Woman Tells Court She Regrets There Were So Few Victims

Woman Tells Court She Regrets There Were So Few Victims: The fifteen-year murder spree of Inesa Tarber-Dieva

A diary filled with photographs, addresses, and daily routines of selected targets. A family operating as a disciplined criminal structure for fifteen years across southern Russia, accumulating bodies without arrest until a single routine traffic stop in 2013. The contradiction: neighbors saw nothing, police filed no formal complaints, and a corrupt officer inside the family itself erased their tracks in real time.

This episode explores how a meticulous planning system, a police officer feeding intelligence through his service radio, and emotional bonds weaponized as recruitment tools allowed eleven documented murders to go unsolved for over a decade. At the center stands Inesa's operational notebook-not a diary of feelings, but a ledger of victims, their schedules, and escape routes-raising the unsolved question: how many more bodies remained hidden?

Victim: Inesa Tarber-Dieva and Roman Pod-Copa-Ev
Date: 1997-2013
Location: Novocherkassk and M4 Don Highway, Rostov Oblast, southern Russia
Status: Convicted, fifteen-year operation

- Inesa maintained an operational diary with photographs, names, addresses, and daily routines of each selected victim, proving she was the central planner, not an accomplice
- A corrupt active-duty police officer, Sergei Celnik, used his service radio to warn the gang of patrol positions and undercover posts during live operations
- An innocent local hunter, Alexei Sirenko, was detained for eighteen months based on ballistic evidence, while the actual gang continued murders undetected
- The gang operated openly in a medium-sized city with no formal complaints filed by neighbors, storing hundreds of victims' personal items in their homes across fifteen years

Inesa Tarber-Dieva, Novocherkassk murders 2013, serial killers, criminal investigation, forensic evidence, unsolved mysteries, homicide, Russian crime, true crime English

To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

To listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 30-day free trial at obomedia.com

OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie