In 1987, the entire USSR was shocked by the case of the serial poisoner Tamara Ivanyutina, who poisoned 40 people with the most dangerous thallium. Among the dead were small children.
Psychiatrists recognized Ivanyutin as absolutely sane. At the same time, three main features of her personality were identified: extremely overestimated self-esteem, hypersensitivity and vindictiveness. All of these traits are common among sociopaths, paranoids, and narcissists.
Here are the details of that case …
Tamara was born into the family of Anton Mitrofanovich and Maria Fedorovna Maslenko and was the fourth child of six in this large family. The main deity, the supreme idol and the main measure of success in the family was wealth.
The father did not hesitate to add poison to the person who did not like him, and the mother confessed the following life wisdom: “You should not write complaints, but be friends with everyone and treat them. But it is especially harmful to add poison to food."
Old Maslenko did not hesitate to poison his neighbor in a communal apartment to death, who turned on the TV too loudly and interfered with sleep. And even a relative who made a remark to them about the puddle in the toilet. This is how they "avenged the insults." They added rat poison to pilaf and pancakes prepared for refreshments, stuffed oranges and gingerbread with poison … And at the same time they were very proud of their ingenuity.
Growing up, Tamara jumped out to marry a representative of one of the most successful professions of that time - a trucker. People who have lived in the USSR remember that the "long-range soldiers", along with the sailors, have always been extremely successful - is it a joke, they traveled all over the republics of the Union, wandered to the CMEA countries, and sometimes, lo and behold, even to capitalist countries! Live and rejoice! But that wasn't Tom's girlfriend. Money and an apartment - that's what she needed right now. And so she began to persecute her husband. Slightly, but gradually increasing the dose.
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In the course of the investigation, his partner described the last flight as follows. Tamara's husband became ill during the flight. His legs hurt badly, he did not feel the pedals. He asked to replace him for an hour or two, but the poor fellow's health was getting worse. Neither two nor three hours later the driver could not get behind the wheel. Driving past the village rivulet, he asked his partner: “Maybe I should have a swim to cheer up? I will quickly pour myself some water, get back to normal - and move on. Tomka has prepared a clean towel for me …"
When the driver wiped his head, the partner saw with horror that the entire towel was covered with hair. He refused to treat himself to the sandwiches that his wife supplied him: not because he suspected something was wrong, but simply was afraid to doze off after a hearty snack while driving. Soon after returning from the flight, Tamara Ivanyutina's first husband died of a heart attack.
Tamara Antonovna Ivanyutina (virgin Maslenko) (1941-1987).
After a short time, Tamara married Oleg Ivanyutin and took his last name. Seeing the house and the plot of Ivanyutin's parents, she immediately made a decision - the old people are at the expense, a plot for a small pig farm, pigs for meat and lard - and get richer, richer, richer.
One day, terrible for the old people, Tamara and her mother-in-law cooked dinner. We sat at the table together, but only towards evening the old man became ill. The next morning, the mother called Oleg and said that trouble had happened to his father: the legs were taken away, the feet were numb. He says that he cannot put on socks himself. And when the grandmother began to help him, he bellowed in pain, as if he were being cut into pieces. Oleg advised to call an ambulance, but in the ambulance hospital the doctors examined his grandfather and said that it was polyarthritis that had worsened. Prescribed drugs and sent home.
Tamara was greatly concerned about her father-in-law's health and insisted on going to her parents immediately. I applied a hot water bottle to my legs, fed him with soup from a spoon. In general, Oleg praised her as the most caring daughter-in-law in the world … Apparently, she just poured this liquid into the soup. On the same night, my grandfather died in the hospital.
At her husband's funeral, the widow became ill with her heart. Oleg asked Tamara to bring medicine from home. She returned with a glass of valocordin and a glass of water. Barely drinking the medicine, the mother staggered. A white coating appeared on her lips, and she immediately vomited. Panic broke out among those present. The widow voiced that she had been poured poison. Some woman swore that she saw with her own eyes how Tamara dropped some liquid from a vial into the medicine, taking it out of her jacket pocket. The men began to demand the police, someone suggested taking the contents of the glass for examination. And then Tamara threw both a glass of medicine and a glass of water on the ground. Oleg Ivanyutin shielded his wife from the angry crowd and began to calm his mother. Oleg's mother began to experience the same symptoms: her arms and legs ached, her feet went numb. She could not move her tongue, hardly spoke. In the evening she was picked up by an ambulance, and two days later she died.
The road to his personal pig farm was open. But where to get food? There is only one answer - at school!
School number 16 of the Minsk district of Kiev.
In March 1987, three sixth graders and 11 workers diagnosed with the flu were brought to the hospital by ambulance from a school in Kiev. All had the same symptoms: weakness, nausea, leg pain, baldness. Despite the intensive treatment, two children - Sergei Panibrat and Andrey Kuzmenko - and two adults died almost immediately, the other nine people were in intensive care.
