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Title: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: RMK on November 28, 2020, 03:47:56 PM
To me, the essential mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (DPI) is the lack of satisfactory answers to 3 crucial Questions:

N.B. all three Questions do not necessarily need to have the same answer!  In particular, regardless of what the answer(s) to Questions 1 & 2 might be, the answer to Question 3 could easily be "by the time any of them tried to return to their campsite, they were too cold and fatigued to go uphill, against the wind, without boots."

However, all of the DPI homicide theories I have encountered propose that the answer to Questions 1 & 2 (and usually, 3 as well) is "the threat of lethal force from human assailants."  I am currently convinced that IF the DPI was a result of homicide, then the assailants were intelligent, trained, professional killers who knew what they were doing, and wanted to make the Dyatlov team's deaths appear as natural as possible.  And that brings me to the problem I have with homicide theories: if the killers were so smart and effective, then why didn't they do something about the "elephant in the room"--the complete lack of any apparent reason why the Dyatlov team left their tent under-dressed and then abandoned it by descending Kholat Syakhl?!  In other words, why didn't they stage or plant physical "evidence" that would provide credible answers to Questions 1 & 2 (and maybe even 3 as well)?

For instance, they could have buried the tent and its immediate vicinity in snow.  Then, the investigation could have concluded that the Dyatlov company barely escaped a mini-avalanche, which crushed their tent, and then it was only a matter of time before the elements and various misadventures claimed their lives.  Or, perhaps more plausibly, the assailants could have set the tent on fire.  They could have staged some sort of accident in which, apparently, one of the hikers spilled 100-proof vodka (accelerant) on dry clothes or blankets (fuel); the apparent ignition source could come from a lit flashlight that someone dropped and its bulb shattered, or from a lit cigarette that one of the guys dropped while sneaking a midnight smoke.

In summary, my point here is that, if the DPI was a result of homicide, then why didn't the presumably smart and capable attackers fabricate some explanation for the hikers' near-suicidal collective decision to exit their tent and abandon their campsite without gear necessary for survival?  If the attackers HAD done that, maybe we wouldn't be discussing the DPI more than 60 years later.
Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: sarapuk on November 28, 2020, 04:35:16 PM
To me, the essential mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (DPI) is the lack of satisfactory answers to 3 crucial Questions:
  • Why did the Dyatlov hikers exit their tent, with mostly inadequate clothing and footwear for the Siberian winter?
  • Having exited their tent under-dressed, why did the Dyatlov hikers descend the slope, moving away from their tent, and leaving behind useful tools?
  • Having descended the slope, why did the Dyatlov hikers not return to their tent?

N.B. all three Questions do not necessarily need to have the same answer!  In particular, regardless of what the answer(s) to Questions 1 & 2 might be, the answer to Question 3 could easily be "by the time any of them tried to return to their campsite, they were too cold and fatigued to go uphill, against the wind, without boots."

However, all of the DPI homicide theories I have encountered propose that the answer to Questions 1 & 2 (and usually, 3 as well) is "the threat of lethal force from human assailants."  I am currently convinced that IF the DPI was a result of homicide, then the assailants were intelligent, trained, professional killers who knew what they were doing, and wanted to make the Dyatlov team's deaths appear as natural as possible.  And that brings me to the problem I have with homicide theories: if the killers were so smart and effective, then why didn't they do something about the "elephant in the room"--the complete lack of any apparent reason why the Dyatlov team left their tent under-dressed and then abandoned it by descending Kholat Syakhl?!  In other words, why didn't they stage or plant physical "evidence" that would provide credible answers to Questions 1 & 2 (and maybe even 3 as well)?

For instance, they could have buried the tent and its immediate vicinity in snow.  Then, the investigation could have concluded that the Dyatlov company barely escaped a mini-avalanche, which crushed their tent, and then it was only a matter of time before the elements and various misadventures claimed their lives.  Or, perhaps more plausibly, the assailants could have set the tent on fire.  They could have staged some sort of accident in which, apparently, one of the hikers spilled 100-proof vodka (accelerant) on dry clothes or blankets (fuel); the apparent ignition source could come from a lit flashlight that someone dropped and its bulb shattered, or from a lit cigarette that one of the guys dropped while sneaking a midnight smoke.

In summary, my point here is that, if the DPI was a result of homicide, then why didn't the presumably smart and capable attackers fabricate some explanation for the hikers' near-suicidal collective decision to exit their tent and abandon their campsite without gear necessary for survival?  If the attackers HAD done that, maybe we wouldn't be discussing the DPI more than 60 years later.

Well obviously there is no proof that the Dyatlov Incident was due to homicide. There are no indications of the presence of other people in the area. No footprints. Nothing to really suggest that other people were involved.
Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on December 01, 2020, 09:21:02 AM
Well obviously there is no proof that the Dyatlov Incident was due to homicide. There are no indications of the presence of other people in the area. No footprints. Nothing to really suggest that other people were involved.


Everything we know points to homicide. The injuries to the bodies are only explicable by being caused by an attack with lethal intent, by other humans.

The murder of the nine took place on February 1. The bodies were not found by the official search and rescue teams until February 26. Considering the fact that the attackers almost certainly arrived on skis an that the first searchers did not understand that they had arrived at a crime scene, it was a matter of course that no traces of the attackers were found.

There is more to say:

Significantly, the local police in Ivdel and the relatives of the nine students did not realize that something was wrong until February 12. Still, investigative actions had already been made on February 6. These investigative actions would most likely have been preceded by preparatory meetings. Thus, indications are that the authorities knew about the death of the nine long before anyone in Ivdel or Sverdlovsk had any reason to believe that something terrible had happened.
Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: RMK on December 01, 2020, 04:48:40 PM
Everything we know points to homicide. The injuries to the bodies are only explicable by being caused by an attack with lethal intent, by other humans.
That is an overstatement.  Homicide theories are certainly worth considering, and I place some of them among the most credible explanations.  But most, maybe even all, of the injuries the "Dyatlovites" sustained can be attributed to misadventures, and to "routine wear-and-tear" that people would normally sustain when skiing cross-country, scrounging for firewood in bare hands in the dark, etc.

Considering the fact that the attackers almost certainly arrived on skis an that the first searchers did not understand that they had arrived at a crime scene, it was a matter of course that no traces of the attackers were found.
I actually agree with you there.  The lack of attackers' traces is to be expected if the attackers are professional assassins.  But, it is merely a rebuttal to an objection to homicide theories, and I think we would both have to concede that it is not a very persuasive argument in favor of homicide.

So, to bring this back to the topic of the thread...  Per Inge, why was it that the killers didn't fabricate some reason for the Dyatlovites to abandon their tent?

Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: sarapuk on December 02, 2020, 12:59:47 PM
Well obviously there is no proof that the Dyatlov Incident was due to homicide. There are no indications of the presence of other people in the area. No footprints. Nothing to really suggest that other people were involved.


Everything we know points to homicide. The injuries to the bodies are only explicable by being caused by an attack with lethal intent, by other humans.

The murder of the nine took place on February 1. The bodies were not found by the official search and rescue teams until February 26. Considering the fact that the attackers almost certainly arrived on skis an that the first searchers did not understand that they had arrived at a crime scene, it was a matter of course that no traces of the attackers were found.

There is more to say:

Significantly, the local police in Ivdel and the relatives of the nine students did not realize that something was wrong until February 12. Still, investigative actions had already been made on February 6. These investigative actions would most likely have been preceded by preparatory meetings. Thus, indications are that the authorities knew about the death of the nine long before anyone in Ivdel or Sverdlovsk had any reason to believe that something terrible had happened.

Other Humans  !  ?  No proof.  No footprints. Also the fact that the Event takes place at several locations, ie. The Tent, The Cedar Tree, The Ravine.
Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: sarapuk on December 02, 2020, 01:01:48 PM
Everything we know points to homicide. The injuries to the bodies are only explicable by being caused by an attack with lethal intent, by other humans.
That is an overstatement.  Homicide theories are certainly worth considering, and I place some of them among the most credible explanations.  But most, maybe even all, of the injuries the "Dyatlovites" sustained can be attributed to misadventures, and to "routine wear-and-tear" that people would normally sustain when skiing cross-country, scrounging for firewood in bare hands in the dark, etc.

Considering the fact that the attackers almost certainly arrived on skis an that the first searchers did not understand that they had arrived at a crime scene, it was a matter of course that no traces of the attackers were found.
I actually agree with you there.  The lack of attackers' traces is to be expected if the attackers are professional assassins.  But, it is merely a rebuttal to an objection to homicide theories, and I think we would both have to concede that it is not a very persuasive argument in favor of homicide.

So, to bring this back to the topic of the thread...  Per Inge, why was it that the killers didn't fabricate some reason for the Dyatlovites to abandon their tent?

No proof that any other Humans arrived at The Tent by Skis or walking.
Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: RMK on December 02, 2020, 02:27:23 PM
No proof that any other Humans arrived at The Tent by Skis or walking.
Well, true, there's no "smoking gun".  But that's a problem with homicide theories different from the one this thread is about.
Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: mk on December 03, 2020, 06:34:13 PM
I am currently convinced that IF the DPI was a result of homicide, then the assailants were intelligent, trained, professional killers who knew what they were doing, and wanted to make the Dyatlov team's deaths appear as natural as possible.  And that brings me to the problem I have with homicide theories: if the killers were so smart and effective, then why didn't they do something about the "elephant in the room"--the complete lack of any apparent reason why the Dyatlov team left their tent under-dressed and then abandoned it by descending Kholat Syakhl?!  In other words, why didn't they stage or plant physical "evidence" that would provide credible answers to Questions 1 & 2 (and maybe even 3 as well)?...

I dunno-- it seems like the most obvious way to make it look like a natural death in siberia would be to make sure they died of hypothermia.  Force the poorly-dressed campers into the forest and douse them in water. All this talk of highly-trained killing men with their specialized techniques seems so... Hollywood. 

For example, if the theoretical killers had simply suffocated the hikers and left their bodies in the woods, how would that have played out differently?  Frozen bodies would have been found and the assumption would have been death of hypothermia--just like now.  Autopsies would have been done and some anomalies found that indicated foul play--just like now.  And people would have shrugged and said something like, "Well, they were probably near-unconscious from the cold and fell into the snow and suffocated as they froze." 

If their injuries were the result of malevolent humans, it strikes me that the killers were rather unconcerned about making things look natural.  Flail chests aren't exactly natural.

Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on December 04, 2020, 07:50:43 AM

Reply #5........
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No proof that any other Humans arrived at The Tent by Skis or walking.

   Of course there is no proof ! And there will probably never be any.
To solve an enigma, whatever its playful or police nature, it is necessary to call on all human mental faculties to imagine one or more solutions that are capable of explaining all the known facts.

And it is likely that the state secret about DPI will last a very long time, because according to French political experts (but they are often wrong), currently in 2020, President Putin is determined not to reveal anything that could alter the reputation of previous regimes of the USSR (Stalin, Khrushchev ...) and even the reputation of the tsarist regime (Nicolas II ...) !!

...At least 4 questions arise  :  WHY...

    • 1..hikers exit their tent....?
    • 2..hikers descend the slope....?
    • 3..hikers do not return to their tent....?
    • 4..the cause of death of the hikers does not seem natural....?
    ...............................................

         
    - 1 - Why did the Dyatlov hikers exit their tent, with mostly inadequate clothing and footwear for the Siberian winter?

      •  Which is the most difficult to reconstruct is the sudden and hurried exit from the tent without the short-handled axes that were inside.
    Threats, e.g. with a firearm, would have warned the hikers of a danger and they would not have left the tent with their bare hands in order to defend themselves and eventually counterattack.
    This is a remark first raised by alecsandros : Altercation on the pass > Altercation on the pass  -->Reply #32
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=411.msg9765#msg9765


      • Hypothesis N°1 :   By surprise the attackers made the atmosphere inside the tent unbreathable in a few tens of seconds.
    It should be noted that the volume of air inside the tent is small, less than 5 m³, which makes this hypothesis N°1 particularly efficient.
    The attackers (perhaps only three) triggered their first offensive just after the stove assembly was completed and the "battle sheet" "Evening otorten No. 1" was written, but before the hikers had time to fire the wood in the stove. Several possibilities :

       a) The attackers put a tear gas or a suffocating gas hand grenedade coming from the stocks of the army, the police, the guarding of the Gulag camps or bought illegally on the black market.

       b) The attackers used an Improvised Suffocating Device, for instance :  2.KNO³ + 4.S --> 3.SO² + N² + K²S or 2.KClO³ + 3.S --> 3.SO² + 2.KCl
    KNO³, KClO³ and S are very common products that could easily be bought in the Ivdel drugstore.

      c) According to the more enigmatic of Anatoly Stepochkin the attackers launched "some kind of dope inside" the tent.   See :
    https://dyatlovpass.com/dmitriy-borisov-2019-02-12


      • Hypothesis N°2 : The exit of the tent without the axes can be explained by cunning (trickery, deception, false flag...).
    The attackers won the hikers' trust and recognition (during the first few minutes) with many kind and compassionate words.

    A famous example of a ruse to succeed in killing a victim on his guard is the murder of Leon Trotsky by Ramon mercader, who for several months managed to convince Trosky of his  deep friendship (in order to be in a position to hit him mortally with a short-handled ice axe).
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Mercader

     To render this hypothesis N°2  more concretely here is an additional imaginary short tale whose spirit must be retained and not the letter.

    In the tent on the slope of the Kholat Syakl, in the darkness, on February 1, 1959, around 8 pm, unexpectedly the 9 hikers heard... the leader of the (probably only 3) attackers - who was a good comedian - who shouted in a firm but almost panicky voice :

     - Sorry to bother you here.
     - You do not know me, but I am the general in charge of missile tests in the Sverdlovsk region...
    ( or Ivdel ...or xxx base ...there, to be more credible, the false and misleading speech can add some details about the current state of Soviet military technology in 1959. These are precisions or details which are certainly known by any student of the UPI.


    ( It is the "art" of deception (cheating) to incorporate exact details known to the person you want to fool (deceive) into the main important lie).

     - The place where you set up your tent three hours ago must be cleared immediately.

     - We have lost control of an experimental missile (here indication of a model that might be known to hikers) and I personally rush to warn you :

     - I have just learned that the latest prediction calculations indicate that the mad explosive projectile will fall exactly where your tent is. Luckily we succeeded in finding you so that we could warn you in time!

     - Hurry! Hurry! We  must all leave immediately, otherwise death is assured. Let us all go down quickly in the taiga where there is almost no wind. It is very close.
    (close ! : a little lie that goes unnoticed despite the fact that Dyatlov knew his position on the slope).

    After hearing these friendly words, the hikers feel grateful to these new friends who come running in the bad weather and the darkness to save their lives.

    So the 9 hickers leaved the tent immediately, (so to speak instinctively, because in case of unforeseen danger we have to react quickly), thinking that they will be able to go back in a few minutes.

    It is here that it is useful to read Vietnamka   : General Discussion / Clothes => « on: March 26, 2019, 09:35:48 AM »
        https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=396.msg4583#msg4583

        "...Acute phase of stress.
        At this moment, in the cerebral cortex is formed a center of dominant arousal, all human mental activity is directed towards one thing - to get out from under the influence, to weaken its effect, to cope.
        If the house is on fire - people jump out in shorts and do not think that they will be cold. If there is a child in the house, the mother in the nightgown will run around the house and scream, not realizing how she looks and that she is cold.
        This is always accompanied by changes in the endocrine function (adrenaline is released) and the autonomic nervous system (the pupils dilate or contract, the heart begins to beat, the pressure rises, etc.).
             It is a fact that all these reactions are also protective against cold - heat production increases and a person not only may not feel cold, but may be feel hot.
        ............"


    And thus all the 12 (3 attackers + 9 hikers) people started to descend along the line of greatest slope without undue haste (a military expression indicating that awareness of danger does not imply panic).


       
    - 2 -   Having exited their tent under-dressed, why did the Dyatlov hikers descend the slope, moving away from their tent...

      • The snow-covered ground was slippery but quite hard. There was a slight downhill slope without deep holes.
    For the first few minutes the hikers were not weakened by the intense cold. The hikers were sporty, young, agile and trained.
    They had an excellent sense of balance and even if they stumbled on a slippery obstacle they got up immediately.
    So I think the trip from the cedar tent (1500m) in complete darkness took less than 10 minutes (contrary to recent other opinions, look at GKM, WAB....).
           During this time the hikers could not calmly think about their strange situation.

      •  The attackers accompanied the hikers towards the cedar by making them believe that they were going to help them, or,

      •  on the contrary,  threatening them and starting to hit them.
        The attackers compelled the hikers to go down the slope by hitting them with blunt wooden objects judiciously carved (length=110 cm and weight=4 kg being held with two hand.
        If the attackers were strong it is probably enough to use 70 cm and 1.5 kg being held with one hands.
        In each case the energy of a blow can reach several hundred joules.

      • 300 m before reaching the cedar, the attackers disappeared in the night and the hikers found themselves alone.



       
    - 3 - Having descended the slope, why did the Dyatlov hikers not return to their tent ?

      • It is there at the foot of the cedar that the hikers were fully aware that they had been fooled by the attackers
    So a discussion begins and the separation of the 9 hikers into 2 groups occurs.
    ( Another senario is possible in which Kolmogorova, then Slobodin, have already been put out of action on the slope and lie unconscious in the 2 places where their bodies were found. In this case there are only 7 hikers remaining at the foot of the cedar).

      • Climbing up to find the tent was difficult in complete darkness: there was a great risk of passing within a few meters (e.g. 10 meters) of the tent without seeing it. And then there were no landmarks afterwards.
             You do not know where to search anymore: Where to go ? climbing up ? Going down ? Going left ? Going right ?

