The “Solikamsk shooter” hunted police officers and security guards for nine years. “Solikamsk shooter” hunted policemen and security guards for nine years Shot his beloved in front of his daughter

Gerashchenko, Alexander Viktorovich(born January 5, 1971) - Russian serial killer. He committed murders with an unusual motive - he needed the weapons of the dead.

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Life before crimes

Gerashchenko served in a special unit Marine Corps. He was assigned the military specialty of “reconnaissance diver.” After demobilization, Gerashchenko got a job as a fire department employee, and by 2006 he held the position of assistant chief of guard at the 16th city fire station. Gerashchenko did not drink, did not smoke, played sports, did not drink coffee, did not drink tea, did not eat meat, did not use mobile phone, read classical literature, taught foreign languages, by his own admission, he dreamed of someday leaving for Spain forever.

Murder Streak

Gerashchenko committed his first murder on July 13, 1998. His victim was a conscript soldier guarding the Ural plant. The killer shot the sentry with a small-caliber rifle. The bullet hit him right in the head. Gerashchenko's catch was an AK-74 assault rifle with a spare magazine.

Soon Gerashchenko attempted to attack the Interdistrict Department of Private Security under the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Solikamsk. But the criminal was discovered in time in the bushes, where he set up an ambush. It was not possible to detain him - he fled and lay low for two years.

Gerashchenko’s next victims were a security guard at the Universal City Base, killed in 2000, and a security officer at Solikamsk Magnesium Plant OJSC, who died on the night of August 5-6, 2001. Both of them were killed by single shots through the windows. Having committed the last murder, Gerashchenko tried to enter the territory of the magnesium plant, but a VOKhR employee opened fire on him. The killer had to escape.

The seventh victim of the “Solikamsk shooter,” as Gerashchenko was popularly nicknamed, in December 2005, was a young woman whom he shot in front of her four-year-old daughter. As it turned out later, he had unrequited feelings for her. Passers-by rushed in pursuit of the criminal, but he managed to escape. On the way he dropped outerwear and a mask. After this incident, the killer went to bed again.

IN 2009

IN 2010

“The project gave me a lot,” says Sasha. - The coolest gift is my favorite unusual blonde wife, whom I love very much and without whom I feel very lonely and sad. In addition, the project gave me a start in life, recognition, and most importantly, the opportunity to do what I love and strive for something more. And the project also gave me a roof over my head. This is very important and pleasant for me.”

The first time he showed his dancing talent was at the age of three at a rural wedding. He has been dancing since the fifth grade.

At the age of 15 he entered the department of folk choreography at the Gadyatsky School of Culture. Then he moved to Komsomolsk and worked as a choreographer for the Veselka folk ensemble. He devoted two years to folk dancing, three to breakdancing, then returned to folk choreography.

IN 2009 year, his team received the Grand Prix at the “Looking for Talents” competition. And Gerashchenko tried his hand at the show “Everybody Dance-2” and got into the top hundred best dancers.

IN 2010 year he became the winner of the third season of the show “Everybody Dance!”

“The project gave me a lot,” says Sasha. - The coolest gift is my favorite unusual blonde wife, whom I love very much and without whom I feel very lonely and sad. In addition, the project gave me a start in life, recognition, and most importantly, the opportunity to do what I love and strive for something more. And the project also gave me a roof over my head. This is very important and pleasant for me.”

The fact that the project participants - Alexander Gerashchenko and - are connected romantic relationship, the audience found out after the show ended. This didn't come as a big surprise. After all, the emotional and kind-hearted Sasha seems to be simply made for each other.

However, at that time no one thought that this whirlwind romance would end in a wedding a little more than a year later. The couple got married without any fuss before the New Year, but they decided to solemnly celebrate this event by becoming participants in the reality show of the channel “Wedding Battles.” According to the rules of the project, STB pays all expenses and helps in organizing the holiday, but under one condition - the mothers of the newlyweds must propose a scenario for the celebration of the project, and they, in turn, choose what they liked best.

in spring 2012 year participated in the show “Everybody Dance! Return of the Heroes” together with his wife.

The winner of the “Everybody Dance-3” project, who fell in love with thousands of Ukrainians thanks to his soulful and energetic dance, spoke about how he began to do his life’s work, what he is doing now and how he evaluates life lessons.

Alexander, please tell us what is happening in your life now, how is your dancing career developing?

Now everything is going calmly for me, I live an ordinary simple life. As always, I am engaged in self-development, constantly looking for what inspires me and gives me the strength not to stop. I’ve been living and working in Germany for two years now, dancing in Tatiana Denisova’s ballet. During this time, my worldview completely changed.