For that time, four deaths in a row was a real emergency. The prosecutor's office took up the case. The hospital doctors, summoned to an emergency meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, suggested that an unknown form of influenza was the cause of death, so standard treatment was ineffective. The following opinion was also voiced: people were poisoned with strong toxic substances through food or water. At first, this version was not even considered, but after the investigating authorities interviewed the victims, it turned out that they all ate in the school cafeteria what was left of lunch: chicken soup and chicken liver. And those who dined on time did not suffer.
Diet nurse Natalia Kukharenko.
Nurse Kukharenko was the first to fall at the hands of Tamara, who had the imprudence to make remarks to Ivanyutina, including for non-observance of hygiene rules, rudeness and rudeness. Tamara did not skimp on comments to children and even teachers, she constantly spun around the stove, looked into the pots. But it was difficult to find another dishwasher for a meager salary, so Ivanyutina was kept at work.
When Kukharenko was hospitalized, the patient complained of numbness and coldness in her legs, the doctors diagnosed her with heart failure. But just the day before, the woman looked healthy, active and cheerful. Six months earlier, two schoolchildren and two teachers were admitted to the hospital with the same symptoms. One of them told the investigation that he had become bald in a strange way, but the reason could not be established.
All these facts showed that the "diseases" were not accidental. It was decided to exhume Kukharenko's remains. It was then that the presence of thallium in the tissues was discovered. But no one even thought about the deliberate use of this heavy metal for the purpose of poisoning. The request to the sanitary and epidemiological station about carrying out measures for the destruction of insects and rodents in the food unit received a negative answer. Experts checked all school premises, food, pots, containers for cereals and the buckwheat itself, which remained in them. To no avail. But the investigators drew attention to the strange behavior of the dishwasher Ivanyutina. She in every possible way obstructed the inspection, rude.
“I came to the conclusion that they don't like us at this school,” recalled the expert chemist Valentina Kalachikova. - The dishwasher Ivanyutina followed me on my heels, like an overseer. Probably, I decided that I would steal a saucepan from them or pour cereals into my pockets. An eerie feeling, honestly. The look is unkind, heavy … How was this shrew even allowed to work with children?"
The next step was to check all the personal files of the canteen employees. And then it turned out that Ivanyutina's work book was fake, since she had a conviction for speculation, which means that she had no right to work in children's institutions. This was the reason to study the life of a dishwasher in more detail. Here the deaths of the first husband, the parents of the second, surfaced. They all complained of nausea and numbness in the limbs. Oleg himself had been ill for a long time (general weakness, joint pain, baldness), but the doctors could not establish a diagnosis. Thus, Ivanyutina became the number one suspect.
During a search in Ivanyutina's house, the necessary thing was found literally at the last moment.
When they examined everything that was possible, Valentina Petrovna Kalachikova suddenly went to the bedside table, which stood by the window, and asked to open the door. Ivanyutina, who watched everything that happened with contempt, stepped uncertainly towards the nightstand:
- This is a sewing machine, I got it from my mother-in-law. Will you inspect?
- We will examine, open or give the key, I will open it myself.
Ivanyutina threw the keys to the floor and almost hissed: "Open it yourself, seamstress!"
Kalachikova examined the contents of the boxes. Bobbins with thread, needles in boxes, a set of embroidery accessories, a bottle of machine oil for lubricating mechanisms … She picked up the bottle and suddenly realized that the dishes were too heavy for oil. And put the bottle in her pocket. Analysis in the laboratory showed that the container contains Clerici liquid - this is the name for an aqueous solution of thallium. It is used in geology to separate minerals by density. Therefore, first of all, all the organizations of the Ministry of Geology of Ukraine were checked. And almost immediately they found a supplier. One of the laboratory assistants of the exploration expedition regularly supplied the Maslenko family with thallium, allegedly for baiting rats. For all the time they received about 500 mg of the poison.
Her sister Nina Matsibora, who sent her legal spouse to the next world, did not lag behind Tamara. Nina married a man much older than her. Having registered the young wife in his apartment, the elderly husband signed his own sentence. A week after the wedding, he was admitted to the hospital with complaints of weakness and pain in his legs. His death was attributed to age.