      • Zolotaryov (the oldest ...), Kolevatov (sojourn at Moscow ...), Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle (repression of his father Vladimir Iosifovich ...) are the most aware of the internal political situation of the USSR and think that the mysterious attackers are determined and really dangerous for their live .
     Zolotaryov, Kolevatov and Thibeaux-Brignolle therefore decide to go into hiding as best they can a little further away by building the Den and also persuade Dubinina to accompany them (for a reason which remains to be clarified).
     
      • On the contrary, Dyatlov, Doroshenko and Krivonishenko (the least politically aware) believed that the strange attackers were simply thieves who would leave after taking away the contents of the tent.
    It was useless to try to go back up and risk receiving a knife wound.
    So much for the hike, which was ruined. It would be relatively easy to go back through the nearby Labaz (full of food) and afterwards return safely to the Settlement 41.
    The most important thing to do immediatly is not to freeze to death and they choose in priority to light a fire.

      • But when the attackers resumed their offensive around midnight at the foot of the cedar ................
          ...............to be continued at : Altercation on the pass > Altercation on the pass.



    - 4 - the assailants were intelligent ...... and wanted to make the Dyatlov team's deaths appear as natural as possible

     • Deaths appear as natural as possible ==> On the contrary, the aim of the assailants was to make Khrushchev's government in Moscow understand perfectly that the massacre of the 9 hikers was a ferocious terrorist attack.

      • Assailants ==> Not necessarily very intelligent. The assailants knew above all how to hit hard with blunt objects (possibly wrapped in cloths) and judiciously adapted to be effectively grasped by the hands (important practical detail to use blunt objects as weapons).

     •   It should also be understood that the attackers were armed with rudimentary blunt objects and were also few in number. Probably only 3 mercenaries had been sent to the slope of the Kholat Syakhl by a rich commander, client, boss, sponsor... who had remained in Vizhay, (See also Aleks Kandr).

    That is why I should logically write my posts in the Topic : Altercation on the pass and not in the Topic : Murdered.

    So to speak, the movements of the Stalinists opposed to the Khrushchev Thaw were in the throes of a rout in 1959. (The Stalinist opposition of the former NKVD officer regained strength only with the coming to power of Brezhnev in 1964).

      • Look also at : Infra-sound/Gravity fluctuation/Teleportation => Infrasound? Most unlikely -> December 02,2020, 02:13:51 PM : Reply #105
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=116.msg11320#msg11320[/list]
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: sarapuk on December 04, 2020, 01:41:42 PM
    Jean Daniel Reuss, you keep constantly reminding us of your theory. But you have provided no evidence or a realistic scenario. The injuries are of an unknown origin. A person dropped from an height could suffer such injuries. But that still wouldnt explain the missing eyes and tongue. No footprints other than those of the Dyatlov Group.  You state and I quote ;
       ''Of course there is no proof ! And there will probably never be any.
    To solve an enigma, whatever its playful or police nature, it is necessary to call on all human mental faculties to imagine one or more solutions that are capable of explaining all the known facts.''
    Isnt that a contradiction to say that there will probably never be any proof when you are trying to conjure up some proof with your theory. Also the way Detectives go about their work is not by imagining things its by constructing a case from material and facts.
     
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: RMK on December 10, 2020, 04:20:43 PM
    Let me try to get this thread back to its topic.  If the DPI was really homicide, but the killers wanted to make it not look like homicide, why didn't they stage or fabricate some non-homicide reason why the hikers exited their tent and subsequently abandoned it?  For example, why didn't the killers manipulate the campsite to make it look like a tent fire or a small avalanche had occurred?
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Star man on December 11, 2020, 07:21:32 AM
    Good point.  I would like to know the answer to that question.

    Regards

    Star man
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: mk on December 11, 2020, 07:29:30 AM
    Lets take it back a step.  Why do we think the murderers wanted to make it look "natural"?  As far as I can tell, we get that because there seem to be many easier & quicker ways of killing people.  (They weren't shot or stabbed, for example.)  But there is very little about their actual injuries that looks natural. Additionally, as you point out, no effort was made to provide an excuse for their injuries, or for their leaving the tent.  According to this theory, someone went to great trouble to cover up their own presence at the site, but no trouble at all to provide plausible excuses for the hikers leaving the tent or sustaining such injuries.

    It looks to me, then, if this was the case, that the killers were only concerned with a very superficial "fooling" of the public.  KGB killers had to have known that autopsies would be done--and that the injuries of the hikers would be suspicious.  This implies that the killers felt responsible for not leaving any screamingly obvious signs of their own presence, but were relying on officials to make sure everything was properly swept under the rug in the end.

    And, perhaps, that was done.

    Personally, I am unconvinced by this theory.  Partly because of what I posted earlier about simpler ways of killing people, but also because of the responses of the families at the time.

    I feel that the families' responses are usually a good guess when it comes to things like this.  Guesses, yes.  But they have intimate knowledge of the personalities of the hikers, as well as what to expect from the culture and the government. KGB Killers were quite well known to exist.  It was known that the government could make people disappear.  But the families seem much more concerned with the possibility of weapons testing.  While not a definitive answer, in my opinion, this lends a bit of weight to that theory.

    While the families didn't have access to the specifications of the tragedy in the same way we do, they had the advantage of living at the same time, in the same place, and knowing the people involved.  This can be very important when it comes to understanding why people behave in curious ways.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: sarapuk on December 11, 2020, 11:51:48 AM
    Let me try to get this thread back to its topic.  If the DPI was really homicide, but the killers wanted to make it not look like homicide, why didn't they stage or fabricate some non-homicide reason why the hikers exited their tent and subsequently abandoned it?  For example, why didn't the killers manipulate the campsite to make it look like a tent fire or a small avalanche had occurred?

    Yes thats what has been put a few times in this Forum. Why didnt any alleged killers do more to make it look like an accident. For the same reason that they left no footprints, or other traces. There were no human killers.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: sarapuk on December 11, 2020, 11:53:10 AM
    Good point.  I would like to know the answer to that question.

    Regards

    Star man

    The answer is simple. There were no human killers. No footprints. No traces of any kind.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: sarapuk on December 11, 2020, 11:58:23 AM
    Lets take it back a step.  Why do we think the murderers wanted to make it look "natural"?  As far as I can tell, we get that because there seem to be many easier & quicker ways of killing people.  (They weren't shot or stabbed, for example.)  But there is very little about their actual injuries that looks natural. Additionally, as you point out, no effort was made to provide an excuse for their injuries, or for their leaving the tent.  According to this theory, someone went to great trouble to cover up their own presence at the site, but no trouble at all to provide plausible excuses for the hikers leaving the tent or sustaining such injuries.

    It looks to me, then, if this was the case, that the killers were only concerned with a very superficial "fooling" of the public.  KGB killers had to have known that autopsies would be done--and that the injuries of the hikers would be suspicious.  This implies that the killers felt responsible for not leaving any screamingly obvious signs of their own presence, but were relying on officials to make sure everything was properly swept under the rug in the end.

    And, perhaps, that was done.

    Personally, I am unconvinced by this theory.  Partly because of what I posted earlier about simpler ways of killing people, but also because of the responses of the families at the time.

    I feel that the families' responses are usually a good guess when it comes to things like this.  Guesses, yes.  But they have intimate knowledge of the personalities of the hikers, as well as what to expect from the culture and the government. KGB Killers were quite well known to exist.  It was known that the government could make people disappear.  But the families seem much more concerned with the possibility of weapons testing.  While not a definitive answer, in my opinion, this lends a bit of weight to that theory.

    While the families didn't have access to the specifications of the tragedy in the same way we do, they had the advantage of living at the same time, in the same place, and knowing the people involved.  This can be very important when it comes to understanding why people behave in curious ways.

    KGB  !  ?  The KGB did not have anything to do with the demise of the Dyatlov Group. Of course the KGB were good but not perfect, no one is. Not even they could cover their tracks and leave no traces in the conditions that existed on that Mountainside. And of course why would they want to kill all of the Dyatlov Group, it doesnt make sense. The Dyatlov Group were all good Communists.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Star man on December 11, 2020, 03:14:54 PM
    Lets take it back a step.  Why do we think the murderers wanted to make it look "natural"?  As far as I can tell, we get that because there seem to be many easier & quicker ways of killing people.  (They weren't shot or stabbed, for example.)  But there is very little about their actual injuries that looks natural. Additionally, as you point out, no effort was made to provide an excuse for their injuries, or for their leaving the tent.  According to this theory, someone went to great trouble to cover up their own presence at the site, but no trouble at all to provide plausible excuses for the hikers leaving the tent or sustaining such injuries.

    It looks to me, then, if this was the case, that the killers were only concerned with a very superficial "fooling" of the public.  KGB killers had to have known that autopsies would be done--and that the injuries of the hikers would be suspicious.  This implies that the killers felt responsible for not leaving any screamingly obvious signs of their own presence, but were relying on officials to make sure everything was properly swept under the rug in the end.

    And, perhaps, that was done.

    Personally, I am unconvinced by this theory.  Partly because of what I posted earlier about simpler ways of killing people, but also because of the responses of the families at the time.

    I feel that the families' responses are usually a good guess when it comes to things like this.  Guesses, yes.  But they have intimate knowledge of the personalities of the hikers, as well as what to expect from the culture and the government. KGB Killers were quite well known to exist.  It was known that the government could make people disappear.  But the families seem much more concerned with the possibility of weapons testing.  While not a definitive answer, in my opinion, this lends a bit of weight to that theory.

    While the families didn't have access to the specifications of the tragedy in the same way we do, they had the advantage of living at the same time, in the same place, and knowing the people involved.  This can be very important when it comes to understanding why people behave in curious ways.

    A weapon test is a good candidate I think.  Particularly a low yield neutron device.  This was one of my first thoughts after reading the case files.  I have considered most of the theories and this scores highly I think.  At the time a moratorium on testing had been signed (1958).  The East was lagging behind in the development of these weapons, so secret tests, away from the usual test sites would provide an opportunity to close the gap.  Select an isolated location, where nobody goes and where there is little game or livestock to raise suspicion.  "Dead Mountain" sounds ideal?  Undertake the test at night so nobody  can see the mushroom cloud before it disperses.

    If the hikers were exposed to the deadly radiation they would have deteriorated fast,  within an hour or two, their bodies would begin to shut down, including their cognitive ability.  It would explain alot about the tent and its condition and why they left poorly dressed.  They may have felt like they were burning up.  The strange skin tone can be caused by exposure.  Traces of radiation on the clothes.  If you are interested in this idea, look up acute radiation exposure on Wikipedia.  Its interesting.

    Regards

    Star man
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: mk on December 12, 2020, 06:17:48 PM
    KGB  !  ?  The KGB did not have anything to do with the demise of the Dyatlov Group. Of course the KGB were good but not perfect, no one is. Not even they could cover their tracks and leave no traces in the conditions that existed on that Mountainside. And of course why would they want to kill all of the Dyatlov Group, it doesnt make sense. The Dyatlov Group were all good Communists.

    Sorry--I wasn't clear.  I was speaking in scare quotes; I ought to have used them in the text.  By "KGB Killers" I intended a sort of catch-all category for the stereotypical Jason Bourne (movie reference) type killers.  Not necessarily the literal KGB, but any government-sanctioned or high-up-authorized uber-trained assassins or what have you. 

    I agree with you, actually.  I don't think it was an intentional massacre supported or facilitated by any government authorities.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: ninja on December 15, 2020, 06:04:24 AM

    Your data is not entirely correct from the point of view, if the data does not allow you to answer the question "what happened there?" - then the initial data are not correct, which ones?
    we think that the group voluntarily went to sleep on the mountainside
    we think the group died 1 to 2
    we think it happened at night
    why? because the killer wants us to think so
    are you surprised at the absence of traces of strangers? but you are not looking for them ther
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: RMK on December 15, 2020, 11:54:48 AM

    Your data is not entirely correct from the point of view, if the data does not allow you to answer the question "what happened there?" - then the initial data are not correct, which ones?
    we think that the group voluntarily went to sleep on the mountainside
    we think the group died 1 to 2
    we think it happened at night
    why? because the killer wants us to think so
    are you surprised at the absence of traces of strangers? but you are not looking for them ther
    ninja, I'm not sure I understand your point.  You claim that the group was murdered, sometime before February 1st?
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: GKM on December 15, 2020, 12:23:50 PM
    Please make your point clear, just for the sake of argument. Are you suggesting the hikers died or were killed before February 1st, 1959?
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: ninja on December 16, 2020, 02:18:07 AM
    Please make your point clear, just for the sake of argument. Are you suggesting the hikers died or were killed before February 1st, 1959?
    да, именно это я утверждаю, группа совершенно точно не пережила 31 января
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: ninja on December 16, 2020, 04:14:46 AM
    я так же проделал небольшую работу по поводу времени их гибели, известно, что студенты погибли спустя 6-8 часов с момента последнего принятия пищи, исходя из состояния их желудков, с огромной вероятностью можно заключить, что умирать они начали после завтрака утра 31 января, очевидно, что то, что они съели невозможно приготовить на склоне холат-чахля, ввиду отсутствия условий,для этого нужен костер, следы которого не были обнаружены на склоне, так же эти 6-8 часов доказывают, что они не были в локации, где была оставлена яма с "лишними вещами", они бы просто не успели проделать весь путь, все действия, которые им приписывают и замерзнуть, у меня есть раскладка по времени от "ямы", примерно 2 часа от неё до горы, около 30-60 минут для установки палатки и разбору вещей, около часа на спуск, в итоге к моменту, когда потух костер,который горел 2 часа и обжег ногу Юрия Кривонищенко, абсолютно все должны быть мертвы, но тогда кто срезал с него одежду ? и переносил её в овраг
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: sarapuk on December 16, 2020, 11:56:20 AM
    я так же проделал небольшую работу по поводу времени их гибели, известно, что студенты погибли спустя 6-8 часов с момента последнего принятия пищи, исходя из состояния их желудков, с огромной вероятностью можно заключить, что умирать они начали после завтрака утра 31 января, очевидно, что то, что они съели невозможно приготовить на склоне холат-чахля, ввиду отсутствия условий,для этого нужен костер, следы которого не были обнаружены на склоне, так же эти 6-8 часов доказывают, что они не были в локации, где была оставлена яма с "лишними вещами", они бы просто не успели проделать весь путь, все действия, которые им приписывают и замерзнуть, у меня есть раскладка по времени от "ямы", примерно 2 часа от неё до горы, около 30-60 минут для установки палатки и разбору вещей, около часа на спуск, в итоге к моменту, когда потух костер,который горел 2 часа и обжег ногу Юрия Кривонищенко, абсолютно все должны быть мертвы, но тогда кто срезал с него одежду ? и переносил её в овраг

    Could you put this in English please
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on December 16, 2020, 02:28:53 PM


    This topic=744.0 is a continuation of the first posts sent by ninja, unfortunately in Russian, which makes these posts difficult to understand for the ignorant like me (I use Russian -> French machine translation software. I hope ninja will be able to use English -> Russian software). So preferably start by reading the topic=753.0 :
       
        Dyatlov Pass Forum > Theories Discussion > General Discussion > real timeline  (реальная хронология)
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=753.0
               
    Reply #4
    Ninja. What is that you are actually trying to say  !  ? 

    Nevertheless, I think that I have understood the most important thing. ninja explains to us that the hikers were slowed down by the deep soft snow in the Auspiya valley. That is why, during the last 2 days (January 31 and February 1), the hikers were only able to progress over a very short distance and also why the hikers did not have time to write in their diary.
         ninja will also soon explain why he suspects that Zolotaryov is playing a disastrous role...(I may be mistaken).

    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

    I agree, the photos " N°11 and N°12, Loose photos, https://dyatlovpass.com/loose-photos ", of the intallation of a tent were taken on the evening of January 30 and NOT on the evening of February 1.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Unknown-origin-Dyatlov-photos-11.jpg)

    It does not matter where the tent is exactly located on the night of January 30 to January 31.
    ninja  indicates this location by the red cross with the indication "30.01" on the map below.
    In my opinion the location of the tent could also be two kilometres further south, at the end of the purple line.

    (https://i.ibb.co/K2mDXQx/image.jpg)

    The hikers found themselves in a very soft snow, which made the progression difficult and slow even with skis.
    It was this kind of soft snow, but it is not the same place :

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-327.jpg)

    See also :
    Manti :  Theories Discussion > General Discussion > Walking a km in deep snow
       https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=740.0

    Remark N°1 : The Mansis seem to be better equipped for winter than the hikers --> wider skis, thicker clothes....

    Remark N°2
     • While approaching the summits of the Kholat Syakhl (1079) and Otorten by the Auspiya valley the hikers probably followed a short itinerary in distances but longer in time because they had to cross deep and soft snow areas.
    It is a "slow" itinerary but sheltered from the wind, which I will henceforth call "the Auspiya Valley itinerary".

     • On the contrary, the hikers would probably have been faster  (would have taken less time)  if they had skied on the hard snow, above the taiga, on the hillsides, following the crest line defined by the peaks :
         706 - 833 - 813 - 968 -937 - 1034 - 1051 - 994 - 1079(Kholat Syakhl)
     
    These peaks are visible on the above good map sent by ninja

    This route may start with the dotted line (east to west) at the bottom right of the map.
    This is a "fast"route on hard snow but exposed to cold wind, which I will henceforth call "the ridge itinerary".


    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

    The arguments of ninja - if I have understood correctly - are based on the fact that we probably do not have any photos or writing on diaries made after January 30, since the "Leaflet Evening Otorten N°1" was recopied and so the date could have been easily changed.

    However I think that the details, certainly interesting, which are brought by ninja do not prove that the hikers were not killed during the night of February 1 to February 2.

    On the contrary, I think that the hikers were very much alive on January 31 and February 1. After the 30th of January the hikers peacefully went on their way and set up the tent where the rescuers found it on the Kholat Syakhl slope on the evening of the 1st of February.

