Maniac Valery Andreev from the Ural town of Orsk has been wanted since 2012. His escape is a "merit" of the local police. How many women actually fell victim to it? Has the criminal been caught today?
Valery Andreev is called the "Orsk monster". Like many other killer maniacs, he was an unremarkable person, led an ordinary life, worked, raised children. What prompted him to commit terrible crimes? How many women did he actually rape and kill? Why hasn't he been caught yet?
Biography and family of the Orsk monster
Valery Andreev was born in mid-April 1957 (10th). About his childhood and youth, his parents do not know anything. He was an ordinary, average Russian, having worked all his life as a truck driver on long-haul flights. The management and colleagues characterized him positively, spoke of him as a calm, sympathetic, but somewhat reserved person. Even on the voyage, he tried to leave alone, outside the so-called "caravan" of heavy trucks. But for some time, no one paid attention to this feature of his character and behavior.
The maniac also had a family - a wife and two children. At the time when the true face of Valery Andreev was revealed, the children were already adults. His wife could not believe that her beloved man, with whom she lived half of her life, was a fanatic and a murderer. In one of her few interviews, the woman said that the situation does not fit in her mind, the crimes of which he is accused do not fit in any way with the image of the person she knows. But Valery Andreev's involvement in at least three murders has been proven. In total, he is suspected of committing seven murders. And how many of them he made, working as a truck driver and carefully covering his tracks, in general, remains a mystery.
Crimes
During the investigation, the police found out that Valery Andreev began to rape and kill his random fellow travelers in 2006. At that time, the man was almost 50 years old. What was the impetus for him to commit such grave and terrible crimes is not known. Psychologists believe that the reason lies not in the turning age and not in the fact that the wife began to grow old and did not suit Andreev anymore. The craving for violence was embedded in him from birth, but he managed to hide or mask it.
Valery picked up his potential victims on the road or at a bus stop. He stopped his choice on single girls, and most of them at that time had any personal problems. Experts are sure that the maniac felt it intuitively.
Andreev strangled the victims until the moment when they lost consciousness, but he killed them only after he had raped them. After the violence, he kept some girls in his garage for some time. He masked the traces of crimes in the room with lime and putty. The maniac took the corpses to the steppe, where wild animals brought them to a state in which the girls can be recognized only after an examination at the DNA level. This sophistication in hiding evidence and allowed him to hide his crimes for a long time.
How the police got on the trail of a maniac
For a long 6 years, the police and prosecutor's office of Orsk carefully concealed information that a serial criminal had appeared in the city and its environs, killing girls and women. Law enforcement officers, on pain of dismissal, were prohibited from discussing work cases outside their offices. The case received wide publicity after the disappearance of Olga Zhuravleva. The maniac made an unforgivable mistake - many witnesses saw how the girl got into his car, and then disappeared.
Valery Andreev and his entire family were summoned for interrogation, but on the same day the alleged killer and rapist were released. The police expressed their excuse completely absurd - at that time they did not find any reason to detain the man. He was simply given a summons to appear in the department the next day, but Andreev never showed up there. Early in the morning he left in an unknown direction, and from that moment until today he has not been caught, but his guilt has already been proven in several episodes.
A few days after the escape, Valery Andreev called his wife from someone else's phone. To her reasonable question about why he was hiding, he replied - "let them figure it out." Then many ordinary people decided that he was innocent and simply did not hope for justice. But during a search of his garage, his work car, the police found numerous evidence of crimes - traces of blood, personal belongings and jewelry of the victims.
Search for a maniac
Since 2012, the search for Valery Andreev has been underway. His guidelines are posted in all cities of Russia, they are on the official website of law enforcement agencies, in the police and prosecutor's offices. Experts even created a composite sketch of a maniac from Orsk, taking into account age-related or deliberate changes in appearance.
From time to time, the police receive reports that a person similar to Valery Andreev was seen in Yekaterinburg, then in Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don. In one of the cities, he even came into contact with a woman, threatened her and her little child, who was in a wheelchair, with violence. Only the fact that the woman's husband arrived in time saved her and the child. The man hit the maniac, after which he disappeared. The police outfit was summoned by the spouses immediately, but the search did not yield anything - Andreev seemed to have sunk through the ground.
