of the department for the investigation of crimes against the person and public safety of the osko investigative department. gomel region. in 2020, senior investigator of the gomel city department of the investigative committeeinvestigation team, carried out preliminary criminal investigation, conducted interviews with key witnesses and persons with relevant information. she ordered an examination, analyzed information received by the investigative bodies, directly interrogated the suspect, and subsequently the accused, and participated in checking evidence at the scene of the incident. even though upon inspection of the scene of the incident , genetic material belonging to an unidentified male person was discovered on the belongings of the murdered people, that is , this material does not belong to either the murdered persons or theirs relatives, accordingly , it was assumed that this trace was left by the criminal, the investigators wondered: was it one person or there were several of them, that is , it was quite difficult to cope with two men, no traces of a struggle were found at the scene of the crime, a large-scale work to find the criminal. the shocking news about the double murder struck the resident