      • Because how else to explain this picture of the tent :

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-009.jpg) (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-008.jpg) 
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-005.jpg)

      • And also how to explain the presence of the Labaz containing 50 kg of food, which took several hours to install on the evening of January 31 or on the morning of February 1.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-1959-labaz-01.jpg)

      • And also how to explain the location of the corpses of Kolgomora, Slobodin and Dyatlov on the slope of the Kholat Syakhl (because according to my hypothesis N°3 nobody made the effort to move the bodies away from the place where they fell, stunned or mortally wounded, and never stood up again).


    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: RMK on December 16, 2020, 03:02:55 PM
         ninja will also soon explain why he suspects that Zolotaryov is playing a disastrous role...(I may be mistaken).
    Dear Jean Daniel Reuss: you are referring to this post by ninja, https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=753.msg11502#msg11502 , correct?  I cannot tell if (1) ninja means that Zolotaryov betrayed the other Dyatlov hikers, or (2) if ninja merely means that the Semyon "Sasha" Zolotaryov that joined the Dyatlov expedition was not who he claimed to be.  Come to think of it, he could mean both of those things.

    я так же проделал небольшую работу по поводу времени их гибели, известно, что студенты погибли спустя 6-8 часов с момента последнего принятия пищи, исходя из состояния их желудков, с огромной вероятностью можно заключить, что умирать они начали после завтрака утра 31 января, очевидно, что то, что они съели невозможно приготовить на склоне холат-чахля, ввиду отсутствия условий,для этого нужен костер, следы которого не были обнаружены на склоне, так же эти 6-8 часов доказывают, что они не были в локации, где была оставлена яма с "лишними вещами", они бы просто не успели проделать весь путь, все действия, которые им приписывают и замерзнуть, у меня есть раскладка по времени от "ямы", примерно 2 часа от неё до горы, около 30-60 минут для установки палатки и разбору вещей, около часа на спуск, в итоге к моменту, когда потух костер,который горел 2 часа и обжег ногу Юрия Кривонищенко, абсолютно все должны быть мертвы, но тогда кто срезал с него одежду ? и переносил её в овраг

    Could you put this in English please
    Yes, ninja, as the original poster of this thread, I must ask that you post in my thread in English.  Posting in English is the norm in this community.  On this forum, the burden of machine-translation is on the author of the post, not the reader of the post.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on December 19, 2020, 11:03:53 AM
    In summary, my point here is that, if the DPI was a result of homicide, then why didn't the presumably smart and capable attackers fabricate some explanation for the hikers' near-suicidal collective decision to exit their tent and abandon their campsite without gear necessary for survival?  If the attackers HAD done that, maybe we wouldn't be discussing the DPI more than 60 years later.


    If the attackers had dug down the tent in order to make it look like an avalanche, that not-so-smart cover up would have been too obvious since it would be easily documented afterwards that there had been no avalanches in the area. The orchestrators of the Dyatlov pass tragedy were way too smart for that.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on December 19, 2020, 11:12:35 AM
    No proof that any other Humans arrived at The Tent by Skis or walking.


    The nine students died during the night of February 1-2. No other tracks than the tracks of the nine were found, and that is to be expected. Their killers could not have arrived by foot. It can be taken for granted that the attacking group used wide mountain skis, which would leave only superficial tracks in the snow.

    The first search and rescue team did not arrive until February 26. This long interval ensured that any tracks from mountain skis were completely erased. Small wonder then, when no tracks from the killers were found.

    Again; The injuries of the nine were not only strongly indicative of human attack. They can in addition only be explained by a determined attack from other humans, an attack with lethal intent and result.

    The corpses did not lie. They were all murdered.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: sarapuk on December 19, 2020, 02:18:27 PM
    No proof that any other Humans arrived at The Tent by Skis or walking.


    The nine students died during the night of February 1-2. No other tracks than the tracks of the nine were found, and that is to be expected. Their killers could not have arrived by foot. It can be taken for granted that the attacking group used wide mountain skis, which would leave only superficial tracks in the snow.

    The first search and rescue team did not arrive until February 26. This long interval ensured that any tracks from mountain skis were completely erased. Small wonder then, when no tracks from the killers were found.

    Again; The injuries of the nine were not only strongly indicative of human attack. They can in addition only be explained by a determined attack from other humans, an attack with lethal intent and result.

    The corpses did not lie. They were all murdered.

    The exact time and date of death of the Dyatlov Group is not known.
    It would be extremely difficult for someone or some persons on Ski's to kill all of the Dyatlov Group. The several Events ie at The Tent, The Cedar Tree, The Ravine, seem to rule out attack by anyone on Ski's.
    In fact its highly unlikely that any other person or persons were involved in the demise of the Dyatlov Group.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: armyeng on March 19, 2021, 12:22:47 AM
    To me, the essential mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (DPI) is the lack of satisfactory answers to 3 crucial Questions:
    • Why did the Dyatlov hikers exit their tent, with mostly inadequate clothing and footwear for the Siberian winter?
    • Having exited their tent under-dressed, why did the Dyatlov hikers descend the slope, moving away from their tent, and leaving behind useful tools?
    • Having descended the slope, why did the Dyatlov hikers not return to their tent?

    N.B. all three Questions do not necessarily need to have the same answer!  In particular, regardless of what the answer(s) to Questions 1 & 2 might be, the answer to Question 3 could easily be "by the time any of them tried to return to their campsite, they were too cold and fatigued to go uphill, against the wind, without boots."

    However, all of the DPI homicide theories I have encountered propose that the answer to Questions 1 & 2 (and usually, 3 as well) is "the threat of lethal force from human assailants."  I am currently convinced that IF the DPI was a result of homicide, then the assailants were intelligent, trained, professional killers who knew what they were doing, and wanted to make the Dyatlov team's deaths appear as natural as possible.  And that brings me to the problem I have with homicide theories: if the killers were so smart and effective, then why didn't they do something about the "elephant in the room"--the complete lack of any apparent reason why the Dyatlov team left their tent under-dressed and then abandoned it by descending Kholat Syakhl?!  In other words, why didn't they stage or plant physical "evidence" that would provide credible answers to Questions 1 & 2 (and maybe even 3 as well)?

    For instance, they could have buried the tent and its immediate vicinity in snow.  Then, the investigation could have concluded that the Dyatlov company barely escaped a mini-avalanche, which crushed their tent, and then it was only a matter of time before the elements and various misadventures claimed their lives.  Or, perhaps more plausibly, the assailants could have set the tent on fire.  They could have staged some sort of accident in which, apparently, one of the hikers spilled 100-proof vodka (accelerant) on dry clothes or blankets (fuel); the apparent ignition source could come from a lit flashlight that someone dropped and its bulb shattered, or from a lit cigarette that one of the guys dropped while sneaking a midnight smoke.

    In summary, my point here is that, if the DPI was a result of homicide, then why didn't the presumably smart and capable attackers fabricate some explanation for the hikers' near-suicidal collective decision to exit their tent and abandon their campsite without gear necessary for survival?  If the attackers HAD done that, maybe we wouldn't be discussing the DPI more than 60 years later.

    I dont think it was this smart or replanned - I believe it was a haphazard occurrence, angry retaliation, or confusing in the moment. I don’t believe it was the intention of the attackers to kill, but to beat and retrieve information/investigate/force out of the area etc I believe after the initial attack there was a standoff and shouting back and forth, maybe some skirmishing and hand to hand fighting, both parties adrenaline was pumping and the attackers told the hikers to leave and not to return. This could easily line up with a military unit securing a perimeter or area, or a team suspicious the hikers (gulag prison guards of others) were an enemy political/military unit (they look like one age/equipment). Perhaps this also implies that they were not trained and eager killers but just suspicious and angry locals, situation got out of hand. But this would have to line up with my tent ambush theory and explain the slow departure from site.   
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Manti on March 19, 2021, 05:18:18 AM
    enemy political/military unit (they look like one age/equipment).
    Wouldn't this suspicion immediately be dispelled though when the Dyatlov Group start talking in the local Russian accent, and they see there are women in the group ?
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: ninja on April 02, 2021, 07:59:21 PM


    This topic=744.0 is a continuation of the first posts sent by ninja, unfortunately in Russian, which makes these posts difficult to understand for the ignorant like me (I use Russian -> French machine translation software. I hope ninja will be able to use English -> Russian software). So preferably start by reading the topic=753.0 :
       
        Dyatlov Pass Forum > Theories Discussion > General Discussion > real timeline  (реальная хронология)
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=753.0
               
    Reply #4
    Ninja. What is that you are actually trying to say  !  ? 

    Nevertheless, I think that I have understood the most important thing. ninja explains to us that the hikers were slowed down by the deep soft snow in the Auspiya valley. That is why, during the last 2 days (January 31 and February 1), the hikers were only able to progress over a very short distance and also why the hikers did not have time to write in their diary.
         ninja will also soon explain why he suspects that Zolotaryov is playing a disastrous role...(I may be mistaken).

    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

    I agree, the photos " N°11 and N°12, Loose photos, https://dyatlovpass.com/loose-photos ", of the intallation of a tent were taken on the evening of January 30 and NOT on the evening of February 1.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Unknown-origin-Dyatlov-photos-11.jpg)

    It does not matter where the tent is exactly located on the night of January 30 to January 31.
    ninja  indicates this location by the red cross with the indication "30.01" on the map below.
    In my opinion the location of the tent could also be two kilometres further south, at the end of the purple line.

    (https://i.ibb.co/K2mDXQx/image.jpg)

    The hikers found themselves in a very soft snow, which made the progression difficult and slow even with skis.
    It was this kind of soft snow, but it is not the same place :

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-327.jpg)

    See also :
    Manti :  Theories Discussion > General Discussion > Walking a km in deep snow
       https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=740.0

    Remark N°1 : The Mansis seem to be better equipped for winter than the hikers --> wider skis, thicker clothes....

    Remark N°2
     • While approaching the summits of the Kholat Syakhl (1079) and Otorten by the Auspiya valley the hikers probably followed a short itinerary in distances but longer in time because they had to cross deep and soft snow areas.
    It is a "slow" itinerary but sheltered from the wind, which I will henceforth call "the Auspiya Valley itinerary".

     • On the contrary, the hikers would probably have been faster  (would have taken less time)  if they had skied on the hard snow, above the taiga, on the hillsides, following the crest line defined by the peaks :
         706 - 833 - 813 - 968 -937 - 1034 - 1051 - 994 - 1079(Kholat Syakhl)
     
    These peaks are visible on the above good map sent by ninja

    This route may start with the dotted line (east to west) at the bottom right of the map.
    This is a "fast"route on hard snow but exposed to cold wind, which I will henceforth call "the ridge itinerary".


    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

    The arguments of ninja - if I have understood correctly - are based on the fact that we probably do not have any photos or writing on diaries made after January 30, since the "Leaflet Evening Otorten N°1" was recopied and so the date could have been easily changed.

    However I think that the details, certainly interesting, which are brought by ninja do not prove that the hikers were not killed during the night of February 1 to February 2.

    On the contrary, I think that the hikers were very much alive on January 31 and February 1. After the 30th of January the hikers peacefully went on their way and set up the tent where the rescuers found it on the Kholat Syakhl slope on the evening of the 1st of February.

      • Because how else to explain this picture of the tent :

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-009.jpg) (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-008.jpg) 
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-005.jpg)

      • And also how to explain the presence of the Labaz containing 50 kg of food, which took several hours to install on the evening of January 31 or on the morning of February 1.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-1959-labaz-01.jpg)

      • And also how to explain the location of the corpses of Kolgomora, Slobodin and Dyatlov on the slope of the Kholat Syakhl (because according to my hypothesis N°3 nobody made the effort to move the bodies away from the place where they fell, stunned or mortally wounded, and never stood up again).



    Lets take it back a step.  Why do we think the murderers wanted to make it look "natural"?  As far as I can tell, we get that because there seem to be many easier & quicker ways of killing people.  (They weren't shot or stabbed, for example.)  But there is very little about their actual injuries that looks natural. Additionally, as you point out, no effort was made to provide an excuse for their injuries, or for their leaving the tent.  According to this theory, someone went to great trouble to cover up their own presence at the site, but no trouble at all to provide plausible excuses for the hikers leaving the tent or sustaining such injuries.

    It looks to me, then, if this was the case, that the killers were only concerned with a very superficial "fooling" of the public.  KGB killers had to have known that autopsies would be done--and that the injuries of the hikers would be suspicious.  This implies that the killers felt responsible for not leaving any screamingly obvious signs of their own presence, but were relying on officials to make sure everything was properly swept under the rug in the end.

    And, perhaps, that was done.

    Personally, I am unconvinced by this theory.  Partly because of what I posted earlier about simpler ways of killing people, but also because of the responses of the families at the time.

    I feel that the families' responses are usually a good guess when it comes to things like this.  Guesses, yes.  But they have intimate knowledge of the personalities of the hikers, as well as what to expect from the culture and the government. KGB Killers were quite well known to exist.  It was known that the government could make people disappear.  But the families seem much more concerned with the possibility of weapons testing.  While not a definitive answer, in my opinion, this lends a bit of weight to that theory.

    While the families didn't have access to the specifications of the tragedy in the same way we do, they had the advantage of living at the same time, in the same place, and knowing the people involved.  This can be very important when it comes to understanding why people behave in curious ways.
    you did not quite understand my thoughts correctly, I will try to master the translator better, I did not claim that something slowed down the tourists, I prove the opposite, the tourists were ahead of schedule, at the expense of the car to the 41st block, the horse to the 2nd north, the trail almost to the mountain, there can be no question of any delays, photos, tracks, diaries prove where and when the group was, in order to confuse these facts and adjust everything to the 1-2 number, an unknown diary was written, a warehouse with food was created, the evening was torn off, irrefutable evidence, I will try to bring them all in a convenient form
    not made where you are, as well as the Dyatlov group, and this again can be proved, a group of 9 people will definitely leave traces of their arrival and vital activity, for example, a bonfire, a trampled area, felled branches, none of this is in the location "warehouse", there are just personal belongings of the group, far from the most voluminous and heavy, and which could well be useful if the group thought to make a warehouse, besides, they will not have time to die in time, starting from the expected you positions, 6-8 hours to get ready, get up, decompose, go down, make a fire, make a deck and eventually freeze ? strives for the impossible
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Dona on May 03, 2021, 02:31:51 PM
    The murder theory is easy, really. Of all the theories proposed, which of them would 9 people commit suicide over..

    None. They were being forced..
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on May 30, 2021, 11:51:12 AM

    I dunno-- it seems like the most obvious way to make it look like a natural death in siberia would be to make sure they died of hypothermia.  Force the poorly-dressed campers into the forest and douse them in water. All this talk of highly-trained killing men with their specialized techniques seems so... Hollywood. 


    You are correct. The most obvious way to make it look like a natural death was to make it look like death by hypothermia.

    That was also intended. That is why the nine students were chased out from their tent without proper winter clothing, in the expectation that they would freeze to death within a very short time.

    However, there evidently was a sudden and unexpected rise in temperature which spoiled the attackers' plan. That rise in temperature is documented by data from the weather stations closest to the area. Because of that, the resourceful students did not die as expected, and had to be hunted down. Hence all the injuries. These injuries are consistent with human attack - and can be explained by human attack only.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on May 30, 2021, 11:53:14 AM
    Let me try to get this thread back to its topic.  If the DPI was really homicide, but the killers wanted to make it not look like homicide, why didn't they stage or fabricate some non-homicide reason why the hikers exited their tent and subsequently abandoned it?  For example, why didn't the killers manipulate the campsite to make it look like a tent fire or a small avalanche had occurred?


    Because it would be too obvious that there had been no avalanche and no fire there. You cannot just make up an avalanche.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on May 30, 2021, 11:58:45 AM

    The exact time and date of death of the Dyatlov Group is not known.
    It would be extremely difficult for someone or some persons on Ski's to kill all of the Dyatlov Group. The several Events ie at The Tent, The Cedar Tree, The Ravine, seem to rule out attack by anyone on Ski's.
    In fact its highly unlikely that any other person or persons were involved in the demise of the Dyatlov Group.


    - It is known from the last writings of the members of the group that their deaths occurred during the night between February 1 and February 2.

    - The several events are all consistent with an attack by trained killers who had to hunt down several groups of people who had fled from their attackers.

    - The injuries can only be explained by lethal attack.

    - The absence of tracks is what would be expected from the long period between the murder to the arrival at the scene of the first search and rescue team. In fact, most of the tracks of the students were eradicated - and they moved by foot whereas the attackers must have had skies. Ski tracks disappear much faster than deep footprints. Thus, it is a matter of course that no traces of the attackers would be found.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: RMK on May 30, 2021, 07:18:37 PM
    Let me try to get this thread back to its topic.  If the DPI was really homicide, but the killers wanted to make it not look like homicide, why didn't they stage or fabricate some non-homicide reason why the hikers exited their tent and subsequently abandoned it?  For example, why didn't the killers manipulate the campsite to make it look like a tent fire or a small avalanche had occurred?


    Because it would be too obvious that there had been no avalanche and no fire there. You cannot just make up an avalanche.

    Well, OK, I'll acknowledge that it's not necessarily easy to fabricate an avalanche situation at the campsite.

