Criminal psychology is a very important part of the preliminary work on unraveling crimes. It cannot be said that criminal psychology takes over the investigation, it assists it. It narrows the circle of suspects. This was stated by the profiler and former rector of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Assoc. Prof. Nedelcho Stoychev in the program “Live Day” on Nova News.
The study of the victims provides grounds for the probable motive of the crime. From another point of view, the material traces at the crime scene are the basis for building the version. The hypothesis that it was a murder and suicide is supported by material evidence and traces in the case of “Petrohan”. The investigators have formed a version that is also confirmed by the expert reports that are now being released, he adds.
People who decided to commit suicide must have many reasons to do so and they should not be related only to some beliefs. There should be some shortened life perspective, some major existential problem that plunged them into a severe depressive state, in this case we have no direct data. The arrangement of the bodies in Petrohan initially seemed to me like a staged suicide. Whether two committed suicide and one was killed or one killed the others and then committed suicide, only the expert reports can say. The way the whole thing happens is very mysterious. On the other hand, there are no signs of external interference, the profiler explained.
There has never been such a case in Bulgaria before, Assoc. Prof. Nedelcho Stoychev is categorical.
When all the expert reports are clear and the puzzle of unknowns is completed, then it will become clear what happened. It is obvious that the people who were found dead in Petrokhan have burns on their bodies, on their clothes, which means that they were in this fire. But whether they set it on fire or not must also be proven by experts. It is still too early to make final assessments, he specified.
Assoc. Prof. Stoychev commented on the claims of the parents of children who attended Kalushev's school. “This is a person who has built himself an image of a spiritual leader. He has an inflated narcissistic ego. This is one of the signs of the missionary attitude that he had and with which he managed to form a circle of people who believed him, because they themselves had some spiritual voids or accepted him as a person who could solve some existential problems that they were facing and did not know any solutions to. It was in this manipulation that these mothers got entangled in order to give their children, whom this man abused. He exercised an unhealthy influence on them. They were directed towards ways of development that only he liked. The parents are responsible for this”, the expert is categorical.
I am convinced that the entire ecological theme and spiritual practices actually conceal the main motive that Kalushev has access to children at an age when they are susceptible to influence, said Assoc. Prof. Stoychev.
He ruled out the possibility that the case is somehow connected to DANS