resident Aleksey Tarasov, “His training VAZ-2109 was seen not far from the place of the loss. In fact, a few months before, he had sold the car.”
Dmitry Dirko, 36, is a truck driver who was previously convicted of murdering a woman in Vorkuta in the late 1990s.
He was released in 2014. Settled in Kostroma, got married, got a job. The woman gave birth to two children. However, a few years later, Dirko quit his job unexpectedly and returned with his family to Vorkuta. of Vorkuta” />