    But people have been "making up avalanches" all the time in the case of the Dyatlov Pass for a while!  grin1
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: ElizabethHarris on January 03, 2022, 08:22:10 AM
    Misadventure doesn't account for Ludmilla's tongue being torn from her mouth. Autopsy reports said she had blood in her stomach which means she was alive when it was removed
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: RMK on January 03, 2022, 09:35:31 AM
    Misadventure doesn't account for Ludmilla's tongue being torn from her mouth. Autopsy reports said she had blood in her stomach which means she was alive when it was removed
    She could have swallowed blood from merely biting her tongue, or from her broken nose.  Also, we don't know that her tongue was torn from her mouth.  The autopsy report merely says "The tongue in the oral cavity is absent."  We can only guess as to why it's absent.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: ElizabethHarris on January 04, 2022, 08:15:03 AM
    Slow departure from the scene is IMO a good case for homicide as they were being controlled and told what to do/where to go. The neat line of footprints doesn't add up with a frenzied escape from the tent. For me, the injuries tell us everything we need to know and again, IMO, they are saying first degree murder.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: ElizabethHarris on January 07, 2022, 05:27:23 AM
    Autopsy said she had copious amounts of blood in her lungs and stomach, in fact the stomach was filled with blood. I think it's a fair assumption that since her tongue is missing it's safe to conclude the blood came from the removal of the tongue. Even the worst bloody nose probably wouldn't drown a person in their own blood but I could be wrong.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on February 11, 2022, 02:41:37 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: sarapuk on February 13, 2022, 02:16:41 PM
    Hello,
    There are no indications of the presence of other people in the area.
    According to the diaries, they had a "team" of Mansi deer hunters in front of them and the Russian and Mansi workers in their back at District 41.  [[ But no record of other people in the area where they met their demise ]]

    No footprints.
    But no photo of immaculate snow with a clear and unique track of footprints descending from the tent to the forest. Or is there one ?  [[ But there is a photo of tracks descending from the tent to the forest and it seems to suggest that it was only the Dyatlov Group ]]

    Nothing to really suggest that other people were involved.
    The nature of the threat that made them all get out of the tent and run to the forest. If they were alone with the laws of physics, there was no reason to leave the tent in such a hurry without shoes and equipment. If they were alone with animals such as bear or wolves, why stop a the the border of the forest (and no marks of bites) ? And they had knives, ski poles and axes which were of no use against the threat (which give a reasonable chance to repel animals but not firearms). If it is neither physical, nor animal... then it is human. It's like if the threat claimed the tent and the hikers knew their only chance was to stay away but not so far from the tent in the hope that the threat would finally leave it. If it's physical, no reason to leave the tent whatsoever, if it's animal, no reason not to fight back with cold steel... so, leaving the tent without fighting back means attacker with firepower and interested with the tent... human. Maybe the attackers stayed in the tent for a while, waiting for the cold to kill the hikers, and cut the tissue when leaving to check and finish off the hikers...  [[  May be other people or animals werent involved  ]]

    Greetings
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on February 22, 2022, 11:59:36 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on February 22, 2022, 03:01:59 PM
    Hi Charles,


    You mention Slobodin had chest injuries?

    "Slobodin having both life threatening fracture injuries in the chest-head area and minor wounds at the back of the hands"

    I am not aware of Slobodin having having fractures in the chest area. ( it is possible that I missed this).It has been suggested that his skull fracture was down to freezing and I believe this has been recorded in other cases. Due to Slobodin wearing a hat and having been found with ice under his body there is the possibility that it was freezing that caused the fracture of the skull.

    It is interesting that the ravine four have no marks on the backs of their hands. This could support the theory that they died instantly from a snow collapse at the location of the ravine, from above .

    I also understand that some of the marks are consistent with victims of hyperthermia  or freezing.

    Just my penny's worth.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on February 23, 2022, 02:36:36 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on February 23, 2022, 05:49:40 AM
    Hi Charles,

    Hello Ziljoe

    You mention Slobodin had chest injuries?

    "Slobodin having both life threatening fracture injuries in the chest-head area and minor wounds at the back of the hands"

    I am not aware of Slobodin having having fractures in the chest area. ( it is possible that I missed this). It has been suggested that his skull fracture was down to freezing and I believe this has been recorded in other cases. Due to Slobodin wearing a hat and having been found with ice under his body there is the possibility that it was freezing that caused the fracture of the skull.

    I wrote "life threatening fracture injuries in the chest-head area" as you correctly quoted. Chest and head, or upper body, or upper torso and head. Injuries resulting from the most violent impact are all limited to this small area. Whatever the nature of the force, it never severely impacted lower parts of the body, never broke a leg or an arm... But aimed at brain, heart and lungs. As you have 9 hikers and 36 body members (legs and arms), how could a deadly random force have avoided these 36 members and selected 4 times the small area where brain, heart and lungs are located ?

    And how could a natural and blind force target so many times the metacarpophalangeal joint ? This force went 4 times to chest and head with enough violence to break many bones (29 bone fractures on 4 hikers: 2 fractures of skull, 3 of scapula, 24 of rib) and kill, then changed its mind, and went after metacarpophalangeal joint but gently this time, restraining from breaking bones, just inflicting bruises and scratches (28 metacarpophalangeal joints injured but not a single broken phalanx) ?

    I made a diagram of a Vitruvian skeleton with red dots markings all 29 broken bones... So we can estimate the grouping of the bone breaking blows...

    (https://i.ibb.co/pKn1Yf9/Grouping-of-bone-breaking-blows.png) (https://ibb.co/VC3LfgP)

    They said "unknown compelling force", "unknown" but not blind... and even looking for the kill.

    Greetings


    A natural and blind force could have come as several events, maybe not all happening at the same time or not in the way we perceive it to be.

     If we believe the tent was located where it was found and the group exited the tent for one of the many reasons suggested, earth tremor, snow slab , wolverine or crashing rocket for example. It does not mean the injuries happened at the tent ,which I'm sure you'll agree.

    Of the 29 bone fractures on 4 hikers: 2 fractures of skull, 3 of scapula, 24 of rib. 27 of these fractures are on 2 hikers and 1 each for a skull fracture on the other 2 hikers. 

    3 of these hikers with 28 fractures between them , were found in the ravine under several feet of snow. The snow was reported as being more difficult to dig , which could suggest a snow collapse at some point. I would argue that this is the "unknown compelling force" in this instance . It is reported that only an impact like a car crash could cause such injuries to the chest. This may be the cause of the blunt force trauma and the lack of other injuries for survival.

    The other single head fracture was to Slobodin which may have been caused by the slow freezing and the nature of his clothing . His neck is exposed but he is wearing a hat.  I did find a study about fractures of the skull found in deaths of hypothermia and frozen victims, so it can occur under certain circumstances.

    Those with the fractures and lack of frostbite are found under a  deep layer of compact snow. Two are found by the large ceder, they show signs of undressing  and minor burns next to a fire. The 3 on the slope are found to have died by hypothermia/freezing. 

    They could have left the tent for a number of reasons but the injuries/deaths seem to look like they happened where the bodies were found.

    Perhaps the "deadly random force"  was just that, random ....









    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on February 23, 2022, 08:08:49 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on February 23, 2022, 01:40:10 PM
    Acnatural and blind force could have come as several events, maybe not all happening at the same time or not in the way we perceive it to be.

    If coming as several events and each time hurting the hikers... then it was not a blind force. And the cuts and destructions on the trees are said to be man made, with a knife. Why no marks of "natural and blind force" on the surrounding trees ? No broken rocks, no broken trees.. nothing.

    I mean several natural events. A snow collapse at the ravine from the possibility of the cold and also the possibility of getting wet at the ravine. Whatever happened at the tent is what made them descend to the ceder . The "natural and blind force " could be the collapse of snow on top of them from taking shelter in a natural snow bridge at the ravine. The four at the ravine were found under up to 3 meters of snow. At the bottom of a small stream. This would not do any damage to the surrounding trees or rocks.

    If we believe the tent was located where it was found and the group exited the tent for one of the many reasons suggested, earth tremor, snow slab , wolverine or crashing rocket for example. It does not mean the injuries happened at the tent ,which I'm sure you'll agree.

    Indeed, I agree.

    3 of these hikers with 28 fractures between them , were found in the ravine under several feet of snow. The snow was reported as being more difficult to dig , which could suggest a snow collapse at some point. I would argue that this is the "unknown compelling force" in this instance . It is reported that only an impact like a car crash could cause such injuries to the chest. This may be the cause of the blunt force trauma and the lack of other injuries for survival.

    But how to compare some collapsing snow with car crash ? On several photos we can see how the snow was cloudy...

    The comparison with a car crash is the investigators statement on the injuries to the flail chest injuries. It was an example to the confusion on how such injuries occur. Teddy gives an example of a tree causing these types of injuries and Igor b suggests that it was a snow collapse. I don't know what the exact volume of snow to height ratio it would take to break ribs and fracture a skull but the theory of the snow collapse in a naturally formed snow cave is plausible. There are many examples of people being crushed then suffocating from building snow forts . These examples are sad as they involve families and children but it didn't take a lot of snow to trap them.

    https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/15-008.jpg

    https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/15-001.jpg

    Some snow collapsing slowly and on a short distance, 3-4 meters, with very limited energy... And I didn't read anything about snow in mouth and lungs...

    I don't thing they would find snow in the mouth and lungs. It would have turned to water by the time they were found. They were in a state of decay . I also don't know if they would  even able to inhale any snow. If the chest were compressed and the collapse had exhaled their last air they would be able to take a breath.

    The other single head fracture was to Slobodin which may have been caused by the slow freezing and the nature of his clothing . His neck is exposed but he is wearing a hat.  I did find a study about fractures of the skull found in deaths of hypothermia and frozen victims, so it can occur under certain circumstances.

    Yes, I have read about that. But it only says "it can happen" or "it could happen", no fact, no proof it did happen. But if we consider the most serious injuries, the ones which required very brutal blows, they are all in the area described in my diagram... and this is a fact. Can we say it is a fact ? My idea is to establish a fact here... Not paying attention to anything else but the massive force which was able to break bones and did break bones: this force did not hit one single of the 36 arms and legs available in the group but reached the small area I underlined with a circle. Only matters the number of fractures and the small area were they are concentrated on the human body. And this circle is valid for the 9 hikers by the way. It summarizes all broken bones in the group of 9, it shows the distribution of broken bones for all the 9 hikers, as they were all on site, in a limited perimeter, and experiencing the same event. My Vitruvian skeleton depicts the all group, he is the superposition of all broken bone marks on the 9 skeletons. We can give him the title: "Depiction of all broken bones in the 9 hikers group" and this title will be correct. Counting Dyatlov and Doroschenko makes sense because if in their case the "force" did not break any bone in the circle area, it could have broken a hand or a leg... but it didn't. Dyatlov and Doroschenko could widen the circle if they had a broken foot, but they don't... The force did hit in the circle or not at all. Adding 4 or 5 more hikers does not widen the circle.

    Only four had broken bones though,  3 that were in the ravine and 1 on the slope.
    But it is an interesting way to look at it and make me think of another angle.


    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on February 23, 2022, 01:41:23 PM
    Sorry, I messed up with the quotes on the above threads. I'll try again.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on February 24, 2022, 02:02:56 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on February 24, 2022, 04:13:48 PM
    Hello Ziljoe !

    I mean several natural events. A snow collapse at the ravine from the possibility of the cold and also the possibility of getting wet at the ravine. Whatever happened at the tent is what made them descend to the ceder . The "natural and blind force " could be the collapse of snow on top of them from taking shelter in a natural snow bridge at the ravine. The four at the ravine were found under up to 3 meters of snow. At the bottom of a small stream. This would not do any damage to the surrounding trees or rocks.

    Yes but this is not proof of a snow collapse at the ravine. And collapsing from what above ? Where is the above ?

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/6S-54-1.jpg)

    There was a lot of snow everywhere and a very gentle slope...


    Hi Charles!

    In the other photos it shows them retrieving the 4 ravine bodies from under the snow mass. The statements also confirm this. There are at least 3 theories as to why they were found under the snow mass.

    1) They were placed there by staging and they were covered up  by outsiders.

    2) they fell in to the ravine and snow slowly drifted up to cover them.

    3) They found a natural snow bridge / cave already formed by the stream and decided to take cover there until they could return to the tent and whatever drive them out but the cave collapsed on top of them causing the injuries for the ravine 4 .

    I agree there's no proof for anything in this mystery . But it is plausible that given the injuries that this is where the fractures to the bones happened.

    But I am interested in your Theories.






    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on February 24, 2022, 11:03:50 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on April 25, 2022, 06:05:53 AM
    Hello,
    There are no indications of the presence of other people in the area.

    Nothing to really suggest that other people were involved.
    The nature of the threat that made them all get out of the tent and run to the forest. If they were alone with the laws of physics, there was no reason to leave the tent in such a hurry without shoes and equipment. If they were alone with animals such as bear or wolves, why stop a the the border of the forest (and no marks of bites) ? And they had knives, ski poles and axes which were of no use against the threat (which give a reasonable chance to repel animals but not firearms). If it is neither physical, nor animal... then it is human. It's like if the threat claimed the tent and the hikers knew their only chance was to stay away but not so far from the tent in the hope that the threat would finally leave it. If it's physical, no reason to leave the tent whatsoever, if it's animal, no reason not to fight back with cold steel... so, leaving the tent without fighting back means attacker with firepower and interested with the tent... human. Maybe the attackers stayed in the tent for a while, waiting for the cold to kill the hikers, and cut the tissue when leaving to check and finish off the hikers...


    You are absolutely right.

    If there is no avalanche, and it is clear that there was none, there would be no need to leave a tent improperly dressed unless forced to by human attackers.

    Those who planned ordered the attack must have been very intelligent professionals, and they knew that if the hikers just disappeared it would be clear to all that they had been killed. The same holds true if they had been shot and placed in closed coffins. Remember, the nine were resourceful people, and loyal Soviet citizens belonging to the middle strata in Soviet society. If they had witnessed something in the Urals which they were not supposed to know about, it was necessary to end their lives because they nevertheless posed a potential risk to state security. Because they were people with a standing in society, they had to be dispatched in such a way as to make it appear that it was an accident.

    The most intelligent way to do it was to chase them out from their tent at gunpoint, and let the cold to the "job." If they all froze to death, it would be the perfectly executed mission.

    However, the temperature had taken a sudden rise on this evening. That is why the hikers did not die as expected.

    Therefore, the nine had to be hunted down and killed by physical force in order for the mission to be accomplished.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on April 25, 2022, 06:48:30 AM

    Thank you for your interest. But I don't have theories... There are only a few points I stick to as quite certain :

    - the weakness of the group, morally, psychologically and physically

    - the weakness of Dyatlov as a leader : his instability and lack of judgement

    - the boiling anger in Vizhay and smoldering social unrest

    - the delirious episode at Herzen's pharmacy

    - the class and singularity of Yudin who was so wiser and so deeper than the other hikers

    - the effect of the tourists on Ognev's gang of outcasts (like tourists from Switzerland having fun in the suburbs of Monrovia)

    - the Mansi hunter's track just beyond the hikers and the fate of his reindeer

    - Slobodin not having time to put his second valenka on when they exited the tent

    - the pattern of bone breaking blows limited to such a small area

    And I am perfectly unable to link these points and make sense of them all...  dunno1

    The theory I would keep as the last one to stand would be a homicide theory: because of the four hikers suffering from broken bones injuries and because of the general context of tension, unrest, frustration, anger, quarrel, argument, etc...


    The homicide theory is more than a theory. Homicide, brilliantly planned and professionally executed, is the only possible explanation of the deaths and the injuries of the Dyatlov group.

    The slope was not steep enough to break any bones, and there was demonstrably no trace of an avalanche in the area. Moreover, the injuries are in no way consistent with what is seen from an avalanche. Broken ribs and broken skulls with no damage to the limbs, there is no possibility that these kinds of injuries could be created by an avalanche without accompanying injuries to the other parts of the body.

    The injuries of Kolevatov are described very well here on this site, and they are telling:

    "This autopsy had similar strange silence about the injuries of the victim. Broken nose, open wound behind the ear and deformed neck might be the result of a fight and be cause of death. On the other hand it could have been caused by natural elements since the body was exposed to nature for three whole months. Yet the doctor ignores this matter and doesn't try to explain the reason for these strange injuries. We should probably add that snapped neck and blow behind the ear is a common sign of killing performed by special forces."

    I have studied jiu jitsu, and I recognize the injuries as consistent with lethal close combat techniques I have learned.

    Kolevatov's injury to the neck is what happens if a close combat expert breaks your neck, and the technique is one of those recommended in the KGB training manual.

    The chest injuries of Dubinina and Zolotaryov are consistent with repeated elbow strikes from a trained killer proficient in close combat.

    Why the difference in the injuries? Why did not all the nine victims have the same types of injury? Because professional killers typically group themselves into two or three, each targeting different victims. Also, it is very clear that those four with the most serious and lethal injuries were those who were relatively better dressed than the others. The killers wanted to finish their mission, knowing that the Mansi would observe them. The five students who had the least complete clothing only needed to be incapacitated so that they did not move and keep warm. The four who were better dressed might have survived for days and even gotten help. Therefore, they had to be killed forcefully on the spot in order to ensure death. That is the probable reason why those four with the most clothing on them were also those with the most serious injuries.

    The injuries of Slobodin and Thibeaux-Brignolle are also interesting. In particular, the shape of the damage of the crushing of Thibeaux-Brignolle's skull closely resembles that of the butt of a submachine gun. We also see that Thibeaux-Brignolle had a damage to his biceps on his right arm. But no other injuries to the body. To deal a blow to the biceps is a tested and effective way of paralyzing a resistant victim, and this technique is fundamental to police forces all over the world. After being paralyzed and in great pain, Thibeaux-Brignolle likely was thrown to the ground and then lethally wounded with a rifle butt.

    Look at these injures. They are all, without exception, what one can observe when professional forces attack with lethal intent. These injuries cannot possibly be caused by accidents or cold weather.

    It was only the sudden rise of temperature on the evening between February 1 and February 2 which prevented the planned murder of the nine unfortunates from being a perfectly executed "accident."

    The fact that the first leader of the investigation was called to Moscow, and thereafter soon closed the case with the conclusion that it had been an accident, really says it all.

    The brilliant intelligence of this killing mission is perhaps best shown by what happened to the Mansi. The authorities first said that the Mansi were suspect, and several Mansi were interrogated.

    Then, suddenly, a message came that a seamstress had declared that the tent had been cut from the inside - and it was concluded that the Mansi must be innocent. Of course, there never was any scientific forensic report or documentation, and there is nothing to indicate that the students were those who cut the tent, but the Mansi were freed. The message to the Mansi, who of course had seen the bodies in their area and were aware of what had happened, was very clear even if it was unspoken: "We let you off the hook now, but if you ever tell anyone what you have seen we will invent any necessary evidence against you."

