Investigators list 12,000 suspects in 2 girls' murder

06/ 02/ 2009

ROSTOV-ON-DON, February 6 (RIA Novosti) - Investigators in the southern Russian city of Taganrog have compiled a list of suspects in the 2007 murder of two girls comprising 12,000 names, the head of the city's investigation department said on Wednesday.

The bodies of two sisters, born in 1999 and 2003, were found in a forest near Taganrog in May 2007. The girls had been reported missing two days before.

"We have compiled a list of people who could have committed the crime," Yury Popov said. "Investigators currently keep in mind a total of 12,000 people."

Investigators have obtained samples of the murderer's DNA and determined that the girls were killed by one man.