<div>On a quiet September night in 2013, a routine traffic stop on the outskirts of Aksai unraveled a mystery that had haunted southern Russia for years. A violent shootout led police to a forest campsite, and what they uncovered was more than just weapons.<br>The suspects were not professional hitmen or members of a paramilitary group. They were a family. A mother, her daughters, and her husband. Their crimes spanned nearly a decade: home invasions, execution-style killings, ambushes on police officers. Dozens of stolen items linked them to victims across Rostov Oblast and beyond.<br>They would become known in the media as the Gang of Amazons.<br>In this episode, we examine the investigation that connected seemingly random crimes to a single group, delve into the backgrounds of the perpetrators, and follow the trial that brought their reign of terror to an end.<br><br><strong>Books:</strong> Read collections of <a href="https://evidencelockerpodcast.com/books">The Evidence Locker Files</a>, available in print and digital editions.<br><strong>Follow us on:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-3vROB1gpEWM1YoEr9vLA">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/evidencelockerpodcast/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/evidencelockerpodcast/">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://x.com/EvLockPodcast">X</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@evidencelockerpodcast">TikTok</a><br><strong>For more information, visit:</strong> <a href="https://apple.co/3td9ivp">Evidence Locker Website</a><br><strong>Listen ad-free:</strong> Visit our page at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/evidencelocker">Patreon</a><br><strong>50% of Evidence Locker Patreon proceeds are donated to support the </strong><a href="https://www.doenetwork.org/"><strong>Doe Network</strong></a><strong>, solving international cold cases. To learn more, visit: </strong><a href="https://www.doenetwork.org/">https://www.doenetwork.org/<br></a><br><strong>Resources</strong><br><strong>Web</strong><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Amazons">Wikipedia</a><br><a href="https://historyandotherthingsweb.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/gang-of-amazons/">History and Other Things</a> <br><a href="https://medium.com/@natasha.leigh/serial-killers-gang-of-amazons-c1c8af9301f2">Medium - Serial Killers: Gang of Amazons</a> <br><strong>Articles</strong><br><a href="https://tass.com/society/1575671">Russia's Rostov court sentences 'Amazon gang' to lengthy jail terms for numerous killings</a><br><a href="https://chelorg.com/2017/12/05/near-rostov-the-members-of-the-gang-announced-the-verdict-for-robbery-and-murder/">Near Rostov the members of the gang announced the verdict for robbery and murder</a><br><a href="https://expressdigest.com/russian-nursery-teacher-killed-ten-people-with-help-gang/">Russian nursery teacher killed ten people with help gang</a> <br><a href="https://buhconsul.ru/en/semya-ubiic-v-rostovskoi-pohozhdeniya-krovavoi-inessy-delo/">A family of murderers in Rostov. Adventures of 'bloody Inessa' (Tarverdiyeva's case in Rostoblsud)</a> <br><a href="https://en.topwar.ru/131746-dvadcat-let-dlya-amazonok-pochemu-zhenschinam-ne-dayut-pozhiznennoe.html">Twenty years for the Amazons. Why women are not given a life sentence?</a> <br><br><em>Created &amp; Produced by Sonya Lowe</em><br><em>Narrated by Noel Vinson</em><br><em>Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler</em><br><em>Background track: Doblado Studios: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios">https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios</a><br></em><br><em>This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.<br></em><br></div>