    The Mansi understood, and they have kept their silence to this day.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on April 27, 2022, 03:26:21 PM

    The more I reasoned about the many aspects of the DPI, the more I became convinced that the 9 hikers were murdered.

    My conviction of the criminal nature of the DPI is therefore closer to the opinion of Per Inge OestMoen and is also compatible with the expert statements of Eduard Tumanov.

    However, I disagree on many points of detail. For instance, I think that the attackers were few in number (only 3) and did not possess firearms...
    It was the attackers who after their victory in the deadly altercation quietly rested in the shelter of the tent, and then the attackers-and-murderers cut the canvas from the inside, just before leaving the area of the massacre, probably to manifest their joy.

    A complete and detailed plausible explanatory scenario, in any case worthy of study even if it does not provide an absolute proof, has been written in Russian by Aleks Kandr:

    http://mystery12home.ru/t-ub-gr-dyatlova

    So for me, the DPI is a completely banal news story. The only question that puzzles me is why so few people, such as Sasha Kan, refuse to see the simplest fact, that is, that there were many motives for a fierce, ruthless and deadly attack.

    After Stalin's death, the end of the Gulag, orchestrated by Krushchev, did not make the USSR a paradise on earth: if the hikers had been warned of the dangers of attacks lurking in the vicinity of Vizhay and had therefore come out of the tent with their three short-handled axes, then perhaps the hikers would have been able to counterattack...

    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 06, 2022, 12:38:06 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 09, 2022, 08:02:43 AM
    Hi Charlie

    The fractures are a good Foundation to start from . As you say, they are something factual about the case that we do know about.

    To help with statistics I would recommend "Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman". It's not an easy read but gives good examples of how we can jump to conclusions.

    I'm not sure if your statistics add up with regards to 100% fractures across all the victims as only 4 of the 9 had fractures. ( I am not much better at statistics) . The initial findings by the investigation did say that the injuries received were like that of a car accident.

    We have several theories for the fractures at the ravine.
    1) a tree falling on the group whilst in the tent.
    2)  outsiders and deliberate violence.
    3)  the possibility of taking shelter in a snow cave, natural or man made that fell on top of them.
    4) falling down a steep embankment.
    5) an avalanche at the tent location.

    Most of these suggest some sort of Traumatic Asphyxia. Research on traumatic asphyxia highlights the following.

    Internal petechiae and ecchymoses (e.g., pharyngeal, nasal, laryngeal, epiglottic, tracheal, subpleural, and subepicardial)


    Pulmonary congestion with subsequent edema


    Cerebral edema and petechiae


    Fractures, (e.g., ribs, clavicles, and sternum)


    Lacerations of abdominal organs (e.g., spleen)


    Retinal hemorrhages (Purtscher syndrome)


    Tympanic hemorrhages


    Pulmonary microembolism (fat and bone marrow)


    Hypoxic changes in internal organs (e.g., vacuolization and swelling of hepatocytes)


    I am no expert on the above but it does mention, landslides, crushing in crowds and deliberate murder. There is a case that goes back to 1800s in Scotland called "burking" . Two gentlemen set about killing innocent people by sitting on their chests and smothering their faces to supply the corpses  for dissection at anatomy lectures.

    Due to where the bodies with most fractures were found , I lean towards some sort of snow collapse.




    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 09, 2022, 11:43:17 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 09, 2022, 03:03:08 PM
    Hi Charles ,

    I agree with your considerations of any avalanche at the site of the tent causing theses injuries. I don't believe that these fractures could have happened  there . Although a small slide may have been the trigger to leave the location of the tent and seek refuge in the tree line.

    I'm not sure if using the 178 million fractures has context though. Because it leaves out another billion  plus people that would have not recorded fractures. So I think the statistics can only be applied from the 4 with fractures.

    For example , if there was a bus crash and one person out of 9 on the bus had 20 fractures to their chest but they all died I don't think you could apply that 20 fractures were distributed across the 9 people on the bus.

    I am somewhat out of my depth on this and I appreciate what you are saying.
    I think that there is a high possibility that they were crushed after finding or digging a snow hole.

    However , I'm enjoying your research and ideas and I am interested.





    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 09, 2022, 03:37:27 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 09, 2022, 03:56:52 PM
    Hi Charles,

    I will get back to you on this. At the moment it's a gut instinct that the stats you suggest are incorrectly applied. But I am only debating the issue and not dismissing your thinking. It's a journey that I'm happy to look into.

    I just don't think you can put people with no fractures in with those that did. Hopefully someone else on the forum can comment.

     thumb1
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Игорь Б. on May 09, 2022, 05:08:23 PM
    At least two blows on Zolotaryov...
    Нет.
    Quote
    Переломы лопатки достаточно редко наблюдаются в травматологии... Как правило, возникают одновременно с переломами ребер.
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=86651
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 09, 2022, 05:13:44 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 09, 2022, 05:21:43 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 09, 2022, 05:49:37 PM
    I think this is wrong way to analyse the statistics? If there are no fractures in the other 5 ,then they don't lead to the event that caused the fractures. It could be a separate event? I don't think you can link fractures to non fractures? I need you to be more specific. 3 in the ravine had their fractures . One on the hill side had his fracture in the skull which could have been to a freezing of the fluids .
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 10, 2022, 03:03:26 PM
    At least two blows on Zolotaryov...
    Нет.

    Thank you Igor, so... only one blow from the snowman.


    The quote from Igor translated to English:

    Fractures of the scapula are rarely observed in traumatology ... As a rule, they occur simultaneously with fractures of the ribs

    : Igor b is not for the snowman. He explains that he believes that there was a snow collapse at the ravine. He hypothesizes through researched  data also. From his link I will translate some to English.

    About fractures of the right scapula in Zolotarev.

    A comprehensive assessment of the location of cadaveric spots and flexion-extensor fractures of the ribs made it possible to determine the exact position of Zolotarev's body at the time of snow collapse in the stream:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=86124

    Attached image

    It can be seen that the main blow fell on the right side of the chest and the right shoulder blade.
    As it turned out, there is nothing surprising in the fracture of the scapula along with the ribs:
    Quote
    Fractures of the scapula are rarely observed in traumatology ... As a rule, they occur simultaneously with fractures of the ribs .http://www.krasotaimedicina.ru/diseases/tr...oulder-fracture
    Quote
    Scapular fractures are caused by direct trauma with a large force vector. As a rule, in 80% of cases, fractures of the scapula are accompanied by injuries to the chest , lungs and shoulder.
    Quote
    A scapular fracture requires significant force and, as a rule, a scapular fracture is accompanied by other injuries , which requires a thorough examination.https://www.dikul.net/wiki/perelomy-lopatki/
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Manti on May 10, 2022, 07:14:30 PM

    They could have toe fractures as the didn't have their shoes on and crossed a field of stones to reach the forest, but they had not a single toe fracture
    Do we know this? Were their feet checked for fractures? Perhaps the pathologist was only looking to determine cause of death and  toe fractures aren't fatal.



    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 10, 2022, 07:48:49 PM

    They could have toe fractures as the didn't have their shoes on and crossed a field of stones to reach the forest, but they had not a single toe fracture
    Do we know this? Were their feet checked for fractures? Perhaps the pathologist was only looking to determine cause of death and  toe fractures aren't fatal.






    Not my quote manti, it was Charles.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 11, 2022, 02:02:38 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 11, 2022, 02:34:36 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on May 15, 2022, 12:28:08 PM
                      Reply #59
    .........................
    I think that there is a high possibility that they were crushed after finding or digging a snow hole.

    If I understand correctly you are supporting the hypothesis that the fatal injuries to the 4 of the Den are the consequences of a natural collapse of the hardened snow above them.

    Conversely, you will be aware that I am a proponent of the criminal explanation for the DPI (the TOKEB theory). In other words, I am convinced that there is no problem with the homicide theory. Here is a remark that allows us to think that there was the intervention of other people.

    First it seems that the 4 of the Den had decided to wait and hide in the ravine (small valley) near the cedar.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-Aleexenkov-map-cropped.png)

    To be able to stay a long time in the Den without getting cold they had judiciously built 4 small beds of branches, (probably following the advice of Zolotaryov).

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-the-den-11-thumb.jpg)(https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-the-den-10.jpg)

    The bed of branches consisted of 14 fir tree branches and one birch, and on top were belongings and clothes.
    The clothes included:
        One leg of a pair of black ski trousers;
        A thick brown woolen sweater;
        A white woolen jumper, made in China; and
        A pair of brown trousers tied at the ankles but flared open with a tear to widen them.


    I then assume that you do not object to the visual reconstruction of Vasilii-Zyadik, who has certainly worked as rigorously as possible in constructing his instructive synthesized images.
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-Vasilii-Zyadik-12.jpg) (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/thumbs/Dyatlov-pass-Vasilii-Zyadik-05.jpg)

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-Vasilii-Zyadik-05.jpg)

    Therefore a question is mandatory :

       How could the corpses have been moved by a natural cause while the beds of branches seem not to have moved?

    In 2013 Askinadzi published a letter in Ural Stalker magazine, in which he recalls that the distance between all the heads of those found in the brook was about 30 cm (about 11.5") – they were all very close to each other.

    On the contrary, this grouping of the four corpses can easily be explained by the final action of "outsiders" who threw, or rather flung, chucked, the corpses into a place (or a hole like a pit) located below.

    Once their work was done, the murderers wanted to tidy things up and also align the corpses to make absolutely for sure that there were 4 of them, because 9, minus the previous 5 = 4.
    • Only Kolevatov was not quite dead yet and was able to turn a bit on Zolotaryov in a last and almost involuntary movement.
    • By coincidence, there was a small difference in level at this point and Dubinina slipped and ended up in the bizarre kneeling position that we know.

    mk :   December 04, 2020, 03:34:13 AM      Reply #7
    it strikes me that the killers were rather unconcerned about making things look natural.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 15, 2022, 03:04:45 PM
    Hi Jean Daniel Reuss,

    I support the hypothesis that the fatal injuries could have been caused by the collapse of snow on top of the ravine 4.

    I assume that some of, or all the clothing on the fir bed  were from the 2 Yuri's?. What exactly happened at the den , we will never know. However we have four bodies and a number of fractures.

    It is not because it was hardened snow that fell on top of them but rather the reporting of hard snow when digging the bodies out that indicates that there had been a snow collapse.

    The position of the bodies also suggests that they were perhaps lying in that position , perhaps cuddling each other. It is not that the snow collapsed at the actual den and there bodies migrated , rather the ravine 4 moved themselves to that location where the bodies were found.

    Igor b goes into more detail about the specifics.

    I am open to all hypothesis.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Игорь Б. on May 15, 2022, 05:15:07 PM
    How could the corpses have been moved by a natural cause while the beds of branches seem not to have moved?
    Никто никуда не перемещался. Было два укрытия - настил из деревьев и снежная пещера. Расстояние между ними 11 метров. Сделать одно укрытие на 9 человек в тех условиях было невозможно.
    Кроме того, очевидно, что у них было два разных подхода к строительству снежных укрытий.

    P.S. Любые версии с убийством опровергаются пятнами Вишневского:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=107726
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=90162
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on May 17, 2022, 02:31:01 PM


    I think I did not really understand the comment you wrote. Maybe it is a translation problem as I am very bad at English.

    Reply #72
    .....................................................
    It is not because it was hardened snow that fell on top of them but rather the reporting of hard snow when digging the bodies out that indicates that there had been a snow collapse.
    The position of the bodies also suggests that they were perhaps lying in that position .......
     It is not that the snow collapsed at the actual den and there bodies migrated , rather the ravine 4 moved themselves to that location where the bodies were found...................

    *** After the Den had been difficult to set up, "the four" would have voluntarily chosen to settle in an other particularly unsuitable place (because it was steep : small waterfall).  ! ?
    This seems unbelievable to me.

    *** What I pretentiously call the TOKEB theory is still under development because, as you know, the DPI requires taking into account and evaluating thousands of sometimes incompatible elements. (The TOKEB theory should be seen as a didactic device intended to present my explanatory hypothesis in a simple way).
    So I appreciate all your objections.

    *** But I did not understand why the consideration of Vishnevsky's stains, indicated by Igor B., Reply #73, can be an obstacle to the murder theories.
    See, my next post addressed to Igor B., Reply #75.

    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
    Additional practical clarifications:

    In the present topic=744, it is about discussing the "HOW" question. The "WHO" and "WHY" questions are other equally interesting and difficult topics, to be considered elsewhere.

    In the TOKEB theory, it is important to note that the only weapons used by the attackers were wooden clubs ("big stick"). Because a "big stick" is a weapon that has the great advantage, in the darkness, of knocking out silently, provided it is handled by strong arms.


    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on May 17, 2022, 02:34:57 PM
                    Reply #73   
    How could the corpses have been moved by a natural cause while the beds of branches seem not to have moved ?
    No one had moved anywhere. There were two shelters - a tree decking and a snow cave. The distance between them was 11 metres. It was impossible to make one shelter for 9 people in those conditions.
    In addition, it is obvious that they had two different approaches to building snow shelters.
    P.S. Any version of a murder is refuted by Vishnevsky's stains.
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=107726
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=90162

    The main weakness of the wolverine theory is that it does not explain the numerous injuries and fractures that were observed.

    I agree with the statements that you are quoting:
    The severity of Vishnevsky's spots depends on the duration of dying: if death occurs quickly, they are singular or there may be none.
    In death, which occurs several hours after the onset of cooling, the spots are multiple and are an almost constant finding at autopsy.
    Wischnewsky (or Vischnevsky) Spots in Fatal Hypothermia:
    These stains do not form immediately, but a few hours after the onset of hypothermia.


    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
    On the other hand, I think that taking into account the Vishnevski stains brings an argument in favour of the theory of murders or massacre according to TOKEB.

     •  Attackers kept Kolmogorova, Slobodin, Dyatlov,  alive in the cold for several hours, perhaps 10 hours, As a result, they had Vischnevsky stains (and severe frostbites on their limbs), until they froze to death.

     •  On the other hand Doroshenko and Krivonishchenko die more quickly, maybe 3 hours after losing consciousness, so around 2.00 AM - 2 February.
     
     •  With regard to Dubinina, Zolotaryov, Thibault, Kolevatov, all four are killed almost instantly during the short final fight near the Den
    at 7.10 AM - 2 February.  (no stains).

    We have different views on the massacre that took place on the night of 1 to 2 February 1959 on the slope of Kholat Syakhl.
    I am making below a schematic and simplified table of the chronology of the events according to the main lines of the TOKEB theory.
    Naturally, the logically reconstituted times listed are given as an indication and and should be treated as rough approximations.

    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
    8.00 PM - 1 February: 9 leaving the tent without the essential equipment  = attackers launched a kind of dope inside
    8.15 PM - 1 February: Kolmogorova knocked out, stunned going down the slope, lies in the snow unable to move, but alive because her injuries are not fatal.
    8.18 PM - 1 February: Slobodin  knocked out, stunned going down the slope, lies in the snow unable to move, but alive because his injuries are not fatal.

    8.30 PM - 1 February: The 7 remaining hikers reach the cedar.
    9.00 PM - 1 February: The fire is lit but after some discussion and perhaps an altercation Zolotaryov, Thibault, Kolevatov, Dubinina move away from the fire and leave with the purpose of setting up and hiding in an unknown Den.

    9.15 PM - 1 February:  Dyatlov  knocked out, stunned going UP the slope, his ankles may be tied to immobilise him....

    *** At this moment Kolmogorova, Slobodin, Dyatlov are knocked out but alive. They are slowly cooling down lying in the snow.
    Kolmogorova, Slobodin, Dyatlov will die much later for instancee on 8.00 AM - 2 February.
    Doroshenko and Krivonishchenko remain alone beside the fire under the cedar.

    9.30 PM - 1 February: Doroshenko easily knocked out because being beside the fire he is dazzled and cannot see the attackers coming.
    9.32 PM - 1 February: Krivonishchenko detected by the attackers at the top of the cedar........
    9.40 PM - 1 February: beginning of the Krivonishchenko torture with the question : where the 4 absent hikers went ?
    10.40 PM - 1 February: stopping the unsuccessful torture of Krivonishchenko. The attackers return to the tent, checking that Dyatlov Slobodin, Kolmogorova have not moved.
    11.10 PM - 1 February: Attackers settle into the tent to warm up, eat, rest, sleep...

    *** Thus the Den's hiding place will prove effective for about 9 hours:
    6.00 AM - 2 February: Zolotaryov, Thibault, Kolevatov, Dubinina  come out from the Den and find Doroshenko and Krivonishchenko dead under the cedar.
    6.30 AM - 2 February: Zolotaryov, Thibault, Kolevatov, Dubinina  return to the Den. Their mood is low as they realize that the other 5 hikers are definitively  neutralized.

    6.40 AM - 2 February: The attackers go back down the slope towards the cedar in search of the 4 hihers still unharmed.
    7.00 AM - 2 February: The attackers easily find the Den's hiding place as it is not yet completely dark. (civil dawn about 7.33 AM & surise about 8.23 AM).
    7.05 AM - 2 February: The 4 hikers are forcefully removed from their hiding place.
    7.10 AM - 2 February: The 4 hikers are hit with strength and promptly killed.
    7.20 AM - 2 February: Trampoline exercises on the chests of Zolotaryov and Dubinina.......
                          Use of a small spoon, the edges of which had been previously sharpened with a file or a grinding wheel (--> four eyes).................
    7.30 AM - 2 February: The 4 corpses are counted (there are in fact 4 for sure) and thrown down a natural hole 11 metres downstream from the Den.

    8.00 AM - 2 February: The attackers settle in the still intact tent to eat and rest.
    11.00 AM - 2 February: The attackers leave in the direction of North-2 after cutting the canvas of the tent from the inside.

