“MK-Kostroma” already wrote about the emergency that happened at the “Kostroma Sea” (i.e. the section of the Gorky reservoir) September 15, 2020. Then two residents of the Kaluga region decided to go fishing on one of the islands of the Kostroma Sea – and disappeared. Both fishermen (men 61 and 56 years old) stopped communicating and did not show up at the agreed place to return home.
The relatives sounded the alarm, turned to the police and the search engines from the Lisa Alert detachment for help – but all searches were unsuccessful: only the boat was found, the whereabouts of the fishermen themselves remained unknown. The searches are still ongoing, but, as the rescue volunteers themselves admit, there is practically no chance of finding the missing people alive.
Meanwhile, the regional SU of the Investigative Committee suspected a criminal component in this mysterious story of history and opened a criminal case on the fact of the disappearance of two people. This is a rather rare case. Usually in such cases, law enforcement officers act on the principle “no body – no action.”
But now things seem to be different …