A case in point is the old case of the murder of genius programmer Anton Stepanenkov. His body was found on June 17, 2012 in the Butovo forest park. Forty stab wounds, no items stolen. The only child of his mother, he came to Moscow from the Oryol region to study at Moscow State University. Lomonosov. They called him a genius of mathematics and programming, and they imagined a great future. And then Anton was attacked while jogging; he was an avid athlete and spent many hours training in the fresh air at any time of the year.
All these years, the elderly mother has been knocking on the doorsteps of the Investigative Committee. She doesn’t have money for lawyers, she doesn’t have high-ranking relatives to move the IC workers with one phone call. Despite repeated requests, she failed to get an appointment with Bastrykin. All the letters, out of habit, went down to the capital’s headquarters, where over time the matter was simply forgotten.
It is noteworthy that the case of the murder of Anton Stepanenkov is not hopeless. They even established the DNA of the criminal, whose trace remained on the victim’s clothes, probably when the corpse was dragged.
A certain amount of hope was generated by the experts’ conclusion about the presence of an odor trace of an unknown person on the victim’s clothing, but this “evidence” could not stand up to the competition with the facts and time. But in the summer of 2021, unexpectedly for everyone, DNA was found on a baseball cap seized in a murder case on Volgogradsky Prospekt in Moscow that matched the DNA of the killer Anton Stepanenkov. There was hope again for the old hang-up to be solved. But the investigators give a dry message…it was “not possible” to find out the identity of the man who was wearing this cap.
12 years have passed since the murder of Anton Stepanenkov. The case lies quietly, without movement, in the archives of the district-level investigative unit. It seems like everyone just wants to forget about him.
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The Investigative Committee does not want to solve the murder of a genius programmer
“Is anyone able to reach Alexander Bastrykin?”
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