     
    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
    About the time displayed on the watches, see also :
    https://dyatlovpass.com/watches?filter_page=2&rbid=18461
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=621.0
    PJ : I have big doubts if the Experiment with Watches gives any clues about the fact what time they die.

    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 17, 2022, 03:07:32 PM
    Hi Jean Daniel Reuss,

    It will be my poor English.

    The searchers found evidence from their probes to dig in the location of the ravine 4. On digging they found the snow was difficult to dig. They requested strong men to do the digging. This indicates that the snow was different from the surrounding snow. One reason this snow might have been difficult to dig is if there had been a snow collapse.

    Because the ravine 4  were not found at the den with sticks , firs and clothes, it does not mean the were washed down with water of the stream. They chose a snow hole , snow bridge or cave that was already there.

    Imagine 4 people taking shelter in a snow cave and a large amount of snow falls from above. What would happen to the bones in the body? 
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 18, 2022, 10:47:45 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 18, 2022, 06:00:50 PM
    This indicates that the snow was different from the surrounding snow. One reason this snow might have been difficult to dig is if there had been a snow collapse.

    Another reason might be the presence of flowing water underneath the snow. Can the presence of flowing water modify the snow which is above ?


    Perhaps......but everything is perhaps regarding this case.  4 bodies under hard snow with 2 having collapsed ribs makes sense. If it were outsiders, why not try to  hide them all? 
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Игорь Б. on May 18, 2022, 07:35:39 PM
    Another reason might be the presence of flowing water underneath the snow. Can the presence of flowing water modify the snow which is above ?

    Настил находился от тел в 11 метрах выше по течению того же ручья. Снег над настилом был мягкий (видно на фотографии):
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=64622

    Снег и должен быть мягким, если не было обрушения:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=89802
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on May 22, 2022, 07:54:25 AM
                           Reply #76
    ........................................
     it does not mean the were washed down with water of the stream. They chose a snow hole , snow bridge or cave that was already there.
    ......................................

    Many thanks for having corrected my unforgivable mistake.

    I do apologize, I had made a huge mistake in my translation.
    I now understand that you mean that they abandoned the 4 branch beds (referred to as "the Den") to voluntarily relocate a few meters downstream in order to hide in a snow cave or big hole
    (referred to as "the Ravine", despite the place being located in a tiny valley and not in a canyon)
    which then collapsed on them.

    In summary, I had mistakenly translated :
    washed down with water of the stream

    by: entrained downstream and properly cleaned by the water stream (and thus without trace of radiation).
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 22, 2022, 02:41:15 PM
    Not a problem Jean Daniel Reuss.

    My English is bad. It should read , it does not mean 'they' were washed down with 'the' water of the stream.

    I agree that the word "ravine" may not be suitable or infer some large canyon. However, they were found under a large mass of snow. Reports indicate that it was hard snow.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Manti on May 23, 2022, 09:08:21 AM
    There is some inherent inconsistency in what we know about snow conditions:In fact it seems very unlikely that there would be any snow cover on the stream, let alone meters of hardened snow, let alone in May! There are several photographs they took that show streams with no snow on top, the water exposed, and that was in January. I think the commonly accepted information about where the "Ravine 4" were found must be incorrect.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 23, 2022, 03:16:15 PM
    I think the snow can drift similar to desert sand . Depending on the wind strength , direction and temperature. There are reports of the exposed sides of trees having suffered peeling . If I understand it correctly it's like sand blasting. I agree with Manti that where the foot prints were found it must have been deeper at the time that the prints were made.

    Depending on how the snow and wind fell
    at the ravine, I believe that the snow could easily make a snow bridge . It happens in nature , the stream could still run free underneath any snow.

    However, what is clear , is that there was a lot of snow at the ravine and den area. Wheather that happened before the incident or after is anyone's guess. But it does happen in nature and they can be some of the last snow to thaw. Especially if it has been hardened by compression. Again think of the snow after sliding off a roof of a house , it's stays hard on the ground. Similar to the snow left by snow ploughs at the side of the road.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on May 29, 2022, 03:31:34 PM
         
    Conventional vocabulary used : "ravine's Four" - Den - Ravine

    •••  The "ravine's Four" =  Dubinina, Thibeaux-Brignolle, Zolotaryov, Kolevatov.

    •••  The Den = the location where the 4 beds of brushwood cut on May 4 or 5, 1959 were found.l'endroit où ont été trouvé les 4 lits de branchage les 4 ou 5 mai 1959.
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-the-den-11-thumb.jpg)

    •••  The Ravine = the location where the 4 corpses of the "ravine's Four" were found on May 5, 1959.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-the-den-17.jpg) (https://i.ibb.co/y8MjZRd/6S-43.jpg)
       



        °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

    7 meters is the distance Den <--> Ravine following Vassilii Zyadik
    Do you agree with Vassilii Zyadik's synthetic image reconstruction ?

    If you agree then the Den is located 7 meters upstream from the Ravine .
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (In the following I will refer to this location found on May 4 or 5 as: the Den-Ravine.)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine.png)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-profile-4.png)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-Vasilii-Zyadik-14.jpg) 
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-Vasilii-Zyadik-08.jpg) 



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    less snow on February 2 than on May 5
                  Reply #82
    ............ there was less snow when they started sheltering there, and snow cover significantly increased after the incident,[February 2]....
    It is impossible to know exactly how deep the snow was at the Ravine on February 2, 1959, i.e. 3 months before the discovery of Dubinina's corpse on May 5 by Askenadzi («  I...saw a piece of meat on the hook...»).
    https://dyatlovpass.com/askinadzi?rbid=18461

    But we can nevertheless be sure that there was less snow on February 2 than on May 5 !



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    The natural and progressive evolution of powder snow into hard and compact snow
                  Reply #83
    ..... Especially if it has been hardened by compression. Again think of the snow after sliding off a roof of a house , it's stays hard on the ground. Similar to the snow left by snow ploughs at the side of the road.

    Yes. It is also necessary to take into account the alternation of freezing and thawing...
    The natural evolution of freshly fallen powdery snow to progressively turn into hard, compact snow and then slowly into real ice is well known........

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9v%C3%A9

    Névé  is a young, granular type of snow which has been partially melted, refrozen and compacted, yet precedes the form of ice. This type of snow is associated with glacier formation through the process of nivation.[1] Névé that survives a full season of ablation turns into firn, which is both older and slightly denser. Firn eventually becomes glacial ice – the long-lived, compacted ice that glaciers are composed of.[2] Glacier formation can take days to years depending on freeze-thaw factors.........
    Névé has a minimum density of 500 kg/m3...


    So no need to invoke sloped house roofs or snow ploughs on at the side on roads that were not in the area around the cedar.



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    Some deceptive photos that are misleading

    The location of the Ravine (= the location of the corpses of the "ravine's Four" remained totally unknown until May 4 or 5, 1959.
    (what is certain is that the Den was found before the Ravine).

    According to Askenadzi :
    https://dyatlovpass.com/askinadzi?rbid=18461
    • On the discovery of the Den :
    ...These branches, as it were, indicated the path from the chopped fir-trees to the ravine [in fact it was the Den]. It turned out that the hikers cut off the branches and dragged them into the ravine [the Den], losing some debris of the branches along the way. Where the path ended, there we started digging. The snow was wet, caked. We cut down blocks and took them out. That’s how we found the den. With trembling hands - thinking that we will now find the guys - we scooped up the snow. When we saw an empty den, it became very painful. Where are they? ......

    • On the discovery of the Ravine :
    ...We had professional emergency avalanche probes designed to search for bodies. There is a hook at the end. It is necessary to poke, turn and pull it back. Mostly we pulled moss with the hook. And then I took out the probe and saw a piece of meat on the hook ....

    Mihail Sharavin as well as  Vladimir Borzenkov   have failed to identify the location of the area "Den-Ravine".
    https://dyatlovpass.com/controversy?flp=1#ravine
    https://dyatlovpass.com/ravine-borzenkov
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-4.png)(https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-map-Borzenkov_1.png)

    This explains why there are still photos that evoke some kind of ice cliff which are therefore misleading because they have nothing to do with the DPI.

    (http://1723.ru/forums/uploads/post-4382-1541557114.jpg)
    (http://1723.ru/forums/uploads/post-4382-1368893334.jpg)
    Forget these misleading photos



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    The correct location of the Den-Ravine recovered after 1959

    According to what I could read (or understand) on the present website of [/b]Teddy[/b], it is Shura Alekseenkov and Sasha KAN who have finally really located the Den-Ravine in 2011 and 2016.

    https://dyatlovpass.com/ravine-alekseenkov-and-kan
    https://dyatlovpass.com/ravine

    Schematic plan of the area
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-Shura-video-on-Aleexenkov-map.png)(https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-Aleexenkov-map-cropped.png)


    Photos of the Den in the background and the Ravine in the foreground (but only) during summer 2016 from shura and Sacha.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/den-04.jpg)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/den-17.jpg)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/den-19.jpg)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/den-20.jpg)
    (http://1723.ru/forums/uploads/post-4382-1533926822.jpg)


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    Here are a few troublesome questions about the collapse theory
                  Reply #83
    ...............................
    Depending on how the snow and wind fell
    at the ravine, I believe that the snow could easily make a snow bridge . It happens in nature , the stream could still run free underneath any snow.
    ...............................................

    I did not understand exactly the scenario that you ( Ziljoe ) are defending.

    It seems to me that you are inspired by the wolverine theory that Igor B exposes in the 112 pages of discussion on the website
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133

    There are today, May 29, 2022, 2231 posts unfortunately in Russian.

    But thankfully Ziljoe offered us a quick summary.

    Ziljoe  : Theories Discussion -> General Discussion -> They were NOT crushed by snow  March 25, 2021, 10:24:15 PM - Reply #41
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=858.msg14426#msg14426

    « From what I can astatine and in a very basic explanation , the ravine 4 were possibly the first to die. The area is very different today than how it was 60 years ago with vegetation. The nature of the wind would blow the snow over the ravine. (Igor shows an example photo) . It is possible that there was a natural snow cave over the ravine. It is suggested that the may have dug out some more snow and made the roof of the cave too flat which makes it more likely to collapse. The reason they are found the way they were is because they were sheltering themselves and using the coats to cover each other, or sharing them. It doesn't mean they were lying in the stream and there may have been some migration of the bodies when the thawing started.

    If there was a couple of meters of snow above them and it collapsed , it could explain the broken ribs and maybe the eyes being forced out as Dona has suggested. Igor B explains a lot of this and why there are less damage to their hands and why only one side of the ribs are broken. Igor B explains the nature of the snow in a collapse and how it becomes harder and more compact.

     It was identified at the time of digging them out  that the snow was hard».


    Please note that the judgement of Askenadzi is interesting here:
    «I do not think they could have dug a hole and a cave with their bare hands. They may have trampled a small pit for the den, and after that it snowed on top. The depth is about right...».

    •••
    In a nutshell, the theory of Igor B explains well the exit from the tent but does not convince me on the issue of the causes of the injuries of the 9 hikers commented by Tumanov.

    •••
    - How to explain the natural formation, on February 1, of a cave or an arch (snow bridge) large enough to hold 4 people ?

    In my opinion, the water that could, perhaps, flow under the snow, on February 1, would produce a quite insufficient space.

    There would be at most 1 cm between the ceiling of hardened snow (almost ice) and the water (at the temperature of melting ice i.e. 0° C) that would flow underneath.

    •••
    About the hypothetical voluntary displacement of 7 meters of the "ravine's Four" which leave the Den to go and settle at the Ravine.

    - Who built the Den's four branch beds? Was it not the "ravine's Four" on the initiative of Zolotaryov ?

    - Why build these 4 beds of branches, which certainly required time and effort since the "ravine's Four" had no tools and only one pair of gloves ?

    - Why would they want to leave the 4 beds of branches ?

    - How, probably in complete darkness, did they hope to find a better protected place ?

    - Why would the "ravine's Four" have chosen this particularly unsuitable place since there was a waterfall of 70 centimeters high ?

    - Why was Dubinina found, on May 5, in a position in the direction of the current, thus perpendicular to the three others that were across ?

    - Why, after having chosen to settle in this hypothetical cellar that they considered safer, did the ceiling suddenly collapse on them ?

    - ...etc.

     (On the contrary with my criminal theory TOKEB (Tumanov + Oestmoen + Kandr + EBE + BottledBrunette) all these questions, and others, disappear since they are not even posed ! ).

    Practical warning: as my Reply #84 is too long, I will add later some instructive pictures for the aspect of the Den-Ravine which are provided by Igor B on the website :    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 29, 2022, 09:34:59 PM
         
    Conventional vocabulary used : "ravine's Four" - Den - Ravine

    •••  The "ravine's Four" =  Dubinina, Thibeaux-Brignolle, Zolotaryov, Kolevatov.

    •••  The Den = the location where the 4 beds of brushwood cut on May 4 or 5, 1959 were found.l'endroit où ont été trouvé les 4 lits de branchage les 4 ou 5 mai 1959.
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-the-den-11-thumb.jpg)

    •••  The Ravine = the location where the 4 corpses of the "ravine's Four" were found on May 5, 1959.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-the-den-17.jpg) (https://i.ibb.co/y8MjZRd/6S-43.jpg)
       



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    7 meters is the distance Den <--> Ravine following Vassilii Zyadik
    Do you agree with Vassilii Zyadik's synthetic image reconstruction ? It could be correct.

    If you agree then the Den is located 7 meters upstream from the Ravine .I'm not sure of the relevance?
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (In the following I will refer to this location found on May 4 or 5 as: the Den-Ravine.)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine.png)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-profile-4.png)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-Vasilii-Zyadik-14.jpg) 
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-Vasilii-Zyadik-08.jpg) 



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    less snow on February 2 than on May 5
                  Reply #82
    ............ there was less snow when they started sheltering there, and snow cover significantly increased after the incident,[February 2]....
    It is impossible to know exactly how deep the snow was at the Ravine on February 2, 1959, i.e. 3 months before the discovery of Dubinina's corpse on May 5 by Askenadzi («  I...saw a piece of meat on the hook...»).
    https://dyatlovpass.com/askinadzi?rbid=18461

    But we can nevertheless be sure that there was less snow on February 2 than on May 5 !

    How can you be sure? Less snow where? May was the time of thawing ,so I would argue on the whole, there would be less snow in May than February? Would there be more snow in June than may? The snow depth will change with the wind on exposed areas. Given the fact that the searchers found raised footprints , suggesting wind/ snow errosion or drifting but the 3 bodies on the slope were found under different levels of snow suggests the level changes quickly on exposed areas.The ravine area would just fill up with snow to the levels of the surrounding terrain. That might have happened in November the previous year? ( I don't know exactly when the snow starts to fall n the area but I'm guessing it started long before January). 



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    The natural and progressive evolution of powder snow into hard and compact snow
                  Reply #83
    ..... Especially if it has been hardened by compression. Again think of the snow after sliding off a roof of a house , it's stays hard on the ground. Similar to the snow left by snow ploughs at the side of the road.

    Yes. It is also necessary to take into account the alternation of freezing and thawing...
    The natural evolution of freshly fallen powdery snow to progressively turn into hard, compact snow and then slowly into real ice is well known........

    I'll disagree here. Not all fresh snow is powdery. It can be wet and of many different consistencies. The compression  concept is with regards to friction and heat. Snow in an avalanche changes and goes hard. Less air and friction ? Like wise depending on the temperature, ( think snowballs) you can get snowballs that you can make into a lump of ice that hurt when one receives it or snow that just won't stick or compress and falls apart? So think of a mass of 2 meters of snow  above falling a meter?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9v%C3%A9

    Névé  is a young, granular type of snow which has been partially melted, refrozen and compacted, yet precedes the form of ice. This type of snow is associated with glacier formation through the process of nivation.[1] Névé that survives a full season of ablation turns into firn, which is both older and slightly denser. Firn eventually becomes glacial ice – the long-lived, compacted ice that glaciers are composed of.[2] Glacier formation can take days to years depending on freeze-thaw factors.........
    Névé has a minimum density of 500 kg/m3...


    So no need to invoke sloped house roofs or snow ploughs on at the side on roads that were not in the area around the cedar.

    It's an example of what happens to snow when it compresses, gravity or being forced together.
    Think of the consistency of snow that drops that is maybe slightly wet. It compresses , goes hard as the air has gone. ( Snowballs again) . Then logically follow on to broken ribs, bodies under hard snow, chest cavity is the most vulnerable. Then look at the report of the ravine 4 having to be dug out of hard snow. As for eyes etc , look at the report of the decaying bodies , in may, in running water. Then explain why there was more snow in May than in February?( That doesn't make sense)  The photos show there was exposed grass land in May? Plus I think ,if I remember correctly it was the searchers that found the pathway, rags of clothes etc after thawing( less snow) that led them to look in the "den/ravine" area?



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    Some deceptive photos that are misleading

    The location of the Ravine (= the location of the corpses of the "ravine's Four" remained totally unknown until May 4 or 5, 1959.
    (what is certain is that the Den was found before the Ravine).

    According to Askenadzi :
    https://dyatlovpass.com/askinadzi?rbid=18461
    • On the discovery of the Den :
    ...These branches, as it were, indicated the path from the chopped fir-trees to the ravine [in fact it was the Den]. It turned out that the hikers cut off the branches and dragged them into the ravine [the Den], losing some debris of the branches along the way. Where the path ended, there we started digging. The snow was wet, caked. We cut down blocks and took them out. That’s how we found the den. With trembling hands - thinking that we will now find the guys - we scooped up the snow. When we saw an empty den, it became very painful. Where are they? ......

    • On the discovery of the Ravine :
    ...We had professional emergency avalanche probes designed to search for bodies. There is a hook at the end. It is necessary to poke, turn and pull it back. Mostly we pulled moss with the hook. And then I took out the probe and saw a piece of meat on the hook ....