Now I look at life completely differently. I enjoy simple things that I didn’t pay attention to before, in my free time from work I walk a lot in nature, I can walk down the street for hours, drink coffee, watch the routine bustle of life, I like to just breathe fresh air, read in nature.

Now I spend a lot of time on breakdancing. I really like this style, and despite the fact that it requires a lot of effort, I get a lot out of practicing vital energy and positive. In addition to dancing, I play sports, run actively in the mornings, and go to the gym to work out. I have many goals and new desires, which I believe will come true soon (smiles).

Do you agree that it’s never too late to learn? Are you currently studying with a teacher?

Certainly! I believe that there are no restrictions in this matter. You have to study all your life, learn something new. The most important thing is desire. If you think that it is too late to learn new things, then you are mistaken. You just need to throw all doubts out of your head, believe in yourself and start acting.

Personally, for me, every day I try to discover something interesting and useful for myself. And the older I get, the more new things I want to know, I understand that there is still a lot I don’t know. Basically, I take new knowledge from educational videos and books, and watch motivational films. On this moment I don’t study with teachers, because the robot takes up all my time.

Do you often teach dancing yourself?

There have been many periods in my life related to teaching; I devoted 6 years to this work. I worked with children at first, taught in the children's folk dance group "Veselka" in the city of Komsomolsk, and taught in Poltava for three years. I have traveled almost all over Ukraine with my master classes. At the moment I don’t teach anywhere because I work more as a performer. There just isn't enough time.

Are you a strict teacher?

In classes with people I am very different. But, basically, strict, especially at first, since only discipline in our business can bring some result.

At one time, you won the third season of the “Everybody Dance” project. Has this changed your life radically? What did the victory give you? Do you think it is much more important than just participation?

The “Everybody Dance” project is the brightest period in my life. He gave me a lot, it was thanks to him that I realized myself as a dancer, gained a lot of dance experience, worked with famous world choreographers, and received many invitations to work. The whole of Ukraine learned about me.

The project radically changed my life only in better side, and most importantly, he gave me my own roof over my head. I believe that for every dancer “Everyone Dances” is a chance to express themselves, to show their style, their skills, and the opportunity to promote their favorite business. This is a big start, the beginning of a big and bright path in life.

I believe that winning any competition is very important, as it gives many advantages, plus new ones are provided financial opportunities. People never remember second place, and that's a fact. If you are second, then it’s still after the first. Victory is important everywhere, in any business...

Let's go back to, so to speak, the origins of your dance career. Tell me, how did you start dancing? What did dance reveal in you?

I started dancing quite by accident. At first I played football. One day, after football, my friend came to me and invited me to go with him to a club that he was attending. I didn't even know where I was going. But it turned out it was a dance group. Suddenly (smiles).
And I really liked everything. That's how it all started. I just fell in love with dancing, I always thought and talked about it. So I danced for three years folk dances. After our circle broke up, I started doing breakdancing, this style was special to me - like a drug. I danced it everywhere, on the streets, at discos, at school during breaks, and at the same time I collected a large number of spectators. This is where my dancing life began... Dance for me is an opportunity to show myself and my condition from the inside, it is a way of life, a way of thinking, it is a hobby, it is a job. Everything I have in my life is thanks to dance!

In your opinion, are we the masters of our own lives or do you believe in fate?

I know for sure: what we do today, we will have tomorrow. For myself, I determined that I build my life myself. All events, downs and ups are the result of my work, my hard work or laziness. The easiest way is to blame everything on fate or some circumstances...

In fact, you need to start with yourself, think about what I did well and what I did poorly, what result I got, and what it would have been like if I had put in more effort. We create our own lives, choose how we move and where. Everything depends only on ourselves.

What is the main lesson life has taught you?

Life is a whole science that teaches good and not so good lessons. I had a lot of moments like this, after which I began to approach my life completely differently and became aware of my actions.

The most difficult period was my injury. Because of the great desire to dance beautifully and be on high level I pushed myself as hard as I could, gave everything I had to training, worked out three times more than everyone else. As a result, I suffered a back injury, which I struggled with for a very long time. For three months I just lay at home and could not walk. It was at that moment that I realized that I could lose...

Also last year I had surgery on my leg, and I could have ended up without it. All these difficult moments changed me a lot, I began to appreciate my capabilities and life itself much more. Now I understand that everything has its price and reward...

Can you describe the dance in a few words or a sentence? What's in it for you?

This type of art is a lot of work, to understand it you need to put in a lot of effort, a lot of sweat, and most importantly a lot of patience... Dance for me is air, which you simply cannot do without. This is my way of life. With its help, I can reveal and express myself much more than in ordinary life.