In November 1980, Tamara's mother Maria Feodorovna fell ill and went to the hospital. Spouse Anton Mitrofanovich was very worried about her health. At some point, the matchmaker decided to visit her. After the hospital, she went to Anton Mitrofanovich and expressed concerns about the health of the bridegroom. Like, of the entire ward, she is the heaviest. It won't do. "I.e?" the matchmaker asked in bewilderment. “Otherwise, there is little hope. We have to prepare to bury in a human way”. This phrase became a sentence for her. Maslenko suggested the matchmaker not to say nonsense, but rather to drink to the health of his ailing wife. While a relative was pouring moonshine and collecting food on the table, he seized the moment and poured poison into the glass. At night, the ambulance doctors, lost in conjecture, gave her injections - now from the heart, then to reduce the pressure, but all in vain - by the morning the woman died. By the way,the patient told the doctors that she had poisoned herself with a boiled egg. Like, when they were eating, Maslenko began to peel the egg, and it turned black right in his hands. He announced that the egg was spoiled and threw it aside. But when he left, the sweater felt sorry for throwing him away, and she finished the egg. Unfortunately, the doctors considered it a dying delirium.
No poison was found during the searches at Maslenko. But the poisoners gave themselves away. When Tamara was already in jail, Maria Maslenko baked pancakes and went to treat her neighbor. She had a large disability pension, which was the subject of Maslenko's black envy. But the neighbor did not eat pancakes, because she had heard that the old woman's daughter was suspected of being poisoned. She threw one pancakes to the cat, and in the evening the animal began to beat in convulsions, and three hours later died. A neighbor reported this to the police, and the Maslenko spouses were arrested. Just like Tamara, they told in detail and with relish who, when, how and for what they were poisoned.
Initially, Ivanyutina wrote a confession. The time has come for a psychopathic benefit performance. While in the midst, she spoke in detail about her crimes. It turned out that she treated two sixth graders with poison only because they refused to arrange tables and chairs. “I decided to punish them,” Tamara said.
Ivanyutina also said that she first experienced the effect of the poison on neighboring chickens and cats. I experimented with the quantities - I knew what dose to give to get a person slightly sick, and what dose to probably die. At the same time, she did not care at all in what agony her victims die. “In such a case, there should be no accidents,” Ivanyutina explained smugly. - My friend almost got burned on an ordinary chicken egg. It's good that the doctors turned out to be mugs …"
However, later Ivanyutina stated that she made a confession under pressure from the investigation and refused to give further evidence. Apparently, when the "fuckers-snoopers" did not buy into her "a lot of gold", for the first time she soberly assessed reality and realized that she was really in trouble.
But the investigation was already clear on the whole picture of the crime. So, in the fall of 1986, Ivanyutin poisoned the school party organizer to death - the woman prevented the theft of food from the canteen. Then Tamara treated two pupils of the first and fifth grades with thallium, who dared to ask her for the rest of the cutlets for their dog. Fortunately, the guys survived, but such poisoning does not pass without leaving a trace for the body.
After the death of dietitian Kukharenko in March, the head of the canteen by the name of Noga sensed something was wrong and began to lock the utility room at night so that Ivanyutina would not have access to food. The psychopath who missed out on openly stated that "The foot will follow Kukharenko." Then the poisoner filled the orange with a solution of thallium with a syringe and treated the "enemy", but he, fortunately, did not accept the offering. On that ill-fated March day, when the children were poisoned, the liver with thallium was also intended for the manager. Just by chance, due to the meeting of the trade union committee, some school workers were late with lunch. As witnesses later said, Ivanyutina watched with a satisfied smile as innocent people devour poisoned dishes.
The end of the Kiev Borgia family: Lukyanovskiy SIZO in Kiev. There, under the USSR, death sentences were carried out.
In total, the family has 40 proven poisonings, 13 fatal. Surprisingly, according to the results of a forensic psychiatric examination, the whole family was declared sane. Tamara Ivanyutina was the most successful in terms of poisoning - 20 poisonings, 9 of which were fatal.
The serial killers' trial lasted several months. Oleg's husband, in his testimony, said that each time Tamara brought more and more waste from the school, while rejoicing that the children did not eat well. And the teachers got it just because they forced the children to finish their portions. This was not at all in the interests of the criminal, so she decided to poison the especially persistent teachers. In addition, the poisoning in the school cafeteria, in her opinion, should have caused distrust of school food and thereby increase the amount of waste for her pets.
Tamara Ivanyutina was sentenced to capital punishment and confiscation of property. Her father, mother and sister received 13, 10 and 15 years in prison, respectively, and an obligation to reimburse all victims for the costs of treatment.
When she was given the last word, she refused to admit guilt and ask for forgiveness from the relatives of her victims. “My upbringing is not the same,” she snapped haughtily.
Tamara Ivanyutina was shot at the end of 1987 in the Lukyanovskiy SIZO in Kiev, she became the third and last female criminal officially sentenced to death in the USSR (Nazi executioner Antonina Makarova and plunderer of state property Berta Borodkina were executed before the serial killer.) Old murderers died in custody, sister Nina, after serving part of the term, was released in Independent Ukraine. Further her traces are lost.