193 - The Disappearance of Irina Malezhik - Part 1

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Forty-seven year old Irina Malezhik mysteriously disappeared from Brooklyn after leaving her Brighton Beach apartment in October of 2007. Employed at the time as a Russian translator for the Federal Court system, tackling cases involving the Russian mafia, many were concerned that Irina had been targeted by someone from the mob.

However, as the FBI began digging into the case they quickly discovered that someone was using Irina's identity to make large purchases; expensive clothes, watches and linens. They'd even gone and withdrawn thousands of dollars from her bank account. That trail did not lead to organized from, but to a married couple with a direct connection to the missing woman.

What began as a case surrounding identity theft quickly developed into something more intense. Soon, they discovered a second missing person tied to the married couple. Then, the dismembered remains of a third were also linked to the identity thieves. It became quite clear; this was not just a one off crime, but a series of murders and disappearances driven by greed at the hand of a yet unidentified serial killer.

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0:20.0	VORBOSS, the business fiber network, built by VORBOSS for London.
0:29.1	47-year-old Irina Molesik emigrated to the United States
0:33.0	and searched for the life she dreamed of.
0:35.2	For years, she longed to experience the West.
0:37.9	Leaving her native Ukraine behind, she arrived in New York and quickly picked up work
0:42.4	as a Russian translator.
0:44.3	Soon, she was hired by the federal government and became involved in cases
0:48.1	covering a span from Medicaid fraud to Russian organized crime.
0:52.4	Then, on a cool October day in 2007, she walked out of her bright and beach apartment
0:58.3	and seemingly vanished.
1:00.4	Considering the sensitive nature of her work,
1:02.8	the FBI got involved in the investigation and began looking for connections between
1:07.3	her work and her disappearance.
1:09.3	They had a long list of potential suspects from high-level mafia figures to low-level violent
1:14.6	offenders. Soon, however, the dots would be connecting
1:18.0	in a way they'd never imagined.
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