The only such case in Lithuania: A rural cannibal was allowed to explain his actions to journalists.

I. Montvidas was born and lived in the town. Married, established in the Pasvalys district. In the Vildūnai village, they raised four children. The husband worked hard on the collective farm and the wife drank a lot. A woman stole money from a man, took things out of the house and drank them. Once the television was exchanged for a bottle of cheap wine, the so-called “ink”. And when her husband caught the wood he stole from her and did not allow them to be sold, she still got drunk, stole his suit. The wife did not return home during the day, forgetting that the hungry children were waiting at home. He had pierced her arm and chest with a knife. In the end, the man completely lacked patience.

For the first time, I. Montvid began cooking cruelly in 1982. on the morning of May 21.

That morning he went to a neighbor with whom his wife was constantly drunk. He found his naked wife lying on the bed. She refused to go home and her husband started to flow. And me. Montvid knocked her down, reminded her of the chest with her knees, and cut her throat with a pocket knife. After refusing a beer offered by the housewife, she said she was going to call the militia. When he left, he agreed with the mechanic at the collective farm and asked him to call the militia to report that his wife had committed suicide.

And after half an hour he returned to the neighbor, where the body of his wife was still lying. Montvid desecrated the remains: he cut his belly, cut his breasts, wrapped them in paper and took them home. The nipples were cut and eaten by the dog, but he was overwhelmed. And the chest I. Montvid put in a large pot and boiled. But they did not cook: the officers arrived and prevented the man from eating breakfast. Montvid later said to the interrogator, “I don’t know if I would have eaten them.”

The killer said he loved his wife, but “forgive me, she was real now … yes, yes to her.”

A psychiatric examination was performed at I. Montvid. There is an expert opinion in the case: “The personality is primitive, the circle of interests is narrow … Diagnosis: congenital dementia, slight degree of weakness … Accused.”

For this murder, I. Montvidas was sentenced to 11 years in prison, but in 1990 he declared an amnesty and was released prematurely. He did not return to the Pasvalys district, settled with the two youngest children in the adjacent Pakruojis district, settled in a rural apartment building belonging to the Kauksnieji collective farm. He lived in peace for just over a year.

Only the neighbor’s spine and head remained.

1991 On the night of August 31, I. Montvidas was with a neighbor who lived in the same apartment building. They both drank homemade vodka.

While drinking, Montvid lost a cigarette that contained money. She suspected he was drunk, but she claimed she had not seen the cigar at all. Soon the man came out to bring beer because the vodka was too strong for him.

And when he returned, as he himself said during the interrogation, he saw that the neighbor was half naked: “I will still tempt you.” But he was not tempted, because Ignacius, as he himself said, was no longer doing well with women. Soon the hostess fell asleep at the table. And me. Montvid, grabbing her by the hair, raised his head and cut her throat with a curved knife. The corpse fell to the ground.

During the interrogation, the killer recounted in detail how he gave meat to the woman. It started with the legs: cut the calf, the thigh. Then he cut his hands, and so on. Only the woman’s spine and head remained. A femur was thrown in the trash.

When he finished, he washed the knife and took the meat to the attic of the apartment building, where he placed it in a large bowl and a cauldron. The meat is salted as needed. It is true that there was a shortage of salt.

The next day, a daughter came to the murdered neighbor. He didn’t even immediately notice that a desperate mother lay on the ground. He realized when he saw the severed hand.

When the officers arrived, Montvid sat quietly in the courtyard on a bench and took a sip of beer. He was recognized by her husband. Prosecutor S. Biektis, who worked at the Pasvalys Prosecutor’s Office a decade ago and remembers perfectly how his wife’s breasts boiled.

And this time, Montvid felt a special desire for her breasts. He took them to the farm where he worked. But there officials found only one. The man was suspected of having managed to eat a breast, but claimed to have lost it on the way to the farm.

He said he was not going to a birthday party.

About a month after his arrest, Pakruojis police allowed Montvid to meet with journalists. He said that he believed in God, that he did not dream anything, because he did not sleep.

When asked if she liked the neighbor as a woman, she replied: “Not much. That she doesn’t do much. To all the neighbors. “

– Do you want to live, without fear of dying?

– It would be good to live. After all, there are only fifty seconds left.

– Who needed to salt the meat?

– Then it goes … I don’t know what I was doing there. He was like crazy. How that.

– Would you like your children to fall into hands like yours?

– Oh no. Yes No. I don’t want that for my children.

– Can’t you taste the meat?

– No, that is not. In fact, I say no. No longer.

– That was your son’s birthday that day. Maybe you threw a party?

– No. There are no such things.

The cruelty inherited from a father tribe?

In court, the prosecutor demanded the death penalty. The lawyer said that his defendant could still make peace and offered him 15 years in prison.

At court Montvyd did not change his testimony, except for one thing. When asked if he had eaten that meat, he replied “maybe”. And she had already said in court that she would not have eaten, killed the neighbor and desecrated her so that she would not steal in that world (he accused her of stealing a cigarette). And anyway, according to Montvido, when she cut it, it didn’t hurt because she was asleep.

The Supreme Court sentenced Montvid to life in prison. The convict would write a request for forgiveness and hoped to live in freedom.

At that moment, it was said in Pakruojis that I. Montvydas inherited the cruelty from his father, Strib. Montvid himself tried to defend his father: “After the war, Dad worked in a secret militia, kept a rifle in his home, did not deport people to Siberia, did not shoot them, and did not intervene when necessary.”

After the sentence, I. Montvidas was transferred from the Šiauliai Detention Center to the Lukiškės Prison. In Šiauliai, a gypsy neighbor from the camera beat him every day, and in Lukiškės, the man said he felt at home and even gained weight. In prison, I. Montvydas had only one neighbor in the cell, who hugged him himself.

Speaking to I. Montvidas through the playful chamber door, a neighbor (Belarusian, who had killed two people with a hammer in Druskininkai and did not speak Lithuanian) finally realized that a journalist (perhaps saw a dictaphone) in his hand) he danced from the bed shouting in Russian: “I was locked up with a man! I can not sleep! Turns out he wrote complaints about that neighborhood even to then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

While visiting I. Montvydas in Lukiškės, he was reading V. Bykov’s book “Gang of Wolves” about the Red Partisans.

I. Montvydas died of stomach cancer at the Vilnius Prison Hospital in 2001. April 12 According to prison doctors, before his death, he said he had the last wish: “to ride a tractor.”