    Mihail Sharavin as well as  Vladimir Borzenkov   have failed to identify the location of the area "Den-Ravine".
    https://dyatlovpass.com/controversy?flp=1#ravine
    https://dyatlovpass.com/ravine-borzenkov
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-4.png)(https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-map-Borzenkov_1.png)

    This explains why there are still photos that evoke some kind of ice cliff which are therefore misleading because they have nothing to do with the DPI.

    Photo is not working for me, as I can't see this one.

    (http://1723.ru/forums/uploads/post-4382-1541557114.jpg)
    (http://1723.ru/forums/uploads/post-4382-1368893334.jpg)
    Forget these misleading photos



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    The correct location of the Den-Ravine recovered after 1959

    According to what I could read (or understand) on the present website of [/b]Teddy[/b], it is Shura Alekseenkov and Sasha KAN who have finally really located the Den-Ravine in 2011 and 2016.

    https://dyatlovpass.com/ravine-alekseenkov-and-kan
    https://dyatlovpass.com/ravine

    Schematic plan of the area
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-Shura-video-on-Aleexenkov-map.png)(https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-ravine-Aleexenkov-map-cropped.png)


    Photos of the Den in the background and the Ravine in the foreground (but only) during summer 2016 from shura and Sacha.

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/den-04.jpg)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/den-17.jpg)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/den-19.jpg)
    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/den-20.jpg)
    (http://1723.ru/forums/uploads/post-4382-1533926822.jpg)


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    Here are a few troublesome questions about the collapse theory
                  Reply #83
    ...............................
    Depending on how the snow and wind fell
    at the ravine, I believe that the snow could easily make a snow bridge . It happens in nature , the stream could still run free underneath any snow.
    ...............................................

    I did not understand exactly the scenario that you ( Ziljoe ) are defending.

    https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/unseen-danger-navigating-snow-bridge-hazards

    Snow bridges exist.

    It seems to me that you are inspired by the wolverine theory that Igor B exposes in the 112 pages of discussion on the website
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133

    I'm inspired by Igor b's  logic but I read everything also. I'm happy for all things to be questioned. Igor b argues a strong case.

    There are today, May 29, 2022, 2231 posts unfortunately in Russian.

    My software instantly translates any language, never been a problem.

    But thankfully Ziljoe offered us a quick summary.

    Ziljoe  : Theories Discussion -> General Discussion -> They were NOT crushed by snow  March 25, 2021, 10:24:15 PM - Reply #41
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=858.msg14426#msg14426

    « From what I can astatine and in a very basic explanation , the ravine 4 were possibly the first to die. The area is very different today than how it was 60 years ago with vegetation. The nature of the wind would blow the snow over the ravine. (Igor shows an example photo) . It is possible that there was a natural snow cave over the ravine. It is suggested that the may have dug out some more snow and made the roof of the cave too flat which makes it more likely to collapse. The reason they are found the way they were is because they were sheltering themselves and using the coats to cover each other, or sharing them. It doesn't mean they were lying in the stream and there may have been some migration of the bodies when the thawing started.

    If there was a couple of meters of snow above them and it collapsed , it could explain the broken ribs and maybe the eyes being forced out as Dona has suggested. Igor B explains a lot of this and why there are less damage to their hands and why only one side of the ribs are broken. Igor B explains the nature of the snow in a collapse and how it becomes harder and more compact.

     It was identified at the time of digging them out  that the snow was hard».


    Please note that the judgement of Askenadzi is interesting here:
    «I do not think they could have dug a hole and a cave with their bare hands. They may have trampled a small pit for the den, and after that it snowed on top. The depth is about right...».

    I'm suggesting they found a hole/cavity.

    •••
    In a nutshell, the theory of Igor B explains well the exit from the tent but does not convince me on the issue of the causes of the injuries of the 9 hikers commented by Tumanov.

    Igor b explains a lot of the injuries and why. Certainly more than a sharpened spoon to remove eyes....

    •••
    - How to explain the natural formation, on February 1, of a cave or an arch (snow bridge) large enough to hold 4 people ?

    In my opinion, the water that could, perhaps, flow under the snow, on February 1, would produce a quite insufficient space.

    See the link to snow bridges above.

    There would be at most 1 cm between the ceiling of hardened snow (almost ice) and the water (at the temperature of melting ice i.e. 0° C) that would flow underneath.

    •••
    About the hypothetical voluntary displacement of 7 meters of the "ravine's Four" which leave the Den to go and settle at the Ravine.

    - Who built the Den's four branch beds? Was it not the "ravine's Four" on the initiative of Zolotaryov ?

    - Why build these 4 beds of branches, which certainly required time and effort since the "ravine's Four" had no tools and only one pair of gloves ?

    The could of used their feet. All 9 of them could have helped. It might have been 6 of them , who knows.

    - Why would they want to leave the 4 beds of branches ?

    They found the snow hole/cave?

    - How, probably in complete darkness, did they hope to find a better protected place ?

    Was it dark?

    - Why would the "ravine's Four" have chosen this particularly unsuitable place since there was a waterfall of 70 centimeters high ?

    Was it a waterfall at the time?  It was thawing when the bodies were found.

    - Why was Dubinina found, on May 5, in a position in the direction of the current, thus perpendicular to the three others that were across ?

    Moved by the water perhaps , or entering the snow cave when it collapsed.

    - Why, after having chosen to settle in this hypothetical cellar that they considered safer, did the ceiling suddenly collapse on them ?

    Perhaps by trying to make it bigger. They kicked or scrapped away too much of the natural architecture of the strength of the arch. The arch reached a tipping point and collapsed. ( I have personal experience of this happing, no fatalities thankfully. But this has been reported on , especially kids making snow dens.)

    - ...etc.

     (On the contrary with my criminal theory TOKEB (Tumanov + Oestmoen + Kandr + EBE + BottledBrunette) all these questions, and others, disappear since they are not even posed ! ).

    Practical warning: as my Reply #84 is too long, I will add later some instructive pictures for the aspect of the Den-Ravine which are provided by Igor B on the website :    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 29, 2022, 09:37:52 PM
    Sorry, Jean Daniel Reuss,
    I've tried but I'm useless at this editing stuff. My pc is broken and I've not quite learned how to edit on my phone. However , I've put in some replies.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Игорь Б. on May 30, 2022, 05:57:17 AM
    Место настила определено сопоставлением фотографий и находится более чем 11 метрами выше по течению от тела Дубининой:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=62882

    Это место настила подтверждается свидетельством поисковика Мохова:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=109721

    Все остальные неправильно определяют место настила.
    Прокурор Темпалов в том числе:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=72662
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Игорь Б. on May 30, 2022, 06:01:28 AM
    Таким образом, оба снежных укрытия располагались над уступами, а не под ними. Это не случайно.
    Только так можно было копать снег без лопат. Не имея возможности выбрасывать снег наверх они сталкивали снег ногами вниз с уступов:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=62991
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Игорь Б. on May 30, 2022, 06:07:46 AM
    Как можно выкопать снежное укрытие без инструментов:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=73389
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=88853

    Именно поэтому перчатки у Тибо были не на руках, а в кармане куртки:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=99479
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Игорь Б. on May 30, 2022, 06:27:20 AM
    К моменту появления в лесу поисковиков в конце февраля снег в ручье был вровень с берегами. Это видно на фотографии:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=56231

    Поэтому поисковики тогда ничего не заподозрили. А толщина снега вровень с берегами - это 4 метра:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=84600

    А наметённый ветром снег очень плотный и тяжёлый:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=105949
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on May 31, 2022, 03:42:45 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on May 31, 2022, 04:02:44 PM
    Dear Jean-Daniel

    (https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-the-den-17.jpg)

    So Lyuda would have been crushed by an amount of snow able to break 14 of her ribs and then she would have been able to get out of this mountain of snow by herself and walk to the stream where to die on her knees...

    I totally agree with you, the snow collapse theory is just absurd.

    I  think you may misunderstand the the snow collapse theory.

    Anyway. I'll translate some of Igor b. :

    The second broadcast of KP radio with forensic expert Tumanov on October 18.
    "Interview with forensic expert Eduard Tumanov".
    http://www.kp.ru/radio/program/4951/
    Continued.

    23 min. 49 sec.

    Could these rib fractures... skull fractures... have been caused by falling snow masses?

    No, we completely exclude snow. The snow would completely evenly compress the entire body. And here we see the action of objects with a limited surface.

    It is clear even to a non-specialist that when a heavy snow mass falls on a lying person, the most vulnerable bones of the skeleton, the ribs, will break first of all, and not the much stronger bones of the arms, legs or head:
    Quote
    To a greater extent, the ribs are damaged (more often IV-VII, as less protected).
    Quote
    Characteristic of chest compression is the multiplicity of rib fractures, often along several lines at once.
    If the external impact exceeds the resistance of the chest, then fractures of the ribs occur at points with the greatest curvature and less strength.http://www.medical-enc.ru/sudmed/povrezhde...oy-kletki.shtml

    Thibaut's depressed skull fracture is due to a stone in a stream under the snow, about which his head was crushed like an anvil. Without this stone, the skull fracture would not have happened, like the others in the stream.

    Statistics show that mainly floating fractures are formed during collapses and transport injuries:
    Quote
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on June 01, 2022, 06:00:18 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on June 01, 2022, 10:03:42 AM
    No, we completely exclude snow..

    Good !!!



     Below is copied from Igor b's thread. It gives more context.. Tumanov changes his view point.

    ---------------------------------------------------------



    Forensic expert Tumanov, who previously categorically argued that the fractures of the ribs of Dubinina and Zolotarev cannot be the result of snow falling:
    Quote
    No, we completely exclude snow.http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=60669

    apparently read the forums:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=64056
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=64055
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=68377

    and now I agree, that fractures arose as a result of compression by snow during the collapse of a snow shelter:
    Quote
    Some of those who were found near the stream, when they were digging shelter in the snow, snow collapsed ...
    Those fractures at Dubinina, Zolotarev along one line, without signs of external damage - there are no abrasions or bruises, they can indicate precisely compression by a mass of snow.https://youtu.be/QPpGQwprYP4?t=13m34s

    Well, it's never too late to acquire professional knowledge, but it was better to do it before previous media interviews.

    PS There was old packed snow in the stream, wet due to warming , and at the time of the incident, a cubic meter of it had a mass of about 500 kg
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on June 02, 2022, 03:42:35 PM


                        Reply #94
    .....................................................
    No, we completely exclude snow.http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=60669
    apparently read the forums:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=64056
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=64055
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&sho...ost&p=68377
    ......................................................

    It is likely that you want to provide the explanations that can be found on one of the 112 web pages of the forum
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133
    also referred to as: "The tragedy at Dyatlov Pass, Memories. Testimonies. Chronicle."

    Unfortunately for me, who thanks to machine translation software (DeepL, Yandex translate....) deciphers Russian posts very difficultly and most of all very slowly, the format of your URL address (which seems abbreviated) is unusable in practice.

    On the other hand I have no difficulty in finding the posts that are indicated in a complete and precise way by Igor B. !
    For example :
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=56231
    guides us to post #198 by Igor B. on page 10 (out of 112) of this forum, where we see photos of the Den-Ravine area taken at the end of February or beginning of March 1959.

    ***************************************************************************

                        Reply #94
    ..................................
     Tumanov changes his view point.
    .........................................
    [unusable URL address]
    [https://youtu.be/QPpGQwprYP4?t=13m34s  ----> video not available in France]
    ..................................................
    Well, it's never too late to acquire professional knowledge, but it was better to do it before previous media interviews.
    ......................................................


    For me, the self-proclaimed advocate of the TOKEB theory (Tumanov - Oestmoen - Kandr - EBE - BottledBrunette), it is clear that the explanation of the DPI by a simple criminal attack did not please the Soviet power (Krushchev) in 1959, and does not please the present Russian power (Putin) either.

    (Note first that TOKEB obviously disagrees with most of the arguments, despite their numerous and detailed nature, supported by Igor B., which can be read on the 112 pages of http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133

    En 1959 :
    Andrey Kirilenko (1st Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU) summoned Korotaev(1936-2012) to the investigator's office and unequivocally explained:
    "Khrushchev is notified that the students froze to death and the case must be closed."


    Moreover, I consider that Korotaev and Ivanov did not lie when they described the surprise attack of trained and determined killers as an overwhelming force which the hikers were unable to overcome."

    Similarly in the years 2018 -2020 Eduard Tumanov "under the watchful eye of the Kremlin custodians of the Dyatlov Group's death", was warned by Putin's collaborators to stop talking in public or on television about anything that might suggest criminal explanations of the DPI.
     
    Obviously, like Korotaev and Ivanov before him, Eduard Tumanov preferred to avoid serious trouble in his life and chose to publicly state that he had changed his view point.

    About Tumanov's forced change, you can read Aleks Kandr's argument on his website (but it is long !) :
    http://mystery12home.ru/t-ub-gr-dyatlova-3

    and a discussion on the same subject on taina.li :
    https://taina.li/forum/index.php?topic=14852.0

    Personally, I approve of Tumanov not wanting to ruin his life by telling the truth about the 9 murders, which is an old case that is relatively unimportant compared to recent events like the war in Ukraine !

    As Per Inge Oestmoen skilfully expresses it "bodies do not lie", and what interests me now are the "WHO" and "WHY" questions.

    In France, in Russia and in every country in the world, government censorship exists. So how do you explain that on taina.li, the discusion launched by Aleks Kandr = Aleks K is blocked ?

    https://taina.li/forum/index.php?board=112.0
    https://taina.li/forum/index.php?topic=1002.0

              Blocked topic


    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Игорь Б. on June 02, 2022, 04:53:42 PM
    Unfortunately for me, who thanks to machine translation software (DeepL, Yandex translate....) deciphers Russian posts very difficultly and most of all very slowly
    Установите Google translate в ваш браузер и переводите всю страницу прямо в браузере. Перевод всей страницы занимает 1 секунду.
    Или установите браузер Brave (бесплатно). В нем Google translate уже установлен. Заодно забудете что такое реклама. Я пользуюсь в основном браузером Brave.

    P.S.
    Obviously, like Korotaev and Ivanov before him, Eduard Tumanov preferred to avoid serious trouble in his life and chose to publicly state that he had changed his view point.
    Нет, Туманов потом опять стал утверждать, что это было убийство и пытки. Причем такие заявления он делал и на радио и на главном телеканале страны:
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=106586
    http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133&view=findpost&p=95337

    В России можно говорить всё что угодно. Наказываются только клевета и оскорбления.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on June 02, 2022, 04:59:07 PM
    I have little belief or trust in any governments or organisations Jean Daniel Reuss.

    However, the links I gave are from Igor b's 112 page hypothesis, theory or whatever you want to call it. He has done robust research and gives many examples and evidence of how he concludes much of the narrative of the DPI. I copied and pasted some of his ,to English for those that struggle to look at a website that can't translate to what I believe to be strong arguments in the interpretations.

    I believe the U tube video is down at the moment as it won't open for me but that might be due to current world events.

    No idea about my URL address? I have no problems looking at any website, whether that be German , Italian , Dutch etc. Everyone has a point and a story, nor do I rule out , outsiders. I just think that Igor b has a more persuasive and researched theory to the events than the TOKEB theory.

    I am happy to read the step by step events though. 
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on June 02, 2022, 05:28:50 PM
    Jean Daniel Reuss.look at Igor b links. Read it from their beginning. I was copying and pasting for others that may read the posts.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on June 03, 2022, 12:44:12 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on June 04, 2022, 01:34:37 PM

    For me, the self-proclaimed advocate of the TOKEB theory (Tumanov - Oestmoen - Kandr - EBE - BottledBrunette), it is clear that the explanation of the DPI by a simple criminal attack did not please the Soviet power (Krushchev) in 1959, and does not please the present Russian power (Putin) either.

    (Note first that TOKEB obviously disagrees with most of the arguments, despite their numerous and detailed nature, supported by Igor B., which can be read on the 112 pages of http://1723.ru/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=5133

    En 1959 :
    Andrey Kirilenko (1st Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU) summoned Korotaev(1936-2012) to the investigator's office and unequivocally explained:
    "Khrushchev is notified that the students froze to death and the case must be closed."


    Moreover, I consider that Korotaev and Ivanov did not lie when they described the surprise attack of trained and determined killers as an overwhelming force which the hikers were unable to overcome."

    Similarly in the years 2018 -2020 Eduard Tumanov "under the watchful eye of the Kremlin custodians of the Dyatlov Group's death", was warned by Putin's collaborators to stop talking in public or on television about anything that might suggest criminal explanations of the DPI.
     
    Obviously, like Korotaev and Ivanov before him, Eduard Tumanov preferred to avoid serious trouble in his life and chose to publicly state that he had changed his view point.

    About Tumanov's forced change, you can read Aleks Kandr's argument on his website (but it is long !) :
    http://mystery12home.ru/t-ub-gr-dyatlova-3

    and a discussion on the same subject on taina.li :
    https://taina.li/forum/index.php?topic=14852.0

    Personally, I approve of Tumanov not wanting to ruin his life by telling the truth about the 9 murders, which is an old case that is relatively unimportant compared to recent events like the war in Ukraine !

    As Per Inge Oestmoen skilfully expresses it "bodies do not lie", and what interests me now are the "WHO" and "WHY" questions.

    In France, in Russia and in every country in the world, government censorship exists. So how do you explain that on taina.li, the discusion launched by Aleks Kandr = Aleks K is blocked ?

    https://taina.li/forum/index.php?board=112.0
    https://taina.li/forum/index.php?topic=1002.0

              Blocked topic


    Dear Jean Daniel Reuss:

    I admire your reasoning, which is basically correct. The one detail where I must say that I think you are mistaken is when you think that the attackers did not have firearms.

    The people who orchestrated the DPI knew very well that the nine students were resourceful people, loyal Soviet citizens. Therefore, they could not simply shoot them and put them in closed coffins or make them "disappear." That would have been too obvious.

