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A. Varnelis, who killed seven people and tried to kill two more, was born into a large family in Telšiai d. Parents were soon deprived of parental rights and A. Varnelis entered the orphanage and attended a school for children with mental retardation. That’s where he grew up. Before coming of age, he was robbed, examined twice at the Žiegždriai Psychiatric Hospital and convicted three times. Doctors have diagnosed him with congenital dementia, but have found him guilty.
Antanas Varnelis
He was jailed for 32 robberies and the court released him prematurely. 1992 January 14 A. Varnelis, who was released early for good behavior, started massacres: in half a year, seven people living on lonely farms were killed in Šakiai, Jurbarkas, Kelmė, Šiauliai and Raseiniai districts (the seventh victim, a 92-year-old woman who was also murdered, died in hospital). Two more tried to kill (very seriously injured). Officials called it a “killer angel face.”
The identity of the murderer was established, but could not be quickly found. The police were also assisted by the army – the forests were “combed”, in Šakiai district during such “combs”, a hermit who had been living in the forest for more than twenty years was accidentally found.
As Ipolitas Burokas, Commander of Crimes against the Person of the Ministry of the Interior, said at that time, the scale of the search was enormous. The police and the army “combed” nine districts. And, for example, in Gelgaudiškis, all the houses (according to the officials, only the house of the chief and the shepherd remained intact) and the surrounding villages were left intact.
Photos of A. Varnelis were distributed in the press and shown on television. The officials asked the public not to try to stop him themselves, but to call the police. However, people did not ask for instructions: in the Kaunas district, upon recognition, the villagers brutally beat A. Varnelis and only then handed them over to the police.
The first known murder of A. Varnelis took place on July 27, 1992. Šakiai district, Bernotai village. Here he killed an old man and set his farm on fire.
A. Varnelis killed all his victims in a similar way: he was stabbed in the head with some object. After that, the money was kidnapped, but its prey was always small: the victims were poor, they only kidnapped other litas. Only one victim of A. Varnelis was a little different: in Šiauliai, on the ground, he killed the car with which he was drinking, there was nothing to kidnap him from.
In Kelmė district, on a remote farm, after killing a woman (born 1925), he put the corpse under straw in a barn and spent the night there with the decomposing remains. Later, the police found A. Varnelis’s bed in the barn.
All police forces were accused of killing the murderer: from the Ministry of the Interior (the police department was still in the ministry) to the areas where A. Varnelis was seen, many operative groups came out, whose members received the order of the direction of not returning until the killer was caught.
Forensic scientists of the time said they had nothing to compare A. Varnelis with. One only remembered a maniac who killed prostitutes and intricately despised corpses in Vilnius in the 1980s, whom officials dubbed “Sanitaru.”
A. Varnelis did not regret the murders at all, he said that it is the same as turning the head of a chicken.
I had to speak to A. Varnelis before the shooting.
– Did you choose the grandparents because it is easier with them?
– Yes, I went, I went, I secured everything.
– Why did they have to be killed?
– There was no food to eat, money was needed.
– But isn’t it necessary to kill for that?
– I do not know.
– What did you kill?
– Soon … With an iron.
Antanas Varnelis
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