"The Zyuzinsky Maniac": She Hated All Men
FULL TEXT (autotranslated from Russian): This 39-year-old Muscovite, suffering from schizotypal
personality disorder, managed to kill two men and injure several more,
according to one version, thus Maria Petrova avenged sexual violence, which she
had to repeatedly experience.
~ Assaultin the Zyuzino District ~
Maria Petrova got her nickname because of the place where
she most often attacked her victims - this is the South-Western administrative
district of Moscow. The investigation and the court proved two episodes of
the murder of Mokvichs, regarding the number of wounded by the “Zyuzinsky
maniac”, the opinions differed - the prosecutor's office insisted on four, but
by the definition of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme
Court of May 15, 2003 No. 5-o03-82 one of the victims, but survivors, removed
from the list of victims - the court considered that there was no conclusive
evidence that it was Petrov who cut the man. Moreover, the wounded, unlike
the other three, did not see who hit him and could not identify the attacker
(attacker).
Also, the Supreme Court’s ruling refused to prosecute M. A.
Petrova due to her chronic mental (schizotypic) disorder - that is, Zyuzinsky
Maniac could not adequately perceive her actions during the attacks. Thus,
officially in this case two corpses and three, but not four wounded, as the
media and bloggers wrote. In addition, in numerous publications, the
surname of the first victim, allegedly Sergey Makaryev, was incorrectly
indicated. The aforementioned Supreme Court ruling does not contain this
name at all — neither among those killed by Petrova, nor among the wounded — IA
Kamornikov and N.P. Zhabin, as wounded by the maniac, and Efimov, Chernyaev and
Isaev, the wounded. The episode with Petrova’s attack on V.P. Kiselev is
excluded from the list of proven.
~ Who She Is And Why She Started Stabbing Men ~
Outwardly, she is a broad-shouldered, tall, masculine
woman. From childhood she went in for sports. By nature,
uncommunicative and closed. It is reported that she was observed by a
psychiatrist from an early age. The girl (at the time of the crimes of
Petrova was 24 years old) taught physical education in one of the Moscow
technical schools, where, by the way, she was well characterized, among other
things, as an organizer of extracurricular sports activities (weight-lifting
section), an active athlete (Petrova was fond of swimming). With men,
Maria Petrova, obviously, was not lucky due to character traits (and it is
possible that problems with the psyche). The main reason Zyuzinsky Maniac
started attacking males with a knife was revenge for the rape by a certain
young man and sexual harassment at the workplace of an elderly
colleague. Allegedly, it was these two cases that prompted Maria Petrova
to cruel reprisals against men completely unfamiliar to her.
~ Her Behavior ~
From March to April, the Zyuzinsk Maniac attacked men with a
knife five times. Beat in the throat, stomach or back to back. The
attacks took place on the street, often with witnesses. The investigation
then concluded that Petrova did not care in advance about where, when, and whom
exactly she would kill. I didn’t think out ways to leave and, in
principle, did not develop a crime plan. She was attracted by the manic
desire to kill a man at all costs, no matter under what circumstances.
The first Muscovite I. A. Kamornikov was killed by her on
March 1 near the Varshavskoye metro station. At the end of the month,
stabbing N.P. Zhabina on Sivashskaya Street with knife stabs in the throat of
the “Zyuzinsky Maniac”. Until the end of April of the same year, when M.
A. Petrova was detained, she managed to attack three more people with a knife
(these are only episodes proved by the investigation and the court).
Fortunately, the victims of the attacks survived. ...
"Zyuzinsky maniac" was caught on April 23, 2002. Petrova
confessed to the killings, and the forensic psychiatric examination recognized
her insane, therefore, beyond the scope of criminal prosecution. Now M. A.
Petrova is undergoing compulsory treatment in a special institution. The
victims who were involved in this criminal case tried unsuccessfully to
challenge the findings of experts and insisted that the Zyuzinsky maniac still
go to jail. But the court refused them these requirements.
[«Зюзинская маньячка»: за что она возненавидела всех мужчин,
Pikabu.ru, undated]
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CHRONOLOGY
May 15, 1978 – Maria Aleksandrovna Petrova
born
Mar. 1, 2002 – Petrova kills Sergei Makariev (20), stabbing
him twice with a knife.
Mar. 27, 2002 – Petrova killed a 60-year-old pensioner,
Nikolai Zhabin, by cutting his throat.
Mar.-Apr. 2002 – 4 attempted murders.
Apr. 23, 2002 – Petrova arrested
on soon confessed to everything; charged with killing two and attempting to
kill four more people. The forensic psychiatric examination recognized her as insane.
The victims who were involved in this criminal case tried unsuccessfully to challenge
the findings of experts and insisted that the Zyuzinsky maniac still go to
jail. But the court refused them these requirements.
2013 –Released?
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Maria Aleksandrovna Petrova / Мария Александровна Петрова
“The Zyuzino Maniac” / «Маньячка из Зюзино»
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[388-1/15/21; 907-11/17/22]
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