    However, the nine must have observed something there in the Urals which they were not supposed to know about. They observed something that would represent a threat to state security if one of these nine should ever tell a spouse, friend or child. For that reason, they all had to be eliminated

    The solution was to force the students out from the tent, cut it so that the students could not find shelter if they returned, and chase them out in the cold improperly dressed in order to let the winter do the job. As I have described before, what foiled the plot was that there was a sudden rise in temperature on the night of February 2, 1959. The nearest weather stations recorded that, so this is evident.

    Now, if the sudden rise in temperature had not taken place this killing mission would have been perfect. There was nothing primitive in this method. To force improperly dressed humans out in the cold is a brilliant method of silencing them. As it were, the students did not die as planned, and so they had to be hunted down and dispatched. Hence the injuries, many of which I recognize as typical of killing by trained close combat experts. The killers were no common criminals, that is for sure. They were special forces operators who were very aware that they must avoid bayonet cuts or bullet wounds, but it is certain that they were armed.

    Further indications of the intelligent planning behind this mission was what happened to the Mansi. They were said to be under suspicion, some of them were interrogated. Then, a seamstress said that the tent was cut from the inside - with no scientific documentation and no explanation why that would contradict the fact that is was homicide. What happened? The Mansi were in the area, and must necessarily have learned about the death of the nine and possibly also observed the arrival of the killers. By interrogating some of them and then releasing them in the way it happened, the Mansi were given a stern warning that if they ever told anyone what they had observed a grim fate would befall them.

    I can hardly imagine a more cruelly intelligent way of first performing a preventive killing, and then effectively silencing the witnesses who surely understood what had happened.

    As if the above were not enough, when the investigators in 1959 were forced to close the case with a false conclusion it should be very clear that the government knew very well what this was all about. Now we have seen that the same happens even today. False conclusions about a non-existent avalanche are being dictated, and people who point to the physical impossibility of an avalanche and to the injuries of the nine victims being only consistent with human attack with lethal intent are being forced into retracting their views.

    The nine unfortunate students were at the wrong place at the wrong time. That became their undoing. The wording "overwhelming force" is as close as Ivanov could express it without saying it openly.

    Their killers were no common criminals, they were intelligent, highly trained and skillful professionals.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on June 04, 2022, 01:37:38 PM
    * Ognev's outcasts met Dyatlov's tourists ... adult men forced to sleep in a dormitory meeting adult men sleeping in a tent just for the fun and with two girls they were unable to copulate with (just playing couples)... it is lighting a match near a gas tank. If somebody can't understand the explosive potential of such a configuration, then it is useless to explore any other hypothesis. First purge all the possibilities of inside violence, then go to the snowman... "Inside" meaning either the tent or the tent + district 41 given the remoteness of the scene.


    Neither in the diaries nor in any other way do we have any indication that the Dyatlov Pass Incident had anything with internal strife to do.

    Everything tells us that the nine were killed in a well planned, skillful killing mission. The fact that some people today do not want to accept that, is in fact testimony to the intelligence behind the cruel mission. If the temperature had been some degrees lower, the nine would have frozen to death as was planned and the plot would have been perfect. Even the most select and formidable secret police force known to Man cannot control the natural forces.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on June 04, 2022, 05:21:33 PM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Jean Daniel Reuss on June 11, 2022, 01:43:16 PM
                   Reply #100
    ......................
    I must say that I think you are mistaken is when you think that the attackers did not have firearms.
    ......................

    You may want to read my 5 recent posts in which I discuss the disadvantages of a firearm compared to a simple birch wood blunt object.
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=1113.msg17761#msg17761
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=78.msg17757#msg17757
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=78.msg17747#msg17747
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=1113.msg17746#msg17746
    https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=1113.msg17737#msg17737


    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
    In my still under construction TOKEB theory, the  "O"  is used in gratitude to Oestmoen.

    Indeed, we both agree with Askenadzi :

    I...came to the conclusion that no spontaneous force could kill the nine healthy and fit guys. They could not just freeze in those conditions. ...... I don't know who or why they were murdered. But this seems to me the only explanation of their death.

    But afterwards our theories are different. The  "K"  of TOKEB is in honour of Aleks Kandr who considers that the DPI is a humiliating defeat of the KGB which revealed itself unable to protect the 9 hikers.


    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
        •••  Apart from possible illegal activities such as criminal gold trafficking, the existence of  "something that would represent a threat to state security"  is a frankly extravagant assumption.

        •••  For 60 years the region has been particularly watched and scoured. And also, for 60 years, we can have an idea of the broad outlines of what might have been the secret Soviet research or realization in 1959 (nuclear bombs, submarines, aeroplanes, missiles, combat gas...etc).

    There is no clue to suggest the presence of "something which they were not supposed to know about".

        •••  On the contrary, the region was far from being deserted but was often frequented by people who needed protection or control: foresters, loggers, geologists, prospectors, hunters, Russian tourists, illegal gold traffickers, Ivdellag escapees..........etc.

    And all these people benefited from aerial surveillance from the Ivdellag airbase, which was well equipped (since it was able to send numerous intervention teams to the ground at short notice).

        •••  Even assuming that in 8 days, for some weird and unknown reason, the hikers had gone from being good citizens to individuals to be eliminated, neither the KGB nor any other official service would have failed to interrogate them methodically for days, and rather for weeks and months.

        •••  And in this case, investigations would have been carried out among the families and relatives of the hikers, which does not appear in the testimonies available to us.


    °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
               Citation :
     the nine were killed in a well planned, skillful killing mission. 

    The killing mission (and the typical disfiguration of the 2 corpses) was planned to be accomplished (more or less quickly) regardless of the weather conditions on the slope of Kholat Syakhl on 1 February.
    Just as well :
    Temperature = 0° C and Wind : 3 m/s - or sudden rise in temperature. (Example:  Igor B. , wolverine....).
    Temperature = -50° C and Wind : 35 m/s.  (Example:  Lupos, Catabatic Wind - Acute Stress Reaction - Cold Air Drops...).

    The temperature had no importance on the final result which was: not to leave any survivor.


               Citation :
     The Mansi were in the area,.......... possibly also observed the arrival of the killers.

    It is unlikely that the Mansis could have seen the arrival of the killers by extraordinary chance.

    Apart from participating in the search for the corpses, the Mansis played no direct role in the DPI. cf. Vladimir Sungorkin
    from Komsomolskaya Pravda.


               Citation :
     I can hardly imagine a more cruelly intelligent...

    The cold killing procedure by cold is well known and has been used for centuries in the Siberian regions.

    This killing method, which is inexpensive, is not particularly cruel compared to other killings tortures. After the onset of painful physiological reactions, the victim gradually loses consciousness.
    Sometimes the victim even feels a paradoxical sensation of warmth.
     

               Citation :
     ...I think you are mistaken is when you think that the attackers did not have firearms.

         Vietnamka
        But the main question of why the victims were not simply shot ?
    the simplest answer is  - attackers didnt have [fire]weapons.


      1) - No staging
    The attackers wanted to show that they had killed 9 exemplary Soviet citizens who were pampered by the Khrushchev government.   
    Therefore the attackers did not stage anything, thinking that the investigators would normally and logically declare that the 9 hikers had been murdered.

    But afterwards the Kremlin fooled those who orchestrated these assassinations by imposing idiotic official explanations i.e. :
     "overwhelming force, which the hikers were not able to overcome" in 1959,
    later "Avalanche" in 2019.

      2) - No firearm
    The exit from the tent without the axes and in the conditions of the attack: darkness, wind, without tearing off the tent, cannot be explained by the mere verbal threat of a firearm.   (in 1959: no powerful and transportable light was easily available).
     • It was not sufficient to shoot in the air.
     • It was not sufficient to explode large firecrackers: boom, boom....

     • It would have required an impressive visible warning gunshot. (i.e. a hole in the tent fabric or even in the leg of a hiker).

    Another more promising approach to research was suggested by Mishka: the use of cunning, treachery and betrayal, like certain pirates at sea who disguise themselves as shipwrecked men in distress in order to gain control of a large ship.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Per Inge Oestmoen on June 21, 2022, 01:28:13 PM

         Vietnamka
        But the main question of why the victims were not simply shot ?
    the simplest answer is  - attackers didnt have [fire]weapons.


      1) - No staging
    The attackers wanted to show that they had killed 9 exemplary Soviet citizens who were pampered by the Khrushchev government.   
    Therefore the attackers did not stage anything, thinking that the investigators would normally and logically declare that the 9 hikers had been murdered.


    Dear Jean Daniel Reuss:

    I have some more comments:

    - When I stated that the method of killing by cold is "cruelly intelligent" I did not mean the method of killing itself, but the careful calculation that evidently is behind when the killers force improperly dressed people out in the winter.

    - There was a sudden, unexpected rise in temperature during the night of February 2, 1959. If that rise of temperature had not occurred, the killers would not have needed to use any additional physical force to hasten the demise of the nine. If the nine had frozen to death as planned, nobody would be able to know for sure that it was murder. 

    - Since the Mansi lived in the area, they would more than likely have observed the bodies during the long period between the murder and the discovery of the bodies. Although we cannot say it with certainty, it is not unlikely that the Mansi also were aware of the presence of the killing squad. That is the only possible explanation why the Mansi were first interrogated, then released: It was a stern warning which needed no explicit wording. The Mansi understood, and have kept quiet to this day.

    - The victims were not shot, simply because then it would be impossible to pretend that the Dyatlov Pass Incident was an accident. The people who planned the killing knew that the nine students were Soviet citizens whose loyalty was not in doubt and none of them had any record of dissidence or disagreement with the Soviet regime. To shoot them, or make them "disappear" would not be tolerated. However, if the students had witnessed some secret activity in the Urals they were still a potential threat to state security. Therefore they had to be killed, and it had to be done in such a way as to make it seem to be an accident. That is why they were not shot. Secret police forces generally try to kill by creating "natural deaths," "accidents" or "suicides." To just shoot them, would create political unrest and be a telltale sign that something really was going on in the Urals. During the Cold War, state secrets was something only a select few were supposed to know about.

    - Only a sudden rise in temperature prevented the operation from being a complete success. The forceful killing of the students was necessary because the killers needed to fulfill their mission. The killers took great pains to make it look like an accident.

    - Later, the Soviet and subsequent Russian authorities also took great pains to force or fool investigators and the public into believing that it was an accident. it was obvious back in 1959 that it could not have been an avalanche, and recently it has been scientifically and conclusively proven that there was no avalanche. The Soviet and Russian authorities naturally knew this all the time. Still, they maintained that the death of the nine was an accident, and they have maintained that it was caused by an avalanche even if they knew very well that it was impossible. There would be no need for such a great cover up unless the Soviet government themselves orchestrated and ordered the killing.

    - As for the disadvantage of a firearm: It is obvious. If one wants to make a killing look like an accident, one must of course not use firearms.
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on June 23, 2022, 02:38:17 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: RMK on November 15, 2022, 04:05:00 PM
    (https://i.ibb.co/pKn1Yf9/Grouping-of-bone-breaking-blows.png) (https://ibb.co/VC3LfgP)

    I found this quite interesting article in the Lancet : "Global, regional, and national burden of bone fractures in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019." based on the recording of 178 million bone fractures in 2019.

    Source : https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-7568%2821%2900172-0 (https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-7568%2821%2900172-0)

    Skull, sternum and ribs fractures only represent 6,57% of the 178 M fractures, but at Dyatlov's Pass they represent 90% of the fractures.

    Arm, hand, leg and foot fractures represent 60,51% of the 178 M fractures, but at Dyatlov's Pass they represent 0% of the fractures.


    Unfortunately, the study mixes "clavicle, scapula, or humerus" fractures in a same category. Zolotaryov had a very rare scapula fracture and none of the 18 humerus was broken. In the USA, scapula fracture represent approximately 0.4-1% of all fractures (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537312/ (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537312/)) and humerus fracture 8% of all fractures (https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/825488-overview (https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/825488-overview)). If we could have the details of the "clavicle, scapula, or humerus" category, it would even increase the contradiction, with something close to :

    Skull, scapula, sternum and ribs fractures represent 6,97-7,57 % of all fractures, but at Dyatlov's Pass they represent 100% of the fractures.

    Arm (humerus included), hand, leg and foot fractures represent 68,51% of all fractures, but at Dyatlov's Pass they represent 0% of the fractures.

    Approximatively, we expect 7% and get 100%, we expect 70% and get 0%...

    I have no expertise in statistics but somebody should seriously analyze the Dyatlov's Pass event in terms of statistics. The distribution of bones fractures is not at random and even it defies the general statistics of bone fractures based on a 178 million cases study. Working on the broken bones has serious advantages as bone fracture is a precise fact and not an interpretation, as any bone fracture is always related to an accidental or catastrophic event of whatever type, as it is related to the hikers' death and to a force having caused death and as there is a number of 29 fractured bones for 9 individuals.

    In my opinion, the concentration of the 29 bone fractures in the blue circle also containing brain, heart and lungs can only mean "aiming at vital organs in the purpose to kill".

    And if we consider other types of injury : cut, scratch, bruise, it becomes even more meaningful. That is to say all other parts of the body were exposed to injuries : but not a single of these injuries at not vital organs was caused with enough strength to break the smallest phalanx. We should consider the event, the destruction and the destructed as a whole. And even extend the destructed to objects : skis, stove, poles, cameras, eyeglasses, pens, biscuits, matches, glass bottles... any object that could be broken into two pieces, how many breakable objects did they have and how many were broken ? And what is the pattern of destruction ? Are we talking of a random catastrophic event that hit their camp and that avoided to break any match, any eyeglass, any pencil, any bottle, any toe, any finger, any foot, any hand, any leg  or any arm but reached and broke 29 human bones just centimeter close to the vital organs ?
    Dear Charles:

    I should start off by saying that I do not accept the specific homicide theory that you have explicated in other threads on these forums.  However, your post, right here, is the single most persuasive argument for homicide being the cause of the Dyatlov Pass Incident that I have ever encountered!  You reference a large-scale epidemiological study of the prevalence and distribution of "all-cause" bone fractures from all over the world, and argue convincingly that the distribution of fractures across the Dyatlovites' bodies' differs appreciably from what is "typical" per the Global Burden of Disease Study.  It's unfortunate that the study you cite concerns (as aforementioned) "all-cause" morbidity of bone fractures, and does not present statistics stratified by cause-of-injury (e.g., misadventure/accident versus assault versus self-inflicted), but I think it is safe to assume that the vast majority of fractures occur due to misadventure or accident, and not due to human malice.  That is, we can treat the bodily distribution of fractures reported in the GBDS as being "approximately" typical of accidental fractures...and it is indeed interesting to consider that the Dyatlovites disproportionately sustained fractures in the head, neck, and torso.

    Good job, Charles!

    (P.S.  Sorry, everyone, for bumping a thread that's five months' stale...but I am its OP, after all  grin1 .)
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Charles on November 16, 2022, 03:09:53 AM
    nothing here
    Title: Re: A problem with homicide theories
    Post by: Ziljoe on November 16, 2022, 04:47:46 PM
    Thank you dear RMK,

    I updated my math and found:

    We expect 17% in the blue circle and get 100%, we expect 80% elsewhere and get 0%.

    Charles, your maths are incorrect.

    The 3% left correspond to the vertebras of which I don't have the details: some are inside the blue circle and others are outside. I also added a fracture of the skull as I lately discovered that Dr Vozrozhdenny described a wound "penetrating into" the mastoid process. The total of fractures being 30:

    (https://i.ibb.co/4gG1qpw/30-bone-fractures.png) (https://ibb.co/3YqR3c5)

    But there is "a problem with accident theories" which is:

    Deputy Federal Prosecutor for Investigations Urakov arrived and immediately asked us to bring him the case. He told us to write the closing statement. He went to the Oblast committee and took Klinov and Ivanov with him. When Ivanov came back he told me that an order was to close the case. [...] I received an express order from Urakov to tell parents it was an accident [...] he himself must have received orders from the Procurator General who, in his turn, executed orders from his superiors. And it looks like so: all of a sudden, in the midst of investigation, there comes Urakov and closes down all work. (Evgeniy Okishev's 2014 intervew) https://dyatlovpass.com/evgeniy-okishev-2014

    The same problem you can find here:

    "Considering the absence of external injuries to the bodies or signs of a fight, the presence of all the valuables of the group, and also taking into account the conclusion of the medical examinations for the causes of the deaths of the hikers, it is concluded that the cause of their demise was overwhelming force, which the hikers were not able to overcome." (L.N. Ivanov's resolution to close the case of May 28, 1959)

    The "accident theorie" was not the conclusion of an investigation but the result of a political decision which was taken in Sverdlovsk Oblast committee or in Moscow and imposed as an "express order" to the investigators... And how to deal with "signs of fight"? Easy: just deny the existence of the more than 80 "external injuries" described in the autopsy reports. The "accident theories" have a problem, and a bigger one than the "homicide theories".

    It's unfortunate that the study you cite concerns (as aforementioned) "all-cause" morbidity of bone fractures, and does not present statistics stratified by cause-of-injury (e.g., misadventure/accident versus assault versus self-inflicted), but I think it is safe to assume that the vast majority of fractures occur due to misadventure or accident, and not due to human malice.

    It is not so unfortunate because fracture always imply some catastrophic event. Maybe there are cases of slow fractures, occurring in periods counted in hours, days or weeks, and not painful, but they should be very rare. Fracture means instantaneous event, catastrophic and violent (force excessing the bone resistance). That is to say, all fractures are like equalized in their catastrophic circumstance. And this "equalization" allow us to compare the 9 hikers' fractures with the 178 million sample.

    PS: I have checked about multiple ribs fractures or flail chest in medical studies and there are records of such fractures "caused by assault". These case are rare in samples that are open to all cases admitted into hospital, but in the gulag, the cases were so frequent they had a Russian nickname: "razbit faneru" - "to crack the plywood".








    Charles, your maths are incorrect.