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Taxi driver 'stabbed an eight year old girl to death' four days before his wife gave birth

By The Siberian Times reporter
25 February 2013

Anatoliy Trapko, 28, attempted to rape the girl, and killed her after he failed because of 'sexual problems', say police.

Police say Trapko - waiting in his taxi - confessed to starting a conversation with the girl and asking if she wanted to see a kitten. She refused but he persuaded her to get in his car. Trapko, pictured from his back on police footage released by NTV channel shows where he left Anastasiya's body 

At the time his wife Svetlana was close to giving birth to a baby daughter. 

Nastya Lutsishina, from Ussuriysk, vanished on 19 February after her physical education class finished ten minutes early. Hundreds of volunteers hunted for the schoolgirl before her body was found in woodland near the city in the Russian Far East.

Her track and field training session ended ten minutes early before her mother came to collect her, and Nastya stayed to walk the 100 metres home. 

Anastasiya Lutsishina


Anastasiya Lutsishina

Nastya's death caused enormous shock in Ussuriysk with reports that large numbers of locals would attend her funeral. Pictures: Ussuriysk police footage

Police say Trapko - waiting in his taxi - confessed to starting a conversation with the girl and asking if she wanted to see a kitten. She refused but he persuaded her to get in his car. He said they would need to drive some distance. 

But he took her 15km outside the city and tried to rape her. He failed due to 'sexual problems'.

He became angry and took a knife, stabbing her twice, once in the neck. Then he found a  remote place 150 metres from the road and hid her body. 

As the search was underway, on 23 February his wife Svetlana, 30, gave birth in a city hospital. 

The same day the girl's body was found. A day later he celebrated his 28th birthday. 

Anastasiya Lutsishina

Trapko pictured on his wedding day to wife Svetlana. Picture: LifeNews 

Trapko did not visit his baby daughter or wife before his arrest, it is understood. 

Police said that dashboard cameras were crucial to entrapping the suspect.  Footage from these cameras - now popular with Russian drivers - was a 'major aid' in tracing him. An eyewitness had seen the taxi driver talking to the girl, and a driver had footage showing her getting into his car.

'The taxi driver detained on Saturday gave the confessing testimony and told about details of the crime,' said spokesman for the Russian Investigation Committee Vladimir Markin.

'The knife was found at his house that was reportedly used for inflicting two knife wounds to the girl.'

Earlier a local police source told Ussur news website: 'The child was killed. There were multiple wounds on her body. There are reasons to think that the criminal raped the girl'.

Her body was found on 23 February some 15 kilometres from Ussuriisk and 150 metres from a road leading to the village Banevurovo in Ussuriisk district.

Nastya's death caused enormous shock in Ussuriysk with reports that large numbers of locals would attend her funeral.

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Comments (5)

Philip - it's not that unusual - when I was a boy in the Uk I sometimes finished school early, policy was for children to wait but coz I lived a few minutes from the school I also left to meet my mum. Teachers can't watch everyone !! especially when a class has finished and parents are arriving and talking and distracting the teacher. The kid obviously felt safe enough to meet her mum half way. could have happened anywhere.
Mao Oliver-Semenov, Krasnoyarsk
27/02/2013 20:31
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Monster!
nick, london
26/02/2013 20:36
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@ Phillip: its highly unusual Philip, I'd say parents here are paranoid over not leaving their children alone. Anastasiya's mother was due to collect daughter on time - if not for the class that finished earlier (another question is why did the trainer allowed her to go on her own) and for her daughter's decision to meet mum on the way home.

They missed each other by minutes, and nowhere in the world should it be like this that your child can not be left alone for 5 minutes without a danger of being killed.
S, Siberia
26/02/2013 19:04
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Are children not accompanied by parents in that part of the world...?
Philip, UK
26/02/2013 18:21
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poor poor child... how come the driver whose camera registered her followed by the taxi and who saw that evil creature approaching the girl did not call the police???
Tess, L
26/02/2013 00:05
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