In March 2012 a charred corpse was found near the Shkotovo-Artem highway in Russia. The corpse was discovered in a pile of garbage and sand by a local resident walking his dog. A month later, in the same area, another corpse was found in an iron barrel filled with sand.
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The forensic examination found that in both the first and second cases, the remains belonged to men aged 25 to 30 years old, who died no more than two months ago. Employees of the homicide department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the city of Artyom, who investigated these crimes, did not even doubt that the bodies found were the link to the disappearance of two local men. The guys living in the suburbs of Artyom, in the Ptichnik micro-district, disappeared in February 2012. They left their home and did not return.
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According to the police, there was a plan to kidnap one of the men and ask his relatives for ransom, but while captive he was killed. The other man was a witness to the crime and was then killed.
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The bodies were disposed of in the garden of an abandoned house and doused the bodies with gasoline and set them on fire. A few days later, the killers hid the charred corpses: one body was taken to the forest, several kilometers from the crime scene, where they threw garbage and sand over the body. The other body was stuffed into a barrel, set on fire, and then covered with sand. One of the bodies was consumed postmortem by animals.
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