Overview
- The Investigative Committee recognized the family’s Skoda Kodiaq as a material exhibit and seized it, noting the car is registered to the father’s employer.
- Items recovered from the vehicle included shopping bags, a woman’s purse and a child seat, and investigators reported no camping gear was present.
- Authorities confirmed 300,000 rubles were found in the glovebox and transferred to the father’s daughter from a previous marriage for safekeeping with an obligation to return if required.
- Sergey Usoltsev’s phone last connected on the evening of September 28 about 7 kilometers from Kuturchin, as forensic specialists work the case under prosecutor oversight and more than 60 witnesses have been questioned.
- More than 1,500 people took part in searches that formally wound down on October 12, and investigators continue to examine several scenarios including a medical emergency, getting lost, or a wildlife encounter.