Stanislavs Rogolevs

Stanislavs Ivanovich Rogolevs (born February 14, 1941 in Ogre District, Latvian SSR - June 19, 1984 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet-Latvian serial killer. For one and a half years he attacked 21 women, killing ten of them. In 1980, Rogolevs was convicted four times, and charged once with rape. According to writer Alexander Chekhlov, Rogolevs was the informer of Alois Vaznis, a police officer, who, in turn, tried to shield Rogolevs.^[1] In particular, he gave Rogolevs full information about the crimes, fabricating a confession in which he could be declared insane. It was also believed that Rogolevs had information about the progress of the investigation. According to a writer and lawyer named Grutups, Rogolevs was a secret agent of the deputy minister, General Anriyas Kavalieris.^[2]

Crimes

• The first sexual crime, for which he was judged separately, Rogolevs committed before the 1980s.
• In October 1980, Rogolevs committed another sexual assault, along with his accomplice Aldis Sware.
• On October 26, 1980, near the Yumprava station, Rogolevs threatened a 17-year-old girl with a knife, dragging her into a nearby forest. When she started screaming, he beat her with the knife handle and tried to rape her, but couldn't. The girl escaped and reached her home, where her relatives lived.
• On November 8 in Salaspils, near the Dole station at seven in the morning, Rogolevs twice stabbed a 44-year-old woman in the stomach because she did not want to talk to him. She survived the attack.
• On November 18, together with Aldis Sware, Rogolevs beat and raped a woman, who managed to escape.
• On November 26, 200 meters away from the Lielupe station, Rogolevs stabbed a 27-year-old woman in the stomach, but she continued to resist. After people started approaching the scene, he fled.
• On November 27, near the Yumprava station, Rogolevs tried to attack a 24-year-old girl; she saved herself by blinding the attacker several times with a flashlight. She got off with a slight bodily injury.
• In December, he raped an 18-year-old girl 70 meters away from her house.
• On the night of the new year in Babita, Rogolevs and Sware dragged a 34-year-old woman into the forest where they raped, robbed and murdered her.
• In March 1981, he robbed and killed a 47-year-old woman.
• On April 8, 1981 in the area of the Shkirotava station, Rogolevs outlined another victim - a woman in a state of intoxication; he knocked her down, picked her up and took her to the nearest bushes, where he raped her twice and killed her afterwards.
• In July 1981, in Vecāķi, Rogolevs  tried to kill a man in self-defense. After deciding that the young man had died, he beat and robbed a 16-year-old girl close by.
• In late July 1981, after a joint dinner at a restaurant, Rogolevs invited a 43-year-old vacationer from Chelyabinsk to his apartment, where he raped, robbed and then strangler her.
• On August 27, 1981, Rogolevs was waiting at the train station when he saw a lonely 24-year-old girl who got off the train in Aizkraukle. He attacked her and inflicted about 80 blows on her. For this crime, three other men were initially charged (one of them sentenced to death), and only after Rogolevs' confession were they dismissed.
• In September 1981, Rogolevs made four attacks, and in March 1982, he attacked twice.
• In April 1982, after a party in the "Juras Perle" bar, Rogolevs went to the beach with two girls, one of whom he killed, while the other managed to escape.

Investigation

To catch the maniac, a special detective group was formed. It is believed that Rogolevs had information about the investigation process did not give any success to the detective group. After the murder in the "Juras Perle" group, police experts went on an unprecedented measure: they took fingerprints from all the bottles that were on the tables that evening. And they then calculated Rogolevs' fingerprints. After the criminal was put on the wanted list, his accomplice Sware turned himself in to the Dubulti militia and suggested that Rogolevs possibly resided in Ulbroka. The police, after this incident, received an informal order not to take him alive.^[3]

Rogolevs was detained by two young police officers, who did not know about the unofficial order. He tried to escape during the detention, but Rogolevs was incapacitated by the officers and fell down on the ground. Evidence and tools from the crimes were found in his apartment. Rogolevs himself willing confessed after the detention. Psychiatric examination under the leadership of Prof. Shostakovich from the Serbsky Center recognized Rogolevs as sane. The lawyer tried to appeal this decision, aruging that during the war Stanislavs and his mother were bombed and buried alive, and excavated only after a few hours. All his life Rogolevs had suffered from hallucinations, drank diazepam and other potent medicines, which, when paired with alcohol could cause increased aggressiveness. And in prison he was always beaten, because he was convicted or rape. Rogolevs was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in Leningrad on June 19, 1984.^[4] The case was conducted by the investigator for special cases Jānis Skrastiņš.

References

Literature

• "Case number 1", Alexander Chekhlov, Riga, 1992, 1995.
• "Maniac" (Latvian: "Maniaks"), Andris Grutups, "Atēna", 2010

Documentaries

• Documentary film "Agent 000" from the series "The investigation was conducted...", 2011.