Father Of Five Admits To Killing Wife, Burying Her Corpse Before Running Off With New Wife

A Russian man has confessed to killing his wife and burying her remains in a forest almost 15 years ago before running away and starting a new life with another woman.

Vladimir Tretyakov, a 45-year-old deputy chief accountant at the world famous Pirogov Clinic of High Medical Technology in St Petersburg, was exposed after detectives reopened investigations and tapped his phone.

Investigators heard Vladimir admit to killing his then 29-year-old wife Zhanna Tretyakova, according to a reliable source.

When confronted by police, the father-of-five, confessed: "I will tell you everything, just don't put me in jail."

Vladimir openly admitted to investigators that he punched Zhanna during a row. She fell and died of "severe head injuries", he said.

He then wrapped her body in a blanket and stashed it on the balcony of their flat to hide it from their two young children, then aged seven and five, Vladimir told officers.

"The next day the husband loaded the body into a car and drove it to the forest in Vyborgsky district of Leningrad region, where he buried it," said a source close to the case.

At the time, Vladimir reported to police that his wife had gone missing. He also actively joined a search to find her.

A murder investigation into the missing woman’s fate was opened in 2008, but saw no results.

Meanwhile, Vladimir raised the couple’s two sons and later married second wife Maria, with whom he now has three children.

In a video Vladimir is seen explaining to detectives how he buried the corpse of his first wife, who he met at university.

"From memory, I left the car somewhere around here, by the ditch," he told officers, Mirror reported.

"There was a light breeze when I buried her, and two pine trees here, swaying in the wind and creaking."

"I remember burying her next to the ditch, there it is behind my back."

"There were two trunks of pine trees lying here, one a little higher than the other," he told detectives.

However, Zhanna's remains have not been located yet and would be needed to ensure Vladimir's prosecution.

A court ordered his house arrest pending the investigations.

Officers have only until early Nov. to complete a criminal case against Vladimir which could lead to him spending a 15-year minimum jail term.