Do you have a creative dream that you strive to achieve?

At the moment I have many more desirable goals. I think about them every day and strive to bring them to life... Well, my greatest desire is to travel the world and perform in different countries, in order to expand my worldview and gain a lot of experience that will help me realize all my desires and aspirations.

As a ballistic examination showed, this was the same machine gun that was stolen during the murder of serviceman Kiselyov in July 1998. Several more people were killed with these weapons between 2001 and 2005.

Series tragic events

As it was subsequently established during the investigation, the only motive for six armed attacks, which ended in the killings of military personnel, police officers and private security guards, was the desire of the criminal to take possession of a firearm. IN total the killer managed to take possession of a machine gun, two revolvers and a PM pistol. In two cases he was mistaken: among people who, according to his assumption, should have had with them firearms, he was not there. But the killer only realized this when he searched the clothes of the crime victims.

The first attack in a long series of murders took place on July 13, 1998, on the territory of the warehouses of the Solikamsk Ural plant. Private military unit 3426 Kiselev, who was on guard duty, was wounded in the head by a bullet from a small-caliber rifle. Doctors fought for the soldier’s life for a long time, but 3 months later the victim died. Kiselev's assault rifle was stolen by the attacker.

This AK 74 assault rifle was fired on July 1, 2001, on the territory of the Aktsors base. The base security guard, VOKhR employee Fedoseev, was shot dead when a criminal who was outside saw him in the window opening of the guard room. The guard did not have a weapon.

On August 4 of the same year, at post No. 9 of the Solikamsk magnesium plant, guard Mironov was killed with a machine gun. He was on a guard tower and they also shot at him through the window. The criminal again did not find a weapon.

On the afternoon of June 26, 2003, an attack was carried out on post No. 34 of the Ural plant. The checkpoint controller of the VOKhR detachment, Kravchenko, was killed by a machine gun shot in the chest, and his revolver, loaded with seven cartridges, was stolen. The criminal forced his next victim to leave the guardhouse and enter the territory of the protected facility by cutting the wire of the alarm system.

On September 19, 2004, a criminal used a ladder to enter the second floor of the plant management building of the Ural enterprise. Going down to the post on the first floor of the building, he fired from a machine gun at the checkpoint controller of the VOKhR detachment, Popova, who was carrying a Nagan revolver. The revolver was stolen, and the woman died in the hospital the same day.

An employee of the private security department at the Solikamsk Internal Affairs Directorate Sursyakov was ambushed by the killer in a well-known local residents the passage between the fences of the water utility and the dispensary of the Ural plant. At about 12 noon on June 7, 2005, from the territory of the water utility, he fired one shot in the back of Sursyakov and stole his service weapon - a PM pistol.

In addition, the killer took several failed attempts attacks on people who, by virtue of their professions, legally possessed firearms. Only the vigilance of Solikamsk police officers made it possible to avoid new bloody victims - the criminal was noticed near protected objects, the alarm was raised, and the attacker had to retreat.

The criminal used the stolen PM pistol for murder only once. This was the only crime that fell out of the general picture, since it was committed, as it later turned out, for personal reasons.

On November 5, 2005, at night, a criminal broke the window of an apartment in one of the Solikamsk apartment buildings with a stone, where the young woman Tyukhtina was staying. The man preparing to shoot was seen by random eyewitnesses of the incident, and the criminal disappeared. The killer made a second attempt to complete his plan on December 23 - he lay in wait for Tyukhtina while she was taking her four-year-old child to the local child Center. The perpetrator shot the woman twice in the presence of the child. He was noticed again and even pursued for some time by eyewitnesses of the tragedy, but the killer easily broke away from his pursuers and disappeared.

The criminal was seen again. On December 24, 2006, at night he tried to break into the store building and commit theft. Policemen Matveev and Blagov pursued the criminal, overtook him and tried to detain him. The robber actively resisted the police and used a firearm - a PM pistol, injuring one of the police officers. This circumstance again allowed the serial killer to escape.

Employees law enforcement, of course, took measures to identify the criminal. But there was no success. And one of the reasons for this was that the killer left very few traces, since he carefully prepared for the crimes, everything happened quickly, and the few witnesses had extremely little information. And it was obvious that the criminal was resourceful, well-developed physically and a good shooter.

And while clearing the rubble of the fire in the old archive building, a machine gun stolen in 1998 was discovered. A new circumstance, new emphasis in the investigation, new employees, new approaches to solving serial murders in the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Perm region, the colossal amount of work carried out in the shortest possible time by the investigative and operational group created in 2007 brought results - success, which was preceded by the consistent, everyday work of the “detectives”, the correct analysis collected material and determination in achieving the main result: the evil committed must be punished, and new evil must be prevented.

