"Default": Zdorov's knife and bag did not pass a DNA test and were not stored properly

The knife, sheath and bag of the accused in the murder of Tair Rada were only visually inspected and no DNA could be extracted from them.

The head of the collection department during the investigation of the murder testified in court: "The dubber feared that he might kill him."

Another witness who was a student at Tair's school: "Look at me with a scary look"

Eli Ashkenazi

12/12/2021

Sunday, 12 December 2021, 18:56 Updated: 19:14

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"psychopath".

Roman and his wife Olga, today (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

The knife with which Roman Zdorov worked, the sheath he was in and the case in which, according to Roman Zdorov's testimony at the time of his arrest, where he put his work clothes after the murder were only visually inspected, no DNA was extracted and stored properly, so DNA could be extracted retrospectively. (Sunday) During the trial of Roman Zadorov, the defendant in the murder of Tair Rada, to which the judge responded that it was a default.

Zdorov's bag was dark in color, so it's hard to understand how they were content with just a visual inspection.

A murder indictment was filed last week, in light of a sock DNA production found at a murder scene six years ago.

Among other things, Yaniv Assur testified today that during the investigation of the murder, a police chief was gathered at the Galilee Regional Police Station and that he signed the agreement with the dubbing artist Arthur - the dubbing person in front of whom Zadorov confessed to the murder.

A decade later, he was one of the avenging policemen in the Nahariya police affair who tried to harm the criminal Michael Moore and today serves as the director general of the municipality of Acre.

A decade of testimony revealed that only eight days after the dubber finished his work he wrote a memo in the presence of his meeting with Arthur on his last day in the holding cell with Zadorov.

In the memo, he cited a decade that Arthur had told him that Zadorov was a "psychopath," and that he feared he might kill him.

To the question of the defense attorney, Adv. Yarom Halevi and the question of the judges, Assur replied that today we can not remember why he wrote the memorandum only after eight days.

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"Dubbed is a pipe."

A decade, today (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

The judge whose voice wondered why no one asked for the well-being of the dubber, who he said sounded "desperate, said harsh things." The French judge went on to ask the decade if he did not follow what was done in the cell. In addition, Halevy presented the agreement with the dubber, and criticized that the dubber's salary depended on his success in obtaining Zadorov's confession to the murder. To this a decade replied that it was an agreement signed then with dubbers in other investigations as well, and there was no agreement unique to this case. "Dubbed's job is to dub, to get maximum details from the person without knowing details, he is a conduit," a decade noted. "True or not, accurate or not, for that there is an investigation team." The prosecution confirmed that the agreements signed with dubbers have changed since then, also following this investigation and that today the payment depends on the quality of the dubber’s work.

Another witness today was Lena Spolens, who was in the tenth grade at the Nofei Golan school where the murder took place.

On the day of the murder, she was walking and therefore was not at school, but testified that a few days earlier she had disturbed Zadorov when she disconnected from the power supply three times the cable he had pulled to the shelter where he worked.

"I was a naughty and noisy girl then," she said in her testimony, noting that she told Zadorov "my head hurts from you, hang up the drill."

In her interrogation 15 years ago she testified that he looked at her with a frightening look as she passed him.

In his confessions to the detainee in the detention cell, Zadorov recounted his encounters with students at the school: "Cursed my family, I could not stand it, I swear I will no longer go to work neither to school nor to kindergartens, I do not want, these children are not educated."

While saying the sentence he put his finger next to the temple in the shape of a gun.

Tair Rada (Photo: Ginny)

Tair Rada was murdered inside a toilet cubicle at Nofei Golan School in Katzrin on December 6, 2006. Almost three years later, the Nazareth District Court convicted Roman Zdorov, a foreign citizen and resident of Katzrin, of murdering the girl.

The verdict set aside a dense fabric of evidence that led to his conviction.

Since then, however, the affair has continued to occupy the media and public opinion, and despite the firm verdict - the justice system has discussed it several more times and left the conviction intact.

Zdorov, who worked in flooring at Rada's school, was arrested several days after the murder, confessed to the murder and even remarried.

He then retracted his confession, and as the trial progressed the defense was able to raise doubts among the public that Zadorov was indeed the killer.

Last summer, Chief Justice Hanan Meltzer ruled that a retrial should be held.

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