Alleged Copycat Case in Irkutsk
On April 5, 2011, two youths, Artem Anufriev (Russian: Артем Ануфриев) (born in 1992) and Nikita Lytkin (Russian: Никита Лыткин) (born in 1993) were arrested in connection with six murders and attacks on residents in Akademgorodok in Irkutsk, Russia. The attacks, which involved a mallet and knife, began in December 2010. Both were arrested after a video recording showing a female body being mutilated with a knife was found on a camera belonging to Litkin's uncle, who had become suspicious. According to media reports, the youths were influenced by reading about the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs on the Internet. A psychiatric examination found them sane, and they told doctors they chose weak people as their victims. On April 2, 2013, Anufriev was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Litkin to 24 years in prison.
Read more about this topic: Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
Famous quotes containing the words alleged and/or case:
“Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)