The circle was narrowing...

The dry lines of the protocols say very little about the tragic side of the events that unfolded in Solikamsk in those years.

“Just imagine - a person got ready for work, said goodbye to his family, took some of his things, some food,” says Sergei Sarapultsev, deputy head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Perm Territory. – It seems that everything is very ordinary, nothing portends trouble for the family. But he went to work and didn’t return... He was killed, and the victim did nothing bad to the killer, they didn’t even know each other.

What we're talking about about serial murders, it did not immediately become clear. Although at almost every crime scene the killer left some traces: camouflage army clothing, bags, masks, primitive plumbing tools, flashlights, shell casings - the investigation did not have sufficient grounds to believe that there was one criminal at work. The Solikamsk prosecutor's office opened one criminal case after another, and a number of these cases were combined into one proceeding. But by the fall of 2007, all criminal cases were suspended because the criminal could not be found. The search for the “Solikamsk shooter” was progressing poorly.

In October 2007, after the formation Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, the Investigation Department for the Perm Territory was tasked with “solving” a series of murders in Solikamsk. General organization work at the level of interaction between all law enforcement agencies of the region was carried out directly by the head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee - then still under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation - for the Perm Territory, Marina Zabbarova. The investigation in all cases was resumed (and subsequently these cases were combined into one proceeding under the general number - 1595), and a single investigative and operational group was created. It was headed by Sergei Sarapultsev, at that time deputy head of the department for investigating particularly important criminal cases of the Investigative Committee. Two most experienced police operatives, Pavel Budrin and Dmitry Baichurin, helped him and worked with him shoulder to shoulder throughout the entire investigation.

Over the course of 4 months, crime scenes were re-examined, investigative experiments were carried out, dozens of people were interviewed, complex examinations were ordered and carried out: genotyposcopic, traceological, ballistic, including repeated, merchandising, forensic. The investigative and operational study included a huge number of people, both in the territory of Solikamsk and in the Perm Territory: active and retired employees of military, special, law enforcement units, representatives of the criminal environment, athletes (shooters, biathletes, wrestlers, boxers) and simply ordinary people. The circle of witnesses expanded, the geography of crimes was analyzed, and any information was given the closest attention. And the appearance of the criminal began to emerge.

– While questioning witnesses in this case, I realized that people are very reluctant to give evidence, even those who worked in law enforcement agencies. And the explanation was simple - they were afraid that the killer could be their colleague or acquaintance, he had not been found, and it was unknown who could be the next victim. Solikamsk was “tense” for a long time. Of course, there was no panic in the usual sense of the word, but people were afraid of new murders. During the investigation, strange, not to say mystical, events happened,” says Sergei Sarapultsev. “We’re going to inspect a house that might be interesting to us—for some reason it’s burning down.” We are planning to interview a person - he dies or goes missing. There were many such cases, thank God - not criminal. But luck also came: we happened to get vital information, which theoretically could not have been preserved, if only due to the fact that archives are subject to destruction over time. The mysteries of Solikamsk... In general, the investigative and operational group really worked together, we understood each other perfectly, and everyone was oriented in detail in the huge amount of information and the rapidly changing investigative and operational situation.

By the way, during the investigation of this series of murders, in the practice of law enforcement agencies of the Perm Territory, memory activation of witnesses (hypno-reproductive interview) was carried out for the first time. Or, more simply put, testifying under hypnosis. For this purpose, a specialist hypnologist from Moscow was specially invited. The investigation had four eyewitnesses who saw the criminal in person. However, they all saw the killer briefly, in a stressful situation, and described him differently. After activating the memory of these witnesses, a very informative portrait of the criminal was obtained.

