Former Police Officer Strangles and Burns His Lover — A Murder Without Punishment

A former Russian police officer, Yevgeny Rodionov, was sentenced in Petrozavodsk for the brutal murder of Moscow lawyer Irina Ivachyova. After an evening of apparent reconciliation, he strangled her, burned her body, and attempted to flee. Despite the severity of the crime, the court handed down a sentence of less than ten years in a maximum-security colony. This episode also examines how convicted killers in Russia increasingly avoid punishment by signing contracts to fight in the war, leaving victims’ families without justice.