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injury on the nose, while the other suffered a medium-degree contusion on the right eye. After being disarmed, Sparikhin was charged with assault. In the subsequent interrogation, he admitted responsibility but refused to explain why he did it. This led investigators to speculate that he attacked the guards in order to delay his transfer, as the conditions in the colony were much harsher than the detention center.
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In 1977, the 14-year-old
Sparikhin was imprisoned for theft, and after serving out his sentence in full, he was released and returned to Novorossiysk. Only a few weeks after his release in 1980, he committed his first murder, killing a teenage neighbor known only by the name "Nadezhda." On the day of
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for his personal enjoyment. He and his older brother Boris studied at School No. 15, but as Yuri was not interested in studying, he earned bad grades and was chronically absent, instead spending his time on the streets among criminals. During his school years, Sparikhin was attacked by other students
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Three days later, Sparikhin, who was driving the victim's stolen vehicle, failed to stop at an officer's request, and a chase ensued. During the chase, Sparikhin drove 10 kilometers but eventually lost control and crashed into a ditch, whereupon he was arrested by police. His subsequent trial lasted
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In the 16th microdistrict of
Novorossiysk, the victim deliberately violated traffic rules, after which a patrol car started following them. Upon realizing this, Sparikhin ordered her to stop the car and quickly fled without harming the victim further. However, he was quickly identified and arrested
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Subsequently, Sparikhin committed all subsequent murders in a similar manner to that of
Nadezhda. As he was careless while committing the crime, he was arrested a few days later after an abundance of evidence linked him to the crime. However, as he was still a minor at the time, he avoided a likely
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coat, platform shoes, and a can of moonshine—and told me she was going out. And then I recognized her from that coat. All that was left of her face was her chin—brains, blood over the walls. How could you do that in a room with a two-meter ceiling? And one shoe was covered in blood and stuck to the
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After the trial, Sparikhin was transferred to SIZO-1 in
Krasnodar, where he would await transfer to a special regime colony. In June 2021, while being escorted to the pre-trial detention center, he attacked the two guards with a piece of wire he had found in his cell; one of the guards received an
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After being arrested, Sparikhin claimed that he was innocent and instead blamed his brother Boris, who, like him, was an ex-convict who had been imprisoned for rape. Nevertheless, Yuri was convicted of this crime in 2001 and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment, which he served in an undisclosed
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Upon serving out his sentence, Sparikhin was once again released from prison on June 19, 2020, after which he returned to
Novorossiysk. By that time, both his parents had died, and Boris had been murdered in a bar fight years prior, so Sparikhin moved in with a cousin and took a job as a pallet
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While serving his criminal sentence, Sparikhin took part in robbing a prison stall in 1986, for which he was convicted and given an additional six years of imprisonment. He was released in 1996, and in the summer of that year, he committed a rape in
Leninsky Park while in an intoxicated state.
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Three days after his arrest, Sparikhin was brought to court in restraints, but after the session ended, he managed to break free and escape while officers attempted to bring him back to the detention center. He immediately fled to
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What a shame... We thought he wouldn't come back after killing the girls. Such people should be shot. A beast... We all knew her well. Nadia was, as they say, promiscuous. I saw her before she died. She was dressed up—in a
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Subsequently, he attacked a police officer who tried to arrest him, inflicting a head injury on the officer. Sparikhin was brought to trial for these charges and received a combined sentence of four years imprisonment.
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in the evening. He proceeded to stalk her until she reached an isolated area, where
Sparikhin attacked, raped, and savagely beat her, inflicting a severe head injury and disfiguring Nadezhda's face beyond recognition.
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On May 27, 2022, the 59-year-old
Sparikhin was convicted of the assault charges and was given an additional nine years of imprisonment to be served concurrently with his life sentence.
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and earned a reputation as a bully, and after finishing the seventh grade, he was forced to drop out because of his constant problems with local authorities.
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