- One of key events The investigation resulted in an expert’s conclusion that some of the items found during the fire in the old archive of the Ural plant were components of a “fire rescue belt,” notes Sergei Sarapultsev. – There were also rubber parts there – and we selected samples of rubberized fabrics from almost all sewing workshops in Solikamsk. The solution later turned out to be simple - the criminal was packing the machine gun in a rubber case, which he brought from the army. Indeed, a lot of work has been done. In general, during various forensic examinations a huge variety of objects and documents of interest to the investigation were studied (and sometimes more than once) - from large buildings and structures to the thread with which a button is sewn. Everything that said anything about the criminal, even to the smallest extent, interested us and was taken into account. By the end of February 2008, the volume of information analyzed was already so large that the solution of the crime was already expected. And the disclosure could come from different directions: from weapons; from geographical features crimes; from things that the criminal left at crime scenes; from witness testimony; from place of work, etc. All that remained was to determine the identity of the criminal and “link” him to the murders with objective evidence - stolen weapons, biological traces, witness testimony, inspections of territories, objects, documents. The investigative team was led directly to the identity of the criminal by information about the lantern that the killer left at the scene after the murder of Tyukhtina. We have established the entire movement of this lantern from the seller to the last owner - the criminal. At the beginning of March 2008, we knew with confidence that the “shooter” worked as a firefighter, lived in Borovsk (northern part of Solikamsk) and served in military service in special units x Marine Corps. Since it was not possible to completely conceal the investigation process, the criminal realized (as it later turned out) that establishing his identity was a matter of a very short time, and prepared to escape. This information became known to the investigative team, and we prepared for the arrest. For this purpose, the forces of special units of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Perm Territory were brought in, which worked brilliantly.

On March 19, 2008, in Solikamsk, Alexander Gerashchenko, born in 1971, deputy chief of the guard of fire station No. 16 OFPS-2 of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Perm Territory, living in Solikamsk, with no previous convictions, was detained. By this time, he no longer showed up for work - he stocked up on fake sick leave and was preparing to go abroad.

During Gerashchenko’s arrest, a PM pistol, stolen after the murder of a policeman, and a VOKhR shooter’s revolver from the Ural plant were found and confiscated.

Gerashchenko's backpack contained everything necessary for independent living on the road: tools; tent; change of linen; money; passports, etc.

During numerous interrogations, he gave detailed testimony on all episodes of the crimes committed.

– It can be stated that the active stage of the investigation did not last long. In November 2007, I accepted the case for proceedings, and in June 2008 I sent it to court,” recalls Sergei Sarapultsev. “Taking into account all the examinations and the huge number of victims, this is really fast. But finding the criminal is only part of the job. After this, all information must be procedurally mastered and turned into evidence. And this is the work of the investigator exclusively: painstaking analysis; drawing up protocol forms; making the necessary investigative decisions and, as a result, a decision to charge him as an accused. During this intensive work, every word of Gerashchenko was checked, a lot of interrogations, confrontations, on-site verifications of testimony, forensic examinations, inspections, investigative experiments, requests to various bodies and institutions were carried out. The entire investigative and operational group worked very concentratedly and continuously during this period.

Diagnosis – normal

Gerashchenko’s special training really turned out to be excellent: in the army he served as a reconnaissance diver in the Black Sea Fleet. In the fire department he was characterized positively: physically developed, disciplined, able to make quick decisions. He used these skills when committing murders: he carefully planned everything, conducted covert surveillance of the victims, found out the operating hours and technical equipment of the protected objects, and confidently evaded prosecution.

“We communicated calmly with Alexander Gerashchenko,” says Sergei Sarapultsev. – He was interesting to me as an opponent. I wouldn’t call him brilliantly educated, but he was a well-read person, outwardly intelligent, expressed his thoughts clearly, and was interested in history and various literature. Good army special training allowed him to remain undetected by law enforcement agencies for a long time. In life, in everyday life, at work, Gerashchenko was a “positive hero” - he conscientiously treated the service associated with danger; Probably, saving people from fires, he showed elements of heroism. At the same time, he is a brutal killer, criminally focused on a single goal - to obtain firearms in the most in a simple way: cause the death of the victim, take the weapon and escape unrecognized. He was not at all touched by the fact that he caused physical pain to both the killed and their relatives, who mentally suffered from the loss of their loved ones. Gerashchenko is a hunter, only a hunter of people. He took pleasure in tracking down his victims, killing these people and hiding from his pursuers. All this is inhumane. At the same time, a psychological and psychiatric examination recognized Gerashchenko as absolutely mentally sane, capable of answering for his cruel actions in court.

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Alexander Viktorovich Gerashchenko (Solikamsk, 1998-2007).

A l e x a n d r G e r a s h e n k o - sophisticated Serial killer, operating in the vicinity of Solikamsk for 9 years (1998-2007).

