Tair Rada Summary

On December 6th, 2006, Tair Rada’s mother came home to an empty house. Quick to realize that something was amiss, she called her husband, telling him that their daughter had not come home and was not answering her phone. Police were called along with several close friends and family members and a search party for Tair Rada commenced. Zvi Hoter, a neighbor of the Rada family, was also a part of the search party. He recalled that he and his group decided to search inside the high school. The school was dark in the late hours and very quiet. Nothing seemed amiss until they looked into one of the bathrooms and found that amongst the stalls was a single locked door. Hoter said the room had gone silent and eerie as a friend checked between the gaps

During the six-day long interrogation, Zadorov continuously denied having part of the crime. It was not until the investigators falsely stated that blood of the victim was found on his belongings that Zadorov confessed he may have killed her in a fit of insanity. The investigators claimed that using such method was lawful as the fabricated evidence only served to see how the suspect would react to the insinuation. What he said and did with the illusion was all on him. However, Zadorov also confessed to an undercover informant sharing his cell that he only said that to the investigators in hopes that he would receive a lighter

They checked his clothes, his shoes, and even his wedding ring but they could not find any traces of Tair on him. To the head of the forensics lab, Avner Rosengarten, the ties that linked Roman Zadorov to Tair Rada was very weak. His attorneys were outraged as they realized the police were doing everything in their power to label Zadorov as the murderer, even going as far as to label the man as a pedophile. “In other words, he’s an ordinary person with no criminal thought patterns. He is an alien who landed in the middle of the scene. There’s no connection,” (David Spiegel).
Speculation on whether Zadorov had killed the girl or not then shifted to wondering why a so-called innocent man would confess to a crime he did not commit. The fact of the matter is that a suspect is more than likely to confess to a crime when they are foreigners and don’t completely understand the language. Zadorov was a Ukrainian immigrant and his wife claimed that his Hebrew was very weak; only knowing a few words that he mainly needed for his job. The police had began to pressure and pester him with sensitive details that pertain to his personal life, including using his wife and newborn son against