2024-10-04 00:57:05
- 27 years ago, Violina Lalkovska was a domestic helper for her victims – the elderly parents of the singer’s father, Dr. Borislav Stoyanov
- Before the tragedy, she was treated in a psychiatric hospital, but an examination proved that at the time of the crime she was aware of her actions and could be held responsible
- She returned to her native Vratsa a month ago, but was alone – without family and friends
The woman who threw herself under the train on September 24 in Vratsa was convicted of murdering the grandparents of the singer Beloslava in 1997. She worked for them as a domestic servant, served 17 years behind bars and was recently released from Sliven prison.
Late in the evening, the fast train from Vidin to Sofia is a hundred meters from the Vratsa railway station, when the driver feels that the locomotive has collided with something on the line, and stops after a few meters. He finds a woman’s corpse on the tracks and immediately calls the police. She
threw herself in front of the train at the last moment and the driver failed to react
The police and the medical team that arrived at the scene encountered a gruesome sight of a dismembered and disfigured corpse. The investigators did not find any documents with the woman and began to look for a way to establish her identity. Only a week later, it became known that the person who died on the tracks was 51-year-old Violina Lalkovska. It quickly becomes clear that this is the woman who killed an elderly family in 1997 and was convicted 10 years later.
On the eve of Christmas in 1997, 76-year-old Veneta and 82-year-old Krastyo Stoyanovi became victims of Lalkovska, who was then 24 years old. Their son is the famous psychiatrist and businessman Dr. Borislav Stoyanov. He has a second marriage with the actress Aneta Sotirova, from which the future singer Beloslava was born.
Violina Lalkovska was recommended by an acquaintance to Dr. Stoyanov, who lives in Sofia, and he hired her to help his elderly parents. She took care of them for almost a year. After the murder, the housekeeper
spray painted the walls of the bloodied apartment with swastikas
and other symbols, littering the household to mimic a Skinnar attack.
Lalkovska later claimed to the investigators that her aggression was triggered by the elderly man’s desire to rape her, preceded by indecent proposals. Therefore, after she got together with him and to save herself, she stabbed him several times with his hunting knife.
At that time, his wife Veneta was visiting a friend. While Violina was washing the blood from her hands and face in the bathroom, Veneta Stoyanova rang the doorbell. Frightened, Violina pushed the woman into the kitchen, knocked her to the floor, took a knife from the table and started hitting her. She then stripped her naked from the waist down to stage a rape.
Lalkovska took off her clothes and put them together with the spray bottles, the bloody slippers and the knife in an envelope, which she set on fire the next day in the area of the Vrattsata Gorge.
The cause of death of Krastyo Stoyanov was the cutting of the carotid artery, preceded by a blow to the right temple with a hard object, according to the triple medical expertise. His wife, Veneta, had a broken rib cage, possibly from stepping on or jumping on her chest.
The police quickly find out who attacked the pensioners. After several days of denying being the perpetrator of the double murder, Lalkovska confessed everything and led the police to the place where she burned the clothes. In front of the cops Violina
says that the Stoyanovs treated her like a slave and paid her little
And in her testimony before the judge, she pleaded not guilty and did not want to talk, as she did not remember anything.
According to the indictment, she then had an agreement with the Stoyanovi family to work for them 4 hours a day. However, she often stayed until later. She also did things that were not part of her duties – agricultural activities at their cottage. For this, she does not receive additional remuneration, which caused her “indignation”.
“The accused carefully hid these feelings, as she was apparently on very good terms with the victims, but she felt deep dissatisfaction with her social position, her place in society,” the indictment reads.
All this led to self-isolation from others, a feeling of life’s injustice and accumulation of feelings of envy, malice and hatred towards the “normally” living people.
On November 20, 1997, the Stoyanov family told Violina that they would be moving to Sofia and that she would be released from work.
“The loss of salary reinforced the negative elements in her emotional attitude,” the magistrates also explain in the act.
According to the medical examination, Violina Lalkovska interrupted her studies in Sofia in 1991 due to illness –
initial stage of schizophrenia
From then until 1995, she was hospitalized in the psychiatric clinic in Sofia. Her treatment stopped in 1995, when she was certified as a person with a balanced mental state, with a conclusion of work capacity and adequate civil behavior.
The expertise also says that it is Lalkovska
intelligent, reads a lot, has studied all the symptoms of insanity
This gives the prosecution reason to suggest that she plays that role very well in the courtroom.
The case against Lalkovska has been going on for a decade. The trial has been interrupted several times, and once started again due to the death of a judge.
In order to decide what is the state of Violina, the fifth expert examination was appointed, which was the work of professors Yordan Stoimenov, Stefan Todorov, Marin Roglev, Atanas Shishkov and the psychologist Dr. Veselin Vlahova. Their conclusion is that at the time of the crime Lalkovska did not have a morbid disorder of consciousness and was able to understand her actions and direct her actions.
“While working for my parents, Lalkovska did not show any signs of schizophrenia – claims the victims’ son, Dr. Borislav Stoyanov, also a psychiatrist. – She was fully aware of her act and must bear criminal responsibility for it. And after she killed my parents, stole money and my mother’s gold jewelry.”
She was eventually convicted in 2007 after forensics proved she was sane at the time of the crime. Then
received a life sentence by the Vračan District Court
The sentence was appealed before the Court of Appeal in Sofia and the case was returned to the prosecutor’s office in Vratsa for a new investigation. In the end, her sentence was again confirmed and she was sent to serve it in prison near Sliven.
After 17 years behind bars, Violina Lalkovska was pardoned and released from prison. She returned to her native Vratsa a month ago, but remains alone without relatives and friends. As she did years ago, she did not share her intentions with anyone – until the fateful evening when she stood near the railway line waiting for the approaching train.