He committed murders of armed persons (policeman, military personnel, conscripts) in order to seize their weapons, for which he carried out reconnaissance of the upcoming crime scene, set up ambushes, and sometimes imitated the commission of a crime designed to disguise the real purpose of the attack. Analyzing Gerashchenko’s criminal activities, one cannot help but recognize his intelligence, ingenuity, enterprise and personal courage - it was this very unusual set of individual qualities for a serial killer that predetermined the criminal’s long-term invulnerability and his extreme social danger.
Born in 1972 in Solikamsk, Alexander Viktorovich Gerashchenko went in for sports all his life and adhered to the rules of a healthy lifestyle: he never smoked, did not drink alcohol, already in mature age, became interested in qigong, and gave up coffee and tea. In his youth, he was involved in boxing, running, and swimming, and although he did not achieve great success, his sports hobbies predetermined his conscription into the naval special forces. Service future killer took place in the Black Sea Fleet. After completing his military service, Gerashchenko planned to remain in the army, but a series of reforms at that time led to the reduction of his military unit and “put an end to” his prospects contract service. Gerashchenko considered the inability to continue serving in the naval special forces as the biggest failure of his life.
Returning to Solikamsk, he joined the fire service, and by 2007 he had risen to the rank of assistant chief of guard of the 16th fire department of the 2nd detachment of the Federal Border Guard Service in the Perm Territory of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation. Gray everyday life, devoid of bright impressions, caused extreme dissatisfaction with Gerashchenko. After 2005, he began to prepare to leave for Spain, for which he began to learn Spanish and English.

Alexander Viktorovich Gerashchenko in a photograph from his personal file and at the time of his arrest.

The killer made his first attack on July 13, 1998. On that day, Gerashchenko shot a sentry guarding the warehouses of the Solikamsk Ural plant with a small-caliber rifle. The criminal took an AK-74 assault rifle with a spare clip from a deceased conscript soldier.
After 4 months, Gerashchenko tried to attack the premises where the OVO guard was on duty, however, his ambush was discovered and the criminal had to flee from his pursuers, firing back. This failure, which almost cost Gerashchenko his life, undermined his faith in his own strength for some time. He spent the whole of 1999 intensely playing sports and thinking about new attacks.
In 2000, Gerashchenko committed two new attacks on the security of production facilities. In one case, he killed a security guard at a construction base, and in another, an employee of the magnesium plant. The attacks were carried out at night, Gerashchenko fired through the windows, after which he entered the guardhouses and took the weapons of the victims. The criminal took a great risk, because... There were other guards nearby, however, the expectation that a surprise attack would deprive them of the initiative was completely justified in both cases.

In 2000, Gerashchenko, shooting through the windows of the guardhouses, killed two guards and took possession of their weapons (PM and revolver pistols).

After this, the emboldened killer attempted another attack on the guard of the magnesium plant, but he was noticed during an ambush near a barbed wire fence. Gerashchenko had to run, firing back as he went. The guards, in turn, fired more than a dozen bullets in his direction and the criminal only by luck escaped injury. This failure cooled the killer’s “hunting” passion for more than a year and a half.
He made his next venture into “business” only in the summer of 2003, when he cut the alarm wire of the security line of the Ural plant and shot the security guard who appeared. The killer took the victim's revolver with him as a trophy. At the crime scene, Gerashchenko forgot his tools - pliers and wire cutters.
Another year and a half later, in November 2004, Gerashchenko shot through the window of the guardhouse a female employee of the VOKhR of the same Ural plant who had dozed off at the table. Having burst into the room, he grabbed his service pistol murdered woman and disappeared.
Less than a year later - in the fall of 2005 - Gerashchenko shot with a machine gun a policeman - an OVO employee - who was returning home after his shift. The criminal took the PM pistol and a spare clip from the deceased, after which he calmly walked away. The murder took place in the center of a residential area, in front of many witnesses. Several men rushed after the killer with a machine gun (well, isn’t it fantastic? It’s amazing when you hear life stories about how our ordinary people sometimes take up the task of maintaining order...). Gerashchenko, hiding from pursuit, was forced to take off his camouflage jacket and balaclava hat (a special knitted cap with slits for the eyes that covers his face up to the chin) as he walked.
In October 2005, Gerashchenko committed a crime that was sharply different from all previous murders. This was a very personal crime, which (theoretically, at least) could lead the investigation directly to the killer. Gerashchenko’s victim was a woman whom he unsuccessfully courted in the late 90s. His love was platonic and unrequited. Since then, the woman has already managed to get married and give birth to a girl. At the time of the attack, she was just taking her 4-year-old child to a dance class.

In the photographs on the left and in the center is Yulia Aleksandrovna Tyukhtina, one of Gerashchenko’s victims. The nature of her murder - in a public place, in front of her daughter, without an obvious motive - indirectly indicated the existence of a special relationship between the criminal and the victim. Although this version was worked out in 2005-06, it did not attract due attention, which allowed Alexander Gerashchenko to remain free for more than a year. In the photograph on the right: the killer, during an investigative experiment, demonstrates how he fired a control shot into the victim’s head.

