Last update - 00:00 17/06/2007
Police: Suspect in murder of Golan teen learned methods on Web
By Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent
A police officer told a Nazerath District Court on Sunday that the suspected murderer of 13-year-old Golan Heights teen Tair Rada had visited Websites that described killing through slitting of the throat.
Head of the Rada case investigation team, Superintendent Yoram Azoulay, told judges that 29-year-old Roman Zadorov had accessed information about KGB methods of killing on the Web prior to the girl's slaying.
Rada's body was found on December 6, 2006 in a bathroom stall in the Nofei Golan High School in Katzrin, where she was enrolled as a student.
Police said the forensic report on the autopsy confirms that Rada was killed when the arteries in her neck were cut.
Zadorov's defense attorney, David Spigel, said the accused collected knives and would regularly surf websites displaying them to read material related to his hobby.
Azoulay's testimony, which opened the evidence giving stage of the trial, is the first time in which police have presented the findings of their investigation in an organized manner.
Prosecution attorneys Sheila Inbar and Meirit Stern questioned Azoulay for four hours. He did not conclude his testimony Sunday and will continue it in the court's next sitting, in approximately two weeks.
At the sitting the judges were shown a video clip of the moment when Zadorov first confessed to the murder before an investigator in his detention cell.
Zadorov is shown to act out how he killed the teen, with a throat-slitting motion. Before his explicit confession he told the investigator that it is possible he killed the girl, but he did not remember doing it. He also said he already had a similar feeling in the past, when he attacked his brother in Ukraine and caused him serious bodily harm. He forgot this event, and learnt about it only when his parents informed him of it. Zadorov's attorneys are preparing to hold a minor hearing to undermine the submissibility of this confession.