The suspects were not professional hitmen or members of a paramilitary group. They were a family. A mother, her daughters, and her husband. Their crimes spanned nearly a decade: home invasions, execution-style killings, ambushes on police officers. Dozens of stolen items linked them to victims across Rostov Oblast and beyond.
They would become known in the media as the Gang of Amazons.
In this episode, we examine the investigation that connected seemingly random crimes to a single group, delve into the backgrounds of the perpetrators, and follow the trial that brought their reign of terror to an end.
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Resources
Web
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Amazons)
History and Other Things (https://historyandotherthingsweb.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/gang-of-amazons/)
Medium - Serial Killers: Gang of Amazons (https://medium.com/@natasha.leigh/serial-killers-gang-of-amazons-c1c8af9301f2)
Articles
Russia's Rostov court sentences 'Amazon gang' to lengthy jail terms for numerous killings (https://tass.com/society/1575671)
Near Rostov the members of the gang announced the verdict for robbery and murder (https://chelorg.com/2017/12/05/near-rostov-the-members-of-the-gang-announced-the-verdict-for-robbery-and-murder/)
Russian nursery teacher killed ten people with help gang (https://expressdigest.com/russian-nursery-teacher-killed-ten-people-with-help-gang/)
A family of murderers in Rostov. Adventures of 'bloody Inessa' (Tarverdiyeva's case in Rostoblsud) (https://buhconsul.ru/en/semya-ubiic-v-rostovskoi-pohozhdeniya-krovavoi-inessy-delo/)
Twenty years for the Amazons. Why women are not given a life sentence? (https://en.topwar.ru/131746-dvadcat-let-dlya-amazonok-pochemu-zhenschinam-ne-dayut-pozhiznennoe.html)
Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios
This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.