Gerashchenko met the object of his former adoration on the street and, coming face to face with the victim, shot the woman first in the chest and then in the back of the head. The mother was killed in front of her daughter, who was not touched by the criminal. Breaking away from the pursuit (Gerashchenko was again chased by residents of the surrounding houses!), the killer was forced to again throw off his hat, gloves and jacket.

By the end of 2005, law enforcement agencies had collected a veritable collection of things abandoned by the mysterious killer while escaping from the pursuit, or forgotten at crime scenes. Among them were both details of the clothing the criminal was wearing and his improvised tools: a flashlight, pliers, and wire cutters.

At the scene of the woman’s murder, Gerashchenko dropped led flashlight, which did not require batteries for operation (electricity was generated in it by a miniature dynamo). This was a rather unusual thing for Solikamsk, but none of the investigators appreciated the curious find at that moment. Nevertheless, it was thanks to the unusual flashlight that the criminal was eventually found. This did not happen soon, however.

The machine gun that Gerashchenko stole from the soldier he killed in July 1998 was found almost nine years later in a cache in the burned-out building of the old city archive of Solikamsk.

It should be noted that until 2005, the murders described here were not considered as a single “series”, but were considered unrelated. However, after the death of the OVO sergeant, the assumption that a certain “shooter” was living in Solikamsk, purposefully killing security officers, became prevalent, although unproven.
In October 2007, criminal cases for all of the above murders were combined into a single investigation. At the same time, within its framework, a comprehensive check of fire protection employees began (police officers, military personnel and private security organizations had been checked several times before, but employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations fell out of the field of view of investigators). A real breakthrough in the investigation occurred in early March 2008, when witnesses to Gerashchenko’s attacks were interviewed under hypnosis and, based on their memories, a portrait of the criminal was compiled that was very similar to the original. A specialist from the Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation specially came to Solikamsk to conduct a hypno-reproductive survey.

Witnesses to Gerashchenko's attacks, interrogated in a state of hypnotic trance, gave very accurate descriptions of the killer. Based on them, an integral portrait was compiled that had a high similarity to the original.

Alexander Gerashchenko attracted the attention of the investigation not only because he perfectly matched the portrait, but also because he had exactly the same LED flashlight that was dropped by Yulia Tyukhtina’s killer in 2005. A small batch of such flashlights was brought from Moscow to Solikamsk by Gerashchenko’s subordinate ; He gave one of them to his boss.
Gerashchenko was at good standing at the place of work. Moreover, in February 2008 he was nominated for an award for bravery in a fire. One of the personnel department employees unofficially warned him about a check carried out by prosecutors on the personal files of FPS employees, and clarified that the inspectors have a very detailed portrait of the wanted person. The killer realized that his exposure was a matter of near future and took retaliatory steps.
He took sick leave, bought a train ticket to Moscow and wrote two resignation letters (sent one by mail, left the other at home). After these preparations, Gerashchenko folded his backpack, grabbed all the cash he had in the house (10 thousand rubles and 100 euros), and set off on foot away from Solikamsk. He had with him 2 pistols, which he had previously used in attacks. The criminal’s plan to leave the city and start life with a “clean slate” was not bad in itself and was quite adequate to the threat that had arisen, but its implementation was clearly late. By the time Viktor Gerashchenko left the house, he was already under continuous surveillance.
The killer was arrested outside the city on March 19 and almost immediately began to cooperate with the investigation - the presence of two pistols, which were the murder weapons, in his hands at the time of the arrest was so revealing that denial made no sense. During the first interrogations, he revealed the location of a hiding place in the forest, in which he kept spare clips for weapons and one of the pistols.

The criminal, without much hesitation, pointed out the place in the forest where he buried the extra weapons and ammunition, and during the investigation he behaved calmly and judiciously...

As a result, the indictment against Alexander Gerashchenko, presented to the regional court in September 2008, consisted of as many as 26 counts, which included seven murders committed with extreme cruelty, two attempted murders, robbery, theft of firearms with violence (in four episodes), an attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer. The former reconnaissance diver and accomplished firefighter had a jury trial in October 2008; at the end of the same month, the jury found Gerashchenko’s guilt proven and on November 7, 2008, he was sentenced to capital punishment - life imprisonment. Lawyer Andrei Zakharov, who defended the accused at the trial, considered the sentence too harsh and filed a cassation appeal, which is currently (December 2009) under consideration.

In the photograph on the left: Alexander Gerashchenko heads into the courtroom. Right: immediately after the verdict was announced, Gerashchenko, not without malice, asked the lawyer: “And this is your entire defense?”

