Georgi deliberately cut his wife’s neck, killed her friends too, so that they wouldn’t betray him
Rejected love led to tragedy
The victims were celebrating a birthday
A mass murder shakes Bulgaria just months after the world celebrated the start of the new century. In the city of Valchi dol, in Varna, three students were brutally massacred during the holidays. The crime was committed in the schoolyard and shocked not only local residents, but also forensic experts who saw all sorts of horrors. Three girls die in a ridiculous way, the oldest of which is 17 years old. In a few hours the police arrested the monster who cut the throats of the three children. He never admitted the atrocity, but the evidence is incontrovertible.
On July 11, 2000, the school cleaning lady Elena stepped in for a shift. She does not even imagine that what she will see will become the biggest nightmare of her life: in the schoolyard, the woman runs into three children sunk in pools of blood. The bodies of 13-year-old Anastasia Vasileva, 15-year-old Ralitsa Koleva and 17-year-old Galina Ivanova lie on the ground with their throats cut and wounds. Their parents are already looking for them all over town because the students haven’t come home all night. The city freezes in terror and the arriving policemen begin their work frantically. In a few hours they reach the killer: 23-year-old Georgi Angelov. It is no secret to anyone in Valchi dol that a few years ago love burned between him and one of the victims: Galina.
The young man, however, has to go to the barracks, but is gnawed by a corrosive jealousy. He breaks his military duty, but when he returns, he begins to constantly monitor his burn. Galina resists for a while, then she can’t stand it and we cut it – we cut it. George cannot allow it. He started stalking the girl in front of her house, making scandals and asking her to return the gifts he had given her over the years.
The day before the tragedy, Galina returns a blouse and curler to her former lover. You sent parcels to your cousin Veselin Yordanov. And Georgi decides: I don’t own him, then he won’t belong to anyone. While no one suspects what is going on in the young man’s head, he calmly begins to choose the knife for the deed from the collection of his father, who is the local butcher. Angelov chooses one of the blades, takes a pair of cloth gloves and hides near the village schoolyard. He knows that his beloved will pass by. He was visiting Anastasia who was celebrating her birthday. Ralitsa also came specially from Dobrich for the holidays. The girls have no idea that they will die in minutes.
Around 10pm, the three students are walking past the school when Georgi suddenly jumps out in front of them. He is determined to make one last attempt to reunite with Galina or kill her. However, the girl is adamant: she will not return to the jealous man. This decides her fate. Angelov grabs the girl by her head and cuts her throat with a professional gesture. A medical examiner would later determine that the girl was nearly beheaded and died on the spot. Worried about what’s going on with her friend, the youngest girl, Anastasia, goes to the dark corner where Galya and Georgi are secluded. Hearing footsteps, the young man hides near the wall and when the schoolgirl appears, he attacks her. The third friend approaches in the dark. In the last seconds of her life, Ralitsa sees the corpses of her friends on the ground and tries to escape, but Georgi is faster than her. He reaches her in a few steps and in motion stabs her in three places in her back and neck.
Then he begins to erase the traces of the atrocity. First, she tosses her blood-soaked suit into a nearby sunflower field. He hides the gloves in another place, goes home and dips the knife in a basin so that no traces of blood remain. So she changes her clothes and goes to play cards with his friends, thinking that she will provide him with an alibi.
A few hours later, however, the handcuffs broke on his hands. For solving Sofia’s grave crime for National Police forensic experts. Georgi denies everything, but the investigators are experts and already during the first interrogation they understand that he is lying. Even during the first inspection of the school yard, where the corpses lie, a trace was found. The dirt comes from a sneaker, which was later found at Georgi’s house. Later, a DNA test determined that the blood on this shoe came from the youngest victim, Anastasia. During a meter-by-meter search in the fields near Valchidol, the police also found the bloody suit of the triple killer.
During the trial, Georgi pleaded “not guilty” and behaved rather coldly. He claims that someone is trying to drown him. Criminals resort to cunning. With the court’s permission, a listening device was placed in his cell. On July 12, 2000, Georgi confessed to his official lawyer that he had killed the three girls. Two of them – so they wouldn’t betray him. Registration is proof in the process of him. The magistrates sentenced to life in prison without parole. Initially, Angelov was taken to the Varna prison, but he did not stay there long. He continually created problems and was transferred to the Belene prison, where he was isolated in a solitary cell. He has to pay 160,000 BGN to the relatives of the victims.
From Belene’s only cell
Continue to support his innocence
Angelov will live his days in a single cell in the Belene prison.
Georgi Angelov has never admitted his guilt before the forensic experts and the court and continues to plead innocent. During the trial, he read the entire penal code, which he also waved in the courtroom. He constantly calls for the dismissal of the magistrates. He explains his traces of him next to the three bodies with the fact that the day after the murder he was taken by forensic experts to the scene of the accident. “I’m innocent. They beat me. The police found someone to blame. The media caused a sensation and the parents had someone to take their anger on,” are his last words before the verdict. However, his circus acts did not pass and the court’s decision was a life sentence without parole. “Life imprisonment is for us! Giorgio condemned us, he ruined our lives, but he will live”. With these words, the mothers of the three slaughtered girls leave the room, shocked by the monster’s insolent behavior. The three women bitterly regret that there is no death sentence in Bulgaria, but accept with resignation that the butcher will remain behind bars as long as he lives.
