The head doctor of a private clinic, 60 years old, could have killed Marina Kagan due to jealousy.
Marina Kagan's body was discovered by her son in the early morning hours of November 10. The woman was lying by the stairs that led to the second floor of her cottage in the gated village of Nikolskoye near Troitsk. Her skull was fractured and there were strangulation marks on her neck. At the time of death, the victim's son was at home, but asleep in his room. The noise woke him up. The suspect was arrested about five hours later. The murdered woman's son said that a 30-year-old German citizen lived in the cottage with him and Marina (he spent part of his life in Ukraine and speaks good Russian). His name is Daniel, a friend of the family and often even Marina's son.
Apparently, the family met him during trips to Europe. Daniel came to be treated in Russia - he took advantage of Kagan's opportunities. He started an affair with a woman. Now one of the motives being examined is jealousy. During the interrogation, the man admitted that he had been preparing for the murder for a week. He even prepared a strong bag to suffocate the victim with.
"On the basis of personal enmity, he pushed his friend's mother down the stairs, and then hit her head on the stairs at least 4 times, and then suffocated her with a plastic bag," the press service of the Chief Investigative Directorate of the Moscow Investigative Committee reported.
A criminal case was opened for murder and car theft (Daniel fled the cottage after the massacre in the murdered man's foreign car). He faces up to 15 years in prison.