Overview
- Workers found remains in a bag and a backpack near Golyanovsky Pond on November 16, and emergency divers reported no additional fragments in the water.
- Later the same day, the decapitated body of the 6-year-old was located on a balcony in a Balashikha apartment.
- The mother was taken into custody on suspicion of murder and told investigators she killed the child, submitting a written confession.
- Authorities requested medico-legal, molecular-genetic and cold-weapon examinations and will conduct a psychological-psychiatric evaluation of the suspect.
- Law-enforcement sources report the mother previously underwent psychiatric hospitalization and used narcotics, while separate records identify the father as Alexander Matytsin with prior convictions and outstanding debts.