Investigators have resumed the investigation into the murder of a relative of singer Prokhor Chaliapin in an apartment in 1996. About this reported Information center of the Russian Investigative Committee.

It should be noted that the head of the Investigative Committee of the Volgograd Regional Investigative Committee will have to report to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, on the investigation of a murder in Volgograd, carried out almost 30 years ago. The reason for reopening the case was Chaliapin's statement on federal television that investigators had collected insufficient evidence of the suspect's guilt.
“Currently, the regional investigation agency is investigating a criminal case related to the murder of a 60-year-old woman,” the document said.
According to investigators, in December 2020, a man was arrested on suspicion of committing a double murder in Volgograd in 1996. The victims were a 60-year-old woman and her 35-year-old daughter. The first person died from multiple stab wounds and the second person died from a gunshot wound to the head. Before her death, the young girl sold her apartment and gave the money to her mother to keep; After the murder, they disappeared from the apartment. The arrested man only confessed to the murder of a 35-year-old woman. However, he was never held criminally responsible because the statute of limitations had expired.