Alexander Viktorovich Gerashchenko with with good reason can be classified as serial killers-“destroyers” (you can read about the classification of serial killers, and). “Destroyers” are serial killers who commit crimes without any apparent sexual motive, do not perform any sexual manipulations with the victim’s body, and often choose as victims people who are sexually unattractive in the eyes of others (old people, disabled people, babies). "Destroyer" is interested in the murder process itself, for him sex appeal sacrifices are insignificant or insignificant at all. Ours presents materials about such serial killers-"destroyers" as and, however, Alexander Gerashchenko is very different from them.
First of all, he is an organized, non-social serial killer, which is very uncharacteristic of “disruptor” killers (usually they belong to the category of disorganized asocial killers who have poor control over their emotions and usually use alcohol or drugs). Sports hobbies, military service and work as a firefighter in subsequent years gave Gerashchenko a very specific physical and psycho-emotional conditioning. Fans of criminology have probably seen more than once footage of the announcement of court sentences for famous criminals - Ryakhovsky, screaming in a bad voice, barely restraining his tears, and Theodore Bundy, who burst into tears, will be remembered by everyone as visible examples of a complete loss of self-control. Gerashchenko, having heard the fatal verdict, only closed his eyes for a few seconds, and a minute later, not without malice, he asked the lawyer who approached him: “And this is your entire defense?” Very few people are able to endure the hardest blows of fate in such a way. However, it is possible that such stability of Gerashchenko is only a consequence of some schizoid traits of his personality, expressed in emotional coldness and depression general level mental reactions.
It's important to note that high degree self-control does not at all exclude the accumulation of frustration (acute internal conflict). The latter is considered by criminal psychology as main reason serial, mass and chain murders. Moreover, the ability to control emotions, driving them inside, often makes the frustrated person experience much more difficult and lasting experiences in comparison with a person who does not restrain himself. The fact that Gerashchenko knew how to, as they say, “take a punch” and made an impression on those around him strong personality, does not at all exclude the fact that for many years he experienced acute dissatisfaction with himself and the world around him. It was from this dissatisfaction that his thoughts about the need to move to Spain stemmed (Ostap Bender also dreamed of an abstract Brazil). Need I say that in Spain the killer would not have felt better, because the reasons for the frustration lay within himself?
Gerashchenko believed that he did not know how to please women, and this forced him to withdraw into himself. During the investigation, he admitted that he could only maintain relationships with those women that he did not like; he never managed to get those whom he considered attractive. It is clear that we are talking only about a subjective assessment, but if we talk objectively, then such a contradiction, it seems, should not exist - a pleasant, erudite, smart and neat man must be liked by women. The deterioration of his personal life was apparently predetermined by Gerashchenko’s emotional coldness, his inability to empathize with his partner and clearly inadequate assessments of female behavior (and this is all a consequence of the already mentioned schizoid personality traits).
Gerashchenko actually invented love for himself on the part of Yulia Tyukhtina, whom he killed, with whom he not only did not have physical intimacy (which he confirmed both during the preliminary investigation and in court), but did not even really talk about love. When, during the explanation, she refused his sexual advances, Gerashchenko regarded this as treason, betrayal and ridicule. This situation is absurd from the point of view of any adequate man who has experience communicating with women, but in the eyes of Gerashchenko, what happened was enough to sentence the woman to death and, after a while, shoot her in front of her 4-year-old daughter.
Gerashchenko explained his other attacks by the desire to take possession of the victims’ weapons. And the need to have a firearm at hand, in turn, stemmed from the fear of remaining defenseless. The killer loved being outdoors and traveled a lot around the surrounding area. wild forests, so such fear is to some extent understandable. But Gerashchenko’s fear of “becoming unarmed” was irrational and in no way correlated with the place and time of his stay. Even when going for bread, he took with him a pistol with a cartridge chambered in the barrel.
The hunt for people he organized did not have the slightest rational meaning and was only the implementation of a subconscious desire to relieve frustration and confirm his intellectual and physical superiority over others. To a certain extent, he succeeded in this, especially since the killer really had grounds for increased self-esteem.
But this did not save Gerashchenko from retribution. Despite his luck, experience, physical training and intelligence, he was exposed by investigators from the Investigative Committee at the Prikamsk Prosecutor's Office. The criminal was identified as a result of careful analytical work, as they say, calculated and calculated. Unlike many other cases from domestic practice, he was arrested not during an unsuccessful attack and not due to a mistake! No, they found him when he had already gone to the bottom, quieted down, and did not show anything about himself for more than a year. Nothing to say - an excellent example of investigative and forensic work!