The son dismembered his parents and hid their remains in a freezer in Rostov-on-Don. The body parts lay in the cell for almost two months.
As SHOT found out, the 74-year-old man and his 73-year-old wife stopped communicating at the end of September. However, their relatives contacted the police about a week ago. The couple's 49-year-old son, Vitali, insisted that his parents had gone on vacation in Crimea. He chose this version not by chance, as pensioners often went there in the past.
Later, Whitley himself told the police that they should look for their parents in the freezer of their apartment, and then confessed to the massacre. When the security forces arrived at the scene, the man was no longer there. Now they are looking for him. Vitaly himself has two minor children - a boy and a girl.
According to the neighbors, the man was engaged in transporting cargo and was friendly. However, he already had a criminal record in the past - about 10 years ago Vitali was wanted on suspicion of murdering his mother-in-law. That's when the woman was found strangled in a cemetery in the village of Shchepkin, Al-Aqzai district.