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One witness, a youth, said he had seen a police car leaving the scene. It would have been simple to ask all police drivers were their vehicles were on the night. But nobody did this.

There were plenty of ordinary criminal scenarios, not connected with provincial politics or Gorin's shady past. And these too cannot be discounted without being followed up. Two stand out. The first is armed robbery by someone who knew the couple. Gorin was rich from illicit income and his money was not kept in the bank, so it had to be somewhere in the home. Exactly where could be revealed under duress. The second scenario is protection racket - an attempt to recover money due.

Another consideration is the reliability and plausibility of the prosecution's witnesses. Any investigator has a duty to ask himself if the testimony of a witness such as Galina Dedova can be taken at face value. After all, she must have known something of her son-in-law's wheeling and dealing. On the surface at least, her behaviour is open to question.

The Procuracy General took charge of the Gorin investigation in early March. And in early April, Galina Dedova wrote her notorious open letter to Khodorkovskiy, in which she virtually accused Yukos of being behind her family's disappearance. Somehow, this letter from a woman in the provinces fell into the hands of the national press. And immediately after Pichugin's arrest, she gave an interview in which she directly accused her grandson's godfather of killing the Gorins.

Let us examine a conversation that Dedova had with journalist Taisiya Kirillova immediately after the programme "Honest Detective" was broadcast by the national RTR TV channel, and in which regional procuracy investigator Demidov featured.

"For six months I kept seeing him (Demidov) and asking him to look at Pichugin," she complained. "But he wouldn't. I kept saying to him - you should check this out, and that ... but he did nothing."

From Dedova's words it follows that Demidov had been avoiding her, and that for a while the investigation into the Gorins' disappearance was on hold. And then suddenly Demidov himself rang Dedova, and from that moment on she was always in his office and directing his every move.

"It was me that investigated the case and led him to Pichugin, but he took all the credit," the offended Dedova says.

Interestingly, Demidov told a different story to a Novaya Gazeta reporter. He claims he had suspected Pichugin from the outset and was confident there was a motive and overwhelming evidence.

"When exactly did prosecutors from Moscow get involved?"

"Well, for six months I ran the investigation here, and when it transpired that the trail led to Yukos the prosecutors from Moscow arrived and they took over the case. But Pichugin's name was there from the very start of our inquiries."

"And how did you arrive at Pichugin?"

"He was named at the beginning by the Gorins' closest relatives (this apparently means Dedova - author). And the Moscow prosecutors found Korovnikov."

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