THE EVIDENCE IS A DOCUDRAMA SERIES BASED ON TRUE STORIES. ALL SCENES FEATURED IN IT ARE STAGED AND PERFORMED BE THE PROFESSIONAL ACTORS TO RECONSTRUCT ACTUAL EVENTS SHOWN IN THE PROGRAM.
This case kicked off as an accident investigation: a fire in the house of judge Vadim Tsupko. It was one of the most talked-about events in Vnnytsia in May 1969. The shouting and glow alarmed the neighbors. The fire claimed lives of the judge and his mother-in-law Valentina Shilova. The judge’s wife Elena managed to take their 4-year old son out of the fire.
She had to rush back